Burdick et al. presents digital humanities as collaborative and interdisciplinary modes of scholarship best suited to our current age of digitally-based (as opposed to paper-based) knowledge dissemination. These are methods and tools that can augment and influence our ways of doing research, building archives, and presenting results. The short guide presents digital humanities as a promising, powerful, boundary-crossing field but does not suggest ways of thinking about projects that might benefit from a digital humanities approach, and how, beyond the question of funding, a small, simple, individual project might be developed into a large, complex, collaborative one.