Digital Humanities Lab UFBA

Technological changes and innovations have consistently driven shifts in social relations, and concurrently, they have developed based on specific social organizational forms that dictate their usage. Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the swift proliferation of digital information and communication technologies (DICTs). This has been reshaping numerous facets of societal life, including: the interrelation of time and space; birthing new consumption patterns; setting new benchmarks, opportunities, and methods of regulating and overseeing social relations; establishing new means of seeking, sharing, and indexing information and knowledge; and also bringing profound changes to how we conduct scientific research.

Today, all major global universities boast digital humanities laboratories. To mention some of the most prominent, there's the Yale University Library Digital Humanities Laboratory (DHLab), the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford University, and the Centre for Digital Humanities, a collaboration between the University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Generally speaking, these initiatives offer space and resources for researchers to employ digital methods to explore humanities-based questions.

LABHDUFBA – The Digital Humanities Laboratory of UFBA, was established in 2018, affiliated with the Graduate Program in Social Sciences (PPGCS) and the Institute of Science, Technology, and Innovation (ICTI/UFBA). The laboratory is duly registered in the CNPq Research Groups Directory and has been forging partnerships with national and international universities and research bodies. Its guiding principle is to foster the merger between digital technologies and teaching, research, and extension in the humanities and social sciences. To put it succinctly, the laboratory aims to: a) aid in the dissemination of a digitized research/teaching and extension practice; b) spur investigations into the impacts of using digital technologies; c) establish open digital data repositories for various researchers; and d) enhance the interaction and dialogue between the humanities and the technological domain.