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Core or Periphery?Digital Humanities from an archaeological perspective
Jeremy HuggettArchaeology, School of Humanities
The Archaeologist
The Digital Humanist?
Digital Humanities Journals/DisciplinesLinguistics
Literature
History
Philosophy
Archaeology
ArtMusic
Film
Theatre
Classics
Geography
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Digital Humanities QuarterlyInternational Journal of Humanities and Arts ComputingLiterary and Linguistic ComputingComputers and the HumanitiesLanguage Resources and EvaluationProceedings of the Modern Language Association PMLAArts and Humanities in Higher Educa-tion
(IJHAC from 2007; PMLA from 2002)
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(Text-Image.com)
EXTERNAL
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TEXTUAL
FOCUS
‘Traditional’ terms
‘Traditional’ terms
‘Digital’ terms
The move to digital
• Maintain disciplinary identity
• Itinerant membership of DH?
• Spread of DH publication?
© jeffszuc.com
Digital Archaeology & Digital Humanities
© Christian Demma
Methodological Commons
(McCarty & Short 2002)
Methodological Commons
(McCarty 2005)
Digital Humanities & Digital Archaeology
• Archaeology deals with long-past pre-literate societies so it fits poorly within a logo-centric Digital Humanities
• Practices within DH and DA are drawn from elsewhere, not each other, or have developed independently
© Stuart Dunn
Digital Humanities & Digital Archaeology
• Archaeology deals with long-past pre-literate societies so it fits poorly within a logo-centric Digital Humanities
• Practices within DH and DA are drawn from elsewhere, not each other, or have developed independently
© Stuart Dunn
Humanities GIS
http://gap.alexandriaarchive.org/gapvis/index.html
http://hypercities.ats.ucla.edu/
... multimedia browsers or analytical tools?
Issues for Humanities GIS
© Wendy Bix
• GIS are reductionist• GIS are poor at dealing with
ambiguity and uncertainty• GIS are poor at handling
time• GIS are heavy on
visualisation• GIS are difficult• GIS require collaboration
with technical experts
(David Bodenhamer 2010)
Anxiety Discourse
Digital?
Tools?Building?
Coding?
Insufficiently specialised?
Excessively pragmatic?
www. hetemeel.com
The humanist turn?
© Andrew Stawarz