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A companion to digital humanities / edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (642 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
- Summary:
- This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing. Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field. Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject. Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving. Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard re
- Contents:
- A COMPANION TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities; The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction; PART I History; 1 The History of Humanities Computing; 2 Computing for Archaeologists; 3 Art History; 4 Classics and the Computer: An End of the History; 4 Computing and the Historical Imagination; 6 Lexicography; 7 Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences; 8 Literary Studies; 9 Music; 10 Multimedia; 11 Performing Arts
- 12 ''Revolution? What Revolution?'' Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and ReligionPART II Principles; 13 How the Computer Works; 14 Classification and its Structures; 15 Databases; 16 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions; 17 Text Encoding; 18 Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes; 19 Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings; PART III Applications; 20 Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies; 21 Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora; 22 Electronic Scholarly Editing; 23 Textual Analysis; 24 Thematic Research Collections
- 25 Print Scholarship and Digital Resources26 Digital Media and the Analysis of Film; 27 Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination; 28 Multivariant Narratives; 29 Speculative Computing: Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing; 30 Robotic Poetics; PART IV Production, Dissemination, Archiving; 31 Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications; 32 Conversion of Primary Sources; 33 Text Tools; 34 ''So the Colors Cover the Wires'': Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability; 35 Intermediation and its Malcontents: Validating Professionalism in the Age of Raw Dissemination
- 36 The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries37 Preservation; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1405103213
- 9781405103213
- 9780470999868
- 0470999861
- OCLC:
- 437213909
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