Cet article se veut exploratoire en deux temps : une piste de réflexion sur l’impact du numérique sur les sciences humaines, et une lecture de l’essai Le nénuphar et l’araignée de Claire Legendre, publié le 4 février 2015 chez Les Allusifs. Notre hypothèse est qu’il est nécessaire de jeter les bases d’une théorie et d’une pensée du numérique, comme de poursuivre et de favoriser l’implémentation de nouveaux outils de recherche conçus par et pour les humanités, en lien direct avec les questions d’édition, de diffusion, d’encodage, de fouille, de curation, ou encore de visualisation et de représentation des données textuelles, sonores et visuelles. Cet article propose ainsi une première piste d’exploration de l’usage de ces nouvelles possibilités pour la littérature québécoise.

Le constat duquel part notre idée de colloque est très simple : tout le monde s’accorde à dire que la réflexion sur le numérique est une priorité, mais l’on est encore loin d’avoir une définition précise des méthodes pour développer cette dernière, des œuvres et des auteurs à considérer comme référents dans ce domaine et d’un langage qui puisse être partagé par la communauté des chercheurs et compris par le grand public. L’analyse du monde numérique doit donc être en premier lieu une réflexion sur la culture numérique et non seulement sur les outils. Pareillement, avec le changement des supports, des modalités de publication, des mécanismes de visibilité, d’accessibilité et de circulation des contenus, c’est l’ensemble de notre rapport au savoir qui se trouve remis en question. Il est nécessaire de mettre en place une recherche qui puisse avoir une fonction structurante dans le développement d’une théorie et d’une pensée du numérique mais aussi dans l’implémentation de nouveaux outils de recherche et de visualisation conçus pour les humanités. Le numérique touche désormais l’ensemble de notre vie. Nous vivons dans une société numérique et dans une culture numérique. Les transformations qui ont engendré ce monde numérique se sont produites très rapidement et n’ont pas laissé le temps de développer une réflexion structurée capable de les comprendre. Il est impératif de créer au plus vite des repères théoriques permettant de situer notre culture numérique par rapport à notre vision du monde et aux catégories conceptuelles qui ont structuré nos valeurs, nos traditions et notre imaginaire.

In his biography of Leigh Hunt, Anthony Holden asserts, “Alongside Wordsworth, who largely eschewed literary London, Hunt’s was the longest nineteenth-century literary life, with the widest circle of acquaintance and as large a claim as any to the shaping of literary opinion” (2). In my earlier monograph, Leigh Hunt and the London Literary Scene, I illustrated the kinds of change that Hunt’s reputation went through over a 30-year timespan. That study attempted to elaborate the problematic of his position within the London literary and political scene between the years 1805 and 1828, the contributions he made to British literature and journalism, and his public standing at the end of the romantic period. Since Hunt’s life is obviously too complex to be rendered fully in any single study, the idea was not to attempt an exhaustive history, but rather to present a starting point for further inquiry into Hunt’s career as a writer and public figure under the reign of Queen Victoria.

L'apparition du numérique a entraîné ces dernières années une transformation profonde des modèles de production et de circulation des livres, qui ont peu changé depuis le XVIIIe siècle.

Parallelement a l'histoire du developpement d'Internet et du web, une autre histoire est fondamentale pour comprendre les enjeux de l'edition numerique : celle des humanites numeriques. Il y a encore quelques decennies, on pouvait penser que les ordinateurs et les technologies numeriques etaient destines uniquement aux sciences dures, les sciences exactes dont le calcul et les mathematiques sont les principaux outils. Cette idee est manifestement fausse aujourd'hui : le numerique habite l'ensemble de nos (...)

The digital humanities community lost a good friend and colleague with the death of Chuck Bush, long-time Treasurer of the Association for Computers and Humanities and an unfailingly warm presence at the annual digital humanities conference which he attended with his wife, Junola. Chuck was trained as a linguist and worked at Brigham Young University as a Senior Research Consultant in the Humanities Technology and Research Support Center, where he often explored his interests in both print and electronic publishing. He was one of the early advocates for Humanities Computing education, as he both administered and taught in the Computers and the Humanities Program. Humanities faculty at BYU will remember Chuck for his kind and dedicated assistance with arcane computer issues, as well as for his enthusiasm and unfailingly pleasant manner. Chuck served for more than 20 years on the ACH Executive Council, and for those of us who worked closely with him during that time he was a constant source of calm good sense, humor, and organizational memory. An absolutely trustworthy steward for the ACH during its slowly rising fortunes, Chuck played a crucial role in managing the ACH’s alliance with ADHO in 2005–06 and in helping the organization through a challenging transitional time. He could be counted on to suggest a helpful compromise, clarify a tricky point, or bring a discussion down to earth—he was never rattled or partisan.

Chair: Ray Siemens Presenters (4-5 minute presentations):-Michael Eberle-Sinatra, " Understanding Academic Capacity: A Charge from our Funding Agency "-Lynne Siemens, " Developing Academic Capacity in Digital Humanities: Thoughts from the Canadian Community and Beyond "-Ray Siemens, " DH Training Capacity: Established Curriculum, Institutes, Camps, and Beyond "-Stéfan Sinclair, " Building from the Ground up: Training Digital Humanities Scholars as Developers "-Susan Brown, " Hidden Capacity (in DH-impacted disciplines) "-Meagan Timney, " Transitions: Emerging in the Field "-Geoffrey Rockwell, " Cyberinfrastructure for Research in the Humanities: Expectations and Capacity " Panel Description: In a recent report from omplete%20Report.pdf) humanities computing was identified as an " emerging field " with " significant strength, " alongside several other science-oriented " transdisciplinary fields … for which future prospects are seen to be more significant than currently established strength. " Concomitant discussions with our chief research funding agency, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), yielded a need to understand, better, the 'capacity' of this community in Canada and beyond, in part to gauge the potential future impact of our interdiscipline which, itself, has been generously supported for a decade with dedicated programs such as SSHRC's Image, Text, Sound Technology program and research infrastructural programs such as the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Manifest in a report commissioned by SSHRC, our panel discusses the results of and reactions to the activity of attempting to understand our field's capacity, both within the national context that spawned the study and the borderless environment occupied by the field. The panel consists of several very short presentations, followed by discussion. Michael Eberle-Sinatra's presentation will discuss specific aspects of the report itself, among them the field's history of interrelationship with supporting programs, societies, and initiatives; how the field presents itself to, and intersects with, the larger humanities community; the field's notable successes, notable contributions, and chief projects; and what is anticipated to be needed next to enable excellent and timely research across the humanities, from the perspective of the field – all through the lens of the fields enabling possibilities via methods, tools and cyberinfrastructure. Lynne Siemens will juxtapose the growing acceptance of digital humanities research and teaching methods, technologies and resources with a series of challenges that still face scholars,