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Presentation given at the Department of Digital Humanities in King's College London (12 May 2014).
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Esteban Romero-Frías @polisea // [email protected]!
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A view on digital scholarship in Humanities
and Social Sciences a culture of innovation and experimentation
in academia and society
Scholarship
Digital Scholarship
Digital Humanities
Interest over time on “Digital Humanities”
Source: Google Trends (8/5/2014)
“Digital Humanities” vs
“Humanities Computing”
Source: Google Trends (8/5/2014)
“Digital Humanities” vs
“Humanities Computing”
Source: Google Trends (8/5/2014)
What do all these academics expect to find behind Digital
Humanities?
Digital Humanities =
Humanities Computing +
Digital Scholarship
Digital Scholarship
Digital Scholarship Weller (2011: 43) used the term to refer to “a range of scholarly activities afforded by new
technologies”.
Digital Scholarship Weller (2011: 43) used the term to refer to “a range of scholarly activities afforded by new
technologies”.
However, the most significant changes in scholarly practices are “driven not just by their digital nature but by the convergence of the three characteristics
of digital, networked and open.” Weller (2011).
A complex interplay between openness, scholarship and digital
technology (Goodfellow, 2013)
Providing new dimensions to categorise digital scholarship
• scholarly - non-scholarly (citizenship)
• digital - analogical • open - close • other possible dimensions
Principles associated to Digital Scholarship & DH
• Interdisciplinarity/transdisciplinarity/multidisciplinarity. • Openness: open source, open resources… • Redefinition of copyright and Intellectual Property
standards. • Redefinition of the contours of the research
community: citizen science. • Social engagement. • New pedagogies. • Culture of experimentation and prototyping. • New impact measures: How to evaluate DH -
Altmetrics. • Spaces inspired by the digital • Public Scholarship, Public Humanities, Public
Sociology.
Interdisciplinarity
Digital Humanities & ¿Social Sciences?
GrinUGR - Collaboratory for digital cultures in social sciences and humanities
Atlas of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
Atlas of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
Openness
Public Humanities and Social Sciences
Public Humanities and Social Sciences
¿Public Digital Humanities?
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Google Glass
A culture of innovation and experimentation
Experimentation and Entrepreneurship
THATCamps
THATCamps
New forms of curating academic contents
Contributing to the Commons
Rewriting Wikipedia Project
Culture of prototyping
MediaLab Prado: Lines of Work
MediaLab Prado: Lines of Work
Digital Humanities in MediaLab Prado
Materialising the digital
Materialising the digital
Materialising the digital
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