Digital humanities in Spain: Historical perspective and current scenario
Digital humanities in Spain: Historical perspective and current scenario
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西班牙的数字人文：历史视角和现状
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2020
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通讯作者：
E. González
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M. Toscano;A. Rabadán;S. Ros;E. González
这项研究的目的是向全球感兴趣的学者提供对西班牙数字人文学科的最新了解，包括研究人员和研究中心、涉及的学科和感兴趣的研究主题、数字资源开发的趋势、主要资助机构及其自90年代初以来的投资演变。这项研究有别于以前方法的一个特点是用于开展研究的信息。它将来自可信来源的公开可用数据的大型数据集与精心挑选的记录分组信息组合在一起，这些记录分散在Web上。其他研究发现的大多数证据都得到了数字上的证实。与此同时，建立的新指标和价值构成了监测学科未来发展的参考基础，因此有利于进行比较。一半的研究人员被发现只隶属于九个机构，而另一半的研究人员分散在84个地点。系属关系显示了每个机构不同专业化程度的不同模式。尽管文献学所发挥的重大历史作用得到了肯定，但人文科学和社会科学其他领域的兴趣与日俱增，这有助于确定以主要学科为中心的五大研究专题群。资金的量化分析是人文科学中几乎没有探索过的一个方面，事实证明，这是评估这一学科及其历史演变的一种有价值的方式。事实上，它揭示了有趣的趋势，导致我们提出了西班牙数字人文整合的三个阶段分期的建议。文章最后就如何处理可能损害这一研究领域未来发展的问题以及西班牙研究人员在国际背景下可以发挥的作用提出了一系列建议。
The objective of this study was to provide the global community of interested scholars with an updated understanding of digital humanities in Spain, in terms of researchers and research centres, disciplines involved and research topics of interest, trends in digital resources development, main funding bodies and the evolution of their investment since the early nineties. One of the characteristics that differentiates this study from previous approaches is the information used to carry out the research. It combines large datasets of publicly available data from trusted sources with a handpicked selection of records grouping information scattered over the Web. Most of the evidence detected by other studies has been numerically confirmed. At the same time, the new metrics and values established constitute a reference base for monitoring the future evolution of the discipline, and thus favour comparisons. Half of the researchers were found to be affiliated to only nine institutions, whereas the other half of them were scattered across 84 locations. Department affiliation showed a varied pattern of the different degrees of specialization in each institution. Although the major historic role played by Philology was confirmed, the rising interest of other areas of the Humanities and Social Science produces a wider picture, which helped to identify five large clusters of research topics, centred on major disciplines. The quantitative analysis of funding, a dimension almost unexplored in the Humanities, proved to be a valuable way to assess the discipline and its historical evolution. In fact, it revealed interesting trends that led to our proposal of a three-phase periodization in the consolidation of digital humanities in Spain. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations regarding how to deal with issues that could harm the future development of this research area and the role that Spanish researchers can play in the international context.