Educating the Humanities for e-Science

Abstract

The first part of the present paper discusses why the Humanities is lagging behind in terms of making use of e-science and what might be done to remedy that situation. The diversity of ontologies in the Humanities, hampering consensus over metadata, is one problem. Another problem is the lack of education in e-science tailored to the needs of researchers in the Humanities and the lack of efforts to try to integrate elements of e-science with the standard repertoire of research and education in the Humanities. Drawing on experiences from the project European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) and from the on-going project Distributed Access Management of Language Resources (DAM-LR), the Centre for Languages and literature at Lund University is trying to implement new elements of e-science at the local Faculty of Humanities. The second part of the paper briefly describes the process as well as some of its added values.