Digital Humanities

 

 

The discussions and debates about digital humanities have been running for decades and are as broad as they are varied.

Depending on the academic discipline concerned, the question posed and who is posing it and which digital tools are involved, answers can range from practical and pragmatic solutions to philosophical examinations of how scientific processes and scientific knowledge is being transformed.

At its core, digital humanities is the use of IT-based tools to examine questions of interest in the field of the humanities. The objects of study are made available in digital form and then analysed using a variety of digital tools.

In the ideal case, the research data that this process creates is archived and thus preserved for further future academic analysis.

In view of the complexity of the field, we can only offer a selection of relevant websites and information for researchers who are thinking of undertaking a DH project and who need guidance as well as access to appropriate infrastructure and potential partners.

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What are the digital humanities?

A short introduction (in German) by Mareike König
https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/2642

The institutional framework

• The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on managing digital research data
• DFG (German Research Foundation): Digital Transformation in Science and the Humanities

DH competence centres in Germany (selection)

• Cologne Center for E-Humanities
• Trier Center for Digital Humanities
• Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities
• Competence Centre for Digital Humanities at the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
• Digital Humanities at ULB Bonn

National and international networks

• Dariah-De
  – Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
• Clarin D – International network for (language-related) research data in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Research data management – Guidelines and best practice

HU Berlin
https://www.cms.hu-berlin.de/de/dl/dataman/infos/fach/fachspez

The University of Kassel has put together a good compilation of subject-specific guidelines and projects concerned with research data management
https://www.uni-kassel.de/themen/forschungsdatenmanagement/service/fachspezifika.html

Research data repositories

re3data (Registry of Research Data Repositories) is a global directory of repositories for research data from all academic disciplines.<br/> The ‘Data Repositories’ page in the Open Access Directory lists discipline-specific repositories and databases for open data.

Collections of DH tools

https://digitalhumanities.duke.edu/tools/
Filtering by topic and research phase

https://libguides.uta.edu/digitalhumanities/tools
DH tools listed by topic