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From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
The precarious place of encyclopedias
Encyclopedias have always occupied a precarious position in academia. On the one hand they taxonomize human knowledge and provide valuable entry points for scholars and students into the intellectual worlds of academic disciplines, covering their subject matters in more breadth…
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History Of Digital Humanities - Los Angeles Review Of Books
Dh is about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing
What Digital Humanities is not about, despite its explicit claims, is the use of digital or quantitative methodologies to answer research questions in the humanities. It is, instead, about the promotion of project-based learning and lab-based research over reading and writing…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
Should humanities scholars be also fluent in code?
The necessity for executable code creates new requirements for digital literacy. Not every scholar in the digital humanities needs to be an expert programmer, but to produce high quality work, they certainly need to know how to talk to those who are programmers. The digital…
Themes in dh: scale, critical/productive theory, collaboration, databases, multimodal scholarship, code, and future trajectories
The digital humanities have been around at least since the 1940s,1 but it was not until the Internet and World Wide Web that they came into their own as emerging fields with their own degree programs, research centres, scholarly journals, and books, and a growing body of expert…