Digital Humanities: An Overview

Digital humanities (DH) is a work at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities (Drucker, et al. 2014). It brings digital tools and methods to the study of the humanities with the recognition that the printed word is no longer the main medium for knowledge production and distribution (Burdick et al. 2012) . DH aims to produce and use applications and models that make possible new kinds of teaching and research, both in the humanities and in computer science (and its allied technologies) and also studies the impact of these techniques on cultural heritage, memory institutions, libraries, archives and digital culture (Terras, 2011).

According to Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0, "Digital Humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a universe in which: a) print is no longer the exclusive or the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and/or disseminated; instead, print finds itself absorbed into new, multimedia configurations; and b) digital tools, techniques, and media have altered the production and dissemination of knowledge in the arts, human and social sciences."