Digital Humanities Beyond Representation

Digital Humanities Beyond Representation

Digital Humanities

In his lecture to the University of Central Florida on November 13, 2006, John Unsworth described two types of scholarship within the digital humanities: representing primary source materials, and building tools to manipulate and analyze these materials. He noted a “new form of humanities computing appears” corresponding with the advancements in digital imaging and recording. Before the digitization and the information age, the representation of the artifact assumed greater emphasis than analyzing the text. As digital archives and collections began expanding and proliferating in the late 20th century, however, scholarship in the field turned towards text mining tools. The editors and designers of digital archives have improved the search functions of their databases and finding aids and continue to develop tools for interpreting data. Vast collections of multimedia artifacts and documentation provide opportunities for investigating intertextual, geographic, and chronological comparisons of the data.

Unsworth, John

University of Central Florida

2006-11-13

Polk, Victoria

University of Central Florida

A text version accompanies the slide show.

Presentation

http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/UCF/

Unsworth, John. "Digital Humanities: Beyond Representation." Lecture presented at the University of Central FLorida, Orlando, Florida, November 13, 2006. Accessed January 27, 2012. http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~unsworth/UCF/