In the literary world, it was an accepted assumption that…

In the literary world, it was an accepted assumption that the 1970s was a time of unprecedented growth in homegrown Australian fiction. And everybody was reading and talking about books by young Australian women.

But it was 1 that a researcher was able to measure just how many novels were published in that decade, and she found that there 2 a decline in novels by Australian writers overall, but confirmed an increase in women's novels.

It is this sort of research - testing ideas about literary history - that 3 with the spread of ‘Digital Humanities.'

The intersection of Humanities and digital technologies 4 opportunities in the fields of literature, linguistics, history and language that were not possible without computational methods and digitised resources to 5 information together in an accessible way.

Transcription software is being developed for turning scans of books and documents into text, as the field of digital humanities really 6.