Digital Humanities and African American Studies
This article is an updated version of a blog entry originally written in February 2015. A Wikipedia Entry: Digital Humanities is an area of research and teaching at the intersection of computing and the disciplines of the humanities. Developing from the fields of humanities computing, humanistic computing, and digital humanities praxis digital humanities embraces a variety of topics, [from artificial intelligence (AI)] to data mining large cultural data sets. Digital humanities (often abbreviated DH) currently incorporates both digitized and born-digital materials and combines the methodologies from traditional humanities disciplines (such as history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, art, archaeology, music, and cultural studies) and social sciences with tools provided by computing (such as data visualization, information retrieval, data mining, statistics, text mining, digital mapping), and digital publishing. An academic librarian and humanities scholar tr