Journal of the digital humanities

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ZfdG - magazine for digital humanities

description E-Journal
Open Access
Digital Humanities
language German , English
Headquarters Duke August Library Wolfenbüttel
First edition 2015
Frequency of publication periodically
editor Research association MWW
DHd
Web link zfdg.de
ISSN (online) 2510-1358

The ZfdG - Journal for Digital Humanities is an e-journal for topics and discussions in the field of digital humanities . The ZfdG was founded in 2015, is designed as a full-fledged Open Access journal and has established itself as an example of a successful model in the field of humanities open access journals .

editor

The ZfdG is published by the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association (MWW) in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Association in German-speaking countries (DHd) , funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The journal editing is headed by the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel , which publishes the online journal.

content

The e-journal offers a forum for the presentation and discussion of research results in the context of digital humanities. A special focus is on contributions that take the cultural tradition, as represented by the rich and unique holdings of the participating libraries and archives, as the starting point for research questions. The humanities are increasingly turning their attention to issues that include digital possibilities in their considerations or that increasingly make these the starting point for their research and projects. The possibilities on which such questions are based or from which they can start range from digitizing primary sources to changing the publication culture and specialist communication under digital conditions. The journal for digital humanities sees itself as an organ that accompanies all these developments across disciplines and illuminates the philosophical, political, social and cultural implications and consequences that digital change brings with it. She advocates a humanities in the digital age that negotiates the crucial questions and topics on the way to digital humanities and also offers room for debate for critical objections in this field.

Publications

The ZfdG appears as a research periodical, which on the one hand continuously and regularly publishes German and English technical articles or contributions with project presentations (ISSN 2510-1358) , on the other hand special volumes (ISSN 2510-1366) are published at regular intervals. So far published in the series special volumes of the ZfdG :

  1. Limits and possibilities of the digital humanities. Edited by Constanze Baum / Thomas Stäcker. Wolfenbüttel 2015.
  2. Digital Metamorphosis: Digital Humanities and Edition Studies. Edited by Roland S. Kamzelak / Timo Steyer. Wolfenbüttel 2018.
  3. How digitality is changing the humanities: new research subjects and methods. Edited by Martin Huber / Sybille Krämer. Wolfenbüttel 2018.

Innovation & Best Practice

The ZfdG is an innovative research periodical that is dedicated to topics at the interface between humanities and digital research. Adaptations of computer science and information science open up new ways of developing knowledge for the whole of the humanities, contribute to the establishment of new research approaches and provide new possibilities for the preparation and follow-up of sources, documents, data and media. The combination of technical innovations and research questions in the humanities forms the basis for determining where the digital humanities are.

The ZfdG occurs in a web infrastructure that is itself part of the development. It is breaking new ground in digital publishing in order to transform the production, editorial work and assessment and distribution processes into a freely accessible and transparent knowledge discourse. In terms of sustainable science, the issuing institutions will ensure that the permanent findability and long-term archiving of all published articles is guaranteed.

In the field of digital publishing, the ZfdG is also establishing itself through cooperation with other projects and initiatives:

  • Collaboration in the digital publishing group in the DHd association
  • Collaboration on the DHd Working Paper Digital Publishing
  • MEMO - Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Online have based the conception of their journal on the ZfdG

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZfdG - magazine for digital humanities. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ digital humanities in German-speaking countries. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Limits and possibilities of the digital humanities. Edited by Constanze Baum / Thomas Stäcker . In: Journal for digital humanities - ZfdG special volumes . No. 1 . Wolfenbüttel 2016, doi : 10.17175 / sb01 ( zfdg.de [accessed on November 23, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Digital Metamorphosis: Digital Humanities and Edition Studies. Edited by Roland S. Kamzelak / Timo Steyer . In: Journal for digital humanities - ZfdG special volumes . No. 2 . Wolfenbüttel 2018, doi : 10.17175 / sb002 ( zfdg.de [accessed on November 23, 2018]).
  6. ↑ How digitality is changing the humanities: New research objects and methods. Edited by Martin Huber / Sybille Krämer . In: Journal for digital humanities - ZfdG special volumes . No. 3 . Wolfenbüttel 2018, doi : 10.17175 / sb003 ( zfdg.de [accessed on November 23, 2018]).
  7. ↑ http://dig-hum.de/ag-digitales-publieren
  8. ↑ http://dhd-wp.hab.de/?q=ag-text
  9. ↑ The Journal for Digital Humanities (ZfdG) as Best Practice for Open Access Journals | DHd blog. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .