With a new academic year beginning, we’ve prepared a quick run-down of our resources and new portal content.
What is DH and the DH Hub?
For those of you who are new to DH and the Hub, Digital Humanities (DH) is the critical study of the intersection between digital technologies, disciplines in the Arts and Humanities, and scholarly communication.
The DH Hub, which is part of the University Library, is your base for DH research support. The Hub team brings together academic and professional services colleagues from across the University. We use our combined expertise to enable DH research in a variety of aspects, including:
- DH skills and training
- Project proposals, collaboration and funding
- Research data management, preservation and sharing
- Collections-based research and digital artefacts
- Programming and computing resources
What can I find on the DH Hub portal?
You can find answers to key questions which might arise when starting out with DH. These include ‘What is Digital Humanities?’ (for which, see our ‘What is Digital Humanities?’ page); ‘Is my project DH?’ (for which, see our DH FAQs); and ‘How, and why, might I engage with DH?’ (for which, see our ‘Starting out with DH’ guide).
You can see what support is offered by the DH Hub and DH CoP. The Hub and CoP work closely together. The CoP promotes awareness of, and engagement with, DH among academics, and the Hub provides practical support for DH research.
You can find out about events that the DH Hub and DH CoP are running. These include networking events, drop-in sessions and methodological workshops.
You can use the resources on our website to develop DH skills, for inspiration, and for help with DH projects. Our resources include links (to courses, projects, software and more); guides (on, for example, Humanities Data Management and Working with Collections); and case studies (to which we will soon be adding).
You can also get in touch with us to see how we can help.
What’s new?
Our calendar has been updated with new events including our Back to Campus Networking (23 October) and Humanities Data event (20 November). More of these to come.
We have published a new Digital Humanities Planning Tool, to guide you through technical, legal and ethical questions which might arise when planning a DH project.
Over the summer, the DH CoP held its inaugural conference, on the theme of Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence. You can hear all about the day here and catch up on posts by conference speakers in our DH & AI guest blog series.
We have also answered some Frequently Asked Questions relating to both Digital Humanities and the Hub’s resources and support.
Something missing?
If there is something you would like to see on the DH Hub portal, please let us know, by emailing digitalhumanities@reading.ac.uk.