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If you build it, will we come? Large scale digital infrastructures as a dead end for Digital Humanities
Wenn Ihr baut, werden wir wohnen? Digitale Infrastrukturen großen Maßstabs als Sackgasse für die Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften
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Abstract "Programs aiming to develop large scale digital infrastructure for the humanities motivate this development mostly by the wish to leverage methodological innovation through digital and computational approaches. It is questionable, however, if large scale infrastructures are the right incubator model... view more
"Programs aiming to develop large scale digital infrastructure for the humanities motivate this development mostly by the wish to leverage methodological innovation through digital and computational approaches. It is questionable, however, if large scale infrastructures are the right incubator model for bringing about such innovation. The necessary generalizations and standardizations, management and development processes that large infrastructures need to apply to cater to wholesale humanities are at odds with well-known aspects of innovation. Moreover, such generalizations dose off many possibilities for exploring new modeling and computing approaches. The author argues that methodological innovation and advancing the modeling of humanities data and heuristics is better served by flexible small-scale research focused development practices. It will also be shown that modeling highly specific distributed web services is a more promising avenue for sustainability of highly heterogeneous humanities digital data than standards enforcement and current encoding practices." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
digitalization; humanities; infrastructure; heuristics; methodology; sustainability; innovation; paradoxy; technology; standardization (meth.); research; practice; workflow management
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Method
basic research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 165-186
Journal
Historical Social Research, 37 (2012) 3
Issue topic
Kontroversen um die Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften / Controversies around the Digital Humanities
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.37.2012.3.165-186
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed