Digital Humanities in Oman: Logistics, Challenges and Opportunities

Q1 Arts and Humanities Knowledge Cultures Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.22381/kc9120214

Shalina Mehta, K. Hemmy

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This paper focuses on the emergence, place and role of the digital humanities (DH), particularly in the Arab world, with reference to Oman, a country whose post-oil economy relies vastly on the development of national skills and expertise. It traces the development of DH globally and considers the challenges in Oman, focusing on the state of digitalisation of the economy and knowledge through both public and private development. By exploring the possible immediate and far-reaching goals of a DH program in a country that requires drastic changes to meet the economic and social needs of its citizens and residents in a twenty-first century, post-Covid-19 economy, this study looks at the extent to which institutions are primed to build upon existing scaffolding to achieve digital goals. While focusing on pedagogical outcomes and strategies, this study suggests that DH is imperative to the effective implementation of the Omani national vision 2040 in terms of facilitating knowledge creation and nation-building through heritage preservation and that the establishment of a Digital Humanities Research Centre would be essential toward promoting interdisciplinary work in a sustained and effective manner. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.

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阿曼的数字人文:物流、挑战和机遇

本文重点关注数字人文学科(DH)的出现、地位和作用，特别是在阿拉伯世界，并以阿曼为例，这个国家的后石油经济很大程度上依赖于国家技能和专业知识的发展。它追溯了全球卫生保健的发展，并考虑了阿曼面临的挑战，重点关注了通过公共和私人发展实现经济和知识数字化的状况。在一个需要进行重大变革以满足其公民和居民在21世纪后covid -19经济中的经济和社会需求的国家，本研究通过探索卫生保健计划可能实现的直接和深远目标，考察了机构在多大程度上准备在现有框架基础上实现数字目标。这项研究的重点是教学成果和策略，同时指出卫生署对有效实施阿曼国家愿景2040至关重要，通过文物保护促进知识创造和国家建设，而建立数字人文研究中心对于持续有效地促进跨学科工作至关重要。©2021,adleton学术出版社。版权所有。

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Knowledge Cultures Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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期刊介绍： Knowledge Cultures is a multidisciplinary journal that draws on the humanities and social sciences at the intersections of economics, philosophy, library science, international law, politics, cultural studies, literary studies, new technology studies, history, and education. The journal serves as a hothouse for research with a specific focus on how knowledge futures will help to define the shape of higher education in the twenty-first century. In particular, the journal is interested in general theoretical problems concerning information and knowledge production and exchange, including the globalization of higher education, the knowledge economy, the interface between publishing and academia, and the development of the intellectual commons with an accent on digital sustainability, commons-based production and exchange of information and culture, the development of learning and knowledge networks and emerging concepts of freedom, access and justice in the organization of knowledge production.