Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences was founded in October 2013. We coordinate between researchers on individual projects and representatives of the Institute’s research, documentation and administrative units.
What We Do
- To connect various research projects related to digitisation
- To develop tools and IT resources that will provide stable platforms facilitating digital publications
- To develop and implement a coherent concept that will integrate IBL PAN with the digital humanities
- To use new technologies in literary studies and conduct research into new technologies
- To create platforms facilitating the publication of FAIR research outputs
- To create a strong centre for scholarly digital editing and to carry out editorial projects
- To help establish partnerships with other digital humanities centres and IT teams
- To provide support with the use of IT tools in research
CHC Vision
It is crucial that researchers help integrate traditional humanistic values with internet culture. Characteristic of the age of print, those values have receded into the background in today’s culture of multi-tasking and nonlinear reception. Our twofold challenge is to digitize the humanities while ‘humanizing’ the digital environment.
Key Areas
- Open Science for the humanities
- Data bases for literary scholarship (bibliographical, biographical and lexicographical projects, such as the Polish Literary Bibliography, the 16th-Century Polish Language Dictionary, The Bar Bibliography [Bibliografia Bara]
- Digital repositories (the Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes, the IBL PAN Repository, the IBL PAN Library)
- The dissemination and popularisation of learning about literature; multimedia monographs (Polish Studies Newsletter, Panorama of Polish Literature)
- Research on digital literary culture and new forms of literary production (to study multimedia literary production, to create an interactive literary map)
- Digital scholarly editing
