Digital humanities is a discipline that combines uses ever evolving technologies to enhance the myriad activities that make up the field of humanities. Evolving from advances in computing, digital humanities offer tools and platforms for activities from research to data analysis to presentation, curation, education and public engagements.

The reading selections made it clear that a coherent definition continues to elude us all. The ideas of digital, computing and technology are a constant, however each one bounded the ideas and how they could be used differently. While some writers embraced the digital, as opposed to the computing, others seemed to want the term limited to data analysis.

I left my definition broad, as the readings exercise convinced me that as a community we need to embrace and respect all the ways the digital world can be used in the humanities and all of the professions within the humanities that can practice digital humanities. Looking at the history and development of computing humanities and the name shift to digital humanities, imagining how ideas can be studied and presented differently needs to be open-ended to reflect the continuing changes in technology and applications.