Digital Humanities (13)

• Digital Humanities
• Information Technology and Computer Science
• Linguistics

Modelling Between Digital and Humanities: Thinking in Practice

• Arianna Ciula
• Øyvind Eide
• Cristina Marras
• Patrick Sahle

This volume presents an exploration of Digital Humanities (DH), a field focused on the reciprocal transformation of digital technologies and humanities scholarship. Central to DH research is the practice of modelling, which involves translating intricate knowledge systems into computational models. This book addresses a fundamental query: How can an effective language be developed to conceptualize and guide modelling in DH?

• Digital Humanities
• Material Culture

From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis

• Anne Baillot

Integrating historical, archival and environmental perspectives, From Handwriting to Footprinting illuminates the impact that digitisation has had on the dissemination and preservation of textual heritage and reflects on what its future may hold. It is invaluable reading for anyone interested in textual history from a linguistic or philological perspective, as well as those working on publishing, archival and infrastructure projects that require the storing and long-term preservation of texts, or who want to know how to develop a more mindful attachment to digitised material.

• Digital Humanities
• Education
• Information Technology and Computer Science

Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research

• Jennifer Edmond

This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research practices in the humanities, and in the future of the digital humanities on the whole.

• Digital Humanities
• Reference Books

Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook

• Connie Clare
• Maria Cruz
• Elli Papadopoulou
• James Savage
• Marta Teperek
• Yan Wang

Engaging Researchers with Data Management is an invaluable collection of 24 case studies, drawn from institutions across the globe, that demonstrate clearly and practically how to engage the research community with RDM. These case studies together illustrate the variety of innovative strategies research institutions have developed to engage with their researchers about managing research data. Each study is presented concisely and clearly, highlighting the essential ingredients that led to its success and challenges encountered along the way. By interviewing key staff about their experiences and the organisational context, the authors of this book have created an essential resource for organisations looking to increase engagement with their research communities.

• Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion
• Digital Humanities
• Material Culture

Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations

• Patrick Sutherland
• Adam Farquhar
• Jody Butterworth
• Andrew Pearson

This is a must-read how-to guide if you are planning to embark on a scholarly digitisation project. Tailored to the specifications of the British Library’s EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) projects, it is full of sound, practical advice about planning and carrying out a successful digitisation project in potentially challenging conditions.

• Digital Humanities
• European Studies
• Literature

Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and Other Essays

• Hans Walter Gabler

This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent in exploration of textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of composition in literature as well as music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in book design, and in the societal processes of the canonisation of works of literature and their authors.

• African Studies
• Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion
• Digital Humanities
• Material Culture

Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

• Daniela Merolla
• Mark Turin

In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it.

• Digital Humanities

Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices

• Matthew James Driscoll
• Elena Pierazzo

This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them. The unrelenting progress of computer technology has changed the nature of textual scholarship at the most fundamental level: the way editors and scholars work, the tools they use to do such work and the research questions they attempt to answer have all been affected.

• Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion
• Digital Humanities
• Material Culture

From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme

• Maja Kominko

Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe.

• African Studies
• Anthropology, Archaeology and Religion
• Digital Humanities
• Folklore and Ethnology
• Literature
• Other languages

Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities

• Mark Turin
• Claire Wheeler
• Eleanor Wilkinson

Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. This book explores the political repercussions of studying marginalised languages; the role of online tools in ensuring responsible access to sensitive cultural materials; and ways of ensuring that when digital documents are created, they are not fossilized as a consequence of being archived. This book is an essential guide and handbook for ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians, and all who connect with indigenous communities to document and preserve oral traditions.

• Digital Humanities
• Education

Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics

• Brett D. Hirsch

The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines, the book offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate level, proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of disciplines, and engages with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy. Broadening the ways in which both scholars and practitioners can think about this emerging discipline, this book makes an important contribution to its ongoing development, vitality and long-term sustainability.

• Digital Humanities
• Law
• Law: Intellectual Property

The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

• Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
• Juan Carlos De Martin

Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before, but along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture’s use – copyright and related rights – have become increasingly restrictive. Bringing together academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy makers, this book argues that the Public Domain – the informational works owned by all of us – is fundamental to a healthy society. Essential reading for anyone interested in the current debate about copyright and the internet, this book opens up discussion and offers practical solutions to the difficult question of the regulation of culture in the digital age.

• Digital Humanities
• Literature

Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions

• Willard McCarty

Offering a significant contribution to the growing debate on how digitization is shaping our collective identity, this far-reaching, multidisciplinary collection investigates how the digital medium has altered the way we read and write text. In doing so, it challenges the very notion of scholarship as it has traditionally been imagined. Incorporating scientific, socio-historical, materialist and theoretical approaches, leading scholars explore topics including how computers have affected our relationship to language, whether the book has become an obsolete object, the nature of online journalism, and the psychology of authorship.