This document summarizes digital scholarship resources in Iberian and Latin American studies. It outlines several key digital humanities projects and organizations in Spain, Portuguese-speaking countries, and internationally. In Spain, work has centered on philology and language-based research, while in Portugal and Brazil projects like Tainacan and Humanidades Digitais aim to make digital holdings accessible. The document also lists several relevant academic journals and provides an overview of digital initiatives in Mexico, Argentina, and across Latin America.

1. Digital
Scholarship in Iberian & Latin
American studies : an
introduction
Aquiles Alencar Brayner

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Spain
“Much activity in digital humanities in Spain has centred on philology, and favouring language-
based research over literary research, often focusing on the Spanish Golden Age” (Paul Spence,
A historical perspective on the digital humanities in Spain)
• PARES: information on holdings of Spanish Archives
• HISPANA: connecting digital holdings through Spanish Archives, Libraries and Museums – see
also list of digital projects
• E-literature in Catalonia: Hermeneia Research Group
• Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas: formed in 2012
• Academic Journals on DH (some examples):
1. Janus (Golden Age studies)
2. Digithum (Humanities in the Digital age)
3. Scriptum Digital (Historical corpora in Ibero-Romance languages)
4. Caracteres (Cultural studies in the Digital age)
More info: Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales: técnicas, herramientas y experiencias de e-
Research e investigación en colaboración

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Spanish America
• Red de Humanidades Digitales (Mexico)
• Asociación Argentina de Humanidades
Digitales (Argentina)
• Ciencias sociales y humanidades digitales en
los estudios latinoamericanos Anuario
Americanista Europeo, 12 (2014)

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Portugal and Brazil
• Tainacan (Brazil)
• Humanidades Digitais (Brazil)
• Biblioteca Digital Luso-Brasileira
(Brazil / Portugal)
• Associação das Humanidades
Digitais (Portugal)

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International
• Spatial History Project (Stanford)
• SALALM digital resources (USA)
• Slave Voyages – Trans-Atlantic slave
trade database (USA)
• Early Caribbean Digital Archive (USA)
• Information Literacy in Ibero-America
and the World–600 library or academic
program websites: http://bit.ly/9hu80u

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