Digital Scholarship is broad term that denotes the use of digital tools and methods in traditional academic research for the purpose of creating, analyzing, disseminating, and preserving scholarly work.
Examples:
- Creating a digital map of a historical event
- Digitizing an analog collection of photographs
- Creating a searchable archive of a digitized collection
- Using machine learning to analyze a large corpora of texts
Digital Humanities combines traditional humanities research methods in disciplines such as literature, history, and art history with computational technology and methods. Digital humanists use digital tools and methods to explore, analyze, and present cultural, historical, and textual materials. Importantly, the digital tools and methods do not replace the traditional research methods but instead supplement and enhance them.
Examples:
- Mapping the intellectual influence of Montesquieu
- Visualizing the structure and relationships of the characters in a novel
- Analyzing a collection of letters to determine sentiment
