Today, Digital Humanities are viewed from different perspectives: as an academic subject or discipline with a distinct agenda; as a bundle of research methods; as a communication, information and publication infrastructure; as a practice that changes our epistemologies; or simply as a label to take part in funding programmes. Debates arise whether all forms of digitization of our research and teaching can be considered Digital Humanities (which would mean that we are all digital humanists), or whether only systematic and self-reflexive research approaches using expert software that advance our research methodologies should count as Digital Humanities – and where to draw the dividing line between these two areas. Obviously, there is a wide range of qualified answers to this question, and consensus between different disciplines and countries varies widely. With the process of institutionalization underway or well advanced in numerous European countries, we – the editors of the German information platform for historians H-Soz-Kult – think that a review and evaluation of the evolution of Digital Humanities in Europe is a timely task.
H-Soz-Kult Redaktion The Status Quo of Digital Humanities in Europe - 1
Thomas Nygren, Anna Foka, Philip Buckland The Status Quo of Digital Humanities in Sweden: Past, Present and Future of Digital History - 7
Daniel Alves From "Humanities and Computing"to "Digital Humanities": Digital Humanities in Portugal with a focus on Historical Research - 40
Joris van Zundert, Karina van Dalen-Oskam Digital Humanities in the Netherlands - 62
Helen Gardikas-Katsiadakis The Status Quo of Digital Humanities in Greece - 77
Irina Garskova The Past and Present of Digital Humanities: A View from Russia - 89
Eliane Kurmann, Enrico Natale Vernetzter Geist? Stand und Tendenzen der Digital Humanities in der Schweiz - 110
Paul Spence, Elena Gonzalez-Blanco A historical perspective on the digital humanities in Spain - 136
Jurij Hadalin The Slovenian Digital Humanities Landscape ? A Brief Overview - 154
Espen S. Ore Some thoughts on Digital Humanities in Norway - 169