The Great Digital Humanities Disconnect: The Failure of DH Publishing

Emily Öhman, Michael Piotrowski, Mika Hämäläinen


Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the disconnect in interdisciplinary publishing from a disciplinary divide perspective as to how research is expected to be presented and published according to disciplinary conventions. We argue that this divide hinders interdisciplinary collaboration and even more so the dissemination of research results from interdisciplinary projects to other interdisciplinary researchers. The disconnect is not simply theoretical but also encompasses practical considerations such as manuscript creation standards. The disconnect can also be detrimental to academic careers in terms of evaluations by peers on funding and tenure committees as well as peer reviews. With this analysis, we want to foster further discussion about the state of academic publishing from a digital humanities perspective.
Anthology ID:
2023.nlp4dh-1.16
Volume:
Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
Month:
December
Year:
2023
Address:
Tokyo, Japan
Editors:
Mika Hämäläinen, Emily Öhman, Flammie Pirinen, Khalid Alnajjar, So Miyagawa, Yuri Bizzoni, Niko Partanen, Jack Rueter
Venues:
NLP4DH | IWCLUL
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SIGUR
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
132–137
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4dh-1.16
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Emily Öhman, Michael Piotrowski, and Mika Hämäläinen. 2023. The Great Digital Humanities Disconnect: The Failure of DH Publishing. In Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, pages 132–137, Tokyo, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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The Great Digital Humanities Disconnect: The Failure of DH Publishing (Öhman et al., NLP4DH-IWCLUL 2023)
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