# Digital Scholarship ### **What is Digital Scholarship?** **Digital scholarship (DS)** is the critical use of digital methods and tools in conducting research, presenting scholarship, and teaching. **Digital humanities (DH)** falls under the umbrella of DS and incorporates humanities specific practices and methodologies. ### Why Digital Scholarship? DS is a way in which faculty, librarians, and students engage with new areas of scholarship and engage with traditional scholarship in innovative ways. ### --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://bcds.gitbook.io/handbook/digital-scholarship-methods.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.