Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities
Introduction: Understanding the Digital Humanities
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简介：了解数字人文
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2012
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D. Berry
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在整个大学，我们追求研究的方式正在发生变化，数字技术在这一变化中发挥着重要作用。事实上，越来越明显的是，研究越来越多地通过数字技术进行。许多人认为，这种中介作用正在慢慢开始改变进行研究的意义，影响研究计划背后的认识论和本体论（有时被概念化为“近距离”与“远距离”阅读，见Moretti 2000？）。当然，这一发展因学科和研究议程而异，有些学科比其他学科更依赖数字技术，但今天很少能找到一位没有使用数字技术作为研究活动一部分的学者。图书馆目录现在可能是学术界在不使用计算机的情况下访问书籍和研究文章的最低方式，但是，随着卡片索引的缓慢而必然的死亡（Baker 1996：2001），对于非数字学者来说，在现代大学中进行研究的产出仍然很少。随着世界上越来越多的图书馆被扫描并放在网上，电子邮件、谷歌搜索和书目数据库变得越来越重要。
Across the university the way in which we pursue research is changing, and digital technology is playing a significant part in that change. Indeed, it is becoming more and more evident that research is increasingly being mediated through digital technology. Many argue that this mediation is slowly beginning to change what it means to undertake research, affecting both the epistemologies and ontologies that underlie a research programme (sometimes conceptualised as ‘close’ versus ‘distant’reading, see Moretti 2000???). Of course,this development is variable depending on disciplines and research agendas,with some more reliant on digital technology than others, but it is rare to find an academic today who has had no access to digital technology as part of their research activity. Library catalogues are now probably the minimum way in which an academic can access books and research articles without the use of a computer, but, with card indexes dying a slow and certain death (Baker 1996: 2001), there remain few outputs for the non-digital scholar to undertake research in the modern university. Email, Google searches and bibliographic databases are become increasingly crucial, as more of the world libraries are scanned and placed online.