If you build it, will we come? Large scale digital infrastructures as a dead end for digital humanities

Historical Social Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 165-186

  Van Zundert, Joris ^a  

^a Huygens Institute KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital humanities; Heuristics; Infrastructure; Innovation; Methodology; Sustainability; Tool building

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984974779     PISSN: 01726404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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