What is a Digital Humanities Lab?
In a 2020 essay in Digital Humanities Quarterly, digital humanists from the University of Victoria describe the core function of a digital humanities lab as “a hub for digital scholarship that facilitates and provides both physical and virtual space for collaboration, access to tools and resources, and services for researchers broadly defined, including students, faculty, and staff from across campus and citizen scholars from the local community.” These spaces are often associated with college libraries because these institutions serve the entire campus community. They typically build communities of users around the space, engaging in collaborative projects that go beyond the boundaries of particular courses, semesters, and disciplines. Examples of projects supported and enabled by a digital humanities lab include websites, digital archives, digital maps, infographics, corpus projects, podcasts, videos, simulations, and oral history projects. The presence of a DH Lab on campus is visible evidence that an institution has embraced the digital humanities.
--Dr. Daniel Vollaro