Ten Challenges for Digital Humanities and the Way Forward

Abstract

In a previous article, the authors came up with a list of what they considered 10 challenges that would define the area of digital humanities at large and their evolution in the next years. However, in the almost two years that have passed since the publication of that paper, they are now able to see the need for relating the challenges for digital humanities with what one may characterize as socially relevant topics by means of outlining 10 challenges where the digital humanities can make a social impact. This chapter does that.

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“…In 2018, Pavlidis et al attempted to codify current challenges for the Digital Humanities and to identify the future research agenda [66]. Two years later, Markantonatou et al updated this list of challenges so that socially relevant topics may be included [67]. Reversing, in a way, the direction in which the challenges may be viewed, this work outlined the challenges in which the Digital Humanities can have a signifi cant social impact.…”