Digital Humanities

Blackwell Publishing has made freely available A Companion To Digital Humanities, an academic work edited by Schreibman, Siemens, and Unsworth.

Digital humanities deals with using technology to produce humanities content. For example, article 36 of A Companion To Digital Humanities is Howard Besser's "The Past, Present and Future of Digital Libraries."

A Companion To Digital Humanities was recommended as an introduction to the field in a 2011 Chronicle of Higher Education post by William Pannapacker, "Big Tent Digital Humanities." I was led to Pannapacker's post by his March 4, 2013 article Stop Calling It "Digital Humanities" - And 9 Other Strategies to Help Liberal-Arts Colleges Join the Movement. In his recent article, Pannapacker propounds that nimble Liberal Arts schools can be more innovative in this field of digital humanities than traditional research universities, as the faculty in research universities have more of a focus on article publication.

-DD