Researchers in the humanities are increasingly using digital material. Think of digitised or born-digital collections of books or documents, linguistic corpora and databases.
Not only the material is increasingly digital. The methods are digital, too. Linguists write software to analyse language automatically. Historians visualise the social networks that connect historical persons or places. Or they make cities of the past come to life again using digital cartography. Literary scholars digitise manuscripts to examine the genetic process behind a text. Theatre scholars create virtual reconstructions of historical playhouses.
The University of Antwerp’s Platform for Digital Humanities has been aggregating these kinds of research projects since 2010.