ABSTRACT
One of the remarkable things about the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) at King's College London (KCL) is the degree to which technical development work is recognized both as an important element in what DDH does, and as a contribution to scholarly practice. Among centres for the digital humanities, DDH uniquely fosters an environment within which academics and technical specialists collaborate and which is a source of empowerment for both. DDH has been involved in about 40 projects funded by a range of funders including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy, the Mellon Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. Database technology has, undeservedly, often received bad press from the digital humanities community. However, the relational model provides an extraordinarily powerful way to represent aspects of objects of study on the computer, and express and exploit relationships between them. Thus, McCarty and Short's thinking about humanities, computing/digital humanities draws on a strong sense of its interdisciplinary nature.
