International Database of Digital Humanities Projects

This project stalled

Arts and humanities computing has since its inception been hampered by the lack of an adequate means for collecting and publishing information about activity in the field. Its interdisciplinary scope and methodological nature, coupled with rapid changes in the technology and long undervalued contributions to scholarship, have so far thwarted the development of a practical bibliography of published and ongoing work. The lack of such a bibliography has been repeatedly and urgently noted by researchers, administrators and funding agencies, all of whom need to know what work is being done, by whom and where publications from it may be found. It seems clear from the brief attempt in the Humanities Computing Yearbook (Oxford University Press, 1988-90) that the medium of print is inadequate for the task. Current online publishing tools, however, would allow an accurate survey of arts and humanities computing to be maintained and distributed at very low cost: thus the International Database described here (link).