A Companion to Digital Humanities

ISBN: 978-1-4051-0321-3
Materia: Varios
Autor: Schreibman, Susan
Editorial: Blackwell Publishers
Edición: 2004
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Páginas: 640
Medidas: 171 x 246 cm
Peso: 1453 gr
PVP: 192,00 €

Reseña:
A Companion to Digital Humanities provides a complete yet concise overview of this emerging discipline. The volume contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field, addressing the central concerns of all those interested in the subject. The articles are grouped into topical sections focusing on: the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to humanities research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing across applications and disciplines; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination, and archiving. The Companion is accompanied by a website that will evolve with its readership, featuring useful supplementary materials, standard readings that are publicly available, essays to be included in future editions, and other materials - visit www.ach.org/companion.

Índice:
Foreword : perspectives on the digital humanities by Roberto A. Busa.
The digital humanities and humanities computing : an introduction by Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens and John Unsworth.
1. The history of humanities computing by Susan Hockey.
2. Computing for archaeologists by Harrison Eiteljorg, II.
3. Art history by Michael Greenhalgh.
4. Classics and the computer: an end of the history by Greg Crane.
5. Computing and the historical imagination by William G. Thomas, III.
6. Lexicography by Russon Wooldridge.
7. Linguistics meets exact sciences by Jan Hajic.
8. Literary studies by Thomas Rommel.
9. Music by Ichiro Fujinaga and Susan Forscher Weiss.
10. Multimedia by Geoffrey Rockwell and Andrew Mactavish.
11. Performing arts by David Z. Saltz.
12. "Revolution? : what revolution?" : successes and limits of computing technologies in philosophy and religion by Charles Ess.
13. How the computer works by Andrea Laue.
14. Classification and its structures by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen.
15. Databases by Stephen Ramsay.
16. Marking texts of many dimensions by Jerome McGann.
17. Text encoding by Allen H. Renear.
18. Electronic texts : audiences and purposes by Perry Willett.
19. Modeling : a study in words and meanings by Willard McCarty.
20. Stylistic analysis and authorship studies by Hugh Craig.
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