Presentation ACLAIIR 2016

1. Digital
Scholarship in Iberian & Latin
American studies : an
introduction
Aquiles Alencar Brayner

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Spain
“Much activity in digital humanities in Spain has centred on philology, and favouring language-
based research over literary research, often focusing on the Spanish Golden Age” (Paul Spence,
A historical perspective on the digital humanities in Spain)
• PARES: information on holdings of Spanish Archives
• HISPANA: connecting digital holdings through Spanish Archives, Libraries and Museums – see
also list of digital projects
• E-literature in Catalonia: Hermeneia Research Group
• Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas: formed in 2012
• Academic Journals on DH (some examples):
1. Janus (Golden Age studies)
2. Digithum (Humanities in the Digital age)
3. Scriptum Digital (Historical corpora in Ibero-Romance languages)
4. Caracteres (Cultural studies in the Digital age)
More info: Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales: técnicas, herramientas y experiencias de e-
Research e investigación en colaboración

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Spanish America
• Red de Humanidades Digitales (Mexico)
• Asociación Argentina de Humanidades
Digitales (Argentina)
• Ciencias sociales y humanidades digitales en
los estudios latinoamericanos Anuario
Americanista Europeo, 12 (2014)

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Portugal and Brazil
• Tainacan (Brazil)
• Humanidades Digitais (Brazil)
• Biblioteca Digital Luso-Brasileira
(Brazil / Portugal)
• Associação das Humanidades
Digitais (Portugal)

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International
• Spatial History Project (Stanford)
• SALALM digital resources (USA)
• Slave Voyages – Trans-Atlantic slave
trade database (USA)
• Early Caribbean Digital Archive (USA)
• Information Literacy in Ibero-America
and the World–600 library or academic
program websites: http://bit.ly/9hu80u

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Thank you