digital humanities | site support du CNRS pour les digital humanities

The digital humanities, commonly known as digital humanities, are booming in France in the world of research and higher education. They cover a variety of crafts, practical skills of personal research organizations and education that are in contact with the computerization of data, documentation and electronic publishing.

In France, they are born around the arrival of web tools and the Internet in research teams and laboratories in the humanities and social National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) or universities.

They are a science that brings together archivists, librarians, computer scientists, publishers, webmasters, STI specialists who work together to :

 The creation and establishment of digital data or digitized repositories directly usable by teachers and researchers both for research than for teaching
 Designing and developing digital tools for research
 Publishing an electronic corpus of data
 Design and development of new forms of electronic publishing
 Publishing of conventional electronic publications (journals, books) and new (blogs, wikis)
 Implementation of solutions (methods, tools, practices) data interoperability
 Implementation of solutions (methods, tools, practices) of long-term archiving of digital data or digitized by the development of grid computing, collective, interoperable to pool national or even international : systems, standards, standards, methods, training teams, work spaces and tools.

In France, in CNRS, a network has been created to develop & organize DH : ADONIS. He works with specific carriers from the CNRS and the academic world in which this website will eventually reflect the actions, training, tools, practices, methods, these operators in the field of digital humanities.