Partons d'un livre déjà ancien puisqu'il date de 2004 (les mutations se succèdent tous les six mois dans ce domaine), mais dont quelques textes, accessibles en ligne, sont des jalons utiles ou même des classiques:

A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/

Quelques contributions à ce volume collectif qui paraissaient importantes pour notre projet de Scénographies de la voix ont été recueillies au format PDF dans la bibliothèque numérique d'anthropologie linguistique, dans le dossier «Humanités numériques».

 

Quelques occurrences de la formule digital humanists

Widely spread through the digital humanities community is the notion that there is a clear and direct relationship between the interpretative strategies that humanists employ and the tools that facilitate exploration of original artifacts based on those interpretative strategies.

What this collection also reveals is that there are central concerns among digital humanists which cross disciplinary boundaries. This is nowhere more evident than in the representation of knowledge-bearing artifacts. The process of such representation – especially so when done with the attention to detail and the consistency demanded by the computing environment – requires humanists to make explicit what they know about their material and to understand the ways in which that material exceeds or escapes representation.

In order to move the scholarly monograph into the digital realm, humanists need to embrace the new technologies developing in digital humanities communities of practice.

 

La place centrale des images

Intellectual training in the humanities only rarely includes skills in interpretation of images or media in any but the most thematic or iconographic terms. The idea that visual representation has the capacity to serve as a primary tool of knowledge production is an almost foreign notion to most humanists. Add to this that many latter-day formalists conceive of digital objects as "immaterial" and the complicated legacy of hierarchical aesthetics becomes a very real obstacle to be overcome. Naivety aside (digital artifacts are highly, complexly material), these habits of thought work against conceptualizing a visual approach to digital humanities. Nonetheless, visualization tools have long been a part of the analysis of statistical methods in digital humanities.

(Dans drucker_digital_humanists.pdf).