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Abstract The article offers a state-of-the-art overview of a number of Digital Humanities (DH) initiatives that have emerged in Sweden over the past decade. We identify two major developments that seem to be taking place within DH, with a specific focus on the infrastructural aspects of the development: (1) a strive to open up and broaden the research output and (2) multi-disciplinary collaboration and its effects. The two major components accentuate the new infrastructural patterns that are developing and the challenges these infer on universities. While current research is at large multi-disciplinary, developing infrastructures also enable the move towards post-disciplinarity, bringing the universities closer to the surrounding society. At five universities in Sweden, individual-sited infrastructures supporting DH research have been built today. They are complemented by national and international infrastructures, thus supporting developments and tackling some of the major challenges. In the article, the relations between individual disciplines, the question of multi- and post-disciplinarity, and the field of Digital Humanities are discussed, while stressing the factors necessary—sine qua non—for a fruitful development of the scholarly infrastructures.

AbstractThe interdisciplinary field known as digital humanities (DH) is represented in various forms in the teaching and research practiced in iSchools. Building on the work of an iSchools organization committee charged with exploring digital humanities curricula, we present findings from a series of related studies exploring aspects of DH teaching, education, and research in iSchools, often in collaboration with other units and disciplines. Through a survey of iSchool programs and an online DH course registry, we investigate the various education models for DH training found in iSchools, followed by a detailed look at DH courses and curricula, explored through analysis of course syllabi and course descriptions. We take a brief look at collaborative disciplines with which iSchools cooperate on DH research projects or in offering DH education. Next, we explore DH careers through an analysis of relevant job advertisements. Finally, we offer some observations about the management and administrative challenges and opportunities related to offering a new iSchool DH program. Our results provide a snapshot of the current state of digital humanities in iSchools which may usefully inform the design and evolution of new DH programs, degrees, and related initiatives.

W dniach 16-17 listopada 2017 r. w Bibliotece Głównej Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu odbyła się IV Konferencja Konsorcjum Naukowego „DARIAH-PL”, której temat przewodni brzmiał „Humanistyka cyfrowa a instytucje dziedzictwa”. Organizatorem konferencji był Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, zaś współorganizatorem Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Znaki Czasu w Toruniu. Patronat objęło Ministerstwa Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego oraz Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego. Konferencja skupiała się na zagadnieniach związanych z relacjami humanistów i instytucji dziedzictwa, wpisując się obszar Public Culture Heritage (Publicznego Dziedzictwa Kulturowego), nawiązując do zatwierdzonego przez Radę Dyrektorów DARIAH-EU priorytetu na rok 2017, w ramach którego organizowane były różnego typu aktywności oraz wydarzenia. Podczas obrad miejsce miało również posiedzenie Rady Konsorcjum Naukowego „DARIAH-PL”. Artykuł omawia podstawowe założenia konferencji oraz charakteryzuje poszczególne referaty. In November, 2017 in the Main Library of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, the 4th Conference of the Scientific Consortium DARIAH-PL took place. The main theme of the event was „Digital humanities and heritage institutions”. The article discusses the basic topics of the conference and characterizes the individual papers.

Research report for FolkArtiNet - project supported by the DARIAH ERIC in the framework of the DARIAH Theme 2020 on ‘Arts Exchanges’ and ‘Arts, Humanities and COVID-19’.

Abstract This progress article focuses on an overview of the potential and challenges of using contemporary Geographic Information System (GIS) applications for the visual rendering and analysis of textual spatial data. The case study is an ancient traveling narrative, Pausanias’s Description of Greece (Periegesis Hellados) which was written in the second century CE. First, we describe the process of converting the volumes to spatial data using a customized version of the open-source digital semantic annotation platform Recogito. Then the focus shifts to the implementation of collected and organized spatial data to a number of GIS applications: namely Google Maps, DARIAH Geo-Browser, Gephi, Palladio and ArcGIS. Through empirical experimentation with spatial data and their implementation in different platforms, our paper charts the ways in which contemporary GIS applications may be implemented to cast new light on ancient understandings of identity, space, and place.

What makes our idea effective, rewarding and useful? This was the question addressed during a workshop session Digital humanities, citizen science and the arts: synergies towards innovative formats at the COESO project conference entitled Connect. Collaborate.Create (18-21 October 2023 in Paris). The session was an opportunity to present the assumptions of the OPERAS Innovation Lab and the methods it wants to develop in the area of evaluating innovative projects.

Research e-infrastructures, digital archives, and data services have become important pillars of scientific enterprise that in recent decades have become ever more collaborative, distributed, and data intensive. The archaeological research community has been an early adopter of digital tools for data acquisition, organization, analysis, and presentation of research results of individual projects. However, the provision of e-infrastructure and services for data sharing, discovery, access, and (re)use have lagged behind. This situation is being addressed by ARIADNE, the Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe. This EU-funded network has developed an e-infrastructure that enables data providers to register and provide access to their resources (datasets, collections) through the ARIADNE data portal, facilitating discovery, access, and other services across the integrated resources. This article describes the current landscape of data repositories and services for archaeologists in Europe, and the issues that make interoperability between them difficult to realize. The results of the ARIADNE surveys on users’ expectations and requirements are also presented. The main section of the article describes the architecture of the e-infrastructure, core services (data registration, discovery, and access), and various other extant or experimental services. The ongoing evaluation of the data integration and services is also discussed. Finally, the article summarizes lessons learned and outlines the prospects for the wider engagement of the archaeological research community in the sharing of data through ARIADNE. International audience