“Something curious happens to our ability to understand scope when we move all that goop of process and narrative into a computer.”
San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 1972-2004
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“To treat such objects only as tools, and implicitly capable only of providing that which they were designed to provide, undercuts the possibilities of advancing the use of models and modeling in the humanities.”
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So much of the content of digital humanities begins in the analog world: documents that are scanned and indexed; maps that are recast in GIS; quantities that are converted to machine-readable tables.
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Discussions about early modern books and digital tools have tended to focus on one of two responses. One of the first things that people focus on is the amazing access to early modern works that digital tools have given us.
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