A view on digital scholarship in Humanities and Social Sciences: a culture of innovation and experimentation in academia and society

Presentation given at the Department of Digital Humanities in King's College London (12 May 2014).

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Esteban Romero-Frías
@polisea // erf@ugr.es!
www.estebanromero.com!
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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)

What do all these academics
expect to ﬁnd behind Digital
Humanities?
Digital Humanities
=
Humanities Computing
+
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

Public Humanities and
Social Sciences
¿Public Digital
Humanities?

A culture of innovation
and experimentation

Contributing to the
Commons
Rewriting Wikipedia Project

Materialising the digital
Photo showing the team of "El Campo de
Cebada", the Golden Nica winners in the
category "Digital Communities”.
License CC by Ars Electronica.

Materialising the digital
License CC by Campo de Cebada

Materialising the digital
License CC by Campo de Cebada
License CC by Marta Nimeva Nimeviene

Materialising the digital
License CC by Campo de Cebada
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