Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities

September 28-30, 2005, at the University of Virginia

Digital tools are enabling and enriching scholarship in the humanities to a great extent. Within the past few years, humanities scholars have begun to design, develop, and apply digital tools for their own scholarship. Both the tool-building and tool-using communities are growing, and there is a need for a summit that can assess the state of development of digital tools for humanities research, as well as the effectiveness of the supporting and integrating cyberinfrastructure.

What defines a digital tool? How are they used by the humanities community? What are the best tools? What tools are missing? How can we develop a common vocabulary so that we can develop and share tools across various communities? What does the community need to do so that these tools are more interoperable? What are the grand challenges for building digital tools for humanities research?

UPDATE May 2006: The final report from the Summit has been published and is available in electronic (pdf) and printed forms. To request a copy of the printed report, please send an e-mail with your name and mailing address.

 

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