HUMINFRA

Research in the Humanities, Arts, and Social sciences is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, quantitative, and multi-methodological with growing infrastructural needs for technology, digital/e-scientific resources, tools, and expertise for treatment.

Currently, access to and information about nationally and internationally available resources are scattered, and appropriate training is often missing.

HUMINFRA, a new distributed national infrastructure, combines specialised expertise from 12 consortium nodes in the domains of Digital Humanities on the one hand, with a focus on e-scientific/digital materials, tools, and critical interpretative perspectives, and on the other, of experimental and quantitative approaches, the use of sensor-based data, and real-time analyses.

With work distributed over six modules HUMINFRA aims to 1) create a web based information platform collating and linking to existing information about digital/e-scientific resources and training opportunities in Sweden; 2) conduct a national survey of needs for which tools and training are not yet available; 3) develop new tools and national training opportunities for general access; 4) link and align the Swedish resources to international ones via Swedish membership in the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU).

Input from all consortium nodes is vital to ensure comprehensive coverage.

HUMINFRA thus creates a single entry point for researchers, contributing to national cost effectiveness in the use of knowledge and resources, and urgently minimising the risk of missed research opportunities.

HUMINFRA will reinforce research in areas of specific interest to Sweden (cultural heritage, languages spoken in Sweden, national archives).

In the long term, HUMINFRA will strengthen and promote Swedish Humanities, and ensure its national and international competitive edge.