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Topic: Digital Humanities — Getting Started

Getting Started

Evaluating Digital Humanities Scholarship

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Modern Language Association LogoThe Modern Language Association's Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media offers a framework for departments and faculty members to evaluate the work of scholars working with digital media as their subject matter, including those who use digital methods or whose work takes digital form.


American Historical Association (AHA)

American Historical Association LogoThe American Historical Association's Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians advocates for the contributions of Digital History scholarship and recommends policies and practices associated with the evaluation of scholarly work in digital forms.


Introduction to the Digital Humanities

The digital humanities encompass a broad set of practices and digital tools and technologies to ask and answer new and pressing questions in the humanities. Examples of digital humanities methodologies and scholarship include but are not limited to interactive visualizations, text and corpus analysis, geospatial analysis, creation of digital collections. Explore the interactive frame below to read definitions of the digital humanities generated by Day of DH participants between 2009 and 2014.