This document discusses new practices in digital humanities and open access. It notes that digital practitioners now engage in connected, collaborative, and multidisciplinary research using new tools like databases, software, and analyzing big datasets. These experimental practices allow for rethinking and extending the humanities through new materials and methods. The document also discusses how blogs have become an important online research tool and medium for sharing ideas in humanities and social sciences. Finally, it suggests that the open access revolution will also come to books through new models enabled by social media and digital technologies.

1. Digital humanities and open
access tools
Pierre Mounier (EHESS - OpenEdition)
Universita’ degli studi di Torino – 23/10/2014

2. Are humanities and social sciences
« late » on open access ?

3. NEW PRACTICES

5. « 9. We call for open access to data
and metadata, which must be
documented and interoperable, both
technically and conceptually.
10. We support the dissemination,
exchange and free modification of
methods, code, formats and research
findings. »

8. « New modes of research – connected,
collaborative, horizontal, multimodal,
multidisciplinary and multilingual – are being
developed. Digital practitioners are engaged in
new activities and work with new tools, building
databases, developing software, analysing big
datasets, defining conceptual models,
collaborating through wikis and pads,
communicating through websites, blogs and
other social media. »

9. « In the field of Digital Humanities, experimental
practices, reflexivity and the collaborative elaboration
of standards are deeply interconnected. They are,
therefore, an occasion to rethink and extend the
Humanities through new materials, methods and
hermeneutics. Furthermore, they represent an
opportunity to redefine our relationship to society
through open access to cultural heritage and the
development of collaborative projects which also
engage non-academic audiences. Thus, we see them as
pivotal in the future of the Humanities. »

10. The digital revolution is first and foremost the revolution of access
THE EARLY ADOPTERS :
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

16. SURFING ON THE SOCIAL WAVE :
BLOGS IN HUMANITIES AND
SOCIAL SCIENCES

18. Torill Mortensen & Jill Walker, « Blogging thoughts.
Personal publication as an online research tool »,
Researching ICTs in Context
Jill Walker, « Blogging from Inside the Ivory Tower »
Torill Mortensen, Thinking with my fingers

24. « Arguing is a basic ingredient of thinking:
our way of structuring our thought would
have been very different without the
powerful tool of verbal exchange. So, let's
acknowledge that the Internet allows us to
think and write in a much more natural way
than the one imposed by the written culture
tradition: the dialogical dimension of our
thinking is now enhanced by continuous,
liquid exchanges with others. »
G. Origgi

26. OPEN ACCESS REVOLUTION
COMING TO BOOKS

39. OPEN ACCESS+SOCIAL
MEDIA=HUMANITIES 2.0

47. The humanities and social sciences
way of open access

49. http://openeditionitalia.it

50. Grazie!
pierre.mounier@openedition.org
@piotrr70
http://openedition.org