Computers, Traditional Scholarship, and the ACLS

1968 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-333
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Condon
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Humanistic Study ◽  
Computer Research ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
University Centers ◽  
Traditional Scholarship

Throughout the nation the cause of the humanities is suddenly being championed; indeed, at times, almost with a vengeance. Centers or institutes for the study and advancement of the humanities have come into being. The Eighty-ninth Congress, in an exuberant mood that surprised many, passed legislation in 1965 establishing a public foundation for the arts and humanities. Accompanying this burst of new interest in the humanities and coming to fruition at the same time is the growth and development of computer-oriented humanistic study. We are witnessing the appearance of a number of university centers or institutes for computer research in the humanities and social sciences and hear monthly of the establishment of newsletters or journals that promise to tell us what is going on and to keep us informed.

scholarly journals Carrying out research across the arts and humanities and social sciences: developing the methodology for Dementia and Imagination

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 218-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Newman ◽  
Michael Baber ◽  
Dave O’Brien ◽  
Anna Goulding ◽  
Catrin Hedd Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

scholarly journals Realizing the transformative potential of conservation through the social sciences, arts and humanities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Bennett ◽  
Robin Roth
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conservation Actions

Conservation actions most often occur in peopled seascapes and landscapes. As a result, conservation decisions cannot rely solely on evidence from the natural sciences, but must also be guided by the social sciences, the arts and the humanities. However, we are concerned that too much of the current attention is on research that serves an instrumental purpose, by which we mean that the social sciences are used to justify and promote status quo conservation practices. The reasons for engaging the social sciences, as well as the arts and the humanities, go well beyond making conservation more effective. In this editorial, we briefly reflect on how expanding the types of social science research and the contributions of the arts and the humanities can help to achieve the transformative potential of conservation.

scholarly journals The Crisis, the Humanities and Medical History

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-287
Author(s):  
Bill Luckin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Ideas

Non-controversially, the full version of this article argues that the crisis in British higher education will impoverish teaching and research in the arts and humanities; cut even more deeply into these areas in the post-1992 sector; and threaten the integrity of every small sub-discipline, including the history of medicine. It traces links between the Thatcherite reforms of the 1980s and the near-privatisation of universities proposed by the Browne Report and partly adopted by the coalition. The article ends by arguing that it would be mistaken to expect any government-driven return to the status quo ante. New ideas and solutions must come from within. As economic and cultural landscapes are transformed, higher education will eventually be rebuilt, and the arts and social sciences, including medical history, reshaped in wholly unexpected ways. This will only happen, however, if a more highly politicised academic community forges its own strategies for recovery.

Conceptualizing the Knowledge of Traditional and Indigenous Communities Using Informetrics Approaches

2020 ◽  
pp. 362-388
Author(s):  
Patrick Ngulube ◽  
Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Subject Categories ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

Interest in indigenous knowledge is growing because of its potential to promote and sustain development activities. Inspite of the recognition of the significance of indigenous knowledge there is limited agreement on its definition and conceptualization. There are competing ways of defining it and various ways of labeling it. In view of the varying appropriation of meanings to the concept of the knowledge of traditional and indigenous communities, this chapter starts by dealing with definitions attached to the knowledge of traditional and indigenous communities before turning to establishing what might be the suitable label for that knowledge using informetrics techniques. An investigation of 17 labels used to refer to the knowledge of traditional and indigenous communities that were conveniently chosen from the extant literature revealed that indigenous knowledge is the label that is gaining more currency than any other in the arts, humanities, and social sciences subject categories.

DARIAH(-DE): Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities — Concepts and Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Henrich ◽  
Tobias Gradl
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
Digital Research

DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) is part of the European Strategy on Research Infrastructures. Among 38 projects originally on this roadmap, DARIAH is one of two projects addressing social sciences and humanities. According to its self-conception and its political mandate DARIAH has the mission to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts. DARIAH aims to develop and maintain an infrastructure in support of ICT-based research practices. One main distinguishing aspect of DARIAH is that it is not focusing on one application domain but especially addresses the support of interdisciplinary research in the humanities and arts. The present paper first gives an overview on DARIAH as a whole and then focuses on the important aspect of technical, syntactic and semantic interoperability. Important aspects in this respect are metadata registries and crosswalk definitions allowing for meaningful cross-collection and inter-collection services and analysis.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Whitehead ◽  
Angela Woods
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social

The medical humanities, we claim, names a series of intersections, exchanges and entanglements between the biomedical sciences,1 the arts and humanities, and the social sciences. The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities introduces the ideas, individuals and scholarly approaches that are currently shaping the field. The medical humanities is an area of inquiry that is highly interdisciplinary, rapidly expanding and increasingly globalised. As this Introduction and the chapters that follow demonstrate, ...

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