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A companion to digital humanities / edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth.
LIBRA AZ105 .C588 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 26.
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital humanities.
- Humanities--Research--Data processing.
- Humanities.
- Information storage and retrieval systems--Humanities.
- Information storage and retrieval systems.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 611 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., [2004]
- Summary:
- A Companion to Digital Humanities provides a complete yet concise overview of this emerging discipline. The volume contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field, addressing the central concerns of those interested in the subject. The articles are grouped into topical sections focusing on: the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to humanities research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing across applications and disciplines; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination, and archiving.
- The Companion is accompanied by a website that will evolve with its readership, featuring useful supplementary materials, standard readings that are publicly available, essays to be included in future editions, and other materials - visit www.ach.org/companion.
- Contents:
- Foreword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities / Roberto A. Busa xvi
- The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction / Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth xxiii
- Part I History
- 1 The History of Humanities Computing / Susan Hockey 3
- 2 Computing for Archaeologists / Harrison Eiteljorg, II 20
- 3 Art History / Michael Greenhalgh 31
- 4 Classics and the Computer: An End of the History / Greg Crane 46
- 5 Computing and the Historical Imagination / William G. Thomas, III 56
- 6 Lexicography / Russon Wooldridge 69
- 7 Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences / Jan Hajic 79
- 8 Literary Studies / Thomas Rommel 88
- 9 Music / Ichiro Fujinaga, Susan Forscher Weiss 97
- 10 Multimedia / Geoffrey Rockwell, Andrew Mactavish 108
- 11 Performing Arts / David Z. Saltz 121
- 12 "Revolution? What Revolution?" Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion / Charles Ess 132
- 13 How the Computer Works / Andrea Laue 145
- 14 Classification and its Structures / C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 161
- 15 Databases / Stephen Ramsay 177
- 16 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions / Jerome McGann 198
- 17 Text Encoding / Allen H. Renear 218
- 18 Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes / Perry Willett 240
- 19 Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings / Willard McCarty 254
- Part III Applications
- 20 Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies / Hugh Craig 273
- 21 Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora / Nancy Ide 289
- 22 Electronic Scholarly Editing / Martha Nell Smith 306
- 23 Textual Analysis / John Burrows 323
- 24 Thematic Research Collections / Carole L. Palmer 348
- 25 Print Scholarship and Digital Resources / Claire Warwick 366
- 26 Digital Media and the Analysis of Film / Robert Kolker 383
- 27 Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination / Ian Lancashire 397
- 28 Multivariant Narratives / Marie-Laure Ryan 415
- 29 Speculative Computing: Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing / Johanna Drucker, Bethany Nowviskie 431
- 30 Robotic Poetics / William Winder 448
- Part IV Production, Dissemination, Archiving
- 31 Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications / Daniel V. Pitti 471
- 32 Conversion of Primary Sources / Marilyn Deegan, Simon Tanner 488
- 33 Text Tools / John Bradley 505
- 34 "So the Colors Cover the Wires": Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 523
- 35 Intermediation and its Malcontents: Validating Professionalism in the Age of Raw Dissemination / Michael Jensen 543
- 36 The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries / Howard Besser 557
- 37 Preservation / Abby Smith 576.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1405103213
- OCLC:
- 54500326
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