What is Digital Humanities' identity in interdisciplinary practices?: An experiment with digital tools for visualizing the francophone DH network

Abstract

Concerning DH, interdisciplinarity carries notions as frontiers, overlapping parts of scientific fields, boundaries in historical perspectives. How should one define interdisciplinary means of working in DH? What kind of interdisciplinarity is DH about? And what disciplinary foundations should apply to it? We will first propose an overview of various definitions from the francophone DH field before presenting the Actor Network Theory. We will then introduce the digital tools and methodology developed to study the DH network in a general way. Each student conducted a micro-study with a different corpus. They are briefly exposed and their results follow. Lastly we synthetize some elements to discuss based on these studies and we draw a few perspectives to pursue this research.