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Humanities scholars tend to stay very isolated within their fields. The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music has been using these exact techniques since the

• igravious 11y ago
  A recent TED talk by Gregory Heyworth on using spectral imaging to reveal the hidden (to our eyes) content of ancient manuscripts. I don't usually watch TED talks any more but this one has a fair bit of meat and I found it genuinely inspiring. http://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_heyworth_how_i_m_discovering_the_secrets_of_ancient_texts http://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_heyworth_how_i_m_discoverin... What does it even mean to say that humanities scholars tend to stay very isolated. How would you even measure that? And as compared to what?
  • tdumitrescu 11y ago
    I mean that, e.g., recent paleographical work which medieval music specialists have done on the sources which interest them has been more or less invisible to scholars of literature, history of science, etc., and vice versa. Even when they overlap almost exactly, as in this case. By recent I mean the last 2-3 decades, not like this past year.
    • igravious 11y ago
      I get what you mean. The point is that if this work is applicable to a wider audience then why not get it in front of those eyeballs by publishing in a place where multiple disciplines congregate? This is the point of the Humanist[0] mailing list, for instance -- in the case of humanities computing applications. [0] http://dhhumanist.org/ http://dhhumanist.org/