Editorial: Data and Workflows for Multilingual Digital Humanities

Abstract

This Editorial presents the Special Collection ‘Data and Workflows for Multilingual Digital Humanities’. The Special Collection brings together an assortment of contributions that explore how power structures operate in digital knowledge production with a focus on multilingualism and the management of multilingual data. The seven articles in the Special Collection offer an overview of innovative approaches and results that highlight the richness and the challenges of the intersection between multilingualism and the digital realm for humanities research. They showcase innovative workflows for multilingual data acquisition, curation, integration, and analysis, reflecting the efforts of Multilingual Digital Humanities research to ensure broad participation and representation in digital knowledge production. ‘Data and Workflows for Multilingual Digital Humanities’ contributes to make digital knowledge production more inclusive, equitable, and representative of global diversity.

Keywords

• digital humanities
• multilingualism
• anglocentrism
• workflows