The human condition is one of multilingualism. We speak different languages, use dialects or sociolects and communicate in a variety of ways in their professional and everyday lives. Sometimes we share a language with people across geographic distances and sometimes we do not understand our direct neighbours. Yet, the Anglophone-centricity of digital humanities continues to be an impediment to DH scholars who work on, or teach with, materials in other languages—not to speak of the vast majority of scholars whose first language isn’t English or who do not work in English at all. Tools and tutorials are almost all designed to primarily work with English.
The SIG Multilingual DH is an important piece of the larger puzzle of global DH. It will serve as a visible, ADHO-sponsored community for DH practitioners working in non-English languages, with scripts other than the Latin alphabet, and character encodings beyond ASCII-compatibility. We will share tools, resources and advice, and gather both virtually and in person to form a community.
- Subscribe to the SIG Multilingual DH mailing list
- Visit the website: http://multilingualdh.org/en/
- Read the full SIG proposal