Huminfra

Research in the Humanities is increasingly interdisciplinary, quantitative, and multi-methodological drawing on digital resources, tools, and technology.

Huminfra, a distributed national infrastructure led by Lund University, brings together 12 nodes in the domains of Digital and Experimental Humanities.

Its scope includes digital materials, tools, and critical interpretative perspectives, and experimental, quantitative approaches (sensor-based data, real-time analyses).

Huminfra aims to facilitate discovery of and access to existing Swedish resources and to provide training via the web-based information platform (WIP), which collates and links to existing resources and training in Sweden, and by hosting national training events.Phase II of Huminfra extends the infrastructure by 1) developing new tools in response to user needs; and 2) hosting Swedish membership in the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU).

This will link and align Swedish resources to international ones and provide Swedish and international scholars with mutual access to resources, tools, and training.

Huminfra strengthens research in areas of specific interest to Sweden (cultural heritage, languages spoken in Sweden, national archives) to promote Swedish Humanities and ensure its international competitive edge.

It also contributes to national cost effectiveness in the use of knowledge and resources, minimising the risk of missed research opportunities.