How do you define DH?

Using computing/digital technologies to practice humanities scholarship in innovative ways--and using humanistic knowledge and approaches to understand digital technology.

New habits for a new era. Some technological nudges to enhance research capabilities in humanities

Digital Humanities is just our everyday normal way of doing business, but with slightly more awareness than usual that a lot of what everybody does is digital — and an awareness of some of the things that that might mean. And a willingness to think about them and try digital options.

Scholarship and pedagogy which is often public and collaborative and which engages with digital media as medium and/or message.

Using technology to reach new audiences with the answers to very old questions.

DH still means digital history to me.

Digital History is the act of imaging and making historical arguments by and through digital media.

Digital Humanities is the act of embracing technologies and methodologies to improve and create new ways of doing humanities scholarship.

The amalgamation of the humanities and computer science to create digital tools and resources that allow further research in the discipline of Humanities.

An impulse more than a method.

The use of computational tools and techniques to explore questions in the humanities, and the concomitant reflection on the use of those tools and techniques in that exploration.

“Digital humanities is a diverse and still emerging field that encompasses the practice of humanities research in and through information technology, and the exploration [approaches] of how the humanities may evolve through their engagement with technology, media, and computational methods.” -- Modified from Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) (see DHQ website, http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/about/about.html)

A space for collaboration, creativity and critical reflection on the use and application of digital technology in the humanities

DH is a big and probably over-stuffed box that holds an increasingly disparate menagerie of projects, processes, methods and positions that somehow manage to involve humanistic questions and digital technology (both broadly defined). At its best, it can be the most open-minded and egalitarian place in the humanities. At its worst, it can be, well, frustrating. It is practiced by some of the best folks I know and dismissed by some of the other best folks I know.

from the UCLA DH website: "Digital Humanities interprets the cultural and social impact of new media and information technologies—the fundamental components of the new information age—as well as creates and applies these technologies to answer cultural, social, historical, and philological questions, both those traditionally conceived and those only enabled by new technologies."

DH is... ...creating new problems, challenges and many opportunities by using new technologies.

At its broadest and most concise, I define DH as using digital technology as a lens to examine cultural artifacts.

Digital humanities is an exciting and emerging discipline bringing together technology and the humanities . But it can be many things beyond: it is a means to enhance scholarship through digital sourcing and computer technologies; a means to design less "traditional" forms of scholarship; a means of engaging students in lecture, discussion, and technology; to a means to disseminate scholarship to wider audience (particularly important given recent complaints about humanities and the academy); etc. etc.