Digital Humanities

 Hello Monks.....
    I am Riddhi Bhatt, Student of English Department, MKBU. Today I came with some interesting blog writing. Yes, this is my thinking activity on Digital Humanities and assigned by Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad sir, Head of the English Department of Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavsinhji Bhavnagar University (MKBU).As a part of the syllabus, students of the English department are learning the paper ‘Contemporary Western Theories and Film Studies (paper-204)’.
        Whenever I am writing this blog and also these things , I have one question in my mind that why this Sunday's reading task and thinking activity are all given by our professor. Answer is that this is not compulsory for every student but necessary for all literature students who studied for masters. This task gives us a new sense to see how the world is actually. Ok friends, now we talk about today's topic…
    First question is in our mind that What is Digital Humanities? and What is meaning of Digital Humanities? How is it helpful to us ? What's It Doing in English Departments? So let's find this answers and also talk about CLiC 's thematic activity.

Digital Humanities :

🔑 As Simple Term..

Digital humanities as " an academic field concerned with the application of computational tools and methods to traditional humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy." 
Digital humanities (DH) is an area of scholarly activity at the intersection of computing or digital technologies and the disciplines of the humanities. It includes the systematic use of digital resources in the humanities, as well as the analysis of their application. 
Digital Humanities can be defined as new ways of doing scholarship that involve collaborative, transdisciplinary, and computationally engaged research, teaching, and publishing.

🔑According to Matthew G. Kirschenbaum states in his article: “What Is Digital Humanities and What's It Doing in English Departments?” 

"The digital humanities, also known as humanities computing, is a field of study, research, teaching, and invention concerned with the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. It is methodological by nature and interdisciplinary in scope. It involves investigation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of information in electronic form. It studies how these media affect the disciplines in which they are used, and what these disciplines have to contribute to our knowledge of computing."

🔑 According to  "Glossary of the Digital Humanities" 
“DH values collaboration, plurality, investigation of human culture, and the disruption of and reflection on traditional practices and is concerned with not just the use of digital technology for humanities projects but how the use of digital technology for humanities projects changes the user’s experience.”

Let's take a loot at some videos that will further define the digital humanities....

The Digital Humanities in Oxford University

An Introduction to Digital Humanities - Bay Area DH

When I written this blog and search something about Digital Humanities'. I found one interesting thing that...(from Study.eu)

How is Digital Humanities different from traditional Humanities subjects?

Digital Humanities is an extension of traditional humanities. While certainly all humanities courses use digital technologies in one way or another, Digital Humanities goes a step further than this.Digital Humanities is also made up of a broad community of practitioners, which includes both humanities academics and technology specialists. Offered mostly at Master’s level, you might find Digital Humanities courses are more geared towards learning practical skills that help you to gain access to specific careers than traditional humanities courses are. With Digital Humanities courses, information technology is a central part of the methodology for creating and processing data. The course makes more systemic use of specialized digital technologies, or may even focus specifically on digital aspects of human culture.

Harvard University edX Course

Here I want to talk about the learning outcome from this course. As a part of syllabus in "Digital Humanities" we had done this course. This course will show us how to develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

Harvard course "Introduction to Digital Humanities"  is divided into 5 different chapters. So let's discuss whatever I have learnt from each of them..

Introduction to the Library in the Digital Age

Acquiring and Managing Digital Resources

Role of Librarians in the Digital Age

Metadata and Searchability

Metadata as a Research Tool

Van Gogh's Three Pairs of Shoes

Collaboration in Digital Museum Scholarship

Harvard Art Museum and Open Access

A library is often the first place, or among the first places, that you might turn to when looking for data and other sources that you want to incorporate into your research. Libraries face many new and exciting challenges today as they grapple with how to help researchers produce digital scholarship, and how they will store and disseminate that digital scholarship when it's finished.