CHALLENGES IN SETTING UP A DIGITAL HUMANITIES CENTRE IN ROMANIA
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2017.1.18Keywords:
digital humanities, centre, multidisciplinary, data visualization, research, digital tools.Abstract
Challenges in Setting up a Digital Humanities Centre in Romania. Other than the obvious and well-documented benefits of the Digital Humanities centre, now a common occurrence in western universities, this paper wishes to focus on the very specific challenges encountered by the DigiHUBB team in creating one in Romania. The very first of its kind in this country, the centre was eventually credited by the Babeş-Bolyai University, but yet still struggles due to the fact the domain itself is still no fully recognized on a national scale. Both the issues and the positive aspects, which are indeed many, will be taken into account in showing how a promising this field of research is just as long as scholars and policy-makers keep an open mind.
REZUMAT. Provocări în procesul de deschidere a unui centru de digital humanities în România. În afara certelor şi bine-documentatelor beneficii ale centrelor de digital humanities, acum atât de comune în universităţile vestice, această lucrare se concentrează pe problemele foarte specifice întâlnite de echipa DigiHUBB în fondarea unuia în România. Primul centru de cercetare în acest domeniu, din ţară, a fost, în cele din urmă, acreditat de Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, însă întâmpină în continuare probleme datorită faptului ca domeniul în sine nu este încă recunoscut pe plan naţional. Atât dificulăţile, cât şi aspectele positive, care nu sunt deloc puţine, au fost luate în considerare pentru a putea arăta cât de ofertant este acest domeniu atâta timp cât cercetătorii dau dovadă de deschidere.
Cuvinte cheie: digital humanities, centru, multidisciplinaritate, vizualizare de date, cercetare, unelte digitale.
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