Honestly, perhaps the most-cited thing I’ve ever published is a chapter in Debates in the Digital Humanities, in which I quoted an old ProfHacker blog post, in which I offered a provisional definition of DH. The blog post is now 16 years old — old enough to drive! — but it’s a definition I’d mostly stand by today:

“a nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities, or, as is more true of my own work, who ask traditional kinds of humanities-oriented questions about computing technologies.”

The only part I’d retreat from is the “as is more true of my own work,” as I haven’t been doing the kind of writing of late in which I interrogate computing technologies. If anything, I’ve been doing a third kind of work: building a platform on which the widest possible range of researchers can do their own work digitally. Knowledge Commons is in many ways the key project of my career, not least in its capacity for helping others collaborate, communicate, share, and preserve their work — openly, without regard for institutional affiliation, title, geographic location, or ability to pay. We are community governed, values enacted, shared infrastructure for the future of scholarship, and those commitments are for me where the ethical heart of the digital humanities lies.