Title Affiliations Abstract "Strengthening digital research at the UP system: digitization of rare periodicals and training in digital humanities." "Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)" "This TEAM project funded by VLIR-UOS is a collaboration between the University of Antwerp and the University of the Philippines that combines an exchange of DH expertise and training with a specific digitization project of rare Philippine newspapers and magazines. The Universtity of Antwerp's project three promotors are Mike Kestemont, Dirk Van Hulle, and Rocío Ortuño. The project aims to improve the competitiveness of Philippine Humanities research in a globalized world, including the possibilities of student and professional mobility offered by the ASEAN confluence, by training faculty members and students in the field of Digital Humanities. The first and crucial step towards this objective (1) is the digitization of materials and the creation of a freely accessible environment with user friendly search facilities. Several periodicals published before World War II are in a precarious state of preservation and, located in Metro Manila, they are not accessible to all universities in the Philippines. By digitizing these periodicals and hosting them in a freely accessible online repository, they could be made available to all peripheral universities, and used in DH related research. Subsequently, (2) training in DH will be provided at different campuses of the University of the Philippines System. This training fits in the Philippine government's priority for promoting digital literacy both among scholars and the larger public. It also allows the University of the Philippines to participate in the global emergence and collaborative hallmark of DH." "Digital transformation and curation in GLAM: valorisation of digital humanities research (DigitGLAM)" "Frederik Truyen" "Cultural Studies Research Group, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Early Modern History (15th-18th Centuries), Leuven, Art History, Leuven, Architecture and Design, Institute for Media Studies" "DigitGLAM will offer consultancy services and expertise to Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) and their networks in the fields of digital curation, digital transformation and the use of digital technologies for user engagement. In doing so, we aim to become (i) the most obvious partner for Flemish and European GLAM institutions when preparing funding applications related to GLAM, and (ii) a leading expertise center for these institutions when struggling with the implementation of digital, collection-based work-flows. The IOF mandate will substantially expand on our existing track record in valorisation projects for the GLAM sector, increase participation in European and Belgian/Flemish funding calls. It will strengthen our contribution within KU Leuven to the recently started HERKUL and DigiSoc institutes." "Digital Humanities Flanders" "Kurt Vanhoutte" "Research Centre for Visual Poetics" "This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel. This research community deals with Digital Humanities. Its participants examine how computational techniques can enhance and support traditional research in the humanities. This project is an interdisciplinary initiative, focussing on methodological innovation and keen on setting up collaborative initiatives with colleagues and research groups in the sciences. As digital databases become increasingly common in the humanities, it is widely recognized that Digital Humanities have been gaining momentum during the last two decades. However, digital humanities are still being confronted with numerous challenges: digital skills, such as programming, are still absent from most curricula. Moreover, research in the digital humanities is still very much fragmented, as most researchers, while having many methodological interests in common, come from very divergent backgrounds. By organizing all kinds of network activities and training events, this research community will create opportunities for a better exploitation of the available know-how and strengthen Flanders' position within the international DH-community." "Digital Humanities Flanders" "Frank Willaert" "Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)" "This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel. This research community deals with Digital Humanities. Its participants examine how computational techniques can enhance and support traditional research in the humanities. This project is an interdisciplinary initiative, focussing on methodological innovation and keen on setting up collaborative initiatives with colleagues and research groups in the sciences. As digital databases become increasingly common in the humanities, it is widely recognized that Digital Humanities have been gaining momentum during the last two decades. However, digital humanities are still being confronted with numerous challenges: digital skills, such as programming, are still absent from most curricula. Moreover, research in the digital humanities is still very much fragmented, as most researchers, while having many methodological interests in common, come from very divergent backgrounds. By organizing all kinds of network activities and training events, this research community will create opportunities for a better exploitation of the available know-how and strengthen Flanders' position within the international DH-community." "Towards more Transparent Human-Data Interaction: Designing for Uncertainty in Digital Humanities Visualization" "Andrew Vande Moere" "Leuven Statistics Research Centre (LStat), Archaeology, Leuven, Architecture and Design" "While the increased datafication of society brings about obvious benefits, it is also facing criticism for its treatment of data as an absolute, objective and raw representation of truth. To mitigate this critique, data visualisation research is developing effective ways to convey the uncertainty that underlies it.Although data uncertainty is commonly associated with statistical dimensions such as modelling errors or forecasting probabilities, recent empirical research has demonstrated that other types of uncertainties exist when people work with data. This dissertation focuses on indirect qualitative uncertainty, that is prevalent in humanistic research because of the partial and incomplete nature of humanities data. Unlike its quantifiable counterpart, indirect uncertainty is mostly handled by relying on tacit knowledge, which consequently makes it challenging to capture and then communicate to others.This dissertation aims to support digital humanists to more confidently engage with data visualisation by communicating  uncertainty and by encouraging more participatory, interdisciplinary ways of working. Accordingly it (1) examines how indirect, qualitative uncertainty manifests in the research context of the digital humanities, (2) investigates how to communicate it in digital humanities visualisations and (3) develops activities to make the generation of digital humanities visualization more participatory. The empirical contributions of this dissertation are grounded in the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project, a long-standing interdisciplinary project that includes multiple scientists from the fields of archaeology, ecology, human geography and urban planners among others. Drawing from human-computer interaction research methods, the first part of the thesis synthesises three cases in which different origins of uncertainty are examined:- Case 1 analyses existing practise for handling qualitative uncertainty in digital humanities visualisation.- Case 2 examines how to communicate data frictions such as methodological inconsistency when synthesising data from an interdisciplinary group of scientists.- Case 3 investigates how to represent implicit errors such as human subjectivity when visualising archaeological research data.The methodological contributions of this dissertation include activities that make the design process of digital humanities visualizations more participatory. This second part of the thesis proposes four participatory techniques:- GoCo uses storytelling and tangible tokens to help an interdisciplinary group of experts articulate their data and align conflicting points-of-view,- Co-gnito examines how to elicit and represent urban mental maps of people on a single physicalisation.- Data Badges examines how to elicit personal data characteristics through a DIY physicalisation toolkit meant for conference participants.By synthesising the insights from both parts, this dissertation brings forward a holistic understanding of uncertainty in digital humanities visualisation which includes the data generation and focuses on experience rather than quantification. It thus contributes to the design of visualisations that enable transparent and inclusive discussions around data, which are a necessary step for establishing more confident, open and reflexive science." "Innovations in Methodologies and Syllabus: Digital Humanities and Philippine Literature (DigiPhiLit)" "María del Rocío Ortuño Casanova" "National University of Distance Education, King Juan Carlos University, University of Clermont Auvergne, University Paris Nanterre, Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)" "CONTEXT The wider context for this project is determined by: a) The unbalanced application of Digital Humanities to education in comparison to its growth as a research field, which is changing perspectives on the history of literature and has a great potential in contributing to understand discourses in context, cultural connections and the flow of topics across the time. b) The necessity to further develop distance learning didactics due to growing numbers of working students, the unavailability of specialists in certain areas, and possible future lockdown situations. c) The restriction of syllabi in Hispanic Studies around the world to studies on Spain and Latin America, leaving behind other historical Spanish speaking communities around the world and ignoring transnational and transcultural connections beyond national borders. MAIN OBJECTIVES This project focuses on the improvement of methods for teaching literature and covering a gap in syllabi in Hispanic Studies around the world. In this way, we intend to narrow the gap between research trends and educational practices in the Humanities. In particular, its main objectives are (1) facilitating the incorporation of Digital Humanities methods and resources to the teaching of Literature in Higher Education, (2) enabling the study of Philippine Literature in Spanish despite the lack of specialists in most of the universities in Europe and (3) improving the didactics of distance learning to get the students to acquire skills and practice them instead of being recipients of the information. RESULTS 1) Compile, examine and compare the syllabi and methodologies in literature teaching in different European countries identifying good practice in successful collaboration across borders. 2) Analyze the different types and resources of distance learning that involved universities are engaged in and identifying areas for development and improvement. 3) Contribute to the debate on transnationalism and on the importance of literature teaching by focusing on the interdisciplinarity of the Philippine Literature in Spanish, which helps to understand trends in History, Sociology, Anthropology, Art, English Studies, Asian Studies, Language evolution and Languages in contact. 4) Design guidelines and tools for the development and running of courses on Literature using Digital Humanities, on Distant Learning and on Philippine Literature in Spanish which can be used by any European university. 6) Contribute to the training of docents in methodologies of distance learning that allow an optimization of the efficiency to get closer to the actual classroom experience, and promoting open education. PARTNERS The transnational context in which this project is set is that of a network of 5 young universities from 3 different European countries: Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), UNED (Spain), Université Paris Nanterre (France) and Université Clermont-Auvergne (France). We work in collaboration with an extensive network of colleagues around the world including Universidad Ateneo de Manila (Philippines) as associate partner. IMPACT At the European level, the project paves the way for diversifying the syllabi in Literature and the Humanities, the revalorization of literature, as well as narrowing the gap between research and education. It reaches well beyond the consortium, to have a strong impact on institutions that have expressed an interest in the project as can be in the annexes. It will be ensured with a range of multiplier events. In the short-term, the outputs of this project should provide institutions in Europe with the necessary tools and resources to incorporate Digital Humanities and Philippine Literature to their teaching. Sustainability of the project is guaranteed by the use of both, universities and European platforms to publish the expected intellectual outputs (guidelines, teaching materials, and MOOCs)." "Digital Humanities Flanders" "Dirk Van Hulle" "Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)" "This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel. It builds a scientific community that focuses on the organisation of two types of recurrent events: training initiatives and networking events to keep up to date with recent cross-disciplinary advances in the application of digital methods in Humanities research and provide a platform to exchange innovative technologies across different humanities disciplines." "Cofunding core facility - Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (GhentCDH)" "Sally Chambers, Christophe Verbruggen, Julie Birkholz, Els Lefever" "Bibliotheek faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Department of History, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication" "The increasing digitisation of society and thus also of research sources and heritage means that researchers have to develop workflows and use software to manage, organise and analyse an incalculable amount of different types of documents and information/data. Thus, the increasing availability of archival and library collections as data (information in machine-readable format) enables the use of new approaches and thus digital tools. This is both a challenge and an opportunity, since the majority of researchers in the humanities are not proficient in computer science, computational linguistics, statistics, etc. Thus, there is a significant gap that needs to be filled in order to provide services that facilitate this research. This requires expertise in various aspects of the digital research cycle, from the compilation of corpora to analysis, virtual exhibitions and the archiving of research data. The GhentCDH is an interdisciplinary research and service centre that facilitates and reflects on the use of these digital research methods in the human sciences. A team of computer scientists, linguists, data scientists, interdisciplinary 'digital humanists' and public historians is clustered in four focus areas: 1. Collaborative databases and Linked Open Data 2. Digitisation, (pre)processing and digital text and image analysis 3. Digital heritage, participation and virtual exhibitions Within these four focus areas, cooperation takes place with other actors inside and outside UGent, respectively within UGent with LT3, IDLab, MICT, the Quetelet Center and the Institute for Public History. The GhentCDH is involved in various infrastructure projects on a national and international level, mainly through the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities - DARIAH network and the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure - CLARIN network, and the Flemish contribution to the European research infrastructures DARIAH and CLARIN - 'CLARIAH-VL Open Humanities Service Infrastructure' project (FWO International Research Infrastructure), which is coordinated by the GhentCDH. In the context of this project, the GhentCDH also cooperates with HPC UGent, the Central Library and the Faculty Library of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. A number of generic services and software packages, offered by the faculty, are used, as well as project-specific development, for which a financial contribution is requested." "Digital Humanities Flanders." "Walter Daelemans" "Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS)" "This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel. Its aim is to initiate cooperation between research groups." "Reading in Europe today - Reading and writing literary texts in the age of digital humanities." "Franc Schuerewegen" "Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)" "This project does focus on the necessary links between reading and writing in the age of digital humanities. Text 'consumption' (Valéry) and text 'production' have always been very close to each other. New technologies for writing and reading do intensify the relations between poth poles. The project has special interest for research in the field of french and francophone literature. The 'postextual' dimension (Schuerewegen) if literary criticism (the word 'text' designates a proces, not a product) is used here as a central methodology. Reading is another name for writing ."