UK-EI Digital Humanities Association: a network for research capacity enhancement

在过去的几十年里，数字人文(DH)已经成为一个令人兴奋和具有挑战性的研究领域，它结合了人文科学、计算机和数据科学中多个领域的理论、实践和方法--这是一项国际性和跨学科的努力。这导致了创新研究，并为人文科学创造了有前途的新方向。虽然卫生署在英国和爱尔兰发展成功，并在两个国家建立了世界领先的中心，但将两者的优势互补，在这一领域有进一步发展和创新的重大机会。为了培养卫生署卓越的研究和教学能力，与非高等教育部门(特别是美术馆、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆)建立和保持更有效的联系，以及开辟新的合作途径，这项计划将进行研究和咨询，对在英国和爱尔兰实施永久数字人文协会至关重要。在伙伴机构进行的现有研究的基础上，它将把不同的利益攸关方聚集在一起，对可持续性、包容性、培训、宣传和职业发展等关键问题进行批判性的审议和审问。英国和爱尔兰各地参与该网络的机构和个人将努力提出建议，使英国和爱尔兰能够建立该领域的合作愿景，并与国际社会建立新的可持续的长期伙伴关系。在一年的密集讨论、审议和规划结束后，将为自给自足的卫生署协会奠定基础，并将于2021年秋季启动。

Digital Humanities (DH) has emerged in the last decades as an exciting and challenging field of research, combining - in an international and interdisciplinary effort - theory, practices and methods from multiple fields in the Humanities and Computer and Data Sciences. This has resulted in innovative research, and the creation of promising new directions for the Humanities. While DH has developed successfully in the UK and Ireland, with the establishment of world-leading centres in both countries, there are major opportunities for further development and innovation in the field by bringing together their complementary strengths. Seeking to nurture the capacity for excellent research and teaching in DH, to establish and sustain more effective connections with non-HE sectors (notably Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums), and to create new pathways for collaboration, this project will undertake research and consultation vital to the implementation of a permanent Digital Humanities association within the UK and Ireland. Building on existing research conducted by the partner institutions, it will bring together different stakeholders to consider and interrogate critically the concepts of sustainability, inclusivity, training, advocacy and career progression, among other key questions. Institutions and individuals engaged with the network, across the UK and Ireland, will work to propose ways in which the UK and Ireland can build a collaborative vision for the field, and create new and sustainable long-term partnerships in alignment with the international community. At the end of a year of intensive discussion, deliberation and planning, the foundations for a self-sustaining DH association will have been laid, and it will be launched in the autumn of 2021.