1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Germany License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/ AG3: Zielgruppe - die Geisteswissenschaft The « humanities » Nationaler Workshop e-Humanities Göttingen, 06. Juni 2008

2. NameSeite Communities — how to characterize them?  Forms of publication  Various culture of publishing (sharing!) research results  Material scientists work with  Data types rather: e.g. Musicians working on correspondance  Object of research  Various views on the same data: e.g. form vs. Content  Communities of methods  Various views on the same data: e.g. methods network

3. NameSeite Issues  No real emphasis on scientific fields as such  General feeling of the hermeneutic approach  Generic tools and methods vs. Individual analysis of data  Data is somehow never free of interpretation  Primary data vs. Observations  Consensus as to the direction to follow  Simple environments  Priority is to make the content available to scientists  Simplicity should not be at the expense of genericity  User-centred perspective  Allow the scientist to recombine available technologies/tools  No complex workbench  Discipline orientation for outreaching purposes

4. NameSeite Consequence on working environments  High stability of methods is expected  Emergence of new research questions  Importance of connecting different sources of data  Left to the scientist  Cf. simplicity (simple tools that can be combined)  New complexity resulting from the availability of huge amount of data  Shift of activity (mining)  Some paradigm shifts for disciplines moving from a data poor to data-rich situation  Evolution of the evaluation schemes  Recognition for non classical written contributions (books)  No revolution to be expected though  Experiments on news paradigms (data journals) should be supported

5. NameSeite Consequence on the university environment  Recognition of local competence centre still poor  Difficulties to dissociate technologies and research  Identify room for digital humanities methods in curricula  Transversal training activities  Conclusion…

6. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Germany License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/de/ Convince the researcher! Good compromise between solid infrastructures and tangible results