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        Date: 2023-09-15 09:07:06+00:00
        From: maurizio lana <maurizio.lana@uniupo.it>
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.210: institutional forms for digital humanities?

hi Willard,

i cannot but remember that the filed of what now we call DH was born in
tight contact with initiatives that we would today call "digital
libraries":
padre Busa was building a digital library of Thomas works;
similarly was for the CATSS (for those who were not born yet, it stands
for Computer assisted tools for Septuagint studies) of Robert Kraft and
Emmanuel Tov who were studying the Septuagint Bible.
and - probably - this is why some of us think of DH as a mainly textual
discipline.

(would someone like to know more on this specific subject, see Lana,
Maurizio. «Digital humanities e biblioteche». AIB Studi 59, fasc. 1–2
(2019): 185–223. https://doi.org/10.2426/aibstudi-11862)

Maurizio


Il 15/09/23 10:02, Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk> ha
scritto:
> All manner of things influence where in the university or under what
> identity digital humanities is best positioned. For purposes of
> argument, let's say there are four possibilities: as a service centre or
> 'help desk'; as a project-development lab; as a resource hub within the
> library; as an academic department. Some of us might be inclined to
> assume that the ideal trajectory, wherever it may start or linger, ends
> with the academic department.
>
> Is this so? Is it the ideal? I'd think that help desks are a thing of the
past;
> having served on more than one) I'd be inclined to celebrate that
> fact, if it is one. Something to argue about?
>
> Nevertheless, it seems to me there are strong arguments in favour of both
> the lab and the library hub in their different ways to realise the potential
of
> the field. Let me ask, then, who has made the most persuasive case for
> either of these--a case that acknowledges the disadvantages stemming
> from lack of academic status but argues for the potential and how to realise
> it?
>
> Comments?

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felicità del poco
edith bruck

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Maurizio Lana
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli


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