Digital Humanities

Digital humanities are at the leading edge of applying computer-based technology in the humanities. Initially called ‘humanities computing’, the field has grown tremendously over the past 40 or so years. It originally focused on developing digital tools and the creation of archives & databases for texts, artworks, & other materials. From these initial uses, & as computation developed, computers offered increasingly sophisticated ways of handling & searching digitised culture. For example, with recent advances in digital imaging, it is now possible to produce very high-quality reproductions of books & artworks that can transform our ability to study them. Berry, D.M. (2019). What is digital humanities. Retrieved at https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/what-are-digital-humanities/

"This collection has its origins in the research carried out over the past half a century in textually focused computing in the humanities, as Susan Hockey notes in this volume, found in Father Roberto Busa's adaptation of early computing to textual location, comparison, and counting as part of his work in creating the Index Thomisticus, a concordance to the works of St Thomas Aquinas. Yet even a cursory glance at this Companion's table of contents reveals how broadly the field now defines itself. It remains deeply interested in text, but as advances in technology have made it first possible, then trivial to capture, manipulate, and process other media, the field has redefined itself to embrace the full range of multimedia. Especially since the 1990s, with the advent of the World Wide Web, digital humanities has broadened its reach, yet it has remained in touch with the goals that have animated it from the outset: using information technology to illuminate the human record, and bringing an understanding of the human record to bear on the development and use of information technology."
Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/

"What is (or are) the “digital humanities,” aka “humanities computing”? It’s tempting to say that whoever asks the question has not gone looking very hard for an answer. “What is digital humanities?” essays like this one are already genre pieces.' Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. (2010) What Is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments? ADE Bulletin. Retrieved 23 March 2022,https://mkirschenbaum.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/kirschenbaum_ade150.pdf

An open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. It is a community experiment in journal publication, with a commitment to: experimenting with publication formats & the rhetoric of digital authoring co-publishing articles with Literary & Linguistic Computing (a well-established print digital humanities journal) in ways that straddle the print/digital divide using open standards to deliver journal content developing translation services & multilingual reviewing in keeping with the strongly international character of ADHO. It publishes a wide range of peer-reviewed materials, including: scholarly articles, case studies, & field reports,
Editorials & provocative opinion pieces
Experiments in interactive media, reviews of books, web sites, new media art installations, digital humanities systems and tools.

UC Berkeley created a list of journals devoted to the digital humanities.

Many disciplines have a journal devoted to the digital humanities or publish articles in their disciplinary indexes & databases. View the pages in this guide, e.g. Art to find those specific journals. Visit our subject librarians research guides & select find articles to identify & search for articles in disciplinary databases.

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Digital Humanities at Berkeley supports the thoughtful application of digital tools & methodologies to humanistic inquiry.

A selection of digital humanities projects at Rutgers, including the work of faculty and students across several academic departments, the libraries, as well as colleagues at other institutions. New and existing projects will be added in the coming months.

"A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the internet. Objects can consist of digitized content like print or photographs, as well as originally produced digital content like word processor files or social media posts. In addition to storing content, digital libraries provide means for organizing, searching, & retrieving the content contained in the collection. Digital libraries can vary immensely in size & scope, and can be maintained by individuals or organizations.[1] The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. These information retrieval systems are able to exchange information with each other through interoperability and sustainability."