Research and Application of Digital Humanities with Social Network Analysis

Abstract

Abstract: Social network analysis is one of the methods of digital humanistic analysis. In this paper, we
take the digital resources of contract documents of Shanghai Jiao Tong University as research data, and
MATLAB as research tool, to carry out social network analysis and visualization. Through data processing,
we can effectively acquire network nodes and network degree data, fit the power-law distribution based
on the number of participants, detect and categorize legit community, and reveal the characteristics and
structure of digital humanities and social network in digital resources.

Key words: Social network analysis, Digital humanities, Special collection resources, Network structure

Shi Xiaohua, Wang Xin. Research and Application of Digital Humanities with Social Network Analysis[J]. Libraly Journal, 2020, 39(5): 93-99.

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