Resource: Humanities Computing

Summary

This text is references in a number of other texts and seems to be part of the DH canon.

From the Introduction: "The aim of this book, then, is to open up what has been cast as the new jukebox of knowledge and to demonstrate persuasively not only that constructing indefinitely many such machines is the way forward, but also that doing so is a new form of traditional scholarly practice... In this book I anatomize the method of humanities computing into four perspetives: analysis, synthesis, context and professor.

Useful Content

p 197

• Stages of modelling figure

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Modelling
2. Genres
3. Discipline
4. Computer Science
5. Agenda

Review

• Written in 2005, this book is a bit outdated. However, it is a foundational book, and is therefore looking at in some more detail.
• It is purposely written in a referential style, and therefore will be useful for finding additional references.