Members of the ETCL team, including Alan Colin Arce, Graham Jensen, Brittany Amell, and Ray Siemens, recently published an article titled “Multilingualism as Infrastructural Imperative: Language Diversity in Digital Knowledge Commons.” The article is available in three languages: English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The article shows how multilingualism is becoming increasingly important in digital humanities infrastructures, although many remain Anglo-centric and create barriers for non-English speakers to contribute to knowledge diversity. It also explains how HSSCommons, a digital humanities platform, is actively translating its interface into French, Spanish, Bangla, and Portuguese to reduce barriers for non-English-speaking contributors.