Teaching Digital Humanities Around the World:An Infrastructural Approach to a Community-Driven DH Course Registry
Author(s): Tanja Wissik, Jennifer Edmond, Frank Fischer, Franciska de Jong, Stefania Scagliola, Andrea Scharnhorst, Hendrik Schmeer, Walter Scholger, Leon Wessels, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, DARIAH-EU, National Research University Higher School of Economics, CLARIN ERIC, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Luxembourg, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of Graz, Utrecht University
Pages: 1-27
Year: 2020 Issue: 6
Journal: Library Tribune
Keyword: Digital Humanities; Teaching; Education; Registry; Research Infrastructure;
Abstract: The digital humanities(DH) enrich the traditional fields of the humanities with new practices,approaches and methods.Since the turn of the millennium,the necessary skills to realise these new possibilities have been taught in summer schools,workshops and other alternative formats.In the meantime,a growing number of Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in digital humanities have been launched worldwide.The DH Course Registry,which is the focus of this article,was created to provide an overview of the growing range of courses on offer worldwide.Its mission is to gather the rich offerings of different courses and to provide an up-to-date picture of the teaching and training opportunities in the field of DH.The article provides a general introduction to this emerging area of research and introduces the two European infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH,which jointly operate the DH Course Registry.A short history of the Registry is accompanied by a description of the data model and the data curation workflow.Current data,available through the API of the Registry,is evaluated to quantitatively map the international landscape of DH teaching.
Pages: 1-27
Year: 2020 Issue: 6
Journal: Library Tribune
Keyword: Digital Humanities; Teaching; Education; Registry; Research Infrastructure;
Abstract: The digital humanities(DH) enrich the traditional fields of the humanities with new practices,approaches and methods.Since the turn of the millennium,the necessary skills to realise these new possibilities have been taught in summer schools,workshops and other alternative formats.In the meantime,a growing number of Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in digital humanities have been launched worldwide.The DH Course Registry,which is the focus of this article,was created to provide an overview of the growing range of courses on offer worldwide.Its mission is to gather the rich offerings of different courses and to provide an up-to-date picture of the teaching and training opportunities in the field of DH.The article provides a general introduction to this emerging area of research and introduces the two European infrastructures CLARIN and DARIAH,which jointly operate the DH Course Registry.A short history of the Registry is accompanied by a description of the data model and the data curation workflow.Current data,available through the API of the Registry,is evaluated to quantitatively map the international landscape of DH teaching.
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