Reading
The following article is optional and supplements the discussion of digital scholarship.
The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities
Christine L. Borgman
Borgman, C. L. (2010). The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 3(4).
In this article, Christine L. Borgman, Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), assesses the state of digital scholarship within the wider humanities community, and discusses five questions that this community needs to address:
- “What are data?”
- “What are the infrastructure requirements?”
- “Where are the social studies of digital humanities?”
- “What is the humanities laboratory of the 21st century?”
- “What is the value proposition for digital humanities in an era of declining budgets?”
Read: The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities