At Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, there are some initiatives that fall into this general domain of Digital Humanities.
In collaboration with Dr. Daniel Pugh, Dean of SSH and Dr. Andrey Y. Filchenko, Chair of Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literatures, here are some of the DH-related initiatives that the School has done.
Spearheaded by Dr. Andrey Filchenko, this project is aimed at field documentation, creation of an electronic lexicon and interlinearized and annotated corpora of three poorly described and critically endangered Turkic languages native to South-Western Siberia in Russia: Bachat Teleut, Eushta-Chat (Tomsk Tatar), and Melets Chulym. The number of proficient native speakers of Teleut is under 250, of Eushta-Chat and Melets Chulym - fewer than 50 speakers each. As most of the speakers of this languages are over 50 years of age, one of the objectives of this initiative is to document these languages before the competent remaining speakers pass due to advanced age. Among the objectives of the project is to perform a precise survey of the number of proficient and semi-speakers remaining, to assess the degree of language endangerment, the language's functional spheres and the sociolinguistic makeup of the communities, and to make preliminary analysis of the data with a view to developing pedagogical materials for the communities, in addition to descriptive, comparative, typological and areal studies (Culture in Crisis, 2020).
Spearheaded by Nikolay Tsyrempilov, Associate Prof of History, a research project called Sacred Landscapes of Kazakhstan are on the works that aims to create a number of digital resources for study of history and archaeology in the region. An international online conference was also held last 25-26 September 2020 entitled Sacred Geography: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Space and Time. This conference aims to bring together multidisciplinary approaches, including in the fields of religious studies, cultural anthropology, archaeology, history among others, to sacred landscapes, religious sites, and spatial dimensions of religion.
In Kazakh, Angime means conversation. Angime promotes international, multilingual, and multidisciplinary literacy and artistic conversations. Published in print and online, it accepts submissions focusing not just in Central Asia and former Soviet Union countries but also around the globe in English, Russian and Kazakh languages. Submissions may include fiction, poetry, essays, visual arts and photography among others. The publication is composed of powerhouse NU faculty and independent editors and takes advantage of intellectual and creative context in Kazakhstan (Angime, n.d.).
Angime (n.d.). Mission statement. https://www.angime.com/about-us
E-Atlas (2018). https://eatlas.kz/en/
Filchenko, A. (2020, October 12). Email communication.
Pugh, D. (2020, September 14). Email communication.
Victoria and Albert Museum. (2020). Comprehensive documentation and archiving of Teleut, Eushta-Chat, and Melets Chulym: three areally adjacent critically endangered Turkic languages of Siberia. Culture in Crisis. https://cultureincrisis.org/projects/comprehensive-documentation-and-archiving-of-teleut-eushta-chat-and-melets-chulym-three-areally-adjacent-critically-endangered-turkic-languages-of-siberia