Digital Scholarship Centre (DSC)
The Digital Scholarship Centre (DSC) is a research and teaching facility for faculty, students, and staff at the University of Alberta. The DSC grows expertise in research methods and practices using technologies.
Hours: 9am - 5 Monday to Friday
Welcome
This guide offers starting points for searching for information related to digital humanities or humanities computing.
What is Digital Humanities?
Digital humanities can be understood both as a field in its own right and as a way of identifying digital research and project development efforts in specific humanities fields. More broadly, it also refers to any digital activity that furthers research in the humanities, or assists in the scholarly activities of its practitioners. Some of these activities may operate outside of any particular humanities field: for example, digital publishing or digital libraries.
Flanders & Mylonas. "Digital Humanities," Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (4th ed.)
Introductions to the Field
Defining Digital Humanities by This reader brings together the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. It provides a historical overview of how the term 'Humanities Computing' developed into the term 'Digital Humanities', and highlights core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field.
A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Brings together a global team of authors who are pioneers of innovative research in the digital humanities. Surveys the past, present, and future of the field, offering essential research for anyone interested in better understanding the theory, methods, and application of the digital humanities.
The Big Humanities : Digital Humanities/Digital Laboratories by This book provides an accessible introduction to, and overview of, the digital humanities, one of the fastest growing areas of literary studies.
