Digital humanities
The defining feature of digital humanities is the encounter between new digital technology and the critical gaze and specialist knowledge of the humanist. Against the backdrop of rapid technological advances, digital humanities build on interdisciplinary cooperation and a desire to work across disciplinary, departmental and national lines.
Digital Humanities Uppsala is a research network for digital humanities at the interface between humanities and information technology research. The goal of the network is to bring together, support and highlight research associated with digital humanities at Uppsala University.
Examples of ongoing research into digital humanities
Major donation to new research institute for culture and creativity
Thanks to a generous donation from the Anders Sandrew Foundation, Uppsala University can now establish a brand new institute – the Anders Sa...
New book charts stylistic patterns in Swedish novels
What are the stylistic differences between well-known Swedish authors? And is it possible to distinguish a prestigious writer from a more popular one? The answer is that there seem to be many different ways for authors to capture their audience. This is the conclusion reached by Karl Berglund and Johan Svedjedal, who have used computer-aided analysis to map 20th century Swedish literature.
Swedish archaeology becomes digitally searchable
Until now, it has been impossible to access all the raw data from archaeological surveys and excavations in Sweden. Through the Swedigarch research infrastructure, led by Uppsala University, this data is now being coordinated and made searchable. Exact GPS coordinates of sites, archaeological finds, scientific analysis results and cultural heritage collections will be made available to researchers and other interested parties.
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Networks and projects
Centre for Digital Humanities Uppsala
Centre for Digital Humanities Uppsala is a research centre for digital humanities at the interface between humanities and information technology research. The goal of the centre is to bring together, support and highlight research associated with digital humanities at Uppsala University.
Centre for Digital Humanities Uppsala
WASP-HS
WASP-HS, The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanities and Society. The vision of WASP-HS is to realize excellent research and develop competence on the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems with a strong investment in research in humanities and social science. In order to do this, the WASP-HS program conducts 42 research projects and 4 affiliated research projects at the current moment. These projects are located at 13 different universities and research institutes across Sweden.
Runor – digital research platform
Runor is a new digital research platform that will make available approximately 7,000 inscriptions with reports and images from various databases, institutions and collections. The platform provides access to all known runic inscriptions around the world. The purpose of the service is to simplify so that you can research existing runic material digitally, wherever you are in the world.
Runor (digital search platform)
Alvin – Platform for digital collections and digitised cultural heritage
Alvin is a platform for the long-term preservation and accessible storage of digitised collections and digital cultural heritage materials. It is also a catalogue of materials that have not yet been digitised.
Norse World – an interactive spatial-temporal resource for research on spatiality and worldviews
Norse World is an online, searchable index of foreign place names and other spatial references in medieval Swedish and Danish texts with mapping capabilities.
Project Nyhetsvärderaren - the News Evaluator
Using the News Evaluator support users’ abilities to conduct lateral-reading and use digital tools when evaluating news (texts, images and videos) and hereby improve their abilities to separate fake news from real news like professional fact-checkers do. The significant impact of the self-test has been proven in a published scientific study with randomized control groups in two experiments.