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Índice Histórico Español, núm. 136 (2023), ISSN: 0537-3522, e-ISSN: 2339-6989, (p.8-24)
©Jordi Pérez González, 2023-CC-BY-ND
REVISTA DE HISTORIA DE ESPAÑA | SPANISH HISTORY MAGAZINE
DOI: 10.1344/IHE2022.136.1
Tradigital Humanities:
Experiences in a context of change
Humanidades tradigitales: experiencias en un contexto de cambio
Jordi Pérez González
Universidad de Alcalá, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
jordi.perezg@uah.es
ORCID ID.: 0000-0001-5039-3883
Abstract
Assuming one of Seneca’s proverbs — while we teach, we learn — we must unders-
tand the historian’s trade as a profession in continuous renewal, nurturing ourselves
with new aspects that improve the methodology and techniques of science, while
discarding those that become obsolete. For three decades, the provision of metho-
dologies originating from other disciplines, such as computer science and Humani-
ties studies, have been converging into the discipline known as Digital Humanities.
Although these computational techniques have introduced new methods for the
identification of patterns in data and promise to accelerate the processes of analysing
the growing mass of data, they diverge from the traditional narrative and its met-
hods. In this sense, recent experiences allow us to discuss the benefits and limits of
the link between traditional methods and techniques on the one hand, and those
that are computational on the other, when preparing scientific results. us, we be-
lieve that without losing sight of the historian’s basic essence of continually immer-
sing themselves in the reading and analysis of sources, the paradigm shiſts of science
can be assumed adopting this new technique.
Now, with perspective, we look at the limits that convergence itself offers, and here
present our most recent experience to improve its performance.
Keywords: Tradigital humanities, Téchne, Ancient History, Archaeology, Rome.
Fecha de recepción: 30 de mayo de 2023
Fecha de admisión: 19 de noviembre de 2023