Digital Humanities – Open Access and Digital Infrastructure

Convenor: Mihnea Dobre (ICUB Humanities)

The series on Digital Humanities (DH) hosted by the ICUB Humanities is a place to gather scholars interested to discuss projects combining traditional scholarship in the humanities with the use of digital tools. The series focuses on examples of good practice in DH, discussing case studies, digital tools, or large digital projects. Topics for the next academic year include, but they are not limited to:

• How to deal with the data?
• From computational linguistics to digital humanities.
• Digital forms of publication.
• How to build a DH project?
• Visualization technology

The meetings of the DH series will take place every month. For questions about the program, please send a message at mihnea.dobre@icub.unibuc.ro.

Please register for attending the meetings. For registration, please send a message to humanities@icub.unibuc.ro.

Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 11h, Roundtable discussion: Open Access (OA) and Digital Infrastructure, Koen Vermeir (CNRS) & Mihnea Dobre (ICUB)

• Abstract. Recent years have witnessed an increased process of digitization of many historical sources. Most of these resources are openly available to the public via an internet connection. However, there is a high-level of fragmentation among Digital Humanities (DH) projects. Furthermore, most of the secondary literature remains behind paywalls. The roundtable discussion hosted by the Humanities division of the ICUB aims to stimulate a debate along two of the key components of DH: the promotion of open access (OA) and the need of strong digital infrastructures at the university level.