Το Παρελθόν και το Μέλλον των Ψηφιακών Ανθρωπιστικών Επιστημών.

Twenty-one years ago The Humanities Information Review Panel, which had been convened by The British Academy and the British Library, released its report “Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: British Achievements, Prospects, and Barriers” co-authored by Seamus Ross and Mary Feeney. The report charted the work that had been done in digital humanities over the previous thirty years and examined the strategic, infrastructural, and scholarly requirements needed to support the continued growth of digital humanities as mechanism for ensuring excellence and innovation in digital humanities scholarship. Taking this report as its starting point this paper examines the progress that has been made at refocusing humanities scholarship to ensure that the methodological power of digital mechanisms can be deployed to enable new kinds of innovative scholarship. It concludes indicating opportunities and theoretical needs to foster the future development of digital humanities over the next twenty-one years.