• Evolución y escenario actual de las Humanidades Digitales en España

    Author(s):
    Elena González-Blanco, Aroa Rabadán, Salvador Ros, Maurizio Toscano (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    DH2020
    Subject(s):
    Digital humanities, Finance, Science, History, Data sets, Open access publishing, History--Statistical methods
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Conf. Title:
    DH2020 carrefours/intersections
    Conf. Org.:
    ADHO
    Conf. Loc.:
    Virtual
    Conf. Date:
    20-24 July
    Tag(s):
    digital tools for research, investment in research, Spain, Digital scholarship, Funding/Private funding, History of science, Open data, Quantitative history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/667h-ha62
    Abstract:
    The objective of this study was to provide the global community of interested scholars with an updated understanding of Digital Humanities in Spain, in terms of researchers and research centres, disciplines involved and research topics of interest, trends in digital resources development, main funding bodies and the evolution of their investment since the early nineties. One of the characteristics that differentiates this study from previous approaches is the information used to carry out the research. It combines large datasets of publicly available data from trusted sources with a handpicked selection of records grouping information scattered over the Web. Most of the evidence detected by other studies has been numerically confirmed. At the same time, the new metrics and values established constitute a reference base for monitoring the future evolution of the discipline and thus favour comparisons. Half of the researchers were found to be affiliated to only nine institutions, whereas the other half of them were scattered across 84 locations. Department affiliation showed a varied pattern of the different degrees of specialization in each institution. Although the major historic role played by Philology was confirmed, the rising interest of other areas of the Humanities and Social Science produces a wider picture, which helped to identify five large clusters of research topics, centred on major disciplines. The quantitative analysis of funding, a dimension almost unexplored in the Humanities, proved to be a valuable way to assess the discipline and its historical evolution. In fact, it revealed interesting trends that led to our proposal of a three-phase periodization in the consolidation of Digital Humanities in Spain.
    Notes:
    The full results of this research will be published shortly, in English, in the journal El Profesional de la Información (https://doi.org/10.3145/EPI)
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