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Index
Cover
Title Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Part I: Infrastructures
1 Between Bits and Atoms: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication in the Humanities
Learning from Lego
What is Physical Computing?
What is Desktop Fabrication?
Design Agenda: Design-in-Use
Administrative and Communicative Agendas: Makerspaces
References and Further Reading
2 Embodiment, Entanglement, and Immersion in Digital Cultural Heritage
Reframing Visualization
Immersive Applications in Cultural Heritage Visualization
Reformulation of Digital Cultural Archives
Panoramic Immersion
Embodiment in Cultural Heritage Visualization
Embodiment Theories
The Machine–Body Ensemble
Embodiment in The Pure Land
Evaluating the Embodied Experience
Conclusion
References and further reading
3 The Internet of Things
What is the Internet of Things?
The Internet of Things as Design Fiction
Digital Humanities in a Programmable World
References and further reading
4 Collaboration and Infrastructure
Collaboration and the Digital Humanities
Infrastructure
Challenges Ahead: Enduring Tensions in the Scholarly Research Ecosystem
References and further reading
Part II: Creation
5 Becoming Interdisciplinary
Being Curious
Recent History of Interest
Curiosity’s Machine and the Individual
The Aim and the Difficulties
The Meta-Discipline of Interdisciplinary Explorations
The How
Digital Humanities
Coda
References and further reading
6 New Media and Modeling: Games and the Digital Humanities
References and further reading
7 Exploratory Programming in Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Research
How Humanists Benefit from Learning to Program
Cognitively: Programming Helps us Think
Culturally: Programming gives Insight into Systems of Communication and Art
Socially: Computation can Help to Build a Better World
Programming is Creative and Fun
Exploratory Programming
References and further reading
8 Making Virtual Worlds
Definitions
Interventions in History
Fast Making
Documentation
Annotation
Interpretation
Argumentation
Conclusions
References
Further reading
9 Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities
Creative Writing in Digital Media as Digital Humanities Research
Beyond Creative Production: Platforms, Scholarship, and Research Infrastructure in Electronic Literature
References and further reading
10 Social Scholarly Editing
References and Further Reading
11 Digital Methods in the Humanities: Understanding and Describing their Use across the Disciplines
Digital Methods Identified: The AHRC ICT Methods Network
Initial Classification and Expression of Digital Methods
Scoping Digital Methods in Practice: The Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH)
The NeDiMAH and DARIAH Research Methods Ontology Project
Conclusion
References and further reading
12 Tailoring Access to Content
Introduction and Motivation
Users and content
Personalization and adaptivity
Conclusion
References and further reading
13 Ancient Evenings: Retrocomputing in the Digital Humanities
Preservation and Recovery
Digital Culture
Going Retro
Acknowledgments
References and further reading
Part III: Analysis
14 Mapping the Geospatial Turn
A Brief History of GPS and GIS
The Spatial Turn in the Digital Humanities
Humanities Mapping
Acknowledgments
References and Further Reading
15 Music Information Retrieval
A Brief History of MIR
The MIR Pipeline
The Future of MIR
Conclusion
References and Further Reading
16 Data Modeling
Data Modeling: An Integrated View
Data Modeling for the Humanities
References and Further Reading
17 Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities
Visualization and Interface
Analysis of Assumptions
Towards Alternatives
References and Further Reading
18 Zen and the Art of Linked Data: New Strategies for a Semantic Web of Humanist Knowledge
Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web?
Meaning and the Semantic Web
Modeling and the Semantic Web
Digital Humanities and the Semantic Web
Infrastructure and the Semantic Web
Scholarly Primitives and the Semantic Web
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References and Further Reading
19 Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count
Which Words are used to describe White and Black NFL Prospects?
Ubiquitous Text
What is a Text for Analysis?
Analysis and Reading
Analysis and Visualization
Making Meaning Count
References and Further Reading
20 Text-Mining the Humanities
Why Mine?
Background
Methods: Machine Learning and Text Mining
Adapting Algorithms to Concrete Problems
Challenges
Exemplary Projects and Examples of Text Mining in the Humanities
References and Further Reading
21 Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding
Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding: A New Theoretical Framework
Text Encoding, the TEI, and Textual Scholarship: Open Issues
Conclusions
References and Further Reading
22 Digital Materiality
References and Further Reading
23 Screwmeneutics and Hermenumericals: The Computationality of Hermeneutics
On Hermeneutics
The Hermeneutics of Digital Humanities
The Computationality of Hermeneutics
Conclusion
References and Further Reading
24 When Texts of Study are Audio Files: Digital Tools for Sound Studies in Digital Humanities
Access: Sounds, Sounds, Everywhere There’s Sounds
Analysis: Do this, Don’t do that; Can’t you Read the Sounds?
Conclusion: Sound Futures in DH
References and Further Reading
25 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions
What is Text?
Autopoietic Systems and Co-dependency
Marking the Text: A Necessary Distinction
Field Autopoiesis: From IVANHOE to ’Patacriticism
Writing and Reading in Autopoietic Fields
Conclusion
Appendix A The ’Pataphysics of Text and Field Markup
Appendix B Control Dementians for a ’Patacriticism of Textualities
References and Further Reading
26 Classification and its Structures
Scope
One-dimensional Classifications
Classification Schemes as n-dimensional Spaces
Some Distinctions among Classification Schemes
Rules for Classification
A Formal View
Make or Find?
Some Existing Classification Schemes
References and Further Reading
Part IV: Dissemination
27 Interface as Mediating Actor for Collection Access, Text Analysis, and Experimentation
Actor–network Theory (ANT)
Interfaces as Actors
Assumptions of Uniformity
Levels of Sophistication or Experience
Making Visible and Concealing
Conclusions
References and Further Reading
28 Saving the Bits: Digital Humanities Forever?
Data, the Humanities, and Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation is about People and Opportunities, not Data and Risks
Five Challenges and what we’ve Done about them
Five Emerging Trends and what they mean
Conclusion
References and Further Reading
29 Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities
Crowdsourcing: an Introduction
The Growth of Crowdsourcing in Cultural and Heritage Applications
Crowdsourcing and Digital Humanities
Crowdsourcing and Document Transcription
Future Issues in Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing
Conclusion
References and Further Reading
30 Peer Review
References and Further Reading
31 Hard Constraints: Designing Software in the Digital Humanities
References and Further Reading
Part V: Past, Present, Future of Digital Humanities
32 Beyond the Digital Humanities Center: The Administrative Landscapes of the Digital Humanities
References and Further Reading
33 Sorting Out the Digital Humanities
The ever-emerging field of digital humanities
A provisional analysis of the current state of affairs
Accepting the challenge
On the epistemology of the digital humanities
Towards a code of conduct for the digital humanities
Actionable suggestions for the digital humanities
Conclusion
References and further reading
34 Only Connect: The Globalization of the Digital Humanities
centerNet
Global Outlook::Digital Humanities
Conclusion
References and further reading
35 Gendering Digital Literary History: What Counts for Digital Humanities
Cycles of forgetting
Forgotten by print
Digital de-contextualization
Re-contextualizing
Big data versus encoded data
References and further reading
36 The Promise of the Digital Humanities and the Contested Nature of Digital Scholarship
References and further reading
37 Building Theories or Theories of Building? A Tension at the Heart of Digital Humanities
Critiques of Digital Humanities
Making and Building in Digital Humanities and Beyond
The Development of English Studies
History and Questions of Method
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References and further reading
Index
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