Founding Prospectus of the Korean Association for Digital Humanities

We, who are engaged in the exploration of humanistic knowledge and research on its social and cultural-industrial applications in South Korea, squarely face the fact that today's digital environment is fundamentally transforming the paradigm of the production, dissemination, and utilization of humanistic knowledge. We recognize that "Digital Humanities" is a universal turn occurring across all domains of pure and applied humanities; it is not merely another sub-discipline, but a new framework that expands the humanities through the convergence of knowledge by enabling mutual communication among specific fields that were divided into numerous branches in the past. Accordingly, we have gathered our shared intent to participate in the global effort seeking the innovation of the humanities under the name of "Digital Humanities," and aim to explore practical measures suitable for this purpose.

One. The Korean Association for Digital Humanities aims to contribute to establishing a foundation for the flourishing of the humanities domestically through research and education in digital humanities, and internationally to present progressive alternatives to the global digital humanities community based on our unique academic experiences and achievements.

One. The Korean Association for Digital Humanities is open to the participation of all institutions, organizations, and individuals interested in the research and education of digital humanities, multidisciplinary connections through digital methods, and communication between academia and the cultural industry.

One. The Korean Association for Digital Humanities contributes to the development of digital humanities by allowing members to share experiences and achievements regarding the research, education, and utilization of digital humanities, and to obtain mutual feedback.

One. The Korean Association for Digital Humanities pursues initiatives to develop and operate educational programs that disseminate digital humanistic research methods and the requisite technical competencies to researchers and prospective researchers across the broader humanities community.

One. The Korean Association for Digital Humanities contributes to the promotion of digital humanities in South Korea by advising on and proposing sound alternatives for digital humanities development policies of government ministries and academic promotion agencies, based on our pioneering experiences in the field.

One. The Korean Association for Digital Humanities serves as a window through which Korean digital humanities can communicate with global digital humanities by participating in international networks of digital humanities research organizations.

The Korean humanities community has accumulated achievements in pure humanities upon the foundation of our nation's profound tradition of knowledge and culture, while simultaneously pioneering new domains of cultural content by exploring the industrial applications of the humanities since the year 2000. Hoping that digital humanities will contribute to the communication and mutual prosperity of both traditional pure humanities and cultural content studies as applied humanities, we hereby propose the founding of the "Korean Association for Digital Humanities" to fulfill the aforementioned missions through our collectiveefforts.

May 30, 2015

All Founders of the Korean Association for Digital Humanities