The fourth Digital Humanities Conference, DHN2019

Abstract

The paper describes the main characteristics of the scientific programme of the fourth conference of Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN2019) that took place in Copenhagen in March 2019. DHN2019, as the preceding DHN conferences, aimed to connect researchers and practitioners addressing all topics that generally belong under the Digital Humanities field. The DHN conferences address in particular researchers from the Nordic countries, comprising the Baltic region, but are also open to researchers from all over the world. Thus, DHN2019 attracted participants from 27 countries. The call for papers of DHN2019 followed the strategy proposed by the organizers of the DHN2018, who attempted to encompass two conference traditions, one from the humanities accepting abstracts as submissions and one from computer science accepting full papers of varying length. The latter type of submission was the most popular in 2019 and the present proceedings collect these papers. With respect to the topics addressed by the submissions to DHN2019, they cover most of the topics proposed by the most recent global digital humanities conferences. Furthermore, DHN2019 focussed on four specific thematic areas: NLP for digital humanities, multimodality and multimedia, digital pedagogy, and citizen science in digital humanities.