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Some background, principles and roadmap.

Roadmap

• In terms of geographical scope, start with institutions located in the area covered by the DHd association.
• In terms of functionality, add a searchable and sortable table with all people and their institutions.
• Use Patrick Sahle’s list to increase coverage of people in the DHd area.
  
• Add those people and their institutions who have representatives in ADHO COB or EB, as another step towards international scope. (Started.)
• Add those people and their institutions who have representatives in ADHO COs and AOs, as another step towards international scope. (Started.)
• In terms of centers, add those located at one of the institutions in the DHd area first. (Some more to add.)
• For Germany and Austria, add the Academies of Science with their researchers.
• In terms of people, start with people working either permanently or in junior professor positions, working at these institutions and/or centers.
• Add international locations who have hosted the DH conference, as a first step for more international scope.
• For these international locations, add their centers and key personnel as well.
• Use the Digital Course Registry for hints on more institutions, internationally.
• Use Centernet’s map for hints on more institutions with centers, internationally. (However, some outdated information there.)
• Add links to the Digital Humanities Course Registry based on the institution id.
• The map is not currently time-indexed, but this is an idea for a future iteration. (Later!)
• Further down the line, do some statistics on the data as well. (Later!)
• Add more data on domain / field / denomination. (Later!)
• Possibly, add information on gender?

Principles

• Apply a broad definition of Digital Humanities; any work at the intersection of computer science or statistics and any discipline in the humanities could be included; this means computational linguistics is in scope.
• Start by adding the following people: associate or full professors; junior professors; other permanent faculty members.
• See the map as a 2024 snapshot of DH, especially in terms of people (their affiliation and role) and centers. Be more broad in terms of institutions with a role in DH, including for historical reasons (past conferences).
• For each person, include a short descriptor phrase for people with their primary domain(s) of activity.
• For each institution, include the name of the city they are located in, if it isn’t part of their name already (this helps with city-based search in the table).

Difficulties

• It is not always apparent who has a permanent position, making the determination of which people to include difficult.
  
• Some people have no ORCID (their ORCIDs are set to 0000-0000-0000-0000) or have hidden all information from their ORCID profile (their ORCIDs are used if a reasonable assumption can be made that they do refer to the right person).
• There are DH centers that are independent and/or have no institutional affiliation; for the moment, they are treated as institutions in their own right.
• Dealing with the multilingual nature of such a list and map with international coverage is tricky. It would be nice to have all information in multiple languages, but this interferes with the goal of keeping things simple.