Digital humanities at global scale

ABSTRACTABSTRACTThe incorporation of the humanities into digital transformation processes resulted in the emergence of a new research field called digital humanities. This new field has its origin in the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century. From the research point of view, through the analysis of the scientific production of the main academic databases, we provide here an overview of the international panorama of digital humanities, looking at the main countries, institutions, areas of knowledge and leading topics in this discipline.KEYWORDS: Digital humanitiesbibliometricscomputational literary studiesDH areas of knowledgeDH keywordsDH impactDH institutions Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsLidia Bocanegra BarbechoLidia Bocanegra Barbecho is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Contemporary History and Medialab UGR of the University of Granada (UGR). Specialist in Digital Humanities, Digital History, Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing applied to cultural heritage and migration issues. She is also an expert in research projects of the European Commission in Social Sciences and Humanities. She holds a PhD in History (Universidad de Lleida) and an MA in European Project Design (Venice International University). Lidia is PI of the research projects: e-xiliad@s, Co-History and CrowdHistory. She has done research stays in Argentina, Italy, Cuba, Colombia and Ireland. Author and co-author of several open access scientific publications, most of them in high impact journals and publishers. As a member of the international postgraduate school at the UGR, she has directed theses with international mentions and teaches participatory models, between society and university, and open science topics to doctoral students. She also conducts classes in master's and undergraduate programmes at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the UGR.Salvador Ros MuñozSalvador Ros is Director of the Digital Humanities Laboratory and Associate Professor at the Computer Science School at UNED. He is Principal Investigator of the INFRA CLS H2020 Project and Director of the Master in Digital Humanities and the Master in Data Science and Big Data Technologies and Architecture at UNED. He collaborated with Frontex as Coordinator of the Innovation and Technology in Border Security Module of the European Master in Strategic Border Management. He has worked as CIO of the POSTDATA ERC Starting Grant project, and the LyrAIcs Project and as a Director of Learning Technologies at UNED and Vice-Dean of Technologies at the Computer Science School. He received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award at UNED. He is expert in Strategic Management and Innovation in the Public Sector. He holds a Public Sector Management Leadership Program at IESE Business School, a Senior Strategic Management for Universities from the University of Nebrija and the Leadership Program for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector from Deusto Business School. His research and professional activity are focused on artificial intelligence for digital transformation and applied to Sciences and Humanities. He is co-Founder of the Spanish Learning Analytics Network, SNOLA and the strategic network INTELE.Elena González-Blanco GarcíaElena Gonzalez Blanco is an Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation researcher focused on language technologies. She holds a PhD from the Universidad Complutense, a Masters in Digital Information Systems at UC3M and several Executive programmes at LSE London, MIT and ESADE. She is a renowned international researcher who has worked at Harvard University, King's College, UNAM, Bonn and UNED. She's currently Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence Applied to Business at IE Business School, and also teaches at ICAI and AFI. She is Principal Investigator of the H2020 European Research Council Excellence Project POSTDATA (1M€+) and LyrAIcs. She was the Director and Founder of LINHD (Digital Innovation Lab and IT solutions provider). Executive Committee/Advisory Board Member the Clarin ERIC EU Research Infrastructure of Language Technologies, and Advisory Board of the Venture Capital Conexo. She has been recognized as one of the Top100 Female Leaders in Spain (2016, 2017, 2018), and awarded with the Julián Marías Prize 2017 for researchers under 40 years old. She has been #1 and #3 in the Choiseul Ranking '100 Economic Leaders for the Future of Spain' (2018, 2019). She has received the 2021 WIDS Prize for Women in Machine Learning and Data Science.Maurizio ToscanoMaurizio Toscano is Senior technician at the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), Project leader and Lead developer of the Horizon Europe NCP Portal (https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu), and Coordinator of the Horizon Academy European project. He is a specialist in Digital Humanities, Web Development and GIS. He has a PhD cum laude from the University of Granada, with a thesis on the design and implementation of Web Information Systems in History, Art History and Archaeology. He graduated in Cultural Heritage Conservation from the University of Viterbo-Tuscia, with a thesis on architectural archaeology and has a master's degree in Information and Communication Technology in Archaeology from the Università of Siena, with a thesis on quantitative archaeology and spatial analysis. In the last decade, he has been actively involved in drafting and executing European research projects and coordination and support actions as researcher in digital humanities or technology and data management leader, namely in: MEMOLA (FP7); REACH, DESIR and INCULTUM (H2020); BRIDGE2HE and NCP4HE (Horizon Europe). He is an expert evaluator for the European Commission for Cultural Heritage and for the Spanish Evaluation Agency (AEI) in the field of Digital Humanities.