Science Policy Briefing on Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities: Landscapes, Ecosystem, Cultures

Abstract

On September 2011 the European Science Foundation (ESF) published a so called Science Policy Briefing (SPB) on Research Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities; the first ESF publication of this type entirely commissioned by the scientific governance representing the Humanities – a unique body in Europe: the Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH), chaired by Professor Milena Žic Fuchs. The report aims both at serving a research community that is expanding and eager to see its efforts of engaging with computational modelling recognised as authoritative research in need of adequate research infrastructures, and the policy makers arena, where strategies on research infrastructures for the humanities are rarely shared at the international or national level. The research community and information professionals – involved in various fashions in the development of this ESF publication as workshop participants, authors, reviewers, commentators – can make and are making use of this eport to legitimise their research questions and funding requests, while policy makers – from research funders to University deans – will also find strategic directions to be taken on or be inspired by.