Presentation given at the Department of Digital Humanities in King's College London (12 May 2014).

1. Esteban Romero-Frías
@polisea // erf@ugr.es!
www.estebanromero.com!
www.grinugr.org!
A view on digital
scholarship in Humanities
and Social Sciences
a culture of innovation and experimentation
in academia and society

2. Scholarship
Digital Scholarship
Digital Humanities

3. Interest over time on
“Digital Humanities”
Source: Google Trends (8/5/2014)

4. “Digital Humanities”
vs
“Humanities Computing”
Source: Google Trends (8/5/2014)

5. “Digital Humanities”
vs
“Humanities Computing”
Source: Google Trends (8/5/2014)

6. What do all these academics
expect to find behind Digital
Humanities?
Digital Humanities
=
Humanities Computing
+
Digital Scholarship

7. Digital Scholarship

8. Digital Scholarship
Weller (2011: 43) used the term to refer to “a
range of scholarly activities afforded by new
technologies”.

9. Digital Scholarship
Weller (2011: 43) used the term to refer to “a
range of scholarly activities afforded by new
technologies”.
However, the most significant changes in scholarly
practices are “driven not just by their digital nature
but by the convergence of the three characteristics
of digital, networked and open.” Weller (2011).

10. A complex interplay between
openness, scholarship and digital
technology (Goodfellow, 2013)

11. Providing new dimensions to
categorise digital scholarship
• scholarly - non-scholarly
(citizenship)
• digital - analogical
• open - close
• other possible dimensions

12. Principles associated to
Digital Scholarship & DH
• Interdisciplinarity/transdisciplinarity/multidisciplinarity.
• Openness: open source, open resources…
• Redefinition of copyright and Intellectual Property
standards.
• Redefinition of the contours of the research
community: citizen science.
• Social engagement.
• New pedagogies.
• Culture of experimentation and prototyping.
• New impact measures: How to evaluate DH -
Altmetrics.
• Spaces inspired by the digital
• Public Scholarship, Public Humanities, Public
Sociology.

13. Interdisciplinarity
Digital Humanities
& ¿Social Sciences?

14. GrinUGR - Collaboratory for digital cultures in
social sciences and humanities

15. Atlas of Digital Humanities and Social
Sciences

16. Atlas of Digital Humanities and Social
Sciences

20. Openness

21. Public Humanities and
Social Sciences

22. Public Humanities and
Social Sciences
¿Public Digital
Humanities?

25. 2011

26. 2011
2013

27. 2011
2013

28. 2011
2013

29. 2011
2013

30. Google Glass

31. A culture of innovation
and experimentation

32. Experimentation and
Entrepreneurship

33. THATCamps

34. THATCamps

35. New forms of curating
academic contents

36. Contributing to the
Commons
Rewriting Wikipedia Project

37. Culture of prototyping

38. MediaLab Prado:
Lines of Work

39. MediaLab Prado:
Lines of Work

40. Digital Humanities
in MediaLab Prado

41. Materialising the digital

42. Materialising the digital

43. Materialising the digital
Photo showing the team of "El Campo de
Cebada", the Golden Nica winners in the
category "Digital Communities”.
License CC by Ars Electronica.

44. Materialising the digital
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45. Materialising the digital
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License CC by Marta Nimeva Nimeviene

46. Materialising the digital
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License CC by Marta Nimeva Nimeviene
License CC by Marta Nimeva Nimeviene

47. Materialising the digital

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