The Multilingual Digital Humanities in the UK and Ireland Community Interest Group is pleased to announce the publication of their report: Multilingual DH in the UK and Ireland: Summary Report and Future Recommendations. The report presents the Group’s analysis of the current state of the art and includes future recommendations on how to further work to foster multilingualism within and beyond the UK and Ireland’s Digital Humanities communities.

The report draws primarily on an online public workshop organised by the Group in November 2023 and that invited contributions from DH researchers who have taken a leading role in furthering multilingual DH research locally and internationally. Further feedback was invited on an open draft of the report, with the final report resulting from a range of contributions from both within and beyond the UK and Ireland’s DH community.

The report explores six main areas:

• Creating language-inclusive DH spaces;
• Supporting the development and dissemination of multilingual DH tools and resources;
• Supporting under-resourced languages of the UK and Ireland;
• Multilingual DH, digital cultures and digital theory;
• Supporting cross-sector and cross-institution multilingual DH work;
• Multilingual DH advocacy work in and beyond the UK and Ireland.

In the conclusions, we provide initial recommendations to the UK and Ireland DH community, which will inform the future events and activities of the CIG. 

If you’re interested in being involved in the Group’s future activities or if you have any further suggestions and recommendations in relation to the report and the Group’s future work, please contact the authors at the email addresses listed below.

Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez (pfernandez@ucc.ie)

Paul Spence (paul.spence@kcl.ac.uk)

Naomi Wells (naomi.wells@sas.ac.uk)