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Presents a number of oral interviews and the key themes that emerge on the history of computing in Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Provides an analysis of some of the social, intellectual and creative processes that have helped shape the research into computing in the humanities
The book is accompanied by a website with additional and supplementary material such as archival photographs and sound recordings of oral history interviews
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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
Keywords
- Computation and the Humanities
- Digital Cultural Heritage
- Digital Humanities
- History of Computing
- Oral History
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Information Studies, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom
Julianne Nyhan
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Department of Information Studies, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Andrew Flinn
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computation and the Humanities
Book Subtitle: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities
Authors: Julianne Nyhan, Andrew Flinn
Series Title: Springer Series on Cultural Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20170-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2016
License: CC BY-NC
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20169-6Published: 30 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79297-2Published: 06 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20170-2Published: 23 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2195-9056
Series E-ISSN: 2195-9064
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 285
Topics: History of Computing, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Digital Humanities, Computers and Society