Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Digital Humanities

The concept of a great scientific domain broadens what is normally considered to be within the purview of science while identifying four such domains - the physical, life, social and computing sciences - and suggesting that the humanities naturally fit within the sciences as part of an expanded social domain. The relational architecture that has been developed to aid in understanding disciplinary combinations across great scientific domains then guides an exploration of the structure and content of the digital humanities in terms of a space of relationships between computing and the humanities.