Applied Critical Digital Humanities

GRIDH offers expertise in applied critical digital humanities. A central tenet for us is that the development of robust and reliable methods and tools for data-driven research within the humanities depends on critical and hermeneutic knowledge formation. As a practice, applied critical digital humanities focuses on, among other things, the complex relationship between digital collections and their original materials and historical contexts. Similarly, it considers epistemological and socio-cultural dimensions of digital methods, resources, and tools, including underlying assumptions, limitations, and discourses that shape them.

Consistently, GRIDH applies critical digital humanities in everyday work and research and cultural heritage projects. One of these is QueerLit, shedding light on gaps in overviews of and searchability for minority experiences in archives by developing subject indexing of Swedish LGBTQI literature and creating a sub-database with nuanced metadata in LIBRIS. Another example is the project 'The New Order of Critique,' which focuses on differences and synergies between contextualizing literary-historical and data-intensive language-technological methods in the exploration of book reviews, including those in the National Library's (KB) newspaper database.

A focal point for GRIDH is to drive the development of new publication forms and so-called non-traditional research outputs (NTRO). This has manifested in our participation in the Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences (biccs.dh.gu.se), our collaboration with the Swedish History Museum on research communication using immersive media (Hemse Revisited), as well as digital publications such as Pehr Strand's Flöjtur and Built Cultural Heritage in Antarctica.

GRIDH contributes methodological perspectives in applied critical digital humanities within the three national research infrastructures Huminfra, Infravis, and the National Language Bank/Swe-Clarin.