Digital Humanities
The subject of Digital Humanities ( German: " digital humanities " ) involves the application of computational methods and the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities and cultural studies. It is an interdisciplinary subject, whose representatives are reported both by a traditional education in the humanities and cultural sciences as by their familiarity with a number of relevant concepts, procedures and standards of computer science. In Germany, in particular researchers from the computer philology, the historical subject computer science and computational linguistics. Typical work and research fields such as digital editions, quantitative text analysis, visualization of complex data structures, or the theory of digital media.
- 7.1 Introductory Literature
- 7.2 journals ( in chronological order )
For terminology
The terms " digital humanities " and "e -Humanities " are terms of new coinage, the two today are more commonly used than the older terms " Computing in the Humanities " and " Humanities Computing". E -Humanities is formed analogous to e-Science and stands for "enhanced" or " enabled" Humanities.
Scientific organization
The U.S. trade organization The Association for Computers in the Humanities ( ACH), the European Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing ( ALLC ) and the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l' étude of médias interactifs (SDH - SEMI ) are in the umbrella organization the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations ( ADHO ) summarized. A member of any of these organizations you will be through the subscription of Literary and Linguistic Computing, which thus represents the most important journal in this field. The ADHO organized once a year, the Digital Humanities Conference, to be held alternately in the U.S. or Canada or Europe. In addition, the ADHO every three years awards the Busa award for special merits in the Digital Humanities.
Since 1986 there is the journal Literary and Linguistic Computing, other magazines have been added over the years. Since 1999, the German -language forum Computer Philology. Other relevant journals are cited literature section.
CenterNet is an international association of around 100 Digital Humanities Centers in 19 countries. The organization serves the Digital Humanities and related fields.
Topics
Central themes of the humanities computing technologies are:
- Search method
- Text Mining and Natural Language Processing
- Geographic Information Systems
- Subject-specific databases
- Information for professionals
- Digital image processing
- Corpus Linguistics
- Digital Edition
- Long-term archiving
Scientific Projects
American projects
- Project Bamboo
- Perseus Digital Library
German projects
- Çatma
- CLARIN -D
- EAQUA
- ESciDoc
- EIdentity
- Text Grid
- WissGrid
- WisNetGrid
- VisArgue
- German inscriptions Online
- German Text Archive
- Scientific communications infrastructure (abbr. WissKI )
- European History Online
- Working Group on Digital Art History (since 2012)
- ARTIGO - Social Image Tagging
- Metropol italia - Social Language Tagging
- Sandrart.net - Online edition of the " Germans Academy of Building, image and Mahlerey Arts"
Swiss projects
- SALSAH
European projects
- CLARIN
- DARIAH
- Dixit
- ESFRI
- Interedition
Criticism
In the traditional humanities, the digital humanities are widely regarded as " strange ". The literary theorist Stanley Fish also claims that they undermine traditional values of the humanities. The Digital Humanities also lacked the theoretical reflection and they tend supposedly uncritical affirmation technological, stood against further concepts.