digital humanities

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digital humanities pl (plural only)

  1. An academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy.
    Synonym: DH
    • 2016, Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth, editors, A New Companion to Digital Humanities‎, →ISBN:
      The volume brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities.
    • 2020 July 1, Carly Minsky, quoting Ilan Shimshoni, “How AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles”, in Financial Times‎, retrieved 2021-04-12:
      “There is a lot of interest in digital humanities, but there is not a lot of money,” says Ilan Shimshoni, professor of computer vision and machine learning at the University of Haifa in Israel, where he works on archaeological projects that include reassembling artefacts from photos of fragments. “If you want to do an analysis of Facebook you’ll get much more money than if you want to look at ancient Greek artefacts.”

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