A Companion to Digital Humanities
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-6806-9 (ISBN)
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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 readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion.
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.
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 Hajič
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.2.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
| Verlagsort | Hoboken |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 173 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 1107 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4051-6806-4 / 1405168064 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4051-6806-9 / 9781405168069 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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