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

数字人文（DH）在过去的几十年中已经成为一个令人兴奋和具有挑战性的研究领域，结合-在国际和跨学科的努力-理论，实践和方法，从多个领域的人文和计算机和数据科学。这导致了创新的研究，并为人文学科创造了有前途的新方向。卫生署在英国及爱尔兰已成功发展，并在两地设立世界领先的中心，两者优势互补，为卫生署在该领域的进一步发展及创新带来重大机遇。该项目旨在培养卫生署卓越的研究和教学能力，与非高等教育部门（特别是画廊、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆）建立和保持更有效的联系，并创造新的合作途径，该项目将开展研究和咨询，这对在英国和爱尔兰建立永久性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，它将汇集不同的利益攸关方，以批判性的方式审议和询问可持续性、包容性、培训、宣传和职业发展等关键问题。在英国和爱尔兰，参与该网络的机构和个人将努力提出英国和爱尔兰可以为该领域建立合作愿景的方法，并与国际社会建立新的可持续的长期伙伴关系。经过一年的深入讨论、审议和规划，一个自我维持的DH协会的基础已经奠定，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.