Digital Humanities

This College Research Theme has been a priority for the Trinity Long Room Hub since its foundation in 2006. Digital Humanities research not only creates and interrogates digital artefacts, but studies how new media are transforming the disciplines in which they are used, from publication to teaching. Researchers at Trinity have taken a lead internationally in refining these methodologies and building the infrastructures to enable Digital Humanities research.

Bringing together expertise from the various disciplines of the arts and humanities as well as from computer science, linguistics, engineering and the Library, particular research strengths within TCD include digital textual scholarship and editing, virtual/augmented/mixed reality performance, data mining and visualisation, time-series analysis and historical modelling, personalisation and localisation, digital curation, 3D worlds, and music and new media.

The Trinity Long Room Hub, as the home of Digital Humanities at TCD, is leading and participating in a number of international and national research projects in the broad theme of Digital Humanities.

DARIAH - The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) is the digital research infrastructure that will connect scholarly data archives and repositories with cultural heritage for the arts and humanities across Europe. Within Trinity College Dublin, the project is coordinated by Prof. Susan Schreibman.

CENDARI - Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure - CENDARI is a 4-year, European Commission-funded project led by Trinity College Dublin, comprised of a partnership of 14 institutions across 8 countries. It aims to create an innovative research infrastructure for historical researchers which integrates digital archives and resources from the project’s two pilot areas of Medieval European Culture and World War One. In CENDARI, historians, computer scientists and information scientists are collaborating to deliver a digital research infrastructure of the highest quality. The Trinity College team acts as the Coordinator for the project responsible for the management and coordination of the project’s activities as well as the long-term sustainability of the infrastructure that is developed. For more information on CENDARI, please visit the project website at www.cendari.eu or contact the team on info@cendari.eu. Project Coordinator: Dr. Jennifer Edmond, Director of Strategic Projects for Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (edmondj@tcd.ie).

DIGCURV - Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe  - DIGCURV is funded under the Leonardo da Vinci programme to establish a curriculum framework for vocational training in digital curation.

The thirty-month project is identifying, analysing and profiling existing training opportunities and methodologies, survey training needs in the sector, while identifying the key skills and competences required of digital curators. Its goal is to establish a curriculum framework from which training programmes can be developed in future. For more information on DigCurV, please visit the project website: www.digcur-education.org. Project Coordinator: Prof. Susan Schreibman, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities (schreibs@tcd.ie)

More information about these projects and the on-going research activities within this core Research Theme can be found on the DH @TCD blog.

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