Sas hughes 21 10-2014

Digital Humanities: Where should we be going?

Prof. Lorna M. HughesUniversity of Wales Chair in Digital Collections

National Library of Wales@lornamhughes

School of Advanced Study, University of London, October 22nd 2014

Digital Humanities™

Computers for the Humanities?A Record of the Conference

Sponsored by Yale University on a Grant from IBMJanuary 22-23, 1965

The Digital Humanities Manifesto, 2.0

2009http://

manifesto.humanities.ucla.edu/

NLW Research Programme in Digital Collections

• Develop new digital content that addresses specific research needs, in partnership with academics and other key stakeholders

• Enhancing digital content for research, teaching or community engagement

• Understand use of existing digital content

• http://llgc.org.uk/research

NeDiMAH: Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and HumanitiesESF Research Network, 2011-15 Lorna Hughes, UK

(Chair)

Researching the digital methods in arts & humanities

A collaborative forum of communities of practice

Outcome: a formal ontology for Digital Humanities, including classification and a shared vocabulary

Contributed to ESF Report, Research Infrastructures in the Arts and Humanities www.nedimah.eu

NeDiMAH activities and participants

From digital humanities to scholarly ecosystem

• Challenge 1: create and sustain better digital content as a process of co-production with libraries, archives and museums

• Challenge 2: create environments for better use, re-use and linking of digital content

• Challenge 3: understand the opportunities of the new funding landscape

Challenge 1: create and sustain better digital content as a process of co-production with libraries, archives and museums

http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk

Challenge 1: create and sustain better digital content as a process of co-production with libraries, archives and museums

•Cymru1914.org The Welsh Experience of the First World War•Consolidated Archive: newspapers, images, audio, photographs•Content from six HEI special collections, four local archives and BBC Wales archive•Developed in collaboration with academic researchers of the First World War•Retains archival hierarchy of content

‘The snows of yesteryear: narrating extreme weather’eira.llgc.org.uk

Welsh wills onlinewww.llgc.org.uk

Challenge 1: create and sustain better digital content as a process of co-production with libraries, archives and museums

Variants on “Belgian refugees”In Welsh and English, 1914-19cymru1914.org

1914 1915 1916 19171918 1919

Challenge 2: create environments for better use, re-use and linking of digital content

Challenge 2: create environments for better use, re-use and linking of digital content

“We hoped to be able to send send all these people to Glasgow at Easter…”

19th April, 1916: War Refugees Committeecymru1914.org

W.D. Roberts manuscripts, NLW MS 9982E

Challenge 3: understand the opportunities of the new funding landscape

Watson, W., Huth, H., & Bromhead, A. C. 1., 1642. The resolution of the women of London to the Parliament... [London]: printed for William Watson

Addressing the challenges

• Better collaborations with the cultural heritage sector

• Better partnerships around data creation and management

• Develop creative approaches to funding, inward investment and capacity building

Thank you!

• www.llgc.org.uk/research• Twitter: @lornamhughes