MapaHDExploring Spanish and

Portuguese Speaking DH Communities

Élika OrtegaCulturePlex Lab, UWO@elikaortega

Silvia GutiérrezUniversität Würzburg@silviaegt

Digital Humanities 2014Lausanne, Switzerland

July 11th, 2014

AssociationsPublicationsConferences

Background

2013 A key year

for HD

In contrast: Lack of visibility in the Global DH community

Community

Building

DíaHD (June 10)

Representativity & Visibility

CenterNet

Map

digitalhumani

ties.org/

centernet/

Terras, M. Quantifying

Digital Humanities

(2011)

The Question

Is there a non Anglo American Digital Humanities (DH) and if so, what are its characteristics?

—Domenico Fiormonte

Yes!…What are its characteristics?

Research Questions

Who are we?

Where are we?

How long have we been working

on HD?

What do we do?

What are our work practices?

Sample & Objective

MapaHD explores the characteristics of 80 Spanish &

Portuguese speaking digital

humanists Distinguishing

particular HD

practices at its own scale

Methodology

Online questionnaire distributed online through Twitter

(#DíaHD, #HDH2013, #DH2013, #HDBr, #ThatCampBaires, #RedHD, #arounddh,

#dhpoco #HumanidadesDigitales)

Available mailing lists at the time (GO::DH,

RedHD)

Self Reporting

Who is a Digital Humanist here?--Whoever wanted to be one!

Questionnaire allowed participants to self identify as Digital Humanists

Open and inclusive boundaries of the field, undetermined by us

Participants ‘drew’ their field

Data Collection Challenges

Reach as many participants as possible

Avoid hand picking participants

“…tap into existing networks despite the potential for broader distribution.” (Rockwell, 2012)

The Questionnaire

Open from June 10 — October 10 2013

Geographic LocationDH TrajectoriesDisciplinesMethodologies & ApproachesWork Environments

The Database

Non-obvious connections & in 2nd & 3rd degree

The Map

http://bit.ly/mapahd

Geographic Distribution

A good number of Digital Humanists work outside of Spanish & Portuguese speaking countries.

Important interconnections to other DH communities and their particular practices.

Spain

Mexico

Portugal

USA

UK

Argentina

Canada

Brazil

Italy

Chile

Germany

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

29

14

13

7

5

5

4

3

2

2

1

+20 years: pioneers5-20 years: development-5 years: explosion

Trajectories

Work Environments

Visible transition from ‘conventional’ to digital environments Projects

Faculties

Centre

Departments

Digital Library

Institute

Laboratory

Network

Group

Others

Library

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

19

16

14

8

7

6

6

4

2

2

1

DisciplinesUnconnected…?

…or connected?

Literary StudiesHistory

InfoScienceLinguisticsVisual ArtsPhilosophyFilm,Media

OtherAnthropology

CompSciSoc. and Cultural Studies

EducationMusic

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

562020

13987654322

Interdisciplinarity Index

Scholar

Lit Studies

Info Science

History

MusicVisual Arts

Index 2

Index 3

Scholar

Disciplines co-occurrence per participant

Their Connections

Subsets per discipline and frequency

Literary St.

History Philos-ophy

Info Science

Linguis-tics

Visual Arts

Gen-eral

Mean

1.89 2.1 2.12 2.45 2.15 3.11 1.83

Me-dian

2 2 2 3 2 3 2

Mode

1 2 2 3 2 3 1

0.250.751.251.752.252.753.25

Approaches

Digital Edition21%

Databases16%

Text Markup

13%

Digitization12%

Other10%

Reposi-tories8%

NL Anal-ysis5%

Metadata5%

Network Analysis

5%

GIS3%

Web Dev. and Design

1%

Data Visualization0%

Great variety all around. What disciplines are they connected to?

Their Connections

More flexibility = more approaches

Anthr

opolog

y

Visual A

rts

Info

Scienc

e

Film

,Med

ia

Educ

ation

Philo

soph

y

Histor

y

Comp.

Scienc

e

Liter

aryS

tudies

Lingu

istics

Mus

ic

Soc. a

nd C

ult.

St...

Other

0

10

20

30

40

NL Analysis Network Analysis Databases Web Dev. And Design Digitization Digital Edition

Metadata GIS Text Markup Other Repositories Data Visualization

Conclusions

Tweaking the scale of analysis shows

literally a different map

Funding and institutional models are doubtlessly playing

a role in the configuration of this community

HD is not just beginning to emerge, but coming

strongly together

Impact & Follow-up Projects

AtlasCSHD.org (w. Esteban Romero UGR)

GO::DH

Global collaborations in these linguistic communities to gather more participants and bring together more communities

Thanks

mapahd.org

Élika OrtegaCulturePlex Lab,

UWO@elikaortega

Silvia GutiérrezUniversität Würzburg@silviaegt