The thematic focus of this issue is to examine what happens where software and scholarship meet, with particular reference to digital work in the humanities. Despite the some seven decades of its existence, Digital Humanities continues to struggle with the implications, in the academic ecosystem, of its position between engineering and art. The parallel drawn here between software and engineering on the one hand will be less controversial than the one between scholarship and art on the other — to what extent should these really be cast as parallel? Mathematicians are scholars, and physicists; so too are philosophers, theologians, biologists, and historians. Each of these fields tends to evoke a very different perception of the balance between logic and intuition, however; some are perceived as pursuing a form of unambiguous truth within the systems they inhabit, others as pursuing a more pluralistic understanding. Although the lines between disciplines are so often more arbitrary than real, and it is difficult to draw a firm distinction that will satisfy both the mathematicians and the philosophers, the label of ‘scholar’ seems to be something that scientists are keen to avoid.1

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“软件和奖学金”——社论

本期的主题重点是研究在软件和学术相遇的地方会发生什么，特别是人文学科的数字工作。尽管它已经存在了大约七年，但数字人文学科仍在努力应对其在学术生态系统中工程与艺术之间的地位的影响。一方面，软件和工程之间的平行线与另一方面的学术和艺术之间的平行线相比，争议要小——它们究竟应该在多大程度上被视为平行线？数学家是学者，也是物理学家；哲学家、神学家、生物学家和历史学家也是如此。然而，这些领域中的每一个都倾向于唤起对逻辑和直觉之间平衡的截然不同的看法。有些人被认为在他们所居住的系统中追求一种明确的真理形式，另一些人则追求更多元化的理解。尽管学科之间的界限往往比实际更随意，而且很难划出一个让数学家和哲学家都满意的明确区分，但“学者”的标签似乎是科学家们极力避免的东西。 1