“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”

-- Mark Twain

"Silent Disco," 1920, Wikimedia Commons

“a nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities, or, as is more true of my own work, ask traditional kinds of humanities-oriented questions about computing technologies.”

--Kathleen Fitzpatrick   

"The Humanities" - fields that consider the record of humanity and asks questions about what it means to be human

For example: History, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Musicology, Performance Studies, etc.

Brennan: "Digital history is an approach to researching and interpreting the past that relies on computer and communication technologies to help gather, quantify, interpret, and share historical materials and narratives." 

https://inclusivehistorian.com/digital-history/

Open source = code freely available

Open access = content freely available

DH teams are often interdisciplinary and interinstitutional: scholars, web developers, librarians, students, the public

Use computational methods to analzye sources in new ways

Use web publishing tools to reach larger audiences