Ten Challenges for Digital Humanities and the Way Forward

Challenge 1: Stop Caring (So Much) to Maintain the Balance With Humanities

The first challenge is the most important one and it may take some time to materialize; however, it is worth putting it first because it deserves it, as it focuses on the balance with traditional Humanities. Do we expect Digital Humanities to come up with answers on questions posed by the ‘traditional’ Humanities? Or are the former entitled to come up with iconoclastic and novel methods that might pose new questions and challenges to issues that have been regarded as settled or answered? To a greater or lesser extent, all challenges that follow below have their origin back to this first ‘foundational’ challenge.