LSC 850 Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities is the practice of using information technology, digital and computational methods to answer humanities research questions. Digital Humanities combines the methodologies from the traditional humanities disciplines such as religion, philosophy, art, architecture, literature, linguistics, film and theater, music, history, and archaeology with tools from computer science such as data visualization, data mining, textual analysis, information retrieval, and digital publishing. Librarians are playing collaborative roles in such areas as data curation and preservation, digitization of critical editions, data analysis, project design, and project management. Topics include the evolution of humanities to digital humanities; the tools and techniques used by digital humanists; the scholarly communication issues impacted by the digital humanities; and the issues pertaining to funding, managing, and evaluating digital humanities projects.