Computation and the Humanities Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities [Paperback]

This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its disciplinary development. The authors make a first contribution towards remedying this by uncovering, documenting, and analysing a number of the social, intellectual and creative processes that helped to shape this research from the 1950s until the present day.

By taking an oral history approach, this book explores questions like, among others, researchers earliest memories of encountering computers and the factors that subsequently prompted them to use the computer in Humanities research.

Computation and the Humanities?will be an essential read for cultural and computing historians, digital humanists and those interested in developments like the digitisation of cultural heritage and artefacts.

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license

Once Neglected, Now Emerging and Absolutely Necessary: On the History of Digital Humanities or An Introduction.- Why Oral History?.- ?Individuation is There in all the Different Strata: an Oral History Conversation between John Burrows, Hugh Craig and Willard McCarty.- It was a Time When the University was Still Taking Account of the Meaning of universitas scientiarum: an Oral History Conversation between Wilhelm Ott and Julianne Nyhan.- hic Rhodus, hic salta: An Oral History Interview Between Tito Orlandi and Julianne Nyhan.- They Took a Chance: An Oral History Conversation between Susan Hockey and Julianne Nyhan.- ?And Here We go Back Again to the Influence of Algorithmic Thinking: An Oral History conversation between Jlƒg