The importance of the humanities is not a question of personal values, of tradition; it is a matter of producing knowledge of another kind, in order to understand the world in a different way.
In Digital_Humanities (2012), the authors underline the continuity between digital humanities and its classical counterpart; only, the mutations happening in the contemporary world offer an opportunity to make the field evolve.
No matter how imperiled by vocationalism, cost-cutting administrators, or the self-inflicted wounds of internecine battles, the humanities must survive because they embody distinctive modes of producing knowledge and distinctive models of knowledge itself.
Producing new modes of knowledge in the computational era: such is the ambition of the digital humanities.