The Digital Humanities are an area of research, teaching, and creation concerned with the intersection of computing, digital technologies, and the disciplines of the humanities.
Digital Humanities (often abbreviated DH) currently incorporate both digitized and born-digital materials and combine the methodologies from traditional humanities disciplines with tools provided by computing (such as data visualization, information retrieval,data mining, statistics, text mining) and digital publishing (Wikipedia, 2014).
The digital humanities can help scholars to:
- provide wide access to cultural information
- manipulate (big) data: to manage it, mash it up, mine it, map it, or model it.
- transform scholarly communication and collaboration (including student-faculty collaboration)
- enhance teaching and learning
- make a public impact