ABSTRACT
Humanists, no less than scientists, have begun thinking about increasingly large datasets in recent years. The National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Museums and Library Services, and funding agencies in other countries, has issued calls for interdisciplinary teams to begin Digging into Data. At rst glance, this seems a curious call to scholars accustomed to deep readings of literary and historical texts. Yet in recent years, humanists-often under the banner of digital history or digital humanities-have begun to nd, produce, and organize large bodies of information, carefully managed agglomerations of the texts they have been accustomed to treat individually.
