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Journal of Digital Humanities

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Journal of Digital Humanities
TitleJournal of Digital Humanities
AbbreviationJDH
DisciplineDigital humanities
PublisherCenter for Digital Research and Scholarship
CountryUnited States
FrequencyQuarterly
History2007–present

Journal of Digital Humanities The Journal of Digital Humanities is an open-access online publication devoted to scholarship at the intersection of humanities and computing. Modeled in conversation with initiatives such as Humanities Commons, Digital Public Library of America, Library of Congress, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Modern Language Association, the journal has served as a venue for authors associated with institutions including University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Harvard University, Columbia University, and University of Oxford. It publishes peer-reviewed research, pedagogy reports, and project documentation that engages technologies championed by projects such as Google Books, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Europeana, and HathiTrust.

History

The journal emerged in the mid-2000s amid scholarly conversations with stakeholders like American Council of Learned Societies, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Modern Language Association, and Digital Library Federation. Early editorial networks included scholars affiliated with University of Virginia, New York University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University. Influences and interlocutors encompassed initiatives such as TEI, Text Encoding Initiative, Mellon Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and projects led by centers like Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The journal’s founding responded to debates framed by conferences including Digital Humanities Conference, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Association for Computers and the Humanities, and regional meetings at Society for American Archaeology and Association of College and Research Libraries.

Scope and Content

The journal covers methodological, theoretical, and practical work linked to platforms and projects such as GIScience Research, Omeka, Scalar, Voyant Tools, Jupyter Notebook, and GitHub. Contributors frequently engage archival partners including British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Library of Australia, Public Record Office, and museum partners like Smithsonian Institution and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Articles draw on case studies involving collections from Vatican Library, Library of Congress, Bodleian Libraries, New York Public Library, and Wellcome Collection, and intersect with initiatives such as Crowdsource, Zooniverse, WorldCat, and Digital Public Library of America. The journal publishes work engaging thematic areas highlighted by committees like Modern Languages Association Committee on Information Technology, American Historical Association, Renaissance Society of America, and Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Publication and Editorial Practices

The editorial model aligns with open peer review experiments and editorial practices discussed at forums including Peer Review Congress, SPARC, Open Archives Initiative, Directory of Open Access Journals, and CrossRef. Managing editors have come from environments like University of Toronto, University of Michigan, Princeton University, Yale University, and Duke University. The journal uses submission workflows compatible with infrastructure from Open Journal Systems, Scholarly Commons, and repository services like Figshare, Zenodo, and Dryad. It has collaborated with professional organizations including Council on Library and Information Resources, Association for Information Science and Technology, National Institutes of Health (for data-sharing discussions), and funding agencies such as National Science Foundation and Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Abstracting and Indexing

Indexing and discoverability conversations situate the journal alongside resources indexed by Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, JSTOR, and ProQuest. Metadata practices reference standards from Dublin Core, MODS, MARC21, and identifiers such as ORCID, DOI, and Handle System. Library consortia like OCLC, HathiTrust, Research Libraries UK, and Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois have discussed inclusion strategies, while citation services including Google Scholar, CrossRef, Dimensions, and Altmetric track impact signals.

Reception and Impact

Scholars in departments and centers associated with English Department at Harvard, History Department at Columbia University, Department of Classics at Cambridge, School of Information at Berkeley, and Center for Computational Linguistics at MIT have cited the journal in debates alongside outlets such as Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Computers and the Humanities, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and Computational Linguistics. The journal’s work has informed grant proposals submitted to Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, European Research Council, and Horizon 2020. Citation analyses referencing databases maintained by Clarivate Analytics, Scopus', and Google Scholar show disciplinary cross-citations with fields represented at conferences such as Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CHI, Association for Computational Linguistics, and Society for Digital Humanities.

Notable Articles and Special Issues

Special issues and notable articles have addressed themes tied to projects and debates involving TEI, Linked Open Data, RDF, SPARQL, IIIF, and platforms like Omeka S and Drupal. Contributions from authors affiliated with University College London, King's College London, École Normale Supérieure, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique have been highlighted alongside collaborative reports from labs such as Stanford Literary Lab, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Digital Humanities Lab at Yale, and Berkeley Institute for Data Science. Special issues have intersected with projects funded by Mellon Foundation, NEH, European Research Council, and thematic networks like HERA and Digging into Data Challenge.

Category:Digital humanities journals