Digital Humanities

Welcome to DUMILAH

The Digital Humanities Landscape at the Faculty of Humanities, Udayana University

---

Kadi bahni ring pahoman, dumilah mangde sukanikang rat

‘Laksana api di tempat persajian menyala dan membawa kebahagiaan dunia’

‘As a flame at the altar, burning and radiating happiness to the world.’

(The Faculty of Humanities’ founding mandate; from the Old Javanese poem of the Ramayana epic)

---

Overview | FIB DigiTalk | DUMILAH’s research

Overview

Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities

Digital Scholarship is a discipline-independent research transformation that advances field-specific knowledge production, communication, and preservation by incorporating digital evidence, digital/computational methods and tools, and digital platforms for dissemination. Digital Humanities represents a manifestation of this digital transformation by integrating computational and digital methods and tools with traditional enquiries and materials in the Humanities. The integration of computing/digital methods and the Humanities can be considered from two perspectives (Warwick et al. 2012: xiv-xv):

1. Applying computational or digital methods to research in the Humanities
2. Applying methods in the Humanities to research into digital phenomena or objects

About DUMILAH

The Faculty of Humanities at Udayana University embraces the digital turn in the Humanities by establishing DUMILAH, standing for The Digital Humanities Landscape at the Faculty of Humanities. This brand name, by design, is derived from the Old Javanese verb dumilah ‘to flame; to shine’ (from the noun dilah ‘flame’). It is embodied in one of the founder’s guiding mandates (by Prof. Dr. Prijono) for the Faculty of Humanities, displayed at the top of this page and quoted from the Old Javanese poem of the Ramayana epic.

Kadi bahni ring pahoman, dumilah mangde sukanikang rat

As a community of practice in Digital Humanities, DUMILAH’s missions are

1. showcasing the diversity of Digital Scholarship from the different Departments in the Faculty of Humanities through the establishment of the Zenodo community for open access, citable scholarships
2. contributing to the advancement of the Humanities scholarship in Indonesia and beyond through the application and teaching of digital tools and approaches within each Department across different degree levels in the Faculty of Humanities
3. fostering interdisciplinarity through interdepartmental and inter-institutional collaboration within the Humanities and beyond, both nationally and internationally

DUMILAH’s vision is to be the vanguard of Digital Humanities in Bali and Indonesia.

The FIB DigiTalk

As a prequel to the formalisation of DUMILAH, the Digital Humanities initiative in the Faculty of Humanities organised a series of online and hybrid lectures titled the FIB DigiTalk. This lecture series was conducted in collaboration with the Digital Humanities stream in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHSS). The FIB DigiTalk featured international and national scholars (from within and outside of the Humanities), whose works capture one of (or both) aforementioned perspectives of Digital Humanities.

The topics are diverse: from an introductory overview of Digital Tools and Methods (Ogilvie 2025) to their integration in various aspects of projects in anthropology (Purnomo 2026), archaeology (Kristiawan 2025), cultural studies (Vickers 2025), history (Ningtyas 2025), language science (Rajeg 2025; Hames & Musgrave 2025), studies on media power (Tapsell 2025), digital archiving of Balinese temples (Satriadi 2025), Balinese manuscript preservation (Carma Citrawati 2025), and Balinese script digitisation (Pramartha 2025).