Closing the Gap in Non-Latin-Script Data: Pragmatic Approaches for Increasing Awareness

Multilingual and multi-script research in the Digital Humanities is still located at the margins of the field. Most projects are either focused on Latin-script materials, or need to rely on Latin-script-based solutions. As a result, it is often necessary for DH researchers to build individual workarounds to mitigate the lack of support for non-Latin scripts. There is a severe lack of visibility and topic-related networks, and often no proper support group, for DH practitioners working with NLS materials. Thus, Multilingual Digital Humanities topics remain marginalized, to the point that even projects active in the field have no comprehensive perspective on the field. The purpose of the project "Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data" is to intervene here to improve the visibility of research relating to non-Latin scripts in the Digital Humanities, particularly in Germany, and to enhance collaboration among projects dealing with Arabic and similar languages.