Digital humanities : history and development / Olivier Le Deuff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le Deuff, Olivier, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Information systems, web and pervasive computing series. Intellectual technologies set ; volume 4.

Information systems, web and pervasive computing series. Intellectual technologies set ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information storage and retrieval systems--Architecture.

History.

Digital humanities.

Digital humanities--History.

Information storage and retrieval systems--Architecture--History.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 149 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : ISTE Ltd ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Republics of Letters: the Need to Communicate and Exchange p. 1

1.1 Republic of Letters p. 2

1.2 The role of journals and the beginning of scientific information p. 6

Chapter 2 The Science of Writings and Documentation p. 13

2.1 The importance of media and technology p. 15

2.2 A science of writing? p. 16

2.3 From bibliotheconomy to bibliology p. 18

2.4 Between documentation and documentality p. 19

Chapter 3 From Lists to Tables, the Question of Indexing p. 23

3.1 In the beginning was the index p. 24

3.2 The need to handle information p. 28

3.3 Index and hypertext p. 29

3.4 Indexing as a design p. 30

3.5 Indexing knowledge versus indexing existences p. 33

Chapter 4 The Need to Find Information p. 37

4.1 Information overabundance p. 37

4.2 The review process p. 40

4.3 Retrieving information p. 41

4.4 Between editorialization and information architecture p. 43

Chapter 5 The Researcher's Workstation and the History of Hypertexts p. 47

5.1 A hypertextual history p. 49

5.2 Paul Otlet and proto-digital humanities p. 53

5.3 The success of the Web p. 59

Chapter 6 The Quantitative Leap: Social Sciences and Statistics p. 65

6.1 Statistical reasoning p. 65

6.2 A dispute over methods? p. 70

6.3 François Furet and history p. 72

6.4 Between totalitarian science and the end of science p. 75

6.5 Digital literacy or overcoming opposition p. 78

Chapter 7 Automatic Processing: Concordances, Occurrences and Other Interpretation and Visualization Matrices p. 81

7.1 Ostranenie p. 81

7.2 Concordances p. 83

7.3 Corpus creation p. 88

7.4 The word association method p. 90

Chapter 8 Metadata Systems p. 93

8.1 Cataloging p. 94

8.2 Markup language p. 96

8.3 Folksonomies and the path of open digital humanities p. 98

8.4 The Web of data, from tree to graph p. 99

Chapter 9 The New Metrics: From Scientometrics to Webometrics p. 101

9.1 Bibliometrics and scientometrics p. 101

9.2 The reduction of science p. 103

9.3 The statistical expression of science p. 105

9.4 Nalimov's works p. 106

9.5 Scientometrics and traditional tools p. 108

Chapter 10 The Map: More than the Territory p. 113

10.1 Cybergeography - a forerunner of digital studies? p. 114

10.2 The map is not (only) the territory p. 117

10.3 Social networks and sociometry p. 118

10.4 A cartographic esthetic p. 120

10.5 Modeling and schematics p. 122.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-145) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781786300164

1786300168

OCLC:

960238412