Huminfra handbook "Empowering digital and experimental humanities"
- Cristina Grisot
- Jan 30
- 1 min read
The Huminfra Handbook: Empowering Digital and Experimental Humanities offers a timely and comprehensive overview of the emerging Swedish Huminfra research infrastructure and the broader intersections of digital methods and humanities scholarship.
Edited by Gerlof Bouma, Dana Dannélls, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, and Elena Volodina, this handbook brings together expert contributions that showcase innovative practices, tools, and frameworks for research in the digital and experimental humanities. Framed around Huminfra’s mission, the volume highlights collaborative approaches to digital research infrastructure and explores how digital and computational methods are transforming humanities inquiry.
Rather than approaching digital humanities as a loose collection of tools or methods, the handbook foregrounds infrastructure-enabled research practices. It presents concrete examples of how digital humanities research is shaped by access to data, services, experimental environments, and interoperable workflows. A central contribution of the volume lies in its focus on sustainability, interoperability, and reuse. Topics such as data stewardship, standards, FAIR principles, and long-term maintenance of digital resources are addressed not as abstract requirements, but as practical conditions for successful research. For the DARIAH-CH community, these discussions directly reflect ongoing efforts to strengthen sustainable research practices and shared services across institutions.
The handbook is also particularly valuable for those involved in training, coordination, and community development within DARIAH-CH. Several chapters illustrate how infrastructures can support collaboration across disciplines and national boundaries, and how experimental and digital approaches can be scaled beyond individual projects — key challenges for a distributed and community-driven infrastructure like DARIAH.
The book is available through: https://www.huminfra.se/handbook and also accessible and downloadable from: https://hdl.handle.net/10062/117442
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