{"id":4090,"date":"2011-12-03T06:29:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T11:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2011-12-03T06:31:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T11:31:14","slug":"research-infrastructures-in-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4090","title":{"rendered":"Research Infrastructures in the Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Science Foundation has released a report on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esf.org\/research-areas\/humanities\/strategic-activities\/research-infrastructures-in-the-humanities.html?utm_source=MadMimi&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Science+Policy+Briefing+%28SPB%29+on+%E2%80%9CResearch+Infrastructures+in+the+Digital+Humanities%22+1&amp;utm_campaign=Science+Policy+Briefing+%28SPB%29+on+%E2%80%9CResearch+Infrastructures+in+the+Digital+Humanities%22+1&amp;utm_term=here\">Research Infrastructures in the Humanities<\/a>. The report has a nice Introduction on the origins of Research Infrastructures like the library and museum. It presents a taxonomy and a number of case studies. By and large the report argues &#8220;that digital RIs offer Humanities scholars new and productive ways<br \/>\nto explore old questions and develop new ones.&#8221; (Foreword, p. 2) The report is by the European Science Foundation and is designed to encourage appropriate development of digital infrastructure for the humanities which bridge to traditional resources.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLTStd';\">Digital infrastructures are developing rapidly but unevenly, and there is an urgent need for coordination, standardisation and sharing of experience to prevent unnecessary duplication and the atomisation of good <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'HelveticaNeueLTStd';\">initiatives. (Foreword, p. 2)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only skimmed the report, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to raise the question of exactly what is suitable as infrastructure and what should stay open research. The report concludes with a nice set of priorities including the need for evaluation systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Science Foundation has released a report on Research Infrastructures in the Humanities. The report has a nice Introduction on the origins of Research Infrastructures like the library and museum. It presents a taxonomy and a number of case studies. By and large the report argues &#8220;that digital RIs offer Humanities scholars new and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research Infrastructures in the Humanities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration","category-humanities-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}