The Cologne Dialogue on Digital Humanities 2012

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Controversies around the Digital Humanities: Proceedings of a Workshop

If you would like to add comments to the “controversies”, please send an informal eMail requesting a Userid to WahnDialogue-info@uni-koeln.de.

All papers have been publishes in special issue 37 of “Historical Social Research Vol. 37 (2012), No. 3”.
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/zeitschriften/ausgabe=6950
Online versions of all revised papers are published on this website and can be downloaded from the respective author’s page below.

Manfred Thaller, University at Cologne: Setting the Agenda
Controversy 1: Do the Digital Humanities have an intellectual agenda or do they constitute an infrastructure?
Controversy 2: Are all approaches towards interdisciplinary research between the Humanities and Computer Science meaningfully represented by the current concept of Digital Humanities?
Controversy 3: What is the scope of the Digital Humanities? What is the relationship between individual disciplines served by them?
Controversy 4: What is the appropriate role of markup?
Controversy 5: Big structures or lightweight webs. What is the most sensible technical template for research infrastructures for the Digital Humanities?
Controversy 6: “Digital curation” or “digital preservation” is a topic, which has originated within the world of digital libraries; recently it has been drawn closer and closer to the Digital Humanities. What is the balance between conceptual work and technology?
Controversy 7: “Digital Libraries” have started their life as an answer to opportunities created by a specific stage of technical development. Where are they now, between Computer Science and the Digital Humanities?
Event: The workshop which created the proceedings accessible above took place on April 23rd and 24th at Wahn manor house close to Cologne.
Participants:
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