Veranstaltungsprogramm

Sitzung
Mittwoch 2:2: Metareflexion
Zeit:
Mittwoch, 05.03.2025:
11:00 - 12:30

Ort: HSBI D1


Präsentationen

Die Zukunft der Digital Humanities: Mehr als nur “Humanities”?

Manuel Burghardt

Computational Humanities, Universität Leipzig

In diesem Beitrag wird zunächst die Rolle der Informatik als Querschnittsdisziplin zwischen Naturwissenschaften und Geisteswissenschaften diskutiert. Ich argumentiere, dass durch eine allgemeine computational literacy beide Wissenschaftskulturen (vgl. Snow, 1959) in die Lage versetzt werden, gemeinsame Forschungsprojekte zu unternehmen. Ich zeige verschiedene Beispiele für die erfolgreiche Synthese von Informatik, Literaturwissenschaft und Biologie auf und gehe der Frage nach, ob solche multidisziplinären Unterfangen die Zukunft unseres Fachs darstellen könnten.



Applied Digital Humanities: Calling for a more engaged Digital Humanities

Anastasia Glawion, Dominik Kremer, Sabine Lang, Michaela Mahlberg, Andreas Wagner

Friedrich Alexander Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutschland

When the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine in February 2022, a handful of Digital Humanities scholars were quick to react. Anna Kijas, Quinn Dombrowski, and Sebastian Majstorovic launched the Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online volunteer initiative (SUCHO). Soon SUCHO would connect over 1,500 volunteers and save over 51 TB of data constituting contemporary Ukrainian online cultural heritage. Later, they would also sent equipment to various institutions in Ukraine, including archives and museums.

The humanitarian impact of this initiative is hard to overstate and it motivates to think about the nature and purposes of Digital Humanities. In this paper we want to call for an Applied Digital Humanities – a Digital Humanities research that emphasizes its humanities perspective; it is research with a humanities purpose, aiming to tackle real-world challenges by drawing on innovative digital methods and approaches.



Operationalizing operationalizing

Dominik Gerstorfer, Evelyn Gius

TU-Darmstadt, Deutschland

In this paper we suggest a comprehensive account of operationalization. The goal is to define a workflow which specifies the normative components that ensure that the results match the research question. In order to make the workflow implementable in Digital Humanities research, we need to identify the components of a generalized method for getting from a research question to its answer. While some of the components have already been discussed in Digital Humanities’ research on operationalization, we propose to put more focus on explication, measurement, and validation.