The organic nature and exciting potential of digital humanities makes defining the discipline a challenge even for experienced practitioners. With that in mind, could Oscar Wilde be right – “To define is to limit”? [1]

Based on the work I do, DH is the application of digital technologies to traditional data and artefacts in order to make new interactive resources for those who are teaching and learning history.

[1] (Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, (1891), 217. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, Retrieved: April 3, 2014.)