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Some background, principles and roadmap.

Roadmap

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.