Digital Humanities in The NetherlandsDARIAH, CLARIN, CLARIAH, … DHx.0

A personal view

Andrea ScharnhorstLaunch of DARIAH-Malta, September 3, 2014

Malta

Based on ….Almila Akdag Sahal, Andrea Scharnhorst, Sally Wyatt (2015) Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community - Analysing an academic field through the lensesof Internet Science. Invited paper given at the 2nd International Conference on Internet Science, Brussels, May 27-29, 2015. [2] Any chance to delineate DH with metrics?

Andrea Scharnhorst, Sally Wyatt (2015) Digital Humanities as Innovation: ‘constant revolution’ or ‘moving to the suburbs’? Lecture at the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, June 4, 2015 [1] Identity – why this is important

Stef Scagliola, Barbara Safradin, Almila Akdag, Hendrik Smeer, Linda Reijnhoudt, Sally Wyatt, Andrea Scharnhorst (2015) Mapping Digital Humanities projects - A pilot of a DH project registry for The Netherlands. Presentation given at the DH Benelux Antwerp June 8-9, 2015https://www.slideshare.net/AndreaScharnhorst/a-pilot-of-a-dh-project-registry-for-the-netherlands/edit?src=slideview [3] No data - more data – data collection=data selection

Andrea Scharnhorst – “science located”

• Head of Research&Innovation at DANS and scientific coordinator of the

Computational Humanities programme at the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) – DANS=Data Archiving and Networked Services Institute (DANS)

COST TD1210Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes

DH in the Netherlands

2004-2014, 9Mio+2.8Mio

2015-2018, 12,6Mio

Projects, centers, coursesActive community

DH – Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

•Innovative Practices in SSH

Virtual Knowledge Studio

•Demonstrator projects across institutes

Alfa Lab•Computational humanities programme

•Cultures of DH

eHumanities group

•Large scale investment in RIS

CLARIAH

DH + ….

Flagship of DH in The Netherlands

http://www.clariah.nl/en/

Andrea Scharnhorst & Sally Wyatt4 June 2015

Digital Humanities as Innovation: ‘constant revolution’ or ‘moving to

the suburbs’?

A growth model for Digital Humanities as thought experiment – Wyatt/Scharnhorst - eHumanities group June 4

1-Jan-99 31-Dec-00 31-Dec-02 30-Dec-04 30-Dec-06 29-Dec-08 29-Dec-10 28-Dec-12 28-Dec-14 27-Dec-16

ExPoSe

From Digitization to Digital Humanities

The rise of Digital HumanitiesMelissa Terras – Quantifying Digital Humanities

Melissa Terras started a data collection 2011, see her blog http://melissaterras.blogspot.nl/2011/11/stats-and-digital-humanities.html

Part of the Infographic

EINS 1st PLENARY

DH in WorldCat (ArticleFirst)Digital libraries

Science, ComputerScience, ontologies

Many different humanities fieldsProminently language &Literary studies

What is Digital Humanities?

Akdag, et al., EINS Conf

www.thoth.pica.nl/relate?ARIADNEOCLC – Koopman/Wang

The rise of Digital Humanities Growth of publications on topic DH OR Humanities computing including articles citing them – Web of Science

EINS Final Conference

EINS Conference, 27-29 May

Forming a community – providing information servicesDH course registry – Stef Scagliola, Manfred Thaller, …

Emerged from a local (Dutch) initiative – DARIAH community drivenhttps://dh-registry.de.dariah.eu/ 160 courses/tagged,

Where can I study? What do teach others?

Forming a community – providing information servicesDH project registry – a pilot – Hendrik Schmeer

Pilot for a proposal to CLARIAH, temporarily hosted by CEDAR (eHumanities)http://www.dh-projectregistry.org/projects BETA

Demo- Sort by name- Sort by start date- No search function yet, but a lot of fields at display already - Tagging with TaDiRAH – partly

http://www.clariah.nl/en/dodh/project-registry

Visual analytics

1995 2004Meertens KNAW

2015 2019 Leiden University, LUCAS

Future ideas: add funding

Visual analytics

Future ideas: - Roles of institutions - Temporal evolution

Conclusion and discussion (I)

- “Digital Humanities” is an established term, and conferences, journals, centers, courses etc. seem to indicate that there is a new field.

- What constitutes a field? - What kind of data sources could you imagine to trace

the field?- Where do you think we are on the S-curve?- What do you think: will DH remain one field different

from other humanities, or will it be absorbed into humanities, when all humanities become digital?

Where are you on the diffusion of innovation curve in Malta?How does the Maltese landscape looks like?

"Diffusionofideas" by Tungsten - self-made based on Rogers, E. (1962) Diffusion of innovations. Free Press, London, NY, USA.. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diffusionofideas.PNG#/media/File:Diffusionofideas.PNG

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Where are we?

Conclusion and discussion – derived from the analysis of the Dutch situation (II)

- Depending on which phase we perceive the field to be in, what are the implications for science policy?

- Do we still need protected niches ? We seem to have larger networks now. What do we need to make full use of them?

- What topics/areas which have not been funded (or underfunded) should be funded? What kind of projects should be funded, and what kind of positions?Do we need another round of digitization, tooling, education, …?

- Do we need domain-specific information services and if so which?

- The course registry (EU), and the project registry (NL) are initiatives to respond to an information/coordination need of an emerging field.

- On a more general level – we need better science observatories to develop evidence based science policy. This includes data about research, visualization, analytics and simulation models (scenarios).

- Special attention for emerging and for small/rare fields

References and acknowledgements

We would like to thank Almila Akdag, Linda Reijnhoudt, Stef Scagliola, Hendrik Smeer, Barbara Safradin for their contributions to this presentation.

- Wyatt, S., Millen, D., eds.: Meaning and Perspectives in the Digital Humanities. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014) https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/files/894428/white_paper_web_1_.pdf

- Koopman, R., Wang, S., Scharnhorst, A., Englebienne, G.: Ariadne's thread: Interactive navigation in a world of networked information. In: CHI'15 Extended Abstracts. (2015) http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04358

- Akdag Salah, A.A., Scharnhorst, A., Leydesdorff, L.: Mapping the growth of digital humanities. In: Digital Humanities Conference (DH2010), Kings College, London, UK (June 2010)

- Leydesdorff, L., Akdag Salah, A.A.: Maps on the basis of the arts & humanities citation index: The journals Leonardo and Art journal versus digital humanities as a topic. Journal of the American Society for information Science and Technology 61(4) (2010)

- Wyatt, S., Leydesdorf, L.: e-humanities or digital humanities: Is that the question? In: Digital Humanities Workshop. (2013)

- Lucio-Arias, D., & Scharnhorst, A. (2012). Mathematical Approaches to Modeling Science from an Algorithmic-Historiography Perspective. In A. Scharnhorst, K. Börner, & P. van den Besselaar (Eds.), Models of Science Dynamics (pp. 23–66). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23068-4_2

- Bruckner, E., Ebeling, W., & Scharnhorst, A. (1990). The application of evolution models in scientometrics. Scientometrics, 18(1-2), 21–41. doi:10.1007/BF02019160