A Companion to Digital Humanities (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1405103213 ISBN 13: 9781405103213

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1405103213
• ISBN 13: 9781405103213
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 640
• Herausgeber: Schreibman Susan, Siemens Ray, Unsworth John
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