Crowds for Clouds: Recent Trends in Humanities Research Infrastructures

Tobias Blanke (1) , Conny Kristel (2) , Laurent Romary (3, 4)

1 Center for e-Research
2 NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
3 CMB - Centre Marc Bloch
4 ALMAnaCH - Automatic Language Modelling and ANAlysis & Computational Humanities

Humanities have convincingly argued that they need transnational research opportunities and through the digital transformation of their disciplines also have the means to proceed with it on an up to now unknown scale. The digital transformation of research and its resources means that many of the artifacts, documents, materials, etc. that interest humanities research can now be combined in new and innovative ways. Due to the digital transformations, (big) data and information have become central to the study of culture and society. Humanities research infrastructures manage, organise and distribute this kind of information and many more data objects as they becomes relevant for social and cultural research.

Mots clés: Humanities; Digital transformation; Research infrastructure

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Bibliothèque électronique [cs.DL]

Tobias Blanke, Conny Kristel, Laurent Romary. Crowds for Clouds: Recent Trends in Humanities Research Infrastructures. Agiati Benardou; Erik Champion; Costis Dallas; Lorna Hughes. Cultural Heritage Digital Tools and Infrastructures, Routledge, 2018, 978-1-4724-4712-8. ⟨hal-01248562⟩