The author retraces her experience with digital humanities, claiming an approach focused not on theory or large disciplinary frameworks, but on concrete activities. The article insists on the importance of collaborations and networks of scholars who are sensitive to digital issues, to ensure that the field of digital humanities is recognized at ministerial level and that the sector avoids excessive specialization. The author also emphasizes how the knowledge of some digital tools and the methodologies connected to them are indispensable today for researchers and history students, and invites to give space to reflection on basic digital skills for humanists. Linked to didactic issues is also the theme of sharing and participation in historical practices by large and diverse audiences, and therefore of public history, which cannot be isolated from other issues and which must instead be an integral part of the change underway.

L’autrice ripercorre la sua esperienza con le digital humanities, rivendicando un approccio incentrato non sulla teoria o i grandi quadri disciplinari, bensì su concrete attività progettuali. L’articolo insiste sull’importanza delle collaborazioni e del rafforzamento della rete di studiosi sensibili alle questioni digitali, per fare in modo che l’ambito delle digital humanities sia riconosciuto a livello ministeriale e che il settore eviti l’eccessiva specializzazione. L’autrice sottolinea, inoltre, come la conoscenza di alcuni strumenti digitali e delle metodologie a essi collegati siano oggi indispensabili per i ricercatori e gli studenti di storia, e invita a dare spazio alla riflessione sulle competenze digitali di base per gli umanisti. Legato alle questioni didattiche è inoltre il tema della condivisione e della partecipazione alle pratiche storiche da parte di pubblici ampi e diversi, e dunque della public history, che non può essere isolata dalle altre questioni e che deve invece essere parte integrante del cambiamento in corso.

Consigli dalla “cucina” delle Digital Humanities

Enrica Salvatori
2022-01-01

Abstract

The author retraces her experience with digital humanities, claiming an approach focused not on theory or large disciplinary frameworks, but on concrete activities. The article insists on the importance of collaborations and networks of scholars who are sensitive to digital issues, to ensure that the field of digital humanities is recognized at ministerial level and that the sector avoids excessive specialization. The author also emphasizes how the knowledge of some digital tools and the methodologies connected to them are indispensable today for researchers and history students, and invites to give space to reflection on basic digital skills for humanists. Linked to didactic issues is also the theme of sharing and participation in historical practices by large and diverse audiences, and therefore of public history, which cannot be isolated from other issues and which must instead be an integral part of the change underway.
2022
Salvatori, Enrica
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