Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-378921
Exports for your reference manager
Long-term digital preservation: a digital humanities topic?
Digitale Langzeitarchivierung: ein Thema für die Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften?
[journal article]
Abstract
"We argue that the so-called Digital Humanities fail to meet conventional criteria to be an accredited field of study on a par with Literature, Chemistry, Computer Science, and Civil Engineering, or even a specialized professorial emphasis such as Ancient History or Nuclear Physics. The argument use... view more
"We argue that the so-called Digital Humanities fail to meet conventional criteria to be an accredited field of study on a par with Literature, Chemistry, Computer Science, and Civil Engineering, or even a specialized professorial emphasis such as Ancient History or Nuclear Physics. The argument uses long-term digital preservation as an example to argue that Digital Humanities proponents' case for their research agenda does not merit financial support, emphasizing practical aspects over subjective theory." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
digitalization; humanities; archives; literature; computer; science; documentation; document; theory-practice; software; Internet; library
Classification
Information and Documentation, Libraries, Archives
Method
applied research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 201-217
Journal
Historical Social Research, 37 (2012) 3
Issue topic
Kontroversen um die Digitalen Geisteswissenschaften / Controversies around the Digital Humanities
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.37.2012.3.201-217
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed