Hello guys, I am a CS engineer and from time to time I see this term “Digital Humanities” thrown around. After a few internet search I still haven’t understood.
Do you know what is it all about?
Hello guys, I am a CS engineer and from time to time I see this term “Digital Humanities” thrown around. After a few internet search I still haven’t understood.
Do you know what is it all about?
According to the Wiki entry, beyond what KelsonV said, it also includes using digital techniques in the scholarship or analysis of humanities subjects. I imagine using generative models to explore how language develops in early societies or use audio analysis tools to study folk music.
Makes sense. But isn’t something that a computer scientist can do anyway?
There’s been a lot of effort in creating intersectional degrees between CompSci and other fields. Yes a CS could do the analysis work, but they likely do not have the humanities driven education to construct the requirements for the analysis. Developing intersectional training can help develop a better bridge of understanding between the research design (i.e. the requirements) and the analysis or experiment design (i.e. the implementation). It’s been a while since I was in school, but while I was leaving, this intersectional/interdisciplinary approach was growing in popularity, which led to the development of these sort of joint or dual degrees such as CS & Astronomy or Biology or Journalism.
I work in the Digital Humanities and my experience is that typically Computer Science, Information Science and Data Science are not well prepared to work with Humanities data. Some commonplace challenges:
There’s much more to it, but these are the most immediate challenges that come to my mind.