Research infrastructure Humlab's mission is to initiate, inspire and develop the interaction between the humanities, culture and information technology in research, postgraduate training, and teaching. We are a strong competence center at Umeå University with access to a technical environment specifically for digital humanities.
Humlab is a meeting place for research, education and collaboration within digital humanities and other research areas with digital elements. Our mission includes offering humanists’ meetings with other fields of science and external actors. We do this, for example, by offering conferences, workshops, and seminars. You can find all events at Humlab here:
Events
We offer technology and skills to initiate, develop and run research projects in digital humanities and other areas with digital elements. We mainly have four focus areas:
You'll find more information about our research at:
Research
Humlab participates in teaching at several programmes and courses, in collaboration with the departments at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. We also provide advice on course development.
Humlab offers the Faculty of Arts and Humanities support in the form of an ICT coach and technical/pedagogical support for digital learning environments. The ICT coach develops the pedagogical digital competence of teachers and runs an ICT studio. The technical/pedagogical support means, among other things, that we coordinate the purchase of services and equipment and offer consultation for purchases and technical solutions.
By combining academic, pedagogical, and technical competence, research can be driven forward. A combination of academic and technical competence is required to produce research questions that become the starting point for the methods and tools that are developed to answer the research questions. Humlab is both a sounding board and executor, in the development and implementation phase of projects.
Humlab is an important resource for maintaining and managing the operation of software and databases according to individual project durations. This is important so there is a stable operating environment for the various, often relatively small, projects.
Different projects can be based on similar methods, technical components, or competencies. Humlab coordinates development and maintenance between projects that are otherwise separate, to transfer knowledge.
Humlab functions as node for three nationel research infrastructures that receive funding from the Swedish Research Council:
InfraVis
Huminfra
Swe-Clarin/Språkbanken (kommande år som Språkbanken)
