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Digital Humanities and Culture Organisation
On Tuesday, October 23rd, at the University Library of UiO, the DHKO Conference 2023 was held. Digital Humaniora og Kulturorganisasjon (Digital Humanities and Culture Organization, DHKO) is the newly constituted national network for digital humanities and culture organization (a sub-field of knowledge organization, a core field in GLAM). The conference was meant to look back at the development of digital humanities in Norway as well as move forward by situating the field both at a national level and with culture and information institutions such as archives, libraries, and museums, which hold the source of much of the data digital humanities use.
A Norwegian Network
The interest in this event resulted in a program containing eleven presentations of current ongoing projects in Norway, as well as over 70+ attendees from Tromsø in the north, Agder in the South, Vestlandsforsking in the west, and Østfold in the east. The conference was hybrid, with most people attending physically. Both researchers, institutional professionals, and master students from master programs at UiO and OsloMet were part of the attending crowd. Hosts for the day were DHKO Work Group Members Annika Rockenberger from the University Library UiO and Camilla Holm Soelseth from OsloMet. The program can be found on the DHKO conference website.
From Data Spaces to Collections as Data
Sally Chambers, DH Research Coordinator at Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, held the keynote for the conference: “From Data Spaces to Collections as Data: Bridging the Gap Between Large-Scale Initiatives and Day-To-Day Practices." Chambers addressed how cultural heritage data is increasingly being considered as humanities research data and how this has resulted in both large-scale initiatives and grassroots activities. Here, in particular, is the turn to "GLAM Labs" and new workflows when working with collections as data.
Unconference and Plans for 2024
Part of the conference also involved an Unconference, where attendees could pitch what they wanted the network to work on and organize, both in 2024 and in the long term. Here, it was decided to go ahead with next year’s conference in Trondheim (knock on wood!), as well as hold webinars for 2024, with topics such as the sustainable use of AI and long-term perspectives on data management. Long-term goals were identified as the establishment of special interest groups (SIGs), holding seminars focusing on experience-based presentations, and the sharing and discussing of methods. Furthermore, the network should work on concept developments and hold hackathons. In the distant future, working towards establishing a research school for DH was also put on the list.
The master students wished for more guest lectures from researchers in the network and wanted input on fruitful research questions and methods they could use.
We thank the Digital Scholarship Centre and the University Library of UiO for their collaboration and support. It would never have been possible to do it without you!
See you in Trondheim 2024!
Are you interested in joining the network? Please find information about activities and how to join at dhko.no.
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