This document summarizes a project called DíaHD/DiaHD (Day of Digital Humanities) that aimed to understand the community of digital humanists in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. On June 10, 2013, researchers from several countries documented their daily activities using blogs. This included 37 collective and 33 personal blogs, mostly from Spain, Mexico, and Portugal. The project revealed both individualistic and more institutional perspectives within this community and lacked a consolidated profile. It helped initiate further networking efforts among Spanish and Portuguese-speaking digital humanists.

1. Who is we? The social media project:
Día de las humanidades digitales
Dia das humanidades digitais
Ernesto Priani Saisó Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Paul Spence King´s College London
Isabel Galina Russell Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Elena González-Blanco García Universidad Nacional de Educación Distancia, España
Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa Universidade de São Paulo
Daniel Alves Universidade Nova de Lisboa
José Francisco Barrón Tovar Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Marco Antonio Godínez Bustos Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ana María Guzmán Olmos Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

2. Debates in the digital humanities
community on its configuration
Predominantly English-speaking
Marin Dacos, La stratégie du Sauna finlandais!
Dominico Fiormonte, Towards a Cultural Critique of Digital Humanities!
Tara McPherson, Why are the Digital Humanities so White?
How to find a more global and inclusive organization
model?

3. Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries
Long traditions in humanidades digitales/humanidades digitais
In the last few years a
number of DH events
and activities have
been hosted
Conferences and seminars
International seminar Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2011
Research group on Humanidades Digitais e Investigação Histórica
Simposio sobre Edición digital de textos múltiples 2011
I Congreso Internacional de Humanidades Digitales, Navarra 2012
I Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Humanidades Digitales HIspánicas
GRIN en Granada, LINHD en Madrid
1 Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales, México 2012
Grupo de Pesquisas Humanidades Digitais, Universidade de São Paulo
Seminário Internacional em Humanidades Digitais no Brasil
Attempts to build formal
networks and!
associations!

4. Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries
The first step in our
network-building exercise
is to find those who
identified themselves as
“humanista digital”
“behind this problem of defining digital humanities (what we
are and what we do) there is an additional now ineludible
problem ‘who is we?’” Isabel Galina

5. DíaHD/DiaHD
Based on the model of the international project
Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities
Starting point of the project:
Translation of Day of DH
Including the basic question:
¿Qué es lo que hacen realmente los humanistas digitales?
O que fazem os humanistas digitais?
We also wanted to know ‘who is this we?’ and ‘where is this we?’.

6. DíaHD/DiaHD
June 10th 2013
Día de las humanidades digitales
Dia das humanidades digitais
Organizers
RedHD
Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas
Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Humanidades Digitais, Universidade de São Paulo
CenterNet
We learn
Multilingualism requires additional effort both in developing
the tool as well as the more qualitative analysis of the data
!

7. DíaHD/DiaHD
Numbers
37 collective blogs, and represent projects, magazines, labs, etc. (only 2 of
them were located in a non Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries)
33 personal blogs
95 blogs
70 active
57 Spanish
13 Portuguese
Authors from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Great Britain, Mexico,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden and United States.
Spain the most active with 29 blogs
Mexico with 16
Portugal with 8
Brazil and USA (both 5)

8. Used tags DíaHD/DiaHD
Graphic Voyant tools
Humanidades digitales 24%
Digital Humanities 13.4%
Redes sociales 4.7%
México 4.7%
Humanidades 4.7%
Filosofía 4.7%

9. Graphic Voyant tools
Used tags DíaHD/DiaHD

10. Graphic Voyant tools
Used words DíaHD/DiaHD

11. Graphic Voyant tools
Used words DíaHD/DiaHD
!without “digital” and “humanist”

12. DíaHD/DiaHD
Answering the questions
Day in the life of Digital Humanities was conceived as an
individualistic approach to the activities of digital humanists:
“The motif [of DayofDH] suggests the documentation of a
subject's ‘real’ life, emphasizing the ordinary aspects of their
environment over the extraordinary” (Rockwell et all, 2012)
Although some participants, many with previous experience of
participating in the Day in the life of Digital Humanities, followed the
model of documenting everyday life, there was a very relevant
number who decided to create collective blogs to document the work
of their institutions or projects.
The absence of a consolidated, consensual and collective profile for
Spanish and Portuguese-speaking digital humanities communities is
relevant to understanding why many of the participants in DíaHD/
DiaHD preferred an institutional voice to a personal one

13. DíaHD/DiaHD
Answering the questions
Some, with previous involvement in the international DH
community, identifying themselves as researchers with a
specific DH focus, while others prefer to identify DH with work
in specific projects, and to maintain their professional identity
as a distinct entity
DíaHD/DiaHD led to a number of practical initiatives continuing the development of
Spanish and Portuguese-speaking digital humanities, including:
!
http://mapahd.org/
http://ahdig.org

14. Next steps
October 15 2014
Thank you