The Virtual Representation of the Past

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ISBN: 9780754672883 | 0754672883
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/28/2008

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This unique book critically evaluates the virtual representation of the past through digital media. A distinguished group of leading experts in the field approach digital research in history and archaeology from a variety viewpoints, including philosophi

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Introduction
The Virtual Representation of Text
The imaging of historical documents
Virtual restoration and manuscript archaeology
Representations of sources and data: working with exceptions to hierarchy in historical documents
Virtual Histories and Pre-Histories: Finding Meanings
Finding needles in haystacks: data-mining in distributed historical datasets
Digital searching and the re-formulation of historical knowledge
Using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software in collaborative historical research
Stepping back from the trench edge: an archaeological perspective on the development of standards for recording and publication
The Virtual Representation of Place and Time
Which? What? When? On the virtual representation of time
In the kingdom of the blind: visualization and e-science in archaeology, the arts and humanities
Using geographical information systems to explore space and time in the humanities
Spatial technologies in archaeology in the 21st century
The Virtual Representation of Historical Objects and Events
Digital atrefacts: possibilities and purpose
'Oh, to make boards to speak! There's a task!' Towards a poetics of paradata
Electronic corpora of artefacts: the example of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
Conclusion: virtual representation of the past: new research methods, tools and communities of practice
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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