Abstract: Collaboration is acknowledged as a key ingredient in many of the most successful digital humanities initiatives. But what does collaboration mean in practice, what forms can it take, and what is required to ‘scale up’ the activities of a research group or community to reach critical mass? This lecture reflects on the importance of building communities of interest and practice in digital humanities, in different settings – local, national and international – with a focus on the Australasian context.
Bio: Paul Arthur is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Western Sydney. From 2010-13 he was Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. He is inaugural President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities, and a member of the steering committee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and the executive council of centerNet. Web: paularthur.com; Twitter: @pwlarthur.