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Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

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4.4 Session summary

In this session you have learned what born-digital data is, how it differs from digitised data, where you might encounter it in your research, and some of the challenges it poses humanities researchers.

You should now complete a short quiz to check what you’ve learned in this session. Open the quiz in a new tab or window and come back here when you’ve finished.

Week 1, Session 4 quiz [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

In the next session (in Week 2), you will learn how humanities researchers can use digital methods to work with large quantities of data.