Are Digital Humanities platforms sufficiently facilitating diversity in research? A study of Transkribus free processing requests

Joe Nockels; Melissa Terras; Paul Gooding; Guenter Muehlberger; Andy Stauder

Are Digital Humanities platforms sufficiently facilitating diversity in research? A study of Transkribus free processing requests

Joe Nockels^*, Melissa Terras, Paul Gooding, Guenter Muehlberger, Andy Stauder

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This paper examines whether free processing initiatives are truly supporting and facilitating research among early career researchers (ECRs), students and those with a lack of funding, as current observations, concerning who is applying for such schemes, suggest that further clarification is often needed. Financial support is necessary to increase the diversity of work seen in the digital humanities (DH), where access to platforms is still unequal. The findings presented in this paper will address several related questions. What demographics are making use of free processing from software developers? What work will this enable? Are schemes being utilised by the intended groups? How can more equitable access be reached?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DH2022 Digital Humanities 2022 Conference Abstracts
Editors	Ikki Ohmukai, Taizo Yamada
Place of Publication	Tokyo
Publisher	Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations
Pages	321-323
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2022

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Digital Humanities
handwritten text recognition
Freemium
Business Models

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Nockels, J., Terras, M., Gooding, P., Muehlberger, G., & Stauder, A. (2022). Are Digital Humanities platforms sufficiently facilitating diversity in research? A study of Transkribus free processing requests. In I. Ohmukai, & T. Yamada (Eds.), DH2022 Digital Humanities 2022 Conference Abstracts (pp. 321-323). Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations. https://dh2022.adho.org/

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Nockels, J, Terras, M, Gooding, P, Muehlberger, G & Stauder, A 2022, Are Digital Humanities platforms sufficiently facilitating diversity in research? A study of Transkribus free processing requests. in I Ohmukai & T Yamada (eds), DH2022 Digital Humanities 2022 Conference Abstracts . Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, Tokyo, pp. 321-323. <https://dh2022.adho.org/>

Are Digital Humanities platforms sufficiently facilitating diversity in research? A study of Transkribus free processing requests. / Nockels, Joe; Terras, Melissa; Gooding, Paul et al.
DH2022 Digital Humanities 2022 Conference Abstracts . ed. / Ikki Ohmukai; Taizo Yamada. Tokyo: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations, 2022. p. 321-323.

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Are Digital Humanities platforms sufficiently facilitating diversity in research? A study of Transkribus free processing requests

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