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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462214003321

Titolo

A companion to digital humanities / / edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Massachusetts, : Blackwell Publishing, 2004

Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishing, , ©2004

ISBN

1405103213

9781405103213

9780470999868

0470999861

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (642 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture ; ; 26

Soggetti

Digital humanities - Research - Data processing

Humanities

Information storage and retrieval systems

Humanidades

Proceso de datos

Bases de datos

Recuperación de la información

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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