Humanities & Social Sciences 7 (2016 9) 1637-1650 ~ ~ ~ УДК 009:004.9 A Decade in Digital Humanities Melissa Terras* University College London London, UK Received 15.02.2016, received in revised form 07.05.2016, accepted 09.06.2016 The paper reviews the meaning and development of digital humanities giving the ex-amples of work published in various DH areas. <...> Keywords: digital humanities, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Innovation Curve. <...> I decided to call my paper “A Decade in Digital Humanities” for three reasons: 1. <...> The term Digital Humanities has been commonly used to describe the application of computational methods in the arts and humanities for 10 years, since the publication, in 2004, of the Companion to Digital Humanities1 paper gives me a rare chance to pause and look behind me to see what the body of work built up over this time represents. 3. <...> You’ll have to wait for later in the paper to . “Digital Humanities” was quickly picked up by the academic community as a catch-all, big tent2 name for a range of activities in computing, the arts, and culture. <...> A decade on from the publication of this seminal text, I thought it would be useful to reflect on the growth, spread, and changes that had occurred in our discipline, and my place within them. 2. <...> I joined UCL in August 2003, my first academic post after obtaining my doctorate, and since then have worked my way up the ranks from probationary lecturer, to senior lecturer, to reader, and now full professor. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: m.terras@ucl.ac.uk – 1637 – see the third reason. <...> This paper is also related to the week of UCL Festival of the Arts, celebrating all things to do with the Arts and Humanities at my home institution, which gives us an opportunity to look back to first principles. <...> In UCLDH and 4Humanities’ award winning infographic “The Humanities Matter” we defined the humanities as “academic disciplines that seek to understand and interpret the human experience, from individuals to entire cultures, engaging in the discovery, preservation, and communication of the past and present record to enable a deeper understanding of contemporary society.”4 It stands to reason, then, that the Digital Humanities are computational Melissa Terras. <...> But it may be <...>