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| Digital Humanities 2010 | |
|---|---|
| Name | Digital Humanities 2010 |
| Genre | Academic conference |
| Date | 2010 |
| Location | London |
| Venue | Institute of Historical Research |
| Organizer | Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations |
Digital Humanities 2010
Digital Humanities 2010 was the biennial international conference convened in 2010 that gathered scholars, technologists, librarians, and cultural professionals to discuss digital practice in the humanities. The meeting assembled delegates from universities, museums, research centers, archives, funding agencies, and publishers to present projects, debate methods, and plan collaborations across computational, curatorial, and pedagogical initiatives.
The conference emerged from a lineage of forums and institutions that shaped humanities computing, including predecessors like Humanities Computing Conference, ACH (Association for Computers and the Humanities), and ALLC (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing), and grew under the aegis of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. It was hosted in a city with concentrations of scholarship such as University of London, British Library, British Museum, and Institute of Historical Research, connecting participants from Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, University of Toronto, King's College London, University College London, and University of Edinburgh. Funding and sponsorship drew on agencies and foundations including Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Wellcome Trust, European Research Council, and infrastructure partners such as JISC and DARIAH.
Key themes synthesized debates visible in projects associated with institutions like British Library, Library of Congress, Oxford Internet Institute, Bodleian Libraries, National Archives (United Kingdom), and research labs such as Stanford Humanities Lab, HASTAC, Center for History and New Media, Cambridge Digital Library, and Digital Humanities Center (UCLA). Prominent keynote speakers represented organizations and projects including Google Books, Wikimedia Foundation, Internet Archive, Europeana, Project Gutenberg, Text Encoding Initiative, and initiatives linked to UNESCO and the European Commission. Addresses invoked histories and methods traced to figures and works tied to Noam Chomsky, Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Vannevar Bush, and J. H. Plumb as touchstones for framing computational interpretation, metadata, digitization, and access.
Presentations foregrounded projects that intersected repositories and digital editions, such as initiatives from Oxford English Dictionary, Perseus Digital Library, Early English Books Online, EEBO-TCP, British Newspaper Archive, Mapping the Republic of Letters, Old Bailey Online, Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC), Transcribe Bentham, Women Writers Online, Rossetti Archive, Digital Scriptorium, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, The National Archives (UK), Project MUSE, JSTOR, and experimental labs at Microsoft Research. Methodological demonstrations involved tools and standards from TEI Consortium, TextGrid, Omeka, WordPress, Drupal, Gephi, Palladio, Voyant Tools, Protégé (software), OpenRefine, GitHub, Apache Solr, MySQL, and Dublin Core. Case studies engaged collections and corpora from British Museum, Vatican Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gutenberg Project India, HathiTrust, Cambridge University Library, Holdings of the Bodleian, Yale Center for British Art, and digitization programs supported by Google Books and Microsoft partnerships.
The conference accelerated collaborations among centers such as Center for Digital Scholarship (Oxford), Digital Humanities Lab (King's College London), Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (University of Nebraska), Digital Humanities at Stanford, UCLA Digital Humanities Program, and consortia like CLARIN, DARIAH-EU, and JISC Collections. Outcomes influenced curricula at University of Virginia, Brown University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Michigan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, and professional practices at British Library, National Library of Scotland, Smithsonian Institution, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Guggenheim Museum. Funding priorities at agencies such as AHRC, NEH, Mellon Foundation, and ERC reflected conference dialogues, driving grants for digital editions, scholarly encoding, and preservation workflows aligned with standards propagated by TEI, OAI-PMH, and IIIF.
Controversies surfaced over access and commercial partnerships involving entities like Google, Microsoft, and Elsevier, echoing disputes tied to Authors Guild, Publishers Association, Creative Commons, and debates about licensing models invoked by Public Library of Science advocates. Critics from institutions such as University of California and activist networks like Open Knowledge Foundation raised concerns about sustainability, proprietary software dependence, and the uneven distribution of resources between well-endowed centers (e.g., Harvard University, Stanford University) and smaller departments at University of the West Indies, Makerere University, and University of the Punjab. Ethical discussions referenced case law and policy dialogues around Copyright Act, European Union Copyright Directive, and positions of bodies such as UNESCO and Council of Europe.
The conference influenced later gatherings and projects exemplified by collaborations with DARIAH, CLARIN, HathiTrust Research Center, Europeana Sounds, Connected Histories, Digital Public Library of America, Trans-Atlantic Platform, and follow-up meetings at venues including University of Kentucky, University of Victoria, Georgetown University, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, King's College London, and University of Lancaster. Tools, standards, and partnerships showcased in 2010 persisted in initiatives such as IIIF, TEI, Omeka S, Jisc's Shared Services, and institutional programs at Library of Congress, National Archives (United States), Bibliothèque nationale de France, and National Library of Australia. The meeting's outcomes shaped doctoral training, grant portfolios, and collaborative networks that continued to connect scholars across Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia into the 2010s and beyond.
Category:Conferences in London Category:Humanities computing