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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Susan Schreibman is Assistant Director of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, a faculty member of the University of Maryland Libraries, and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of English. Her recent publications include Computer-Mediated Discourse: Reception Theory and Versioning and ongoing work on the Thomas MacGreevy Archive. Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria. Formerly he was Professor of English at Malaspina University-College and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. Founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, he is also editor of several Renaissance texts and coeditor of several collections on humanities computing topics. John Unsworth is Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is founding coeditor of Postmodern Culture, an e-journal, and founding Director of the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
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Notes on Contributors viii Foreword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities xvi Roberto A. Busa The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction xxiii Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth PART I History 1 The History of Humanities Computing 3 Susan Hockey 2 Computing for Archaeologists 20 Harrison Eiteljorg, II 3 Art History 31 Michael Greenhalgh 4 Classics and the Computer: An End of the History 46 Greg Crane 5 Computing and the Historical Imagination 56 William G. Thomas, III 6 Lexicography 69 Russon Wooldridge 7 Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences 79 Jan Hajic¡ 8 Literary Studies 88 Thomas Rommel 9 Music 97 Ichiro Fujinaga and Susan Forscher Weiss 10 Multimedia 108 Geoffrey Rockwell and Andrew Mactavish 11 Performing Arts 121 David Z. Saltz 12 ''Revolution? What Revolution?'' Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion 132 Charles Ess PART II Principles 13 How the Computer Works 145 Andrea Laue 14 Classification and its Structures 161 C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 15 Databases 177 Stephen Ramsay 16 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions 198 Jerome McGann 17 Text Encoding 218 Allen H. Renear 18 Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes 240 Perry Willett 19 Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings 254 Willard McCarty PART III Applications 20 Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies 273 Hugh Craig 21 Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora 289 Nancy Ide 22 Electronic Scholarly Editing 306 Martha Nell Smith 23 Textual Analysis 323 John Burrows 24 Thematic Research Collections 348 Carole L. Palmer 25 Print Scholarship and Digital Resources 366 Claire Warwick 26 Digital Media and the Analysis of Film 383 Robert Kolker 27 Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination 397 Ian Lancashire 28 Multivariant Narratives 415 Marie-Laure Ryan 29 Speculative Computing: Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing 431 Johanna Drucker (and Bethany Nowviskie) 30 Robotic Poetics 448 William Winder PART IV Production, Dissemination, Archiving 31 Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications 471 Daniel V. Pitti 32 Conversion of Primary Sources 488 Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner 33 Text Tools 505 John Bradley 34 ''So the Colors Cover the Wires'': Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability 523 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 35 Intermediation and its Malcontents: Validating Professionalism in the Age of Raw Dissemination 543 Michael Jensen 36 The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries 557 Howard Besser 37 Preservation 576 Abby Smith Index 592
Notes on Contributors viii Foreword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities xvi Roberto A. Busa The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction xxiii Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth PART I History 1 The History of Humanities Computing 3 Susan Hockey 2 Computing for Archaeologists 20 Harrison Eiteljorg, II 3 Art History 31 Michael Greenhalgh 4 Classics and the Computer: An End of the History 46 Greg Crane 5 Computing and the Historical Imagination 56 William G. Thomas, III 6 Lexicography 69 Russon Wooldridge 7 Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences 79 Jan Hajic¡ 8 Literary Studies 88 Thomas Rommel 9 Music 97 Ichiro Fujinaga and Susan Forscher Weiss 10 Multimedia 108 Geoffrey Rockwell and Andrew Mactavish 11 Performing Arts 121 David Z. Saltz 12 ''Revolution? What Revolution?'' Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion 132 Charles Ess PART II Principles 13 How the Computer Works 145 Andrea Laue 14 Classification and its Structures 161 C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 15 Databases 177 Stephen Ramsay 16 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions 198 Jerome McGann 17 Text Encoding 218 Allen H. Renear 18 Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes 240 Perry Willett 19 Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings 254 Willard McCarty PART III Applications 20 Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies 273 Hugh Craig 21 Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora 289 Nancy Ide 22 Electronic Scholarly Editing 306 Martha Nell Smith 23 Textual Analysis 323 John Burrows 24 Thematic Research Collections 348 Carole L. Palmer 25 Print Scholarship and Digital Resources 366 Claire Warwick 26 Digital Media and the Analysis of Film 383 Robert Kolker 27 Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination 397 Ian Lancashire 28 Multivariant Narratives 415 Marie-Laure Ryan 29 Speculative Computing: Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing 431 Johanna Drucker (and Bethany Nowviskie) 30 Robotic Poetics 448 William Winder PART IV Production, Dissemination, Archiving 31 Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications 471 Daniel V. Pitti 32 Conversion of Primary Sources 488 Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner 33 Text Tools 505 John Bradley 34 ''So the Colors Cover the Wires'': Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability 523 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 35 Intermediation and its Malcontents: Validating Professionalism in the Age of Raw Dissemination 543 Michael Jensen 36 The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries 557 Howard Besser 37 Preservation 576 Abby Smith Index 592
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"A Companion to Digital Humanities stands on its own as apost-Revolution snapshot. It shows what happened immediately aftercomputing became both practical, necessary and omnipresent in theHumanities.... Let there be another volume like this to documentthe next five years." (Classical Journal Online, May 2009)
"Offers the best general introduction to this amorphousfield." (Literary Research Guide)
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