1. Sally Wyatt Sally.wyatt@ehumanities.knaw.nl 15 December 2011

2. virtual cyber- data-driven e (electronic) e (enhanced) i (interactive) computer (mediated) online distance tele- computational p (personalised) digital science research knowledge scholarship social sciences humanities simulations methods tools models objects publications

3. Humanities Social sciences Scholarship Research Computing Infrastructure Collaboration Data

4.  Always inscribed in & by instruments (e.g. telescopes, microscopes, calculators, computers)  Deeply social – in contexts of discovery & certainly in contexts of justification & use (e.g. labs, universities, publication practices)  Mutual influence between systems/ infrastructures of knowledge production & practices of knowledge production

5. Need to consider specific institutional arrangements, systems of governance & accountability, infrastructure, instruments and practices

6.  Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels 1848)  Futurist Manifesto (Marinetti 1909)  SCUM Manifesto (Solanas 1968)  Manifesto for Cyborgs (Haraway 1985)  Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial society & its future (Kaczynski 1995)  Manifesto for Digital Humanities, THATCamp, Paris May 2010 & Digital Humanities Manifesto, UCLA

7.  What objectives do we want technology to support?  What kind of technology do we want?  How can it be achieved?  How can technology be used to support the diversity of humanities research?  Openness – data, metadata, code, output  Distributed collaboration – across distance, discipline, expert-amateur  Make the invisible visible

8. e-Humanities Manifesto?