Nordic Digital Resources and Practices: Guest Editorial

Abstract

With the rapid expansion of digital humanities initiatives in the Nordic countries, it is easy to forget that Nordic digital resources and practices have a long history. Rather than a relatively new phenomenon first consolidated in an Anglo-American context, digital humanities may be regarded as strategic label to bring together ongoing research activities in a variety of fields in different parts of the world. Digital humanities activities in the Nordic countries have a history dating back to the computational humanities and language technology of the 1980s, and as Mats Dahlström points out in this issue, ‘each of these Nordic countries of course also has a DH history and infrastructure of its own, adding their dialects to the collective DH thesaurus’ ... Read the full guest editorial >