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Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities
Julianne Nyhan
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Description for Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities
Hardback. Series: Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GM; HBTD; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its disciplinary development. The authors make a first contribution towards remedying this by uncovering, documenting, and analysing a number of the social, intellectual and creative processes that helped to shape this research from the 1950s until the present day. ... Read more
This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its disciplinary development. The authors make a first contribution towards remedying this by uncovering, documenting, and analysing a number of the social, intellectual and creative processes that helped to shape this research from the 1950s until the present day. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Springer Series on Cultural Computing
Condition
New
Weight
606g
Number of Pages
285
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319201696
SKU
V9783319201696
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Reviews for Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities
This is a well-worked collection of interviews that leads the reader through the development of the field of DH. ... Computation and the humanities is a unique portrayal of the history of DH, and is recommended as an authoritative source
to be dipped into as your interests dictate, or to study more thoroughly to better understand how DH has developed. Those ... Read more
to be dipped into as your interests dictate, or to study more thoroughly to better understand how DH has developed. Those ... Read more