This article aims to introduce the Spanish reader to the current debates in the English speaking community of Digital Humanities. Rather than trying to define the discipline in absolute terms the approach is broadly diachronic though some principles as interdisciplinarity and modeling, values as openness and practices as data mining and…[Read more]

This article is divided into three sections: the first focuses on some analogies and historical parallels that shape digital technology, the hypertext and interactivity, such as the book and the printing press. My aim in the second section is to map the development of the creation of digital environments for archives, corpus, libraries and…[Read more]

El impacto del ordenador e internet en nuestra sociedad y, de manera más específica, en los estudios humanísticos está lejos de ser analizado y conocido en todas sus dimensiones. No obstante, las HD pueden entenderse como la reacción académica a los cambios tecnológicos recientes que pretende responder a preguntas como: ¿qué metodologías existen p…[Read more]

La dama boba: edición crítica y archivo digital is an ambitious project that focuses on the history of Lope de Vega’s play. It gives access to the facsimile and the modernized spelling transcription of three witnesses and it presents a critical text with an apparatus and explanatory notes. While it would benefit from documenting its markup and mak…[Read more]

Notes and handouts from an informal presentation at the John Carter Brown Library.

Early modern printed books pose particular challenges for automatic transcription: uneven inking, irregular orthographies, radically multilingual texts. As a result, modern efforts to transcribe these documents tend to produce the textual gibberish commonly known as “dirty OCR” (Optical Character Recognition). This noisy output is most frequently…[Read more]

On the scholarly editing of historical documents as digital objects.