A very short summary of the digital humanities research unit HUMlab at Umeå University, Sweden.

3. ”What I feel is special about HUMlab is the
energy that HUMlab workers and friends bring
to the field of the Digital Humanities”

4. HUMlab is an environment of innovation which
works as a place of study, a research laboratory,
a place for project development, as well as a
lecture hall or exhibition space. Sofas, an
aquarium, and bookshelves placed amongst
cutting edge technology creates a space in which
everyone feels welcome.

5. • Consider three cognate terms: archive – architecture – archaeology.
• The prefix arche (found in archive and architecture and archaeology) is
Greek for beginning, origin, foundation, source, first principle, central
location and origin of power, authority, sovereignty. It represents a
starting point or founding act in both an ontological sense ("this is whence
it began") and a nomological sense ("this is whence it derives its
authority"). Archives are all about narratives of origin, identity and
belonging, and the politics of ownership, organization, access and use.
• Archive 1.0 — bureaucracy in the early state – temple and palace archives
– inscription as an instrument of management.
• Archive 2.0 — mechanization and digitization of archival databases, with
an aim of fast, easy and open access based upon efficient dendritic
classification and retrieval, associated also with statistical analysis
performed upon the data.
• Archive 3.0 — new prosthetic architectures for the production and
sharing of archival resources – the animated archive.
• What is involved in bringing archives alive? What are signs of this shift?
• Remix, rich engagement, co-creative regeneration.
From “Archive and Memory in Virtual Worlds” by Michael Shanks

8. The Future

10. "The Umeå Arts Campus venture is an investment in the development of knowledge,"
says former vice-chancellor Göran Sandberg. "By having a unified location for education,
research, entrepreneurship and artistic development in architecture, design and fine arts,
unique opportunities are possible to make groundbreaking achievements."

11. Tack
Jim.barrett@humlab.umu.se