The Challenge of the Humanities to the World Wide Web: Perspectives from the Archimedes Project
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چکیده
It cannot be denied that the development of information technology poses a profound challenge to traditional scholarship in the humanities. The rapid development of computer technology and of the World Wide Web has opened up immense new opportunities for scholars working in historical disciplines. These opportunities also challenge the traditional ways in which scholarship has been practiced. Yet the challenges presented by humanistic scholarship to information technology and to the World Wide Web are perhaps even greater. In Part One of our paper, we briefly describe four fundamental limitations of the World Wide Web in its current form as a medium of scholarship in the humanities:
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