ABSTRACT
In 2003 Willard McCarty asked 'What is Humanities Computing? This, for the humanities, is a question not to be answered but continually to be explored and refined' (p. 1233). Since 2009 the Day of Digital Humanities project has offered the DH community a platform to explore exactly that, en masse and on a yearly basis. The project was conceived as 'a social publication project that began with reflection on what we do as we do it' (Rockwell et al., 2012). In addition to blogging about their day every year participants are invited to answer the question 'What is Digital Humanities?' The wealth of definitions that has been proposed is remarkable both in form and content: they range from the pithy to the bombastic, from the poetical to the enigmatic and from the disruptive to the expositional. In tone a symphony of moods is also conjured, which portray the digital humanities as variously revolutionary, conventional, problematic or even non-existent.
