A new taxonomy for Digital Research Activities in the Humanities

February 4, 2014

After a year of development and two public comment periods, version 0.5 of the Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities (TaDiRAH) has been released and will be implemented on DiRT in the coming months. This taxonomy is designed to replace DiRT's current ad-hoc list of categories. TaDiRAH separates research "goals" and broad "methods" (what do you want to do, and for what purpose?) from "techniques" and "objects" (how do you want to do it, and with what content?). Implementing TaDiRAH on DiRT will make it easier to identify, for instance, all tools that could be applied to images, or audio. read more on the DiRT web site