Defining Digital Humanities

One essential characteristic of projects in the digital humanities is collaboration. As an already multi-disciplinary field, it is inevitable that humanists from a variety of disciplines would work in partnership on projects employing digital tools and emerging technologies. The creation and implementation of ap- plications can’t and shouldn’t be done alone. Humanists can collaborate with programming-savvy colleagues, IT departments, and computer scientists to create new and exciting textual representations and information resources. The collaborative relationship between humanities scholars and programmers is imperative too because, without the other, there is something lost in the end result. Each party learns from the other in the process of creating.