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Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2011 Conversations Featured Excerpts
“The debates around the role of ‘theory’ in digital humanities are debates about the relationship between saying and doing.”
Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2011: Featured Article Excerpts
“Modern humanities scholarship is a direct engagement with a deracinated, Google-ised, Wikipedia-ised, electronic text.”
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Academic History Writing and its Disconnects
The last ten years have seen the development of what looks like a coherent format for the publication of inherited texts online – in particular, ‘books’. The project of putting billions of words of keyword searchable text is now nearing completion (at least in a Western context); and the hard intellectual work that went into this project is now done.
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Defining Data for Humanists: Text, Artifact, Information or Evidence?
Data seems to be the word of the moment for scholarship. The National Endowment for the Humanities and a range of other funders are inviting scholars to “dig data” in their “Digging into Data” grant program.
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