INTRODUCING THE DIGITAL HUMANITIESKIMON KERAMIDAS6/9/16

THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTEHISTORY SCHOLARS PROGRAM

WHERE DO DIGITAL HUMANITIES COME FROM

• Computational Linguistics• Humanities Computing• Textual/Computational Analysis• English• History

• Defining a Term

WHAT IS/ARE DIGITAL HUMANITIES

• What is Digital?• What are the Humanities?• Why this term now?

BIG, SMALL, IN, OUT

• Where the Digital Humanities?• Small Tent/Big Tent DH• In/Out• Field/Methodology• Old/New

A FRAME FOR THINKING ABOUT DIGITAL HUMANITIES

• Collections• Connections• Analysis• Visualization

WHAT DOES DH LOOK LIKE

From Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, and Trees