eResearch doesn't only happen in the sciences. It is burgeoning
in the humanities as well - with giant digitisation and transcription projects,
data mining and visualisations now part of the eHumanities landscape.
The Internet is generally seen as the starting point for networked
information, but scientific and scholarly networks have been in place for
centuries.
The traditional view of humanities scholars is of the
patient worker toiling away alone in archives or on manuscripts. Has the growth
and spread of digital humanities challenged that view?
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