Digital Humanities

This collection is dedicated to the Digital Humanities, a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary and often collaborative field of research located at the intersection of the humanities and technology. This field encompasses academic work using digital resources and technologies to document, analyse and understand human culture and history, but also to understand how these resources and technologies change the ways in which people think about and interact with the human experience. Research in the Digital Humanities can also enhance teaching and learning, outreach and community building in the humanities using digital resources and technologies.  

We welcome conventional Research Articles and Essays, but believe that work in the Digital Humanities will particularly benefit from the wide range of article types offered by Open Research Europe. These include Brief Reports, Case Studies, Data Notes, Methods Articles and Software Tool Articles. (See our article guidelines for more information on each article type).

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

• The design, creation, annotation, curation, editing and publication of datasets, corpora and similar resources pertaining to literary texts, historical documents, correspondences, notated music, audio/video materials, cultural heritage, and more.
• The development, evaluation and application of formal, algorithmic and/or statistical methods of analysis for investigating research questions relevant to the humanities, as well as methodological or social issues arising in this process.
• The investigation of theoretical and conceptual issues related to research at the intersection of humanities and technology, such as operationalization, formalization, modeling, integration of qualitative and quantitative perspectives, bias and many more.   
• The development, deployment and maintenance of software, tools and services supporting the curation and publication of datasets and resources or the application of measures and methods of investigation relevant to the Digital Humanities.
• The investigation of and formulation of policy proposals regarding publication practices, design principles, or reception and impact of resources that are relevant to the Digital Humanities and available in the digital medium.
• The role and impact of Open Science / Open Research principles on research in the Digital Humanities, with relevant issues such as Open Access, FAIR and/or Open Data, Open Source, Archiving, Preservation, Reproducibility, Data and Code Review specific to this area.
• The relationship between Digital Humanities research and the development or curation of collections in cultural organisations (galleries, libraries, museums, archives) or community archives.

Collection advisors: Christof Schöch (University of Trier, Germany), Natalie Harrower (Incoming Executive Director of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) and former Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), Ireland)