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Digital humanities

Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. DH can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative…

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related to Digital archives · 32
Digital humanities → Africa, African, African-descended, Africans, Americas, Another, Archive, Asian, Atlantic World, Ecclesiastical, Egyptian Miracles, Eritrean, European, Hispanic, Jane Landers, Mary, Mexican, Mexico, National Autonomous University, Princeton Ethiopian
related to history · 28
Digital humanities → Art, As Tara McPherson, Austria, Busa, Busa's, Charles, Digital, Digital Assyriology, English, Experiments, Gerhard Sperl, IBM, In, Index Thomisticus, Jesuit, Josephine Miles, Julianne Nyhan, Marco Passarotti, Other, Ray Eames
related to Negative publicity · 27
Digital humanities → Adam Kirsch, Armand Leroi, Burdened, Carl Staumshein, Corporatist Restructuring, Digital Humanities Bubble, False Promise, Gold, Harold Bloom, However, Humanities, If, Inside Higher Education, Its, Kirsch, Klein, Later, Lauren, Leroi, New Republic
related to Artificial Intelligence (AI DH) · 21
Digital humanities → AI, AI CoLab, AI DH, By, GenAI, Humane Studies, In, Integrated Program, International Conference, Jon Chun, Katherine Elkins, Kenyon College's, LLMs, Machine Learning, PMLA, Poetics Today, Researchers, Southern California's AI, The, This
related to DH-OER · 15
Digital humanities → April, DH-OER, Digital Humanities OER, Digital Language Resources, It, November, OER, OERs, Open Education Resources, SADiLaR, South African Centre, South African Higher, The, They, UNESCO SADiLaR
related to Tools · 15
Digital humanities → An, Digital, Digital Research Tools Directory, DiRT, Environments, Free, Omeka, Research, Some, TAPoR, Text Analysis Portal, There, URL, Voyant Tools, WordPress
related to Diversity · 14
Digital humanities → According, Amy, An, DHpoco, Earhart, HTML, LGBTQ, McPherson, Still, Tara McPherson, TEI, There, UNIX, Works
related to Criticism · 13
Digital humanities → Alan Liu, CDH, Critical Digital Humanities, Fagerjord, Gold, In, Jerome McGann, Lisa Samuels, Matthew, Similarly Berry, Some, This, We
related to Textual mining, analysis, and visualization · 13
Digital humanities → Chaucer, Context, DICT, Document, Early Greek, Enlightenment, Letters, Network, Shakespeare, Spenser, The Republic, Time, WordHoard
related to Definition · 12
Digital humanities → Along, Debates, DH, Digital, Each, Fields, Historically, In, Related, Scholars, Since, The

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Digital humanitiesis afocus on the data being processed0.90text
Digital humanitiesis aextension of traditional knowledge skills and methods0.90text
Digital humanitiesis a'Corporatist Restructuring' of the Humanities0.90text
Charlesinstance ofThese range from research developed by organizations such as SIGGRAPH to creations by artists0.80text
Ray Eamesinstance ofThese range from research developed by organizations such as SIGGRAPH to creations by artists0.80text
the members of E.A.Tinstance ofThese range from research developed by organizations such as SIGGRAPH to creations by artists0.80text
the Google Books corpusinstance ofA growing number of researchers in digital humanities are using computational methods for the analysis of large cultural data sets0.80text
the Schmidt Sciences Humanitiesinstance ofalong with associated ethical considerations.Related institutional support has included funding initiatives0.80text
AI Virtual Instituteinstance ofalong with associated ethical considerations.Related institutional support has included funding initiatives0.80text
Digital humanitieshas methodAlthough0.60section
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