New Companion to Digital Humanities (eBook)

Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 7
Notes on Contributors 10
Preface 19
Part I Infrastructures 21
Chapter 1 Between Bits and Atoms: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication in the Humanities 23
Learning from Lego 24
What is Physical Computing? 27
What is Desktop Fabrication? 28
Design Agenda: Design-in-Use 31
Administrative and Communicative Agendas: Makerspaces 35
Notes 37
References and Further Reading 39
Chapter 2 Embodiment, Entanglement, and Immersion in Digital Cultural Heritage 42
Reframing Visualization 43
Immersive Applications in Cultural Heritage Visualization 44
Reformulation of Digital Cultural Archives 44
Panoramic Immersion 46
Embodiment in Cultural Heritage Visualization 48
Embodiment Theories 49
The Machine–Body Ensemble 50
Embodiment in The Pure Land 51
Evaluating the Embodied Experience 56
Conclusion 57
Notes 57
References and further reading 58
Chapter 3 The Internet of Things 62
What is the Internet of Things? 63
The Internet of Things as Design Fiction 66
Digital Humanities in a Programmable World 68
References and further reading 71
Chapter 4 Collaboration and Infrastructure 74
Collaboration and the Digital Humanities 75
Infrastructure 78
Challenges Ahead: Enduring Tensions in the Scholarly Research Ecosystem 82
References and further reading 84
Part II Creation 87
Chapter 5 Becoming Interdisciplinary 89
Being Curious 89
Recent History of Interest 91
Curiosity’s Machine and the Individual 91
The Aim and the Difficulties 93
The Meta-Discipline of Interdisciplinary Explorations 95
The How 97
Digital Humanities 98
Coda 99
Notes 100
References and further reading 101
Chapter 6 New Media and Modeling: Games and the Digital Humanities 104
Note 116
References and further reading 116
Chapter 7 Exploratory Programming in Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Research 118
How Humanists Benefit from Learning to Program 118
Cognitively: Programming Helps us Think 120
Culturally: Programming gives Insight into Systems of Communication and Art 123
Socially: Computation can Help to Build a Better World 125
Programming is Creative and Fun 127
Exploratory Programming 127
References and further reading 128
Chapter 8 Making Virtual Worlds 130
Definitions 130
Interventions in History 131
Fast Making 135
Documentation 137
Annotation 139
Interpretation 140
Argumentation 141
Conclusions 144
References 144
Further reading 145
Chapter 9 Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities 147
Creative Writing in Digital Media as Digital Humanities Research 148
Beyond Creative Production: Platforms, Scholarship, and Research Infrastructure in Electronic Literature 152
References and further reading 155
Chapter 10 Social Scholarly Editing 157
References and Further Reading 168
Chapter 11 Digital Methods in the Humanities: Understanding and Describing their Use across the Disciplines 170
Digital Methods Identified: The AHRC ICT Methods Network 173
Initial Classification and Expression of Digital Methods 174
Scoping Digital Methods in Practice: The Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH) 177
The NeDiMAH and DARIAH Research Methods Ontology Project 182
Conclusion 187
Notes 188
References and further reading 188
Chapter 12 Tailoring Access to Content 191
Introduction and Motivation 191
Users and content 194
Personalization and adaptivity 198
Conclusion 202
Note 203
References and further reading 203
Chapter 13 Ancient Evenings: Retrocomputing in the Digital Humanities 205
Preservation and Recovery 208
Digital Culture 211
Going Retro 214
Acknowledgments 217
References and further reading 217
Part III Analysis 219
Chapter 14 Mapping the Geospatial Turn 221
A Brief History of GPS and GIS 223
The Spatial Turn in the Digital Humanities 225
Humanities Mapping 228
Acknowledgments 230
Notes 231
References and Further Reading 231
Chapter 15 Music Information Retrieval 233
A Brief History of MIR 234
The MIR Pipeline 236
The Future of MIR 241
Conclusion 244
References and Further Reading 245
Chapter 16 Data Modeling 249
Data Modeling: An Integrated View 250
Data Modeling for the Humanities 254
References and Further Reading 256
Chapter 17 Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities 258
Visualization and Interface 258
Analysis of Assumptions 264
Towards Alternatives 268
Notes 269
References and Further Reading 269
Chapter 18 Zen and the Art of Linked Data: New Strategies for a Semantic Web of Humanist Knowledge 271
Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web? 272
Meaning and the Semantic Web 275
Modeling and the Semantic Web 277
Digital Humanities and the Semantic Web 280
Infrastructure and the Semantic Web 283
Scholarly Primitives and the Semantic Web 285
Conclusions 287
Acknowledgments 289
Notes 289
References and Further Reading 290
Chapter 19 Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count 294
Which Words are used to describe White and Black NFL Prospects? 294
Ubiquitous Text 295
What is a Text for Analysis? 298
Analysis and Reading 302
Analysis and Visualization 305
Making Meaning Count 307
Notes 308
References and Further Reading 310
Chapter 20 Text-Mining the Humanities 311
Why Mine? 311
Background 312
Methods: Machine Learning and Text Mining 313
Adapting Algorithms to Concrete Problems 318
Challenges 319
Exemplary Projects and Examples of Text Mining in the Humanities 323
Notes 323
References and Further Reading 325
Chapter 21 Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding 327
Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding: A New Theoretical Framework 327
Text Encoding, the TEI, and Textual Scholarship: Open Issues 333
Conclusions 339
Notes 340
References and Further Reading 340
Chapter 22 Digital Materiality 342
References and Further Reading 349
Chapter 23 Screwmeneutics and Hermenumericals: The Computationality of Hermeneutics 351
On Hermeneutics 351
The Hermeneutics of Digital Humanities 354
The Computationality of Hermeneutics 360
Conclusion 365
References and Further Reading 365
Chapter 24 When Texts of Study are Audio Files: Digital Tools for Sound Studies in Digital Humanities 368
Access: Sounds, Sounds, Everywhere There’s Sounds 368
Analysis: Do this, Don’t do that Can’t you Read the Sounds?
Conclusion: Sound Futures in DH 374
References and Further Reading 375
Chapter 25 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions 378
What is Text? 378
Autopoietic Systems and Co-dependency 379
Marking the Text: A Necessary Distinction 381
Field Autopoiesis: From IVANHOE to ’Patacriticism 385
Writing and Reading in Autopoietic Fields 388
Conclusion 392
Appendix A The ’Pataphysics of Text and Field Markup 393
Appendix B Control Dementians for a ’Patacriticism of Textualities 393
Notes 396
References and Further Reading 396
Chapter 26 Classification and its Structures 397
Scope 397
One-dimensional Classifications 399
Classification Schemes as n-dimensional Spaces 399
Some Distinctions among Classification Schemes 400
Rules for Classification 404
A Formal View 407
Make or Find? 409
Some Existing Classification Schemes 410
References and Further Reading 412
Part IV Dissemination 415
Chapter 27 Interface as Mediating Actor for Collection Access, Text Analysis, and Experimentation 417
Actor–network Theory (ANT) 420
Interfaces as Actors 420
Assumptions of Uniformity 421
Levels of Sophistication or Experience 424
Making Visible and Concealing 425
Conclusions 426
References and Further Reading 427
Chapter 28 Saving the Bits: Digital Humanities Forever? 428
Data, the Humanities, and Digital Preservation 429
Digital Preservation is about People and Opportunities, not Data and Risks 430
Five Challenges and what we’ve Done about them 431
Five Emerging Trends and what they mean 435
Conclusion 436
References and Further Reading 437
Chapter 29 Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities 440
Crowdsourcing: an Introduction 440
The Growth of Crowdsourcing in Cultural and Heritage Applications 443
Crowdsourcing and Digital Humanities 448
Crowdsourcing and Document Transcription 450
Future Issues in Digital Humanities Crowdsourcing 452
Conclusion 455
References and Further Reading 456
Chapter 30 Peer Review 459
Notes 466
References and Further Reading 467
Chapter 31 Hard Constraints: Designing Software in the Digital Humanities 469
Notes 476
References and Further Reading 477
Part V Past, Present, Future of Digital Humanities 479
Chapter 32 Beyond the Digital Humanities Center: The Administrative Landscapes of the Digital Humanities 481
References and Further Reading 494
Chapter 33 Sorting Out the Digital Humanities 496
The ever-emerging field of digital humanities 497
A provisional analysis of the current state of affairs 499
Accepting the challenge 502
On the epistemology of the digital humanities 503
Towards a code of conduct for the digital humanities 506
Actionable suggestions for the digital humanities 507
Conclusion 511
References and further reading 511
Chapter 34 Only Connect: The Globalization of the Digital Humanities 513
centerNet 518
Global Outlook::Digital Humanities 520
Conclusion 527
References and further reading 528
Chapter 35 Gendering Digital Literary History: What Counts for Digital Humanities 531
Cycles of forgetting 532
Forgotten by print 535
Digital de-contextualization 537
Re-contextualizing 538
Big data versus encoded data 540
Notes 542
References and further reading 542
Chapter 36 The Promise of the Digital Humanities and the Contested Nature of Digital Scholarship 544
Notes 555
References and further reading 555
Chapter 37 Building Theories or Theories of Building? A Tension at the Heart of Digital Humanities 558
Critiques of Digital Humanities 559
Making and Building in Digital Humanities and Beyond 561
The Development of English Studies 563
History and Questions of Method 566
Conclusion 568
Acknowledgments 570
Notes 570
References and further reading 570
Index 573
EULA 588