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Accademia Nazionale dei LinceiCentro Linceo Interdisciplinare «Beniamino Segre»

Paolo Monella

L'Informatica Umanistica nel mondo:esperienze in corso

(Where are the Digital Humanities today?)

Tavola RotondaL'informatica Umanistica e i suoi problemi:

l'edizione critica digitale dei testi(The Digital Humanities and its current issues:

the digital scholarly edition of texts)

Rome - 20 June 2012

http://www.unipa.it/paolo.monella/lincei/where.html


Paolo Monella, Where are the Digital Humanities today? 2/102

● The Digital Humanities Moment● Nations

● UK● USA● Canada● France● Germany● Italy

● Networks




● Networks


The Digital Humanities Moment

Melissa Terras, Quantifying Digital Humanities

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh-blog/2012/01/20/infographic-quantifying-digital-humanities/



● Gold, M. K. 2012. “The Digital Humanities Moment”, in M. K. Gold (ed.), Debates in The Digital Humanities, IX-XVI. Minneapolis-London: University of Minnesota Press



● Quantity● Mainstream● Disciplinarisation● Institutionalisation




● Networds


Nations

centerNet, Google Map and List of DH centres

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=101038712556622320018.00047f41526e4488eae2a&ll=44.590467,15.46875&spn=143.219683,97.03125&z=1&source=embed

http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/centers/


UK

● 14 / 18 centres● (M. Terras /

centerNet)

http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/centers



UK

● The DH “centre”● Institutionalisaton● Research-centred (projects, products)● Teaching


UK

● King's College, DDH● Center for Computers and the Humanities, now DDH (Department

for Digital Humanities)

● UCL, CDH● University College of London, Centre for Digital Humanities

● Oxford● Oxford Text Archive● Digital.Humanities@Oxford

● Glasgow, HATII● Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/hatii/


King's College


King's College

● People● 19 Academic staff (1 Italian)● 23 Research staff (2 Italians)● 2 Affiliated staff● 8 Visiting research staff (8 Italians)● 2 Emeritus staff● 6 Professional services staff● 14 Research students (3 Italians)


King's College

● Research● £ 17 mln in grants during last 7 years● 18 ongoing projects● 84 completed projects


King's College

● Research: external funding (grants) for projects and products● Art of Making in Antiquity

● Leverhulme funded art history project […] digitize and catalogue a unique and unpublished slide collection documenting Roman stone carving.

● Breaking of Britain● AHRC funded historical studies project […] database […] to embrace all individuals and

their social interactions recorded in documents relating to Scotland 1286-1314.● Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland

● Funded by The British Academy, The Friends of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland and private benefactors, a project to photograph and catalogue the wealth of surviving sculpture produced in Great Britain and Ireland within the period c.1050-1200.


King's College

● Teaching● MA in Digital Humanities● MA in Digital Culture and Society● MA in Digital Asset Management● PhD in Digital Humanities


UCL


UCL

● People● 4 Management Team● 7 Team● 8 Affiliated Team Members● 14 Doctoral Students● 3 Affiliated Doctoral Students


UCL

● Research● 16 ongoing projects● 4 completed projects


UCL

● Research: collaborations and VRE (Virtual Research Environments)● eSAD: e-Science and Ancient Documents (with

Oxford)● VERA: Virtual Environments for Research in

Archaeology (with University of Reading and York Archaeological Trust)

http://esad.classics.ox.ac.uk/

http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/


UCL

● Teaching● MA/MSc programme● PhD● Short Courses


Oxford


Oxford

● Oxford Text Archive● Founded by Lou Burnard in 1976

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/


Oxford

● Digital.Humanities@Oxford● Institutions involved:

● Oxford e-Research Centre● Oxford University Computing Services● Humanities Division● Oxford's Bodleian Libraries



Oxford

● Digital.Humanities@Oxford: “Search for people at Oxford with digital humanities interests”● 244 people, including:

● 41 Library, information and museum studies● 34 Classics● 29 Oriental studies● 27 English language and literature● 24 Archeology● 25 History


http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/PeopleProjects.aspx


Oxford

● Digital.Humanities@Oxford: Research● 198 projects● Records

● “Oxford probably has more Digital Humanities activity than any other UK institution, as is abundantly illustrated in the People and Projects section of this site”.

● “The University has received more grants than any other university from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for projects with digital research outputs”.

● Pioneering applications


http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/About/About.aspx

http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/About/history.aspx


Glasgow


Glasgow

● People● 1 Head of Subject● 8 Academic staff● 8 Research Project Staff● 4 Resource Development Officers● 1 Visiting Professor● 15 Honorary Research Fellows● 9 Doctoral Students● 2 Administration● 4 Arts IT Support


Glasgow

● Research● Fields

● Digital Curation● Digital Humanities● Theoretical Approaches to Information● Philosophy of Technology● Archive, Records and Information Management


Glasgow

● Research● Assessment

● 4th in UK for “world leading research” (RAE 2008)


Glasgow

● Research● Projects

● 18 ongoing● 14 completed


Glasgow

● Teaching● Undergraduate degree

● Arts and Media Informatics● Masters Degrees

● MSc/PgDip Information Management and Preservation● MSc/PgDip Computer Forensics and E-Discovery● MSc/PgDip Museum Studies

● PhD


Birmingham


Birmingham

● Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing● 21 people (plus 4 emeriti)● 12 projects (including Canterbury, Codex Sinaiticus)

● The Canterbury Tales Project● Scholarly edition (actually) digital of the Canterbury

Tales (since 1989-1990)

● Scholarly Digital Editions Series

http://www.itsee.bham.ac.uk/

http://www.canterburytalesproject.org/

http://www.sd-editions.com/


USA

● 31 / 44 / 73 centres● (D. M. Zorich / M. Terras / centerNet)

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub143/




USA

● A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States

● Diane M. Zorich, November 2008

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub143/


USA

● Diane M. Zorich, A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States, November 2008: list

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub143/appendb.html


USA

● University of Virginia● IATH - Institute for Advanced Technology in the

Humanities● Scholar's Lab, University of Virgina Library

● Tufts University, New York● The Perseus Project

● NEH, Office for Digital Humanities● NEH – National Endowment for the Humanities

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/

http://www.scholarslab.org/

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

http://www.neh.gov/divisions/odh


University of Virginia



● IATH: people● Staff

● 8, with IT degrees● Fellows

● Belonging to other University of Virginia Departments● IATH Fellows for 2 years● Initial phase of a project● “Resident fellows”

● From 1992 to 1999: 2 resident fellows each year● From 2000 to date: 1 resident fellow each year

● “Associate fellows”● 1 to 3 associate fellows each year



● IATH: Research● 49 projects● Innovative projects: theory and “building”

● 1992-1993, J. McGann, The Rossetti Archive● Official seat of TEI – Text Encoding Initiative

http://www.rossettiarchive.org/



● Scholars’ Lab● University of Virginia Library● Fusion of:

● Electronic Text (Etext)● Geospatial and Statistical Data (GeoStat)● Research Computing Support Group




● Scholars’ Lab: Research● 18 ongoing projects● Bethany Nowviskie

● PhD in English Literature● Formerly: working at IATH with Jerome McGann for The

Rossetti Archive● Today: Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at the

University of Virginia Library


http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/about/fellowship.html

http://nowviskie.org/bio/



● Scholars’ Lab: Teaching● Praxis Program● UVA Library Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities


http://praxis.scholarslab.org/

http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/about/fellowship.html


Perseus Project


Perseus Project

● Main support● Alpheios Project● Andrew W. Mellon Foundation● U.S. Department of Education● Institute of Museum and Library Services● National Endowment for the Humanities● private donations● Tufts University


Perseus Project

● Other funders● Annenberg/CPB Project● Apple Computer● Berger Family Technology Transfer Endowment● Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2● Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, part of the U.S. Department of Education● the Getty Grant program● Modern Language Association● National Endowment for the Arts● National Science Foundation● Packard Humanities Institute● Xerox Corporation● Boston University● and Harvard University


Perseus Project

● People● 6 Staff● 9 Collaborating researchers from other

institutions● 42 “Former Perseus Staff”


Perseus Project

● Research● Since 1985● Mostly Greek and Latin texts

● Also English● Lemmatisation● Linguistic analysis● Archaeological material, commentary, lexica, secondary literature● Fragmentary texts● Improvement of OCR● Semantic web● Crowdsourcing etc.


NEH – Office for DH


Canada

● 11 / 63 research centres● (M. Terras / G. Rockwell)


http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/The_Academic_Capacity_of_the_Digital_Humanities_in_Canada


Canada

● G. Rockwell, The Academic Capacityof the Digital Humanities in Canada (wiki)

● 37 Undergraduate and Graduate Programs● 63 Research Labs, Centres or Institutes● 56 Projects in the area● 10 Canada Research Chairs● 6 Journals, 8 Blogs, 1 Discussion List and 7

Conferences● Professional Societies: 5 national and 10

international/collaborative

http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/The_Academic_Capacity_of_the_Digital_Humanities_in_Canada


Canada

● TaPoR● DH network connecting 6 Canadian universities

● University of Alberta● University of Victoria

● Digital Humanities Summer Institute

http://tapor.humanities.mcmaster.ca/

http://tapor.ualberta.ca/

http://www.dhsi.org/


TAPoR


TAPoR

● 6 universities● Université de Montréal● University of Alberta● University of New Brunswick● University of Toronto● University of Victoria● McMaster University


TAPoR

● Researchers involved● Project founder: G. Rockwell (McMaster University)● 33 researchers

● Not only from the 6 universities involved


TAPoR

● Research● Theory● Projects

http://tapor.humanities.mcmaster.ca/html/research_01.html


University of Alberta



● Research: TAPoR network● Software for text analysis● Digital editions

http://tapor.ualberta.ca/Resources/TASoftware/

http://tapor.ualberta.ca/Resources/Texts/



● Teaching● MA in Humanities Computing

http://huco.ualberta.ca/


University of Victoria - DHSI


University of Victoria - DHSI

● Digital Humanities Summer Institute● skills workshop● international conference● summer camp

http://www.dhsi.org/


France

● 5 research centres● (M. Terras)

● 45 centres● 28 research centres● 17 teaching centres● (Carte des digital

humanities francophones)


http://pireh.univ-paris1.fr/DHfrancophone/


France


France

● DH Manifesto● THATCamp Paris 2010

● Visibility● Carte des digital humanities francophones● Survey: “Who are you, Digital Humanists?”

● European networks● DARIAH, CLARIN etc.

http://tcp.hypotheses.org/318

http://pireh.univ-paris1.fr/DHfrancophone/

https://docs.google.com/a/openedition.org/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&formkey=dG9vVGJTeERuOUtCdVFRRVZQQWp6Nmc6MQ#gid=0


France

● IRHT - Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes - CNRS

● Cléo - Centre pour l’édition électronique ouverte

http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://cleo.cnrs.fr/


IRHT


IRHT

● Medium● Pinakes● Telma● Aedilis● Bibliothèque de

l’IHRT● Archives: HalSHS

● Jonas● Initiale● CartulR● Base● Liber● Enluminures

http://medium.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://www.cn-telma.fr/

http://aedilis.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://bibliotheque.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/IRHT

http://jonas.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://www.cn-telma.fr/cartulR/

http://bude.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://liberfloridus.cines.fr/

http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/


IRHT

● Medium● Main archive of IRHT● It has an entry for each MS of which IRHT has a

reprouction, or that it has studied and described● Pinakes

● Database connecting existing MSS to Greek literary works before the XVI Century

● Telma● Repository for digital editions of sources

http://medium.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/

http://www.cn-telma.fr/


Cléo


Cléo

● Structure● Institutional support

● TGE (Très grand équipement) Adonis

● Institutions involved● CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique● EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales● Université de Provence● Université d’Avignon

http://www.tge-adonis.fr/le-tge-en-bref


Cléo

● Portals● Revues.org

● Online journals, since 1999

● Calenda● Calendar of scientfic events

● Hypotheses● 350 research blogs

● OpenEdition Books● Repository for electronic publication of monographs


Germany

● 6 research centres● (M. Terras /

centerNet)

● 27 teaching programmes● (Broschüre by CceH -

Köln)



http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/Dokumente/BroschuereWeb.pdf

http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/


Germany

● University of Würzburg● ZDE - Zentrum für digitale Edition Würzburg

● University of Cologne● CCeH - Cologne Center for eHumanities● IDE - Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik

● TextGrid● Teaching

http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/


http://www.i-d-e.de/

http://www.textgrid.de/


Würzburg


Würzburg

● Zentrum für digitale Edition Würzburg● Fotis Jannidis

● Lehrstuhl für Computerphilologie und Neuere Deutsche Literaturgeschichte

http://www.zde.uni-wuerzburg.de/


Würzburg

● Institutional network● TextGrid (Germany)● DARIAH-DE (EU/Germany)● Interedition (EU)● NeDIMAH, Network for Digital Arts and Humanities (EU)● Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online


Würzburg

● Research● “Grundlegende Methodenforschung (etwa im Bereich textgenetischer

Editionen)”● Own projects

● Juan Goytisolos "Passajes después de la batalle"● Visualising Textuality – New Interfaces to Historical Texts● Pilotprojekt Fränkische Reiseberichte

● Some of the connected projects● Franconica Online● Faust-Edition● TextGrid● Text Encoding Initiative

● Special Interest Group on Manuscript Encoding● Task Force „Genetic Editing in a Digital Framework“


Würzburg

● Teaching● BA and MA in “Digital Humanities”● Workshops● Summer schools


Cologne


Cologne

● Manfred Thaller● Hist.-Kulturwiss. Informationsverarbeitung


Cologne

● People

CCeH IDE

Staff 12

Members 44 13


Cologne

● Research

CCeH IDE

Ongoing projects 48 26

Proposed projects 7

Projects under development

24

Completed projects 13


Cologne

● Teaching● BA Informationsverarbeitung● MA Informationsverarbeitung● BA Medieninformatik● MA Medieninformatik● MA EuroMACHS● IT-Zertifikat der Philosophischen Fakultät


Germany: TextGrid


Germany: TextGrid

● Institutional network● Bundesministerium für Bildung

und Forschung (Germania)● DARIAH-DE (EU)

● Portal● DHd-Blog: Digital Humanities im

deutschsprachigen Raum

● Technological infrastructure

http://dhd-blog.org/


Germany: Teaching


Germany: Teaching

● Broschüre Digitale Geisteswissenschaften - Studiengänge 2011 (CceH - Cologne Center for eHumanities - Köln)

● 27 programmes in German universities● News: Chemniz TU

http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/Dokumente/BroschuereWeb.pdf


http://dhd-blog.org/?p=636


Italy

● 4 centres● (centerNet)



Italy

● Research centres● From: Orlandi, T., Un ultimo bilancio dell'informatica umanistica

● CISADU (Rome, Sapienza University)● CISIAU e Laboratorio Cultura Digitale (University of Pisa)● CISI (University of Turin)● SIPU (University of Milan)

● From: centerNet● Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale (Florence)● Corso di laurea in Informatica Umanistica (University of Pisa)● ILC-CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (Pisa,

CNR)● CISADU (Rome, Sapienza University)

http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi/pubbli/informatica/montevarchi.pdf

http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/

http://cisiau.humnet.unipi.it/

http://labcd.humnet.unipi.it/

http://cisiweb.unito.it/default.aspx

http://www.bronxlab.unimi.it/


http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/

http://infouma.di.unipi.it/

http://www.ilc.cnr.it/indexnoflash.html

http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/


Italy

● Teaching● Programmes

● Laurea triennale, specialistica, magistrale (BA and MA) in Informatica Umanistica

● Università di Pisa● Master in Informatica del Testo ed Edizione Elettronica

● Università di Siena/Arezzo● IT or DH courses in Humanities programmes in

the Italian universities● Mordenti 2003

http://infouma.di.unipi.it/

http://www.infotext.unisi.it/

http://infolet.it/files/2009/09/mordenti_2003.pdf




● Networks


Networks

● ADHO - Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations

● ALLC - Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (1978)

● ACH - Association for Computers and the Humanities (1973)

● SDH - Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (1986)

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/

http://www.allc.org/

http://www.ach.org/

http://www.sdh-semi.org/


Networks

● Some wordwide networks● arts-humanities.net● DH Commons● Project Bamboo● Digital Humanities Now● Hathi Trust● HASTAC - Humanities, Arts, Science, and

Technology Advanced Collaboratory● THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp

http://arts-humanities.net/

http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/

http://www.hathitrust.org/

http://hastac.org/

http://thatcamp.org/


Networks

● European Union● DARIAH

● Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities

● CLARIN● Common Language Resources and Technology Ifrastructure

● ESF - NeDiMAH● European Science Foundation - Network for Digital Methods in the

Arts and Humanities

● Interedition● Europeana

http://www.dariah.eu/

http://www.clarin.eu/

http://www.esf.org/home.html

http://www.esf.org/activities/research-networking-programmes/humanities-sch/current-esf-research-networking-programmes-in-humanities/nedimah.html

http://www.interedition.eu/

http://www.europeana.eu/


Networks

● Regional associations● Asia and Australia

● Australasian Association for Digital Humanities● Asia-Pacific Digital Humanities Centernet● Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

● Latin America● Red de Humanidades Digitales (Mexico)

http://aa-dh.org/

http://www.dhcenter.net/

http://www.jadh.org/

http://www.humanidadesdigitales.mx/


Networks

● Germany● TextGrid

● → DARIAH-DE● DHD - Digital Humanities Deutschland

● → ALLC - Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing

http://www.textgrid.de/


Networks

● Italy● Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la

Cultura Digitale

http://www.umanisticadigitale.it/

Accademia Nazionale dei LinceiCentro Linceo Interdisciplinare «Beniamino Segre»

Paolo Monella

L'Informatica Umanistica nel mondo:esperienze in corso

(Where are the Digital Humanities today?)

Tavola RotondaL'informatica Umanistica e i suoi problemi:

l'edizione critica digitale dei testi(The Digital Humanities and its current issues:

the digital scholarly edition of texts)

Rome - 20 June 2012



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