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.
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.
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"A Companion to Digital Humanities stands on its own as a post-Revolution snapshot. It shows what happened immediately after computing became both practical, necessary and omnipresent in the Humanities... Let there be another volume like this to document the next five years." (Classical Journal Online, May 2009) "Offers the best general introduction to this amorphous field." (Literary Research Guide)
Notes on Contributors. Foreword: Roberto Busa. Introduction: Susan
Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth. Part I: History:.
1. The History
of Humanities Computing: Susan Hockey (University College London).
2.
Archaeology: Nick Eiteljorg.
3. Art History: Michael Greenhalgh (Australian
National University).
4. Classics: Greg Crane.
5. History: Will Thomas
(University of Virginia).
6. Lexicography: Russ Wooldridge (University of
Toronto).
7. Linguistics: Jan Hajic (Charles University).
8. Literary
Studies: Thomas Rommel (International University Bremen).
9. Music: Ichiro
Fujinaga (McGill University) & Susan Weiss (Johns Hopkins University).
10.
New Media: Geoff Rockwell (McMaster University) and Andrew Mactavish
(McMaster University).
11. Performing Arts: David Saltz, UGA.
12. Philosophy
and Religion: Charles Ess (Drury University). Part II: Principles:.
13. How
Computers Work: Andrea Laue (University of Virginia).
14. Classification and
its structures: Michael Sperberg McQueen.
15. Databases: Steve Ramsay
(University of Georgia).
16. What is Already Encoded by the Text: Jerry
McGann (University of Virginia).
17. Text Encoding: Allen Renear.
18.
Perspectives and Communities: Perry Willett (Indiana University).
19. Models:
Willard McCarty (King's College London). Part III: Applications:.
20.
Analysis and Authorship Studies: Hugh Craig (University of Newcastle, NSW).
21. Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora: Nancy Ide (Vassar
College).
22. Electronic Scholarly Editing: Martha Nell Smith (Maryland
Institute for Technology in the Humanities).
23. Textual Analysis: John
Burrows.
24. Thematic Research Collections: Carole Palmer (University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
25. Print Scholarship and Digital Resources:
Claire Warwick (University College London).
26. Digital Media and the
Analysis of Film: Bob Kolker.
27. Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary
Imagination: Ian Lancashire (University of Toronto).
28. Multivariant
Narratives: Marie-Laure Ryan.
29. Speculative Computing: Aesthetic
Provocations in Humanities Computing: Johanna Drucker (University of
Virginia) & Bethany Nowviskie (University of Virginia).
30. Robotic Poetics:
Bill Winder (University of British Columbia). Part IV: Production,
Dissemination, Archiving:.
31. Project Design: Daniel Pitti (University of
Virginia).
32. Conversion of Primary Sources: Marilyn Deegan (Oxford
University) & Simon Tanner (Kings College London).
33. Text Tools: John
Bradley (Kings College London).
34. Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability:
Matt Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland, College Park).
35. Electronic
Publishing: Michael Jensen.
36. Digital Libraries in the Humanities: Howard
Besser (New York University).
37. Preservation: Abby Smith. Index
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.
