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Diogenes Laertius,Lives of Eminent Philosophers, with an English translation by R.D. Hicks, 2 vols., Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942.
R.H. Rouse and M.A. Rouse, “The Verbal Concordance to the Scriptures,”Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum, 44(1974), 5–30.
See for instance Martin Grabmann,Methoden und Hilfmittel des Aristoteles-studiums im Mittelälter, Sitzungberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, Heft 5(München, 1939); and Jacqueline Hamesse,Les Auctoritates Aristotelis: Un florilège médiéval, étude historique et édition critique (Louvain: Publications universitaires, 1974).
Serge Lusignan,Préface au Speculum maius de Vincent de Beauvais: réfraction et diffraction (Montreal: Bellarmin, 1979).
Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin,L'apparition du livre (Paris: Albin Michel, 1971).
For a good discussion of information processing in literary study, see Paul A. Fortier, “From Objectivity to Convenience: Information Processing for Literary Study,”Information Processing 4(1974), 846–850.
For a fuller discussion of the relationship between computational linguistics and text processing, see Donald Ross, “Computer-Aided Study of Literary Language,”Computer, 11, 8(1978), 32–39.
Perhaps the most celebrated example is provided by the work of T.C. Mendenhall; see his articles inScience 9(March 11, 1887), 237–249, andPopular Science Monthly 60(December 1901), 97–105.
Our approach is similar to that taken by CETEDOC at the University of Louvain under the direction of Paul Tombeur, or Susan Hockey at Oxford University. See for instance Paul Tombeur, “Research carried out at the Centre de Traitement Electronique des Documents of the Catholic University of Louvain,” in A.J. Aitken et al., eds.,The Computer and Literary Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973), 335–340; or see Susan M. Hockey,Computing in the Arts at Oxford University, available from the author.
Ben Ross Schneider Jr.,Travels in Computerland (Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1974).
Roberto Busa, “Computer Processing of over Ten Million Words: Retrospective Criticism,” in Alan Jones and R.F. Churchhouse, eds.,The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Studies (Cardiff: The University of Wales Press, 1976), 114–117.
Felicien de Tollenaere, “Word Indexes and Word Lists to the Gothic Bible: Experiences and Problems,” in Alan Jones and R.F. Churchhouse, op. cit., 118–132.
“Since then we have witnessed the proliferation of baroque, ill-defined and, therefore, unstable software systems. Instead of working with a formal tool, which their task requires, many programmers now live in a limbo of folklore, in a vague and slippery world, in which they are never quite sure what the system will do to their programs. Under such regretful circumstances the whole notion of a correct program. . . becomes void.” Edgar W. Dijkstra,A Discipline of Programming (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1976), 202.
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For a fuller discussion of the different approaches, see N. Edward Berg,Electronic Composition: A Guide to the Revolution in Typesetting (Pittsburgh: Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, 1975).
Guy Tiphane, “Un système de photocomposition,” Mémoire de maîtrise, Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, January 1978 (with bibliography).
Anne Gilmour-Bryson, “Coding of the Testimony of Prisoners in the Trial of the Templars in the Papal States 1309–1310,” in Serge Lusignan and John North, eds.,Computing in the Humanities (Waterloo, Ont.: University of Waterloo Press, 1977), 135–150.
Paul Bratley, Serge Lusignan, and Francine Ouellette, “JEUDEMO: A Text-Handling System,” in J.L. Mitchell, ed.,Computers in the Humanities (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974), 234–249. Similar systems play a central role in other laboratories; see, for instance, Godelieve L.M. Berry-Rogghe and T.D. Crawford, “Developing a machine-independent concordance program for a variety of languages,” in A.J. Aitken et al., op. cit., 309–316.
See for instance: Hugh F. Cline, “Computer Instruction for Scholars in the Humanities,”Computers and the Humanities, 3, 1(1968–69), 31–40; Edmund A. Bowles, “Toward a Computer Curriculum for the Humanities,”Computers and the Humanities, 6, 1(1971–72), 35–38; Leila de Campo, “Computer Courses for the Humanist: A Survey,”Computers and the Humanities, 7, 1(1972–73), 57–62; John R. Allen, “The Development of Computer Courses for Humanists,”Computers and the Humanities, 8, 5–6, (1974), 291–295.
Hardware is a field marked by very rapid development. It is interesting to read in parallel Bernard Wishy, “New Hardware for the Humanities,”Computers and the Humanities, 2, 1(1967–68), 1–11 and James Joyce, “Hardware for the Humanist: What You Should Know and Why,”Computers and the Humanities, 11, 5(1977), 299–307.
A fuller discussion of the status of a text in the computer can be found in T.K. Bender, “Literary Text in Electronic Storage: The Editorial Potential,”Computers and the Humanities, 10, (1976), 193–199.
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This work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Bratley, P., Lusignan, S. The electronic scriptorium. Comput Hum 13, 93–103 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02404505
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