When I first became involved in digital humanities, it was called “humanities computing,” and while people agreed on a few elements of a creation story, there was no coherent account of where this “new” field came from. Over the years, I’ve pieced together some of the significant events leading up to the current state of digital humanities, a timeline that I […]
Welcome to the open-access edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities, which brings together leading figures in the field to explore its theories, methods, and practices and to clarify its multiple possibilities and tensions. […]
The digital humanities continues to gain to prominence at the Modern Language Association, but it seems like it might be reaching the top of its growth curve. There was even some talk of what will happen after the “DH bubble” bursts. […]
At the advent of print, the humanities emerged, under the aegis of Erasmus and others, to negotiate the spread of the classical tradition out of the monasteries into private hands. Today, with the advent of the Internet, Google’s self-described project is to make the world’s information “universally accessible and useful.” […]
For the first time, anyone viewing the map can suggest a correction – such as a renamed business, a missing footpath, or a changed road layout – without learning to use map editor software. […]
When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we’ve strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time. […]
The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era. How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? […]
What started as an experiment, has now resulted in 111.000 (and counting) high-quality images of famous paintings such as the Nightwatch as well as numerous other works of art by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Goltzius etc. becoming openly available on the web […]