general presentation NeDiMAH at the workshop in Bucharest

1. NEDIMAH
Network for DIgital Methods in Arts and Humanities

2.  http://www.nedimah.eu
 http://www.esf.org/activities/research-
networking-programmes/humanities-
sch/current-esf-research-networking-
programmes-in-humanities/nedimah.html

3. Digital Humanities
The digital humanities is an area of research,
teaching, and creation concerned with the intersection
of computing and the disciplines of the humanities.
Developing from an earlier field called humanities
computing, today digital humanities embrace a
variety of topics ranging from curating online
collections to data mining large cultural data sets.
Digital Humanities currently incorporates both
digitized and born-digital materials and combines the
methodologies from the traditional humanities
disciplines (such as history, philosophy,
linguistics, literature, art, archaeology, music,
and cultural studies) with tools provided
by computing (such as data visualisation, information
retrieval, data mining, statistics,computational
analysis) and digital publishing.

4. Aims
 NeDiMAH activities and research will
contribute to the classification and expression
of digital arts and humanities via three key
outputs:
 A map visualising the use of digital research
across Europe
 An ontology of digital research methods
 A collaborative, interactive online forum for the
European community of practitioners active in this
area

5. Supporting countries
 Bulgaria
Bulgarian Acacemy of Science (BAS)
 Republic of Croatia
National Foundation of Science, Higher Education and Technological
Development of the Republic of Croatia (NZZ)
 Denmark
The Danish Council of Independent Research (FKK)
 Finland
The Academy of Finland – Research Council for Culture and Society
 France
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Germany
German Research Foundation (DFG)
 Ireland
Irish Research Council for the Humanities (IRCHSS)

6. Supporting countries

Netherlands
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
 Norway
Research Council of Norway (NCR)
 Portugal
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
 Romania
National Research Council (CNCS)
 Sweden
Swedish Research Council (VR)
Switzerland
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
 United Kingdom
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

7. Coordination
 Steering committee
one person each country
 Chair
Prof. Lorna Hughes
 Scientific Co-ordinator
Dr Malte Rehbein
 Co-Chairs
Dr Susan Schreibam
Prof. Fotis Jannidis

8. Project duration
 The running period of the ESF NeDiMAH
Research Networking Programme is for four
years from May 2011 to April 2015.

9. Work groups
1. Space and Time
2. Information Visualisation
3. Linked Data and Ontological Methods
4. Building and Developing Collections of Digital
Data for Research
5. Using Large Scale Text Collections for
Research
6. Scholarly Digital Editions

10. Cross-team workgroups
 Development of the ICT methods taxonomy
 Impact of ICT research methods on scholarly
publishing

11. Activities
 Workshops (organisation and participations)
 Connected to a conference or not
 Short research visits
 Exchange grants
 Publications