What is Digital Humanities?
Digital humanities is an academic discipline that explores the intersection between digital technologies and culture. It emerged from the humanities, which study aspects of human society, and include well-known popular subjects, like history, philosophy, literature and modern languages.
As a new and emerging field, digital humanities aims to open up new areas for research in these subjects and to explore traditional questions in a different way.
For students, this could mean looking at culture, language or history through a digital lense; or using computer skills to better analyse and understand humanities data.
Digital humanities has grown in popularity in recent years, and while not every academic is convinced it is worth the hype - or that digital tools actually provide the best insight into humanities topics -, it is only likely to become a more relevant field in an increasingly digital world.
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum states in his article: “What Is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?”
The digital humanities, also known as humanities computing, is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. It is methodological by nature and interdisciplinary in scope. It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of information in electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines in which they are used, and what these disciplines have to contribute to our knowledge of computing.
How is Digital Humanities different from traditional Humanities subjects?
Digital Humanities is an extension of traditional humanities. While certainly all humanities courses use digital technologies in one way or another, Digital Humanities goes a step further than this. With Digital Humanities courses, information technology is a central part of the methodology for creating and processing data. The course makes more systemic use of specialised digital technologies, or may even focus specifically on digital aspects of human culture.
Digital Humanities is also made up of a broad community of practitioners, which includes both humanities academics and technology specialists.
What is the need of Digital Humanities ?
The question that comes to our mind is, after all What is the importance and need of digital humanities ? So the digital humanities teaches us how to become Real Human being. That humanities sees that people will not become a Robot.
Digital humanities have a connection with the English departments. These are the reasons given by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum to explain what DH is doing in English Departments.
We see the simultaneous explosion of interest in e-reading and e-book devices like the Kindle, iPad, and Nook and the advent of large-scale text digitization projects, the most significant of course being Google Books.
The openness of English departments to cultural studies, where computers and other objects of digital material culture become the centerpiece of analysis.
A modest but much-promoted belle-lettristic project around hypertext and other forms of electronic literature that continues to this day and is increasingly vibrant and diverse.
The widespread means to implement electronic archives.
After numeric input, text has been by far the most tractable datatype for computers to manipulate. Unlike images, audio, video, and so on, there is a long tradition of text-based data processing that was within the capabilities of even some of the earliest computer systems and that has for decades fed research in fields like stylistics, linguistics, and author attribution studies, all heavily associated with English departments.
There is the long association between computers and composition, almost as long and just as rich in its lineage.
Harvard University edX Course
Introduction to Digital Humanities
Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.
This is very interesting and innovative course on the sites of Harvard University. As a part of Digital Humanities we had done this course. And here i want to talk about the learning outcome from this course. This course will show us how to manage the many aspects of digital humanities research and scholarship. Whether we are a student or scholar, librarian or archivist, museum curator or public historian this course will help us bring your area of study or interest to new life using digital tools.
Here are the name os some project:
CLiC activity
Now I would like to discuss CLiC activity. This is a very interesting activity for digital humanities. The full form of CLiC is Corpus Linguistics in Context. It was also a useful Activity to read the data.
Activity 15.4 Children’s feelings about governesses
9. Start again by going to the CLiC Concordance tab
(http://clic.bham.ac.uk/concordance).
10. Find “The Secret Garden” in the “Search the corpora” box, and select it.
11. Search in “All text” for the term governess.
12. You should find 8 examples.
13. Explore their contexts by clicking on the graphic “In bk.” for each line.
Here is what I got -
Activity 17.4 The speech of Austen’s characters
1. Go to the CLiC concordance tab (http://clic.bham.ac.uk/concordance?).
2. Type Austen into the corpora box and select each of Austen’s novels.
3. Choose the subset “Quotes”.
4. Search for one more cluster from the cluster lists in 17.1 and 17.3 above. How
is it used in context?
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