<!--StartFragment-->
“We can appreciate the new potential inherent in digital production for the scholars who produce such resources, but further work remains to be done on exactly how such editions or archives may transform the lives of their users.”
I once spoke to a philosophy professor who dismissed the value of digital contributions to academia by claiming that he had not seen any visible improvement in the overall quality of philosophy scholarship since digital modes had become prevalent. This raises the difficult question of how to measure impact: do you base it on huge generalizations about the quality of an entire discipline changing over time, which would be contentious and doubtlessly impossible to effectively measure? Do you turn from the excessively broad to the small scale, and focus on experiences of individual users? I’m interested to see how digital humanists approach this question.
<!--EndFragment-->