Article ID: CBB092017556

The Tool and the Job: Digital Humanities Methods and the Future of the History of the Human Sciences (2019)

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This article, based on a presentation at the Future of the History of the Human Sciences workshop (2016), discusses some of the potential benefits and pitfalls of digital humanities (DH) tools and approaches for historians of the human sciences. It reviews some of the major approaches that form DH and draws on the author’s experience as part of a team creating a large DH resource to consider the complications presented by these.

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Authors & Contributors
Dinesh, T. B.
Ewing, E. Thomas
Alex Lichtenstein
Jeffrey Rubel
Fox Lee, Shayna
Mathieu Husson
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
History of the Human Sciences
Historia Mathematica
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
American Historical Review
Publishers
The MIT Press
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Brepols
Bloomsbury Academic
Concepts
Digital humanities
Historical method
Information technology
Internet
Human sciences
Libraries and archives
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Early modern
20th century
Places
United States
Bangalore, India
United Kingdom
West Africa
Americas
Europe
Institutions
National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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