Humanities Going Digital (HUGOD)

Identification

Project identification: Humanities Going Digital (HUGOD) [2020-1-CZ01-KA226-HE-094363]
Coordination: Palacky Olomouc University (Czech Republic)
Contact person: Rute Costa (Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology group)
Start date: Mar. 2021 – Apr. 2023
Funding: ERASMUS+
Website: https://digital-humanities.upol.cz/

Description

The project responds to the current situation in university education related to COVID-19 pandemic, while following contemporary advancement of digital technologies and the transformation of requirements for knowledge and skills of university graduates for the future. The education system has adapted to changes in the pandemic, but the majority of teaching is put into practice by switching the original content of the study to the online environment, which is not comparably efficient.

In this context, and addressing the topics of (i) ICT – new technologies – digital competences, (ii) New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses, (iii) Open and distance learning, the project aims at developing and contributing to new ways of teaching (online) and new educational methods.

Based on the cooperation between the universities of Olomouč (Check Republic), NOVA Lisbon (Portugal) and Pečs (Hungary), the project will develop teaching methodologies, curricula and materials, and enable the exchange and implementation of best practices from all three institutions. This encompasses the inclusion of individual research activities of students based on the production of electronic publications, while promotes the professional dialogue between students, and the direct reflex of results of their work in the taught courses.

The main results of the project will be a systematically created form of the teaching curriculum, prepared for the conditions of full or partial distance education. This curriculum will be tested during the project implementation and its permanent applicability is expected during the following years.

The developed curriculum crosses the boundaries of individual educational and research institutions (NOVA University Lisbon, University of Pečs, University of Olomouč) as well as their educational programs. NOVA CLUNL team is responsible for the creation of 2 pilot courses in Digital Humanities, with new curricula and materials focusing on Computational Linguistics and Terminology subfields of Linguistics, relevant for the majority of the existing Humanities and Social Sciences programs at NOVA University.

Results

I. Training

. training in Terminology and Knowledge Organization: curricular unit whose purpose is to train new profiles that cross specialized areas such as Terminology, in its double dimension – linguistic and conceptual – in order to organize knowledge with application to the arts, sciences and industry. The work developed by the students was presented in the conference Humanities Going Digital: Teaching, training & research experiences.

. training in Linguistic Data Analysis for Digital Humanities: curricular unit that aims at providing essential training on methods and tools for (linguistic and non-linguistic) information extraction from large quantities of digital data, currently available in national and international repositories. The work developed by the students was presented in the conference Humanities Going Digital: Teaching, training & research experiences.

. training in Computational Lexicography: module integrated in the curricular unit of Lexicology and Lexicography, of the under graduation course in Language Sciences, that has as main goal making students aware of the need of building multifunctional linguistic resources envisaging their use by humans and computational systems, as well as introducing students to current lexicographic practices and editors. The work developed by the students resulted in the compilation and publishing of the Dicionário das Abreviaturas Digitais 2023 (Dictionary of Digital Abbreviations 2023).

II. Dissemination

Conference Humanities Going Digital: Teaching, training & research experiences, 2nd and 3rd February 2023, NOVA University Lisbon | Lisbon, Portugal (https://hugod.fcsh.unl.pt/).

Special issue Going Digital: Teaching, Training and Research Experiences of the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Humanities (https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/story/10.3366/news.2023.03.08.500466).

III. Publications

1. 1. Amaro, Raquel; Reis, Maria Leonor (2023). “Abbreviations in social media communication: Accounting for neology and lexicographic treatment”. Lexicography, 10(2), pp.173-193. ISSN 2197-4306. https://doi.org/10.1558/lexi.26351
2. Carvalho, Francisco & Maria Leonor Reis (2023). “Perceiving societal and moral trends related to sex abuse in the press through linguistic data analysis”. Poster in the Young Researchers Going Digital session, Humanities Going Digital: Teaching, training & research experiences conference, 2nd and 3rd February 2023, NOVA University Lisbon | Lisbon, Portugal. (poster pdf format)
3. Fonseca, Ana Carolina & Marta Ribeiro Maria (2023). “Author’s neologisms in the book “Boca do Inferno””. Poster in the Young Researchers Going Digital session, Humanities Going Digital: Teaching, training & research experiences conference, 2nd and 3rd February 2023, NOVA University Lisbon | Lisbon, Portugal. (poster pdf format)
4. Santos, Ana Sofia, Daniel Monteiro & Leonor González (2023). “Comparing the use of idiomatic expressions in European Portuguese and European Spanish”. Poster in the Young Researchers Going Digital session, Humanities Going Digital: Teaching, training & research experiences conference, 2nd and 3rd February 2023, NOVA University Lisbon | Lisbon, Portugal. (poster pdf format)
5. Soares, Ana, João Gomes, Karen Montero, Natacha Alvarenga & Sara de Almeida (2023). ” Cryptozoology under study: how terminology deals with folklore”. Poster in the Young Researchers Going Digital session, Humanities Going Digital: Teaching, training & research experiences conference, 2nd and 3rd February 2023, NOVA University Lisbon | Lisbon, Portugal. (poster pdf format)

IV. Resources

Amaro, Raquel (coord.) Dicionário de Abreviaturas Digitais. 2023.
https://www.lexonomy.eu/#/dig2023

Ramos, Margarida (coord.) Multilingual Multidomain Dictionary. 2023.
https://www.lexonomy.eu/#/2j4ucmiq

V. Missions

Participation of 5 MA students in the “Autumn school of Digital Humanities”, Palacký University Olomouč, October 2022.

Participation of 6 students in the “Winter school of Artificial Intelligence”, Palacký University Olomouč, January 2023.

CLUNL’s team

Rute Costa (coord.)
Raquel Amaro
Ana Salgado
Bruno Almeida
Chiara Barbero
Jucileia Gumbe
Margarida Ramos
Sílvia Barbosa

Partner Institutions

University of Olomouč (Czech Republic)
University of Pečs (Hungary)
NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal)