Quantifying Digital HumanitiesCOURTESY OF UCL CENTRE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Digital Humanities research and teaching takes place at the intersection of digital technologies and humanities. DH aims to produce and use applications and models that make possible new kinds of teaching and research, both in the humanities and

in computer science (and its allied technologies). DH also studies the impact of these techniques on cultural heritage, memory institutions, libraries, archives and digital culture.

Digital Humanities is difficult to quantify. Here we present all available statistics reguarding individuals and resources, to explore the scope of the field.

Netherlands2Luxembourg1

6 Germany

Norway1Sweden1

Ireland 214UK

3Belgium

Hungary1

Austria1Serbia1

Iran1

South Africa1

Italy 2Spain 1

5France

Taiwan2

Japan2South Korea1

New Zealand1

7 Australia

Brazil 2

44USA

11Canada

114 Centersin

24 Countries

PHYSICAL CENTRES IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES ACROSS THE GLOBE

HOW CAN WE COUNT DIGITAL HUMANITIES?

ACCESS STATISTICS TO MAIN DH RESOURCES - 2011

Followers of @DHNow on Twitter

Registered users of thatcamp.org

Subscribers to Humanist discussion list

Students that have taken courses atthe Digital Humanities Summer Institute since 2004

Registered users of DH Answers

Subscribers to TEI-L discussion listSubscribers to Digital Medievalist discussion list

Followers of @DHQuarterly on TwitterFollowers of @digitalmedieval on Twitter

Followers of @LLCJournal on TwitterIndividual subscriptions to LLC Journal

Subscribers to Digital Classicist discussion list

DH Scholars on @DanCohen's Twitter list

Subscribers to Antiquist discussion list

Day of Digital Humanities bloggers

Digital Humanities Centres registered with Centernet

Taught courses in Digital Humanities

1387 posts223 topics

28,837 unique visitors

964 registered users

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2794

3,018

1899

1831

1350

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378374

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330

359

134Members of the Association of

Computers and the HumanitiesMembers of the Association for

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Members of the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs

Additional Joint Members of ACH, ALLC, and SDH/Semi

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Institutional subscriptions to LLC: TheJournal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES

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DH ANSWERS DHNOW

DIGITAL HUMANITIES QUARTERLYJune-December 2011

TEI BY EXAMPLE

30,000 unique page views

in 15 months

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164 Countries

from

137Countries

26,636 visits

15,547unique visitors

52,370 page views

14,500 visits

5,000 unique visitors

48,000 page views

November 2011

18% of visitors stay for 15+ minutes, indicating work

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Papers Submitted to Digital Humanities Conference

Personal Subscriptions to LLC: the Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Papers Submitted to LLC Journal

DH Sessions at MLA

Day of Digital Humanities participants

Subscribers to Digital Medievalist

Subscribers to Antiquist discussion list

Jobs posted to Humanist

THATcamps

THE GROWTH OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES

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The USA’s National Endowment for the Humanities has funded 250 projects

through its Office of Digital Humanities $15,268,130 of Digital Humanities

funding 2007 - 2011

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the UK's Joint

Information Systems Committee have funded 8 joint projects 2008 - 2011

$966,691 invested in those projects

1998 - 2004: UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council

funded 330 projects with some digital output

1998 - 2008 invested £121.5m in projects with a digital component

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Scholarly

Communication and Information Technology strand of funding paid

$30,870,567 to projects in 2010

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Average cost of an AHRC project with a digital component

£309,110AHRC ICT Methods Network Award

£1,037,382Award amount for AHRC ICT

Strategy Projects

£979,364Award Amount for AHRC

e-Science Workshops scheme

£65,498Award amount for

Research Grant (e-Science)

£2,014,626

Sources:http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/http://twitter.com/dhnowhttp://thatcamp.org http://digitalhumanities.org/humanist/http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TEI-Lhttp://www.digitalmedievalist.org/mailing/http://twitter.com/dhquarterlyhttp://twitter.com/digitalmedievalhttp://twitter.com/LLCjournalhttp://llc.oxfordjournals.org/http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Discussionhttp://api.twitter.com/#!/dancohen/digitalhumanitieshttp://www.antiquist.org/blog/list-discussion-guidelineshttp://ra.tapor.ualberta.ca/~dayofdh2011/http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/ http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/http://teibyexample.orghttp://dh2011.stanford.edu/http://www.dhsi.orghttp://www.allc.org/http://www.ach.org/http://sdh-semi.org/

Statistics compiled by @melissaterrasStatistics correct as of December 2011

Special Thanks To: Syd Bauman, David Beavan, Craig Bellamy, Brett Bobley, Gabriel Bodard, Arno Bosse, Ian Broadbridge, Lou Burnard, Dan Cohen, James Cummings, Karen Dalziel, Alastair Dunning, Neil Fraistat, Amanda French, Boone Gorges, Leif Isaksen, Matthew Jockers, Willard McCarty, Rachel Murphy, Bethany Nowviskie, Peter Organisciak, Trevor Owens, Kristel Pent, David Robey, Mark Sample, Desmond Schmidt, Ray Siemens, Paul Spence, Lisa Spiro, John Unsworth, Edward Vanhoutte, John Walsh, Kay Walter, and Glen Worthey

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities brings together people from a wide range of disciplines to develop research and teaching in a vibrant multidisciplinary field. UCLDH offers a research-led MA/MSc in Digital Humanities. For more information see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/

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