Digital Humanities

Essays on issues in the Digital Humanities by experts in the field.

The open-access edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities, a hybrid print/digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge.

Digital Humanities is a compact, game-changing report on the state of contemporary knowledge production. Answering the question “What is digital humanities?,” it provides an in-depth examination of an emerging field. This collaboratively authored and visually compelling volume explores methodologies and techniques unfamiliar to traditional modes of humanistic inquiry—including geospatial analysis, data mining, corpus linguistics, visualization, and simulation—to show their relevance for contemporary culture. Written by five leading practitioner-theorists whose varied backgrounds embody the intellectual and creative diversity of the field, Digital Humanities is a vision statement for the future, an invitation to engage, and a critical tool for understanding the shape of new scholarship.

This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium.

Digital humanities is a diverse and still emerging field that encompasses the practice of humanities research in and through information technology, and the exploration of how the humanities may evolve through their engagement with technology, media, and computational methods. DHQ seeks to provide a forum where practitioners, theorists, researchers, and teachers in this field can share their work with each other and with those from related disciplines.

The authors of this influential paper argue that today's new, global forms of communication and online learning are so complex and potentially so revolutionary that they demand a new alliance of humanists, artists, social scientists, natural scientists, and engineers, working collaboratively.