A Companion to Digital Humanities

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	p. viii
Foreword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities	p. xvi
The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction	p. xxiii
History
The History of Humanities Computing	p. 3
Computing for Archaeologists	p. 20
Art History	p. 31
Classics and the Computer: An End of the History	p. 46
Computing and the Historical Imagination	p. 56
Lexicography	p. 69
Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences	p. 79
Literary Studies	p. 88
Music	p. 97
Multimedia	p. 108
Performing Arts	p. 121
"Revolution? What Revolution?" Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion	p. 132
Principles
How the Computer Works	p. 145
Classification and its Structures	p. 161
Databases	p. 177
Marking Texts of Many Dimensions	p. 198
Text Encoding	p. 218
Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes	p. 240
Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings	p. 254
Applications
Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies	p. 273
Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora	p. 289
Electronic Scholarly Editing	p. 306
Textual Analysis	p. 323
Thematic Research Collections	p. 348
Print Scholarship and Digital Resources	p. 366
Digital Media and the Analysis of Film	p. 383
Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination	p. 397
Multivariant Narratives	p. 415
Speculative Computing: Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing	p. 431
Robotic Poetics	p. 448
Production, Dissemination, Archiving
Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications	p. 471
Conversion of Primary Sources	p. 488
Text Tools	p. 505
"So the Colors Cover the Wires": Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability	p. 523
Intermediation and its Malcontents: Validating Professionalism in the Age of Raw Dissemination	p. 543
The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries	p. 557
Preservation	p. 576
Index	p. 592
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