Throughout the history of humanity, knowledge has been generated in various presentations, we have from cave paintings to “Der Kuss” by Gustav Klimt, Gregorian or medieval music to music created by Michael Jackson, writings such as “Don Quixote of La Mancha” with all its importance in the field of literature to books of magical realism such as those by Gabriel García Márquez; Not only that, from ancient theater we have been able to evolve it into cinema with films like “Le Voyage dans la Lune” or the beautiful technicolor film “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939.
Thousands of stories, large amounts of souls and knowledge that have allowed us the exponential development that we present as a society today. All this arises from the humanities, I believe that the best way to explain the humanities is by saying that they are the expressions of the soul of thousands of human beings that continue to generate ways of telling a story, teaching us a lesson and even giving us a brief consolation to the loneliness that as a race we inevitably tend to feel.
At some point I believed that the DH are just the extension of the humanities. My first approach to something similar was with Microsoft Encarta many years ago. But not only that makes up the DH, being in this master’s degree I have been able to learn to analyze different literary sources using technological means, as well as to understand their contextual functioning and their interpretation correctly.
Thanks to the various professors invited to give us presentations, I have been impressed by the way in which, with the use of technology, it is possible to rescue texts that were believed to be impossible to decipher. The creativity involved in working with DH tools never ceases to impress me, since it is not only digitizing texts or sharing information, it is transcription, analysis, visualization, creation, localization, exploration and of course, research.
Sharon Hassive Guerra Álvarez
