Introduction: Why do we need a definition? Humanities research is focused on cultural artefacts such as texts, images or physical objects. Usually they are kept in libraries, archives and museums and are thus not encountered as original material objects; rather, scholars work with surrogates of them created especially to make them more accessible and to facilitate research. Over the last centuries, the desire to uncover the cultural treasures of the past and to reconstitute important documents...
Syllabus for 2018 edition of DH285: Introduction to Digital Humanities, taught at Michigan State University as a required course in the undergraduate Digital Humanities minor. The course is a survey introduction to the field, has no prerequisites, and is open to students from any major. Thirteen students were in the course.
“Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
C. Bary, P. Berck, and I. Hendrickx. Proceedings of the 2Nd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage, page 91--95. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2017)
K. Bobková-Valentová. XVIIIth International congress of the International association for Neo-Latin studies (IANLS): Half a Century of Neo-Latin Studies Leuven, 31 July – 5 August 2022. Abstracts, page 13. Leuven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (2022)