Computers and the Humanities
Published on 1. July 1992
Book
Hardback
140 pages
978-1-85521-289-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
references
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85521-289-3 (9781855212893)
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Content
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.