Digital Humanities in and for Higher Education

Synonyms

Digital resources for the humanities; Humanities computing; Humanities informatics

Definition

Digital humanities (DH) covers a set of disciplines that cooperate in order to study, edit, teach, and disseminate social and cultural heritage and dynamics thanks to digital tools. The most inclusive definition of the term “humanities” reflects both the human and social sciences (including media studies) and the corpuses and heritage they work on. The term “digital” refers to all the methods and techniques used to transform any object (text, sound, image, video or artefact) into digital data, the algorithms used to process these data (analysis, curation, conservation and edition) and the techniques used to render the results on a variety of media (visualization, 3D printing, acoustic immersion, electronic art, etc.). DH is an interdisciplinary field bringing together a community of scholars and practitioners (archivists, librarians, etc.). However, the definition and limits of DH are...