Purpose

The purpose of this viewpoint paper is to reflect on both the technological and the humanities aspects of working in the digital humanities.

Design/methodology/approach

The author completed her academic career as Professor of Digital Humanities (DH) at the University of Brighton, UK. In terms of approach, she looks back over 25 years of working in this domain, which she entered as a scientist in contrast to most of the other academics at that time who came from the humanities. She delineates her academic journey that passed through various disciplines/fields.

Findings

The author reflects upon her entire career, starting with decisions made at school, to see how they have affected her contribution to DH. She concludes that a deep understanding of technological issues is fundamental to making sense of such complex fields as Big Data and its effect on humanities research in particular and society in general. She also draws attention to the loss of several highly technical, specialised and practical DH teams, which were replaced with ones whose focus is on DH discourse.

Originality/value

The author is writing as one of the very few scientists who belonged to the new area of history and computing in the mid-1990s.

中文翻译：

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电子表格的反面：数字人文科学的生活

目的

本观点论文的目的是反思数字人文学科工作中的技术和人文方面。

设计/方法/方法

作者完成了她在英国布莱顿大学的数字人文科学（DH）教授的学术生涯。在方法上，她回顾了该领域超过25年的工作，与当时来自人文学科的其他大多数学者形成鲜明对比的是，她以科学家的身份进入了这一领域。她描述了她跨各种学科/领域的学术历程。

发现

作者从在学校做出的决定开始反思她的整个职业生涯，以了解这些决定如何影响她对DH的贡献。她的结论是，对技术问题的深入理解对于理解诸如大数据之类的复杂领域及其对人文研究尤其是整个社会的影响至关重要。她还提请注意丢失了几个技术含量高，专业化和实用性强的DH团队，这些团队已被专注于DH话语的团队所取代。

创意/价值

作者是1990年代中期属于历史和计算新领域的极少数科学家之一。