One of the drawbacks of the use of computer-based systems for the creation and the presentation of data in the humanities is the associated tendency to sterilize scholarship itself. While trying to make the data more "neutral" and "objective", the most important part of scholarship get lost, namely the nuanced discussions over the unsettled aspects of the research.
This talk - with Gioele Barabucci - will give an overview of why this sterilizing tendency exist, how it manifests in practice in the digital humanities, and what methodological and technical approaches are being develop to address it.