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What is the purpose of this guide?

This guide is designed to give students resources, tools, and communities to help further their exploration of the digital humanities and the wider field of digital scholarship. The Resources tab includes organizations, training, books, and journals for students who want to learn more about digital humanities. The next five tabs provide tools to assist with digital humanities research, including tools related to Text Analysis, Corpora & Datasets, Mapping, Storytelling, and Publishing. The Repositories tab includes links to websites with more digital humanities tools that students may find helpful.  The DH at Furman tab shows where students can find digital humanities resources here on campus. We hope that this guide will help you on your research journey!

What is Digital Humanities?

Digital humanities (DH) is an area of digital scholarship that uses digital practices, resources, and/or tools for the research and teaching of humanities disciplines.

Digital scholarship refers to a larger practice that uses technology to further academic research and teaching in all fields including the arts, sciences, and humanities.    

 

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How many definitions of DH are there?

 

There are currently many definitions of digital humanities.  Check out this link that includes over 800 different definitions of DH, displaying a new one each time you click "new quote" or refresh the page.