Methods refer to the computational methods used by artist and humanists. Computational methods are defined as the following:
- The term 'method' broadly denotes all the techniques and tools that are used to gain new knowledge in the various academic fields which constitute the arts and humanities.
- A method is a computational one if it is either based on ICT (i.e. database technology), or critically dependent on it (i.e. statistical analysis).
- As the initial version of the database focuses on projects involved in the creation of digital resources, the taxonomy focuses on computational methods used for the creation, analysis and dissemination of such resources.
The Taxonomy was originally created by the AHDS and development is now be taking forward through a community, led by arts-humanities.net.