Oh hey. Cool! My area. (digital humanities) Nice to see it hit the front page of HN. For anyone who hasn't heard of it yet, the digital humanities (DH) is huma

Oh hey. Cool! My area. (digital humanities) Nice to see it hit the front page of HN. For anyone who hasn't heard of it yet, the digital humanities (DH) is humanities 2.0. It is an evolving area of research that uses computational methods to explore and answer traditional humanities research questions. When I say humanities, I'm assuming you know I'm simultaneously talking about arts, as in the A in BA, MA, and so on :) Digital humanities[1] is actually a re-branding of what is known as _humanities computing_[2] which is arguably a more accurate term mirroring as it does the term _scientific computing_[3]. DH covers things like digital archiving, using GIS in archaeology, using computational linguistics in the service literary criticism, stylometrics, applied ontology, digital metadata standards, and much much more. A good journal to start with is Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/ http://dsh.oxfordjournals.org/ and the main umbrella conference this year is in Jagiellonian university in Kraków, Poland -- one of the oldest universities in the world, operational since 1364! http://dh2016.adho.org/ http://dh2016.adho.org/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_humanities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_humanities [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/humanities_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/humanities_computing (redirects to DH) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scientific_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scientific_computing (redirects to computational science)