Summary information

Study title

Facilitating Digital Humanities Research 2017

Creator

Oiva, Mila (Aalto University)

Study number / PID

FSD3362 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3362 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3362 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The study charted the facilitation of research in digital humanities centres in Finland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The aim of the study was to find the best practices for facilitating digital humanities research and to share the practices with other organizations that conduct similar research. The study includes eight expert interviews: six in English and two in Finnish. The data were collected as part of the project "From Roadmap to Roadshow: A collective demonstration and information project to strengthen Finnish digital history", funded by Kone Foundation. The participants were asked questions about the digital humanities centres they worked at, relating to general aspects (e.g. goals and funding) of their centre, the staff and other people involved, collaboration and communication, infrastructure, and physical environment. Additionally, the questions aimed to gather ideas on how to make digital research methods more widely known, how to involve more people in the facilitation of digital research and how to develop multidisciplinary research. The participants also discussed the obstacles they had encountered in facilitating digital research. The data display the real names of the interviewed experts. The names and locations of their organizations as well as the time and location of the interview are also included in the background variables. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML index at FSD. The dataset is only available in the original languages (Finnish and English).

Methodology

Data collection period

22/08/2017 - 20/11/2017

Country

Finland, United Kingdom, United States

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Organization/Institution

Universe

People who work in digital humanities centres in Finland, the United Kingdom and the United States

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview
Web-based interview

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2019

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.