Diversity – THATCamp British Library Labs http://britishlibrarylabs2015.thatcamp.org 13 February 2015, British Library Conference Centre Fri, 13 Feb 2015 07:20:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Explain to a Newbie: Digital Research in the Humanities – What’s the Question? http://britishlibrarylabs2015.thatcamp.org/2015/01/16/explain-to-a-newbie-digital-research-in-the-humanities-whats-the-question/ Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:00:51 +0000 http://britishlibrarylabs2015.thatcamp.org/?p=162 Continue reading →]]>

The Challenge:

Can you explain in plain English what digital research methods in the Humanities allow folks to do that they couldn’t do before?

Some Discussion Topics:

  1. What new sorts of research questions can be asked?
  2. What new concepts or hypothesis can be tested?
  3. What new research and public audiences might be interested in the these approaches outside of the Digital Humanities?
  4. How can Digital Humanities researchers best articulate why they do what they do to them?

Session suggestion from a newbie (biomedical researcher knows about  digital research technologies but not about humanities research) which might appeal to other DH experts or newbies alike.

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