A Companion to Digital Humanities

Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth

John Wiley & Sons, Dec 27, 2004 - Literary Criticism - 640 pages

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.

Contents

• The History of Humanities Computing: 3
• Computing for Archaeologists: 20
• Art History: 31
• An End of the History: 46
• Computing and the Historical Imagination: 56
• Lexicography: 69
• Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences: 79
• Literary Studies: 88
• Music: 97
• Multimedia: 108
• Performing Arts: 121
• Revolution? What Revolution? Successes and Limits: 132
• How the Computer Works: 145
• Classification and its Structures: 161
• Databases: 177
• Marking Texts of Many Dimensions: 198
• Text Encoding: 218
• Audiences and Purposes: 240
• A Study in Words and Meanings: 254
• Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies: 273
• Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora: 289
• Electronic Scholarly Editing: 306
• Textual Analysis: 323
• Thematic Research Collections: 348
• Print Scholarship and Digital Resources: 366
• Digital Media and the Analysis of Film: 383
• Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination: 397
• Multivariant Narratives: 415
• Robotic Poetics: 448
• Production Dissemination Archiving: 469
• Conversion of Primary Sources: 488
• Text Tools: 505
• Interface Aesthetics and Usability: 523
• Validating Professionalism: 543
• The Past Present and Future of Digital Libraries: 557
• Preservation: 576
• Index: 592

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Companion to Digital Humanities; Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Editors: Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2004
• ISBN: 1405103213, 9781405103213
• Length: 640 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference; Literary Criticism / General