Scholarship in the Digital Age: Blurring the Boundaries between the Sciences and the Arts

As the digital humanities mature, their scholarship is taking on many characteristics of the
sciences, becoming more data-intensive, information-intensive, distributed, multi-disciplinary,
and collaborative. While few scholars in the humanities or arts would wish to be characterized
as emulating scientists, they do envy the comparatively rich technical and resource infrastructure
of the sciences. The interests of all scholars in the university align with respect to access to data,
library resources, and computing infrastructure. However, the scholarly interests of the sciences
and humanities diverge regarding research practices, sources of evidence, and degrees of control
over those sources. This talk will explore the common and competing interests of disciplines for
scholarship in the digital age.