To disseminate a digital humanities project, you can utilize a variety of online platforms and methods, including :
Creating a user-friendly website specifically designed to showcase your project, including detailed information about the research, data, methodologies, and interactive features. Use high-quality visuals, clear navigation, and accessible design principles.
Publishing your project data, code, and documentation in Open Access Repositories: Institutional Repositories, Open Access Repositories, as well as CORE; Digital Commons Network; OpenDOAR: the Directory of Open Access Repositories; Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).
Utilizing social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to share updates, highlights, and engaging visuals related to your project. Use relevant hashtags to reach a wider audience within the digital humanities community.
Presenting your research findings and the development of your DH project at relevant digital humanities conferences, workshops, and panels to engage with scholars in your field.
Developing accessible educational materials like video tutorials, blog posts, or online courses to explain your project and its implications for a broader audience.
Partnering with libraries, museums, educational institutions, or other relevant organizations to promote your project and reach new audiences.
Incorporating interactive elements like maps, timelines, data visualizations, or virtual tours to enhance user engagement with your project.
Community Outreach: Engaging with the public through community outreach initiatives like public lectures, community workshops, or online forums to share your research findings.
Project dissemination encompass the following necessary considerations:
Your Target Audience: Clearly identify your primary and secondary audiences to tailor your dissemination strategies accordingly.
Accessibility: Ensure your project is accessible to users with disabilities by adhering to web accessibility guidelines.
Sustainability: Consider long-term maintenance and updates for your digital project to ensure its continued usability.
Open Licensing: Choose appropriate open licenses to encourage reuse and further development of your project.
The list resources listed below is a mere pointer to the different approaches used to disseminate your DH project:
National Endowment for the Humanities. Digital Projects for the Public: The Digital Projects for the Public program supports projects that interpret and analyze humanities content in primarily digital platforms and formats, such as websites, mobile applications and tours, interactive touch screens and kiosks, games, and virtual environments.
All Digital Projects for the Public projects should: present analysis that deepens public understanding of significant humanities ideas; incorporate sound humanities scholarship; involve humanities scholars in all phases of development and production; include appropriate digital media professionals; reach a broad public through a realistic plan for development, marketing, and distribution; create appealing digital formats for the general public; and demonstrate the capacity to sustain themselves.
Gale Digital Scholar Lab - Emerging from the field of humanities computing with its origins in the late 1940s, digital humanities (DH) is, in many ways, still a growing discipline. With that growth comes a mix of exciting opportunities for researchers and libraries, as well as a host of challenges still to overcome. / When performing analyses, finding, cleaning, and organizing data, natural language processing (NLP) for historical texts is often a daunting task, especially when looking to generate meaningful results. Gale Digital Scholar Lab removes these barriers and streamlines the workflow process, allowing researchers to spend more time identifying previously undiscovered data, testing theories, analyzing results, and gaining new insights.
Research Guides:
Digital Humanities – Introduction: Research Dissemination , University of Exceter
Websites and Digital Publishing – Digital Humanities – Guides. Stanford University
Introducing the Digital Humanities: Exhibits/Publishing. Temple University
Video
Digital Humanities Projects:How to showcase and amplify your research using Gale Digital Scholar Lab (59.55 mins)