{"title":"Finding support for disruption: developing a digital humanities project in Mexico","authors":"Ernesto Priani Saisó","doi":"10.1108/00012531211196738","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – This paper seeks to provide a description and reflection on some of the structural problems and challenges faced when developing a digital humanities (DH) project in a Mexican public university.Design/methodology/approach – As DH is a relatively new field and practice in Mexican academia, this article is based on a case study of developing the Biblioteca Digital de Pensamiento Novohispano (Digital Library of New Hispanic Thought). This is one of the few DH at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), the largest public university in the country.Findings – It was found that there were three central problems for developing a DH project in a Mexican public university: existing technical knowledge and abilities at the UNAM will be challenged by DH projects; projects are the place to train human resources in DH methodology; and researchers need to consider different long‐term infrastructure and hosting solutions, with or without using institutional infrastructure, at the same time researche...","PeriodicalId":55449,"journal":{"name":"Aslib Proceedings","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Aslib Proceedings","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531211196738","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Purpose – This paper seeks to provide a description and reflection on some of the structural problems and challenges faced when developing a digital humanities (DH) project in a Mexican public university.Design/methodology/approach – As DH is a relatively new field and practice in Mexican academia, this article is based on a case study of developing the Biblioteca Digital de Pensamiento Novohispano (Digital Library of New Hispanic Thought). This is one of the few DH at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), the largest public university in the country.Findings – It was found that there were three central problems for developing a DH project in a Mexican public university: existing technical knowledge and abilities at the UNAM will be challenged by DH projects; projects are the place to train human resources in DH methodology; and researchers need to consider different long‐term infrastructure and hosting solutions, with or without using institutional infrastructure, at the same time researche...
目的:本文旨在描述和反思墨西哥一所公立大学在开发数字人文学科(DH)项目时面临的一些结构性问题和挑战。设计/方法论/方法-由于DH在墨西哥学术界是一个相对较新的领域和实践,本文基于开发Biblioteca Digital de Pensamiento Novohispano(新西班牙思想数字图书馆)的案例研究。这是墨西哥最大的公立大学墨西哥国立自治大学(UNAM)为数不多的DH之一。调查结果-研究发现,在墨西哥公立大学开展卫生保健项目有三个主要问题:卫生保健项目将挑战墨西哥国立大学现有的技术知识和能力;项目是培训人力资源采用卫生保健方法的地方;研究人员需要考虑不同的长期基础设施和托管解决方案,使用或不使用机构基础设施,同时研究……