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Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus-a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities-and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the Humanities.
List of contents
Introduction; Chapter 1: On the histories of a history: the historical labour models of the Index Thomisticus (with contributions from Melissa Terras); Chapter 2: Hidden tasks, Hidden workers: keypunching the Index Thomisticus; Chapter 3: Situating the Index Thomisticus: views from the inside; Chapter 4. On the need for a "willingness to acknowledge mistakes" constructing the role of the keypunch operator; Chapter 5. On the making of the myth of the lone scholar: digital humanities as aetiology; Chapter 6. Conclusion: On the necessity of recovering the contributions of overlooked and lesser-known individuals to the history of computing in the Humanities
About the author
Julianne Nyhan is Professor of Humanities Data Science and Methodology at the Institut für Geschichte, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and Professor of Digital Humanities at UCL, UK. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she was formerly the Deputy- and Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (2018-2021) and Director of UCL’s MA/MSc in Digital Humanities (2017-2021). Her primary research interest is in the history of digital humanities, an area in which she has published widely.
Summary
Hidden and Devalued Feminized Labour in the Digital Humanities examines the data-driven labour that underpinned the Index Thomisticus–a preeminent project of the incunabular digital humanities–and advanced the data-foundations of computing in the Humanities.
