In Between Research Cultures – The State of Digital Humanities in Finland
In Between Research Cultures – The State of Digital Humanities in Finland
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研究文化之间——芬兰数字人文的现状
作者：
Inés Matres;Mila Oiva;M. Tolonen
在过去的几年里，数字人文（DH）作为一个研究领域在芬兰发展迅速，主要是由于资金和分析活动的增加。尽管这些基础设施的发展创造了（或大或小）与数字人文直接或间接相关的中心、枢纽和集群，但芬兰在这一领域的研究的未来取决于各种学术和记忆组织以及学者个人如何成功地联合起来。本文的总体论点是，数字人文学科需要建立自己的身份，并在具有不同特征的研究文化中创造一个新的空间，以解决众多问题，这只能通过国家合作和联合利用现有DH中心的优势来实现。本文为此提出了一个路线图，详细讨论了数字人文学科的各种发展，并分析了国际背景下的不同可能性。它基于2016年在芬兰人文和社会科学领域的学者中进行的一项调查，对现有基础设施的分析，以及对参与国际顶级DH中心的DH学者的采访。文章后半部分的重点是这些访谈，以及芬兰DH社区可以从中受益的国外经验教训。最后，我们强烈呼吁合作，以促进芬兰DH领域的进一步发展，以应对国际竞争。
Digital humanities (DH) as a research field has been developing rapidly in Finland during the past few years, mainly due to increased funding and profiling activities. Although these infrastructural developments have created (smaller and larger) centres, hubs and clusters related directly or indirectly to digital humanities, the future of Finnish research in this area depends on how the various scholarly and memory organisations, as well as individual scholars, succeed in joining forces. The overall argument in this paper is that digital humanities needs to establish its identity and to create a new space among research cultures with varying characteristics tackling a multitude of problems, and that this can only be achieved through national collaboration and the joint exploitation of the strengths of existing DH hubs. The article sets out a roadmap to this end, providing a detailed discussion of various developments in digital humanities, and analysing different possibilities in the international context. It is based on a survey conducted in 2016 among Finnish scholars in the fields of humanities and the social sciences, an analysis of existing infrastructures, and interviews with DH scholars involved with international top-level DH centres. The focus in the latter part of the article is on these interviews, and on the lessons learned abroad from which the Finnish DH community could benefit. We conclude with a strong call for collaboration to facilitate the further development of the DH field in Finland in response to international competition.