Digital Humanities: Research hubs & portals

Research hubs are typically online locations where a range of options, resources and activities are launched in a particular field or area of interest. They are sometimes called "one-stop-shops".

Research portals are entry points or a gateways to a multitude of other locations or resources.

Purposes of research hubs and portals

• Find relevant data and research
• Join research communities and find collaborators
• Work collaboratively in the online space
• Keep up to date with research trends
• Make data and research available in the most effective way

Tools:

• Media Wiki
  • Media Wiki is a free, open source software for making Wiki pages.
  • Used by Distributed Proofreaders, who do crowdsourced transcription and proofreading.
  • Used by Discourse DB, which uses wiki technology to create a database of the opinions of the world's journalists and commentators about ongoing political events and issues.
• WordPress
  • Wordpress is a content management system that enables users to create blogs and webpages. There is a free and open source version of this platform.
  • Used by researcher Tim Sherratt for his research blog.

• PARTHENOS Hub
  • An open accessible publication and interaction platform for the humanities research communities, bringing together diverse sources of knowledge (e.g. articles, blog entries, etc.) and merging them into a coherent issue on one platform, resulting in a freely accessible, citable environment that enables discussion.
• The Environment & Society Portal
  • A gateway to open access resources on the human-environment relationship.

Sydney Digital Humanities Research Group

Sydney Centre for Language Research

Literature, art and media research 

Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation

Repository

PARADISEC is a cross-institutional facility whose core mission is the preservation of audiovisual materials relating to cultures from the Asia Pacific region.