The document discusses the relationship between digital humanities and traditional humanities research. It notes that digital humanities both employs technology to advance humanistic research goals and subjects technology to humanistic analysis. It also lists factors like changes in research priorities, policies, funding, and legislation that could influence the future development of digital humanities. These include priorities around creative industries, open access, data rights, and addressing issues of the Anthropocene era. The document also lists some specific areas of digital humanities work like digital history, computational cultures, and automated literature.