On Making in the Digital Humanities: The Scholarship of Digital Humanities Development in Honour of John Bradley

by Julianne Nyhan (Editor), Geoffrey Rockwell (Editor), Stéfan Sinclair (Editor), Alexandra Ortolja-Baird (Editor)

Overview

On Making in the Digital Humanities fills a gap in our understanding of digital humanities projects and craft by exploring the processes of making as much as the products that arise from it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800084216
Publisher:	U C L Press, Limited
Publication date:	06/05/2023
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Julianne Nyhan is professor and chair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and professor of digital humanities at UCL, UK. Geoffrey Rockwell is professor of philosophy and digital humanities at the University of Alberta, Canada. Stéfan Sinclair was associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University, Canada. Alexandra Ortolja-Baird is lecturer in digital history and culture at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors

Introduction: On making in the Digital Humanities - John Bradley and the scholarship of digital humanities development
Geoffrey Rockwell and Julianne Nyhan

1 Four corners of the big tent: A personal journey through the digital humanities
John Bradley

Part I: Making Projects

2 Prosopography meets the digital: PBW and PASE
Charlotte Roueché, Averil Cameron and Janet L. Nelson

3 Braving the new world: REED at the digital crossroads
Sally-Beth MacLean

4 Sustainability and modelling at King’s Digital Lab: between tradition and innovation
Arianna Ciula and James Smithies

5 The People of Medieval Scotland database as history
Dauvit Broun and Joanna Tucker

Part II: People Making

6 The history of the ‘techie’ in the history of digital humanities
Julianne Nyhan

7 Imagining and designing digital humanities jobs
Julia Flanders

8 The Politics of Digital Repatriation and its Relationship to Rongowhakaata Cultural Data Sovereignty
Arapata Hakiwai, Karl Johnstone, Brinker Ferguson

Part III: Making Praxis

9 Towards an operational approach to computational text analysis
Dino Buzzetti


10 From TACT to CATMA, or, a mindful approach to text annotation and analysis
Jan Christoph Meister

11 Pursuing a combinatorial habit of mind and machine
Willard McCarty

12 Historians, texts and factoids
Manfred Thaller

Part IV: In Memoriam

13 If Voyant then Spyral: Remembering Stéfan Sinclair: A discourse on practice in the digital humanities
Geoffrey Rockwell