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Desmond Schmidt Probably Makes the First Use of the Term "Digital Humanities"

1995

An online discussion in the Humanist Discussion Group on March 19, 2015 elicited this response from Desmond Schmidt:

"Subject: Re:  28.827 "digital humanities": first occurrence.

"Collating all the responses this appears to be the earliest unambiguous reference that can be retrieved online, in the Stanford Bulletin 1995, p.432:

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=X34lAQAAIAAJ&q=%22digital+humanities%22&dq=%22digital+humanities%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NQsKVau5EcHr8AXO9ILgBQ&ved=0CBsQ6AEwADhG

"Digital Humanities practicum--for humanities majors concentrating in digital humanities." But the other references show that it was not until 2000/2001 that the term 'digital humanities' started to take off."

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