ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of disciplines when undertaking innovative cross-disciplinary research, and the resulting practical, theoretical, professional and personal issues that can come into play, which can affect the outcomes of advanced digital humanities projects. It outlines the effects, benefits and problems of interdisciplinary research for the digital humanist. The aim of this current research is to develop protocols which will allow the multi-spectral imaging of documentary materials in a controlled, benchmarkable environment, developing a suite of tools which will allow those wishing to undertake such analysis to do so with confidence and ease. As representative of the type of project that a digital humanist might work on, the two projects detailed above also hint at various issues that can emerge from working in such an interdisciplinary environment. Much of the work described as interdisciplinary digital humanities, involving input from computing science, engineering science and humanities scholars, is novel, even quirky, research.
