HumaniTech¹: A Discipline‐Centered Approach to Technology at UCI

Abstract

Purpose

To share with readers how HumaniTech evolved and has matured over 18 years.

Design/methodology/approach

A description of a programmatic infrastructure that emphases technology in the humanities for teaching and research purposes.

Findings

As more institutions define and focus on how technology is driving their disciplines and changing how scholarship is being created, more connections are being made to educate the scholars about opportunities for improved ways to teach, incorporate new resources and methodologies to better define and further their craft. Implementing media to study and capture information is a moving target with new products and technologies being announced often.

Research limitations/implications

This visit to HumaniTech does not capture everything but focuses on how technology in the humanities at one institution has addressed the need to raise the bar and share how colleagues are using information in their field and what this may mean for scholarly publishing.

Practical implications

Filling information gaps as new technologies offered different ways to conduct research and engage in teaching birthed HumaniTech. Today, nearly two decades later, a robust program of content, resources, and a higher common denominator is reached by a discipline‐centered unit to bridge technology with content.

Originality/value

Shows that the University of California, Irvine School of the Humanities promotes best practices of entertaining technology in humanities scholarship with instruction, programs, teaching tools and resources.

Citation

Cohen, B.L. (2006), "HumaniTech¹: A Discipline‐Centered Approach to Technology at UCI", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 23 No. 6, pp. 34-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/07419050610692316