On Making in the Digital Humanities
The Scholarship of Digital Humanities Development in Honour of John Bradley
9781800084216
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On Making in the Digital Humanities
The Scholarship of Digital Humanities Development in Honour of John Bradley
A collection that explores the processes of making within the digital humanities.
On Making in the Digital Humanities fills a gap in our understanding of digital humanities projects and craft by exploring the processes of making as much as the products that arise from it. Focusing on the interwoven layers of human and technological textures that constitute digital humanities scholarship, it assembles a group of well-known, experienced, and emerging scholars in the digital humanities to reflect on various forms of making. The chapters gathered here are individually important, but together provide a very human view of what it is to do the digital humanities, in the past, present, and future. This book will accordingly be of interest to researchers, teachers, and students of the digital humanities; creative humanities, including maker spaces and culture; information studies; the history of computing and technology; and the history of science and the humanities.
On Making in the Digital Humanities fills a gap in our understanding of digital humanities projects and craft by exploring the processes of making as much as the products that arise from it. Focusing on the interwoven layers of human and technological textures that constitute digital humanities scholarship, it assembles a group of well-known, experienced, and emerging scholars in the digital humanities to reflect on various forms of making. The chapters gathered here are individually important, but together provide a very human view of what it is to do the digital humanities, in the past, present, and future. This book will accordingly be of interest to researchers, teachers, and students of the digital humanities; creative humanities, including maker spaces and culture; information studies; the history of computing and technology; and the history of science and the humanities.
Table of Contents
List of figures
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List of contributors
Introduction: On making in the Digital Humanities - John Bradley and the scholarship of digital humanities development
Geoffrey Rockwell and Julianne Nyhan
1 Four corners of the big tent: A personal journey through the digital humanities
John Bradley
Part I: Making Projects
2 Prosopography meets the digital: PBW and PASE
Charlotte Roueché, Averil Cameron and Janet L. Nelson
3 Braving the new world: REED at the digital crossroads
Sally-Beth MacLean
4 Sustainability and modelling at King’s Digital Lab: between tradition and innovation
Arianna Ciula and James Smithies
5 The People of Medieval Scotland database as history
Dauvit Broun and Joanna Tucker
Part II: People Making
6 The history of the ‘techie’ in the history of digital humanities
Julianne Nyhan
7 Imagining and designing digital humanities jobs
Julia Flanders
8 The Politics of Digital Repatriation and its Relationship to Rongowhakaata Cultural Data Sovereignty
Arapata Hakiwai, Karl Johnstone, Brinker Ferguson
Part III: Making Praxis
9 Towards an operational approach to computational text analysis
Dino Buzzetti
10 From TACT to CATMA, or, a mindful approach to text annotation and analysis
Jan Christoph Meister
11 Pursuing a combinatorial habit of mind and machine
Willard McCarty
12 Historians, texts and factoids
Manfred Thaller
Part IV: In Memoriam
13 If Voyant then Spyral: Remembering Stéfan Sinclair: A discourse on practice in the digital humanities
Geoffrey Rockwell
List of tables
List of contributors
Introduction: On making in the Digital Humanities - John Bradley and the scholarship of digital humanities development
Geoffrey Rockwell and Julianne Nyhan
1 Four corners of the big tent: A personal journey through the digital humanities
John Bradley
Part I: Making Projects
2 Prosopography meets the digital: PBW and PASE
Charlotte Roueché, Averil Cameron and Janet L. Nelson
3 Braving the new world: REED at the digital crossroads
Sally-Beth MacLean
4 Sustainability and modelling at King’s Digital Lab: between tradition and innovation
Arianna Ciula and James Smithies
5 The People of Medieval Scotland database as history
Dauvit Broun and Joanna Tucker
Part II: People Making
6 The history of the ‘techie’ in the history of digital humanities
Julianne Nyhan
7 Imagining and designing digital humanities jobs
Julia Flanders
8 The Politics of Digital Repatriation and its Relationship to Rongowhakaata Cultural Data Sovereignty
Arapata Hakiwai, Karl Johnstone, Brinker Ferguson
Part III: Making Praxis
9 Towards an operational approach to computational text analysis
Dino Buzzetti
10 From TACT to CATMA, or, a mindful approach to text annotation and analysis
Jan Christoph Meister
11 Pursuing a combinatorial habit of mind and machine
Willard McCarty
12 Historians, texts and factoids
Manfred Thaller
Part IV: In Memoriam
13 If Voyant then Spyral: Remembering Stéfan Sinclair: A discourse on practice in the digital humanities
Geoffrey Rockwell