Digital Humanities what?

[concinnity]

On the Digital Humanities mailing list, there've been a few comments lately about what one needs, at a minimum, to be considered part of the in-group.

I'm pasting some of this directly from the list:

Comments

[fleete]

I think I've just realized I really have no idea what DH is, or at least that what I thought it was is different from what these guys seem to be talking about here, although I think I always assumed the work I was doing fell under their banner and that I had a claim to that field. These quotes you provide make it sound like digitization/encoding text is the key practice for a lot of people, which I also know very little about. Huh.

I kinda feel like a freshman who's getting dis-invited from her senior prom. Like ithiliana said, they're putting so much emphasis on the "hard," "tech-y," "manly" stuff that a person can get only if they 1) go to a very special school or 2) spend all of their free time teaching it to themselves. Maybe this is what is required for DH departments or programs if they want to justify themselves to administrators for increased funding, which as she said, always goes to the science/tech departments.

[roninspoon]

Huh. I am, by most measurable accounts, fairly sophisticated with computing technology, and pretty up to date on contemporary standards in the IT realm, especially with regards to the context of technology use in academia.

I have never heard of TEI.