Introduction
This module is a short introduction to the domain of digital humanities. "Digital humanities" (or DH) is an expression, a domain which encompasses questions from the fields of literature, ancient languages, history, linguistics, or, more broadly, Human and Social Sciences (HSS). If we try and give an extremely synthetic summary of the global project of digital humanities, we can say that the latter are inscribed in a perspective that aims, thanks to digital tools, at modelling and enriching knowledge on the one hand, and, on the other hand, at transforming the transmission modalities of objects of knowledge. In doing so, in the digital era focused on contribution, exchange and sharing, the DH are vectors of key challenges for the development of the social, societal and scientific world. But they are also vectors of key challenges for civil society : in a period of economic, social and political crisis, in which populisms and anti-intellectualism are going well underway, the DH can support actions of individual and collective emancipation by proposing platforms which facilitate the access to, exchange of and sharing of knowledge to the citizens, as well as lifelong access to training – MOOCS are a possible example for this. This module aims at showing a short history of Digital Humanities, their key dates and their foundations. Good training