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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors viii Foreword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities xvi Roberto A. Busa The Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction xxiii Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth PART I History 1 The History of Humanities Computing 3 Susan Hockey 2 Computing for Archaeologists 20 Harrison Eiteljorg, II 3 Art History 31 Michael Greenhalgh 4 Classics and the Computer: An End of the History 46 Greg Crane 5 Computing and the Historical Imagination 56 William G. Thomas, III 6 Lexicography 69 Russon Wooldridge 7 Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences 79 Jan Haji ¿ 8 Literary Studies 88 Thomas Rommel 9 Music 97 Ichiro Fujinaga and Susan Forscher Weiss 10 Multimedia 108 Geoffrey Rockwell and Andrew Mactavish 11 Performing Arts 121 David Z. Saltz 12 ''Revolution? What Revolution?'' Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion 132 Charles Ess PART II Principles 13 How the Computer Works 145 Andrea Laue 14 Classification and its Structures 161 C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 15 Databases 177 Stephen Ramsay 16 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions 198 Jerome McGann 17 Text Encoding 218 Allen H. Renear ...
