Welcome to the Digital Humanities research guide at Fitchburg State University This guide is designed to give researchers an overview of resources available at Fitchburg State and beyond for DH scholarship and project development.
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Digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field that combines the methods, approaches, and tools of humanities scholarship with digital technologies. It involves the application of computational tools and techniques to enhance research, analysis, and presentation of cultural, historical, and literary materials.
Digital humanities encompasses a wide range of activities and projects, including:
Digital archives and libraries: Creating digital repositories of cultural artifacts, manuscripts, books, and other primary sources, making them accessible to a wider audience.
Text analysis and mining: Using computational techniques to analyze large collections of texts, extracting patterns, trends, and insights that would be difficult or time-consuming to identify manually.
Data visualization: Presenting complex data sets visually to aid in understanding and interpretation. Visualizations can include graphs, maps, timelines, and other interactive tools.
Text encoding and markup: Applying markup languages like XML and TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) to create structured representations of texts, enabling advanced search, analysis, and annotation.
Digital mapping and spatial analysis: Integrating geographical data with humanities research, allowing scholars to explore the spatial dimensions of historical and cultural phenomena.
Digital storytelling and narrative: Using digital tools and platforms to create multimedia narratives, interactive experiences, and immersive environments for engaging audiences with humanities content.
Digital curation and preservation: Developing strategies and techniques for preserving and curating digital artifacts, ensuring their long-term accessibility and usability.
Digital humanities promotes collaboration between scholars from various disciplines, including history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, art history, and computer science. It aims to foster new research questions, methodologies, and approaches by leveraging the capabilities of digital technologies. By combining traditional humanities scholarship with computational tools, digital humanities offers innovative ways to explore, interpret, and communicate human culture and knowledge in the digital age.
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