<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The emergence of “Big Data” has been a dramatic development in recent years. Alongside it, a lesser-known but equally important set of concepts and practices has also come into being—“Smart Data.” This paper shares the author’s understanding of <italic>what</italic>, <italic>why</italic>, <italic>how</italic>, <italic>who</italic>, <italic>where</italic>, and <italic>which data</italic> in relation to Smart Data and digital humanities. It concludes that, challenges and opportunities co-exist, but it is certain that Smart Data, the ability to achieve big insights from trusted, contextualized, relevant, cognitive, predictive, and consumable data at any scale, will continue to have extraordinary value in digital humanities.</p><p>The emergence of “Big Data” has been a dramatic development in recent years. Alongside it, a lesser-known but equally important set of concepts and practices has also come into being—“Smart Data.”</p></abstract>

The emergence of “Big Data” has been a dramatic development in recent years. Alongside it, a lesser-known but equally important set of concepts and practices has also come into being—“Smart Data.” This paper shares the author’s understanding of what, why, how, who, where, and which data in relation to Smart Data and digital humanities. It concludes that, challenges and opportunities co-exist, but it is certain that Smart Data, the ability to achieve big insights from trusted, contextualized, relevant, cognitive, predictive, and consumable data at any scale, will continue to have extraordinary value in digital humanities.The emergence of “Big Data” has been a dramatic development in recent years. Alongside it, a lesser-known but equally important set of concepts and practices has also come into being—“Smart Data.”

Smart Data for Digital Humanities

Journal of Data and Information Science

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The emergence of “Big Data” has been a dramatic development in recent years. Alongside it, a lesser-known but equally important set of concepts and practices...

Smart Data for Digital Humanities

Article Category: Perspective

Published Online: Feb 18, 2017

Page range: 1 - 12

Received: Jan 13, 2017

Accepted: Jan 16, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jdis-2017-0001

© 2017 Marcia Lei Zeng

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