Computers and the humanities

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Computers and the humanities

edited by Jean-Philippe Genet and Antonio Zampolli

Dartmouth, 1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [83]-118)

At bottom of title page: European Science Foundation

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book describes the use of computers by scholars in the humanities. It presents an historical survey of the developments in different arts disciplines, an account of the present situation, and an expression of hopes, concerns and plans about the future. The uses of the computer in the humanities research can be divided into three main kinds. A humanities researcher may use a computer to study strings (as in language processing or the analysis of literary texts) or to study numbers (of discrete items or events, as in social and economic history) or to study icons, whether visual (as in art history) or acoustical (as in musicology). The book provides useful pointers to organizations and relevant literature in the humanities disciplines. It should prove a valuable aid to all who face the challenge of computers in the humanities.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1: Literature, philology, and linguistics - main institutions, associations, international conferences, the ACH-ACL-ALLC text encoding initiatie, bibliography and other sources of information
  • history - institutions, associations, periodicals, guide to the basic reference literature, examples of projects
  • archaeology
  • art
  • music
  • social sciences and statistics - software, literature, periodicals, conferences, main institutions for data collection. Part 2: The creation of machine readable data - collective data-bases, individual data-bases, the chief problems (standardization, communication, exchange)
  • computer technologies in humanities research - the three levels in humanites computing, humanities and software, humanities and information sciences
  • the recognition of computing in the humanities - the status of work done by computing, the publication and archiving of data, research training and curriculum.

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  • NCID
    BA19602148
  • ISBN
    • 1855212897
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Aldershot
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 139 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Classification
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