- not only texts, but also e.g. images and sounds can be archived --> relevant for accessibility
- DH means using the power of digitalisation eg power to make an unlimited amount of copies. See also Double Spending
- digital representations often provide rather abstract and meta knowledge (markups!) and don't substitute closereading
- Problem: digital representations, while widely accessible, often use english language (limits for some people)
- commonly used "digital languages" such as XML for markups can provide easyer access when they are commonly teached
- interesting: language is an autopoetic system, markup languages wich follow the priniple of "ordered hierachies of content objects are not" (allopoetic), so use and observation are divided
- I didn't totally get the concept of "weak encoding", but could imagine it is connected with accessability
- databases have changed scholarship in a drastic way: before, main problem was to even know that some sources exist
# Insights
the question: for whom are (instances of) DH is relevant for the way of encoding knowledge