TaDiRAH - Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities (v. 0.5.1, 05/2014)

This taxonomy of digital research activities in the humanities has been developed for use by community-driven sites and projects that aim to structure information relevant to digital humanities and make it more easily discoverable. The taxonomy is expected to be particularly useful to endeavors aiming to collect information on digital humanities tools, methods, projects, or readings.

Repository content

• reading: reader-friendly version of the taxonomy
• reference: semi-technical reference version of the taxonomy
• deu: German translation
• esp: Spanish translation
• fre: French translation
• See also the machine-readable version in SKOS at https://vocabs.dariah.eu/tadirah/en/

Aspects of the taxonomy

1. Activities
2. Objects
3. Techniques

Coordinators

• Luise Borek, Darmstadt, Germany
• Quinn Dombrowski, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Jody Perkins, Oxford OH, USA
• Christof Schöch, Trier, Germany
• (formerly) Matthew Munson, Leipzig, Germany

Contributors

• Diego Ferreyra, CAICYT - CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina (TemaTres development and administration)
• Gimena del Rio Riande, SECRIT-IIBICRIT, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Spanish translation)
• Aurélien Berra, Thibault Clérice, Martin Grandjean and Vincent Razanajao, Humanistica, France, Switzerland and Belgium (French translation)

Places where TaDiRAH is available

• Reference: https://vocabs.dariah.eu/tadirah2/en/
• Legacy: https://vocabularyserver.com/tadirah/en/index.php
• Legacy: http://tadirah.dariah.eu/vocab/index.php

Initiatives using TaDiRAH

• Doing Digital Humanities Bibliography, DARIAH-DE: http://https://www.zotero.org/groups/doing_digital_humanities_-_a_dariah_bibliography/items/order/creator/sort/asc
• TAPoR3: Discover research tools for studying text: http://tapor.ca/home
• Digital Humanities Course Registry, DARIAH & CLARIN: https://dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu/
• DHd 2016 conference abstract classification (since 2016): http://www.dhd2016.de
• Survey Forschungspraxis in den Geisteswissenschaften, 2015-2016: http://ww2.unipark.de/uc/practices4humanities/ and http://www.dhd2016.de/abstracts/vortr%C3%A4ge-015.html
• Interdisziplinärer Forschungsverbund Digital Humanities in Berlin "DH-Forschungsprojekte in der Region": http://www.ifdhberlin.de/forschung/dh-forschungsprojekte-in-der-region
• NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO): http://nemo.dcu.gr/index.php
• DH Commons https://dhcommons.org/
• Digital Humanities CAICYT http://www.caicyt-conicet.gov.ar/micrositios/mhedi/
• (previously:) DiRT Digital Research Tools: http://dirtdirectory.org/
• Zhao, Fudie. 2022. “A Systematic Review of Wikidata in Digital Humanities Projects.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac083.
• … more in preparation

Reference publication (please cite when using TaDiRAH!)

• Borek, Luise; Quinn Dombrowski; Jody Perkins; Christof Schöch: "TaDiRAH: a Case Study in Pragmatic Classification", Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.1, 2016. http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/1/000235/000235.html

Presentations and publications on TaDiRAH

• Borek, Luise ; Hastik, Canan ; Khramova, Vera ; Illmayer, Klaus ; Geiger, Jonathan D. (2021): Information Organization and Access in Digital Humanities: TaDiRAH Revised, Formalized and FAIR. In: T. Schmidt, C. Wolff (Eds.): Information between Data and Knowledge. Information Science and its Neighbors from Data Science to Digital Humanities. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2021), Regensburg, Germany, 8th—10th March 2021. Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, pp. 321—332. DOI: doi.org/10.5283/epub.44951
• Borek, Luise; Quinn Dombrowski; Jody Perkins; Christof Schöch: "TaDiRAH: a Case Study in Pragmatic Classification", Digital Humanities Quarterly 10.1, 2016. http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/1/000235/000235.html
• Borek, Luise; Christof Schöch; Klaus Thoden: "Digitale Forschungsaktivitäten multilingual: TaDiRAH für die deutschsprachige DH-Community" (Poster), DHd-Tagung, University of Leipzig, March 7-11,2016. http://dhd2016.de/abstracts/posters-007.html
• Borek, Luise; Quinn Dombrowski; Matthew Munson; Jody Perkins; Christof Schöch: "Scholarly primitives revisited: towards a practical taxonomy of digital humanities research activities and objects", short paper, Digital Humanities Conference 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 7-12, 2014, http://dharchive.org/paper/DH2014/Paper-504.xml
• Dombrowski, Quinn & Jody Perkins: "TaDiRAH: Building Capacity for Integrated Access", dh+lib, May 21, 2014, http://acrl.ala.org/dh/2014/05/21/tadirah-building-capacity-integrated-access/
• Jody Perkins, Quinn Dombrowski, Luise Borek, Christof Schöch: "Building bridges to the future of a distributed network: From DiRT categories to TaDiRAH, a methods taxonomy for digital humanities", Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2014, http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/view/3720

Good to know

If you have comments on the taxonomy, please use the issue tracker here on GitHub. You are welcome to fork and reuse the taxonomy in your project. Please tell us about it!

TaDiRAH is usually pronounced "ta-DEE-ra" and is not an animal. However, DiRT and DARIAH are both partial anagrams of it.

In addition to the current human-readable version of the taxonomy, we are planning to publish machine-readable formats of it.