Humanities Computing Links
Online works about Humanities Computing gathered by Geoffrey Rockwell.

Electronic TextsGo to top

PublicMcGann: The Marked Text
Description:This is an online preprint of "What is Already Encoded by the Text" in "A Companion to Digital Humanities". Select
PublicUnsworth: Forms of Attention
Description:A paper delivered at "The Face of Text: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities," the third conference of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA), McMaster University, November 19-21, 2004. Select
PublicUnsworth: Scholarly Primitives
Description:Paper given as part of a symposium on "Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice" sponsored by King's College, London, May 13, 2000. Select
PublicElectronic Textual Editing: Editors' introduction
Description:Editors' introduction to Electronic Textual Editing, published by the MLA. Select
PublicBuzzetti and McGann: Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon
Description: Select
PublicSperberg-McQueen: Bare Bones TEI
Description:Bare Bones TEI is "a very very small subset of the TEI". The tutorial is an introduction to the TEI and encoding addressed to Mark Olsen. It is Document No. TEI U6, 30 Aug 1994, rev. June 1995. Select
PublicRommel: Electronic Analysis of Literary Texts
Description: Select
PublicRobinson: Where We Are with Electronic Scholarly Editions
Description:Essay on humanities computing by Peter Robinson in the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie. Select
PublicSinclair: Historique de l'analyse de texte informatisée
Description:Essay on the history of digital texts. In French. Select
PublicWinder: Robotic Poetics
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on robotic poetics. Select
PublicMcGann: Marking Texts of Many Dimensions
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on electronic texts. Select
PublicWillet: Electronic Texts
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on electronic texts. Select
PublicRenear, Mylonas & Durand: Refining Our Notion of What Text Really Is
Description:A follow on to the well known article on "What is a text, really?". A slightly edited version of this paper was published in 1996 in Research in Humanities Computing, Oxford University Press, Nancy Ide and Susan Hockey, eds. Select
PublicNelson: Transliterature
Description:Manifesto by Ted Nelson for a Transliterature (TM) system. Select
PublicMcGann: Radiant Textuality
Description:An online essay by Jerome McGann on online textuality. He later published a book with the same title. Select
PublicLavagnino: Reading, Scholarship, and Hypertext Editions
Description:This paper was published in TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, volume 8, in 1995, pages 109-124. Select
PublicKrischenbaum: Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Description:About computer forensics and electronic textuality, this was adapted from Kirschenbaum's book manuscript, Mechanisms. Select
PublicKirschenbaum: Every Contact Leaves a Trace (Plain Text)
Description:Plain text version of the Kirschenbaum paper on computer forensics and electronic textuality. Select
PublicRefining Our Notion of What Text Really Is
Description:A discussion of Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects theses by Renear, Mylonas, and Durand. In 1996 an edited version was published in Research in Humanities Computing by Oxford UP. Select

History of ComputingGo to top

PublicFraser: Hypertextual History of Humanities Computing
Description:A web history of Humanities computing by Michael Fraser, "hypertalk delivered at the Computers and Teaching in the Humanities conference, Royal Holloway 1995." It seems to have been last updated in 1996. I have not aggregated the image and example pages. Select
PublicSinclair: Historique de l'analyse de texte informatisée
Description:Essay on the history of digital texts. In French. Select
PublicHockey: History of Humanities Computing
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on the history of humanities computing. Select
PublicBush: As We May Think
Description:Seminar article for the Atlantic Monthly on how information technology may work. Select

Humanities ComputingGo to top

PublicUnsworth: Forms of Attention
Description:A paper delivered at "The Face of Text: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities," the third conference of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA), McMaster University, November 19-21, 2004. Select
PublicUnsworth: Scholarly Primitives
Description:Paper given as part of a symposium on "Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice" sponsored by King's College, London, May 13, 2000. Select
PublicFraser: Hypertextual History of Humanities Computing
Description:A web history of Humanities computing by Michael Fraser, "hypertalk delivered at the Computers and Teaching in the Humanities conference, Royal Holloway 1995." It seems to have been last updated in 1996. I have not aggregated the image and example pages. Select
PublicMcCarty: Institutional models for humanities computing
Description:A discussion and list of humanities computing institutions. Select
PublicACLS: Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship
Description:ACLS Occasional Paper No. 37. The report suveys the state of computing in the humanities and makes recommendations. Select
PublicOrlandi: Is Humanities Computing a Discipline?
Description:Essay on humanities computing by Tito Orlandi in the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie. Select
PublicUnsworth: What is Humanities Computing and What is not?
Description: Select
PublicRockwell: Multimedia, Is it a Discipline?
Description:Essay on humanities computing by Geoffrey Rockwell in the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie. Select
PublicMcCarty: New Splashings in the Old Pond
Description:Essay on humanities computing by Willard McCarty in the Jahrbuch f�r Computerphilologie. Select
PublicHockey: History of Humanities Computing
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on the history of humanities computing. Select
PublicBlackwell Companion: Introduction
Description:The introduction to A Companion to Digital Humanities. Select
PublicBusa: Perspectives on the Digial Humanities
Description:The preface from A Companion to Digital Humanities on the digital humanities. Select
PublicNews from the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Description:TAPoR news channel for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Select
PublicOlsen: Toward Meaningful Computing
Description:Viewpoint by Shlomo Argamon and Mark Olsen on the development of new "knowledge browsers." Select
PublicCrane: What Do You Do with a Million Books?
Description:Short article by Greg Crane for D-Lib on how we can enhance the digital libraries being created by outfits like Google. Select
PublicDavidson: Data Mining, Collaboration, and Institutional Infrastructure for Transforming Research and Teaching in the Human Sciences and Beyond
Description:Article from May 2007 issue of CTWatch Quarterly. Select

HypertextGo to top

PublicMiall: Reading Hypertext
Description:Essay on humanities computing by David Miall in the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie. Select
PublicGervais: L'Hypertexte sans fin
Description:Essay about Hypertext by Bertrand Gervais in L'Astrolabe. It is a rewritten version that first appeared in 1999 in Littérature, informatique, lecture, edited by Vuillemin and LeNoble. Select
PublicBush: As We May Think
Description:Seminar article for the Atlantic Monthly on how information technology may work. Select
PublicWinder: Robotic Poetics
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on robotic poetics. Select
PublicNelson: Transliterature
Description:Manifesto by Ted Nelson for a Transliterature (TM) system. Select
PublicMiall: Reading and Writing Hypertext
Description:Introduction to Hypertext by David Miall. Select
PublicMcGann: The Rationale of Hypertext
Description:Reflections on hypertext by Jerome McGann. Select
PublicMcGann: Radiant Textuality
Description:An online essay by Jerome McGann on online textuality. He later published a book with the same title. Select
PublicLavagnino: Reading, Scholarship, and Hypertext Editions
Description:This paper was published in TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, volume 8, in 1995, pages 109-124. Select
PublicBerners-Lee: Hypertext and Our Collective Destiny
Description:Text of a talk by Tim Berners-Lee about hypertext. Select

InstitutionsGo to top

PublicMcCarty: Institutional models for humanities computing
Description:A discussion and list of humanities computing institutions. Select
PublicACLS: Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship
Description:ACLS Occasional Paper No. 37. The report suveys the state of computing in the humanities and makes recommendations. Select
PublicNews from the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Description:TAPoR news channel for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Select

InstructionGo to top

PublicThe basics of concording
Description:Tutorial on concording basics by Willard McCary. Select
PublicMethod in text-analysis
Description:Tutorial on text analysis by Willard McCarty. Select

InterfaceGo to top

PublicYour Program's Posture by Alan Cooper
Description:Web essay about different types of interfaces for programs from "soverign posture" that dominates to "daemonic posture" that isn't seen, but runs in the background. Select

IntroductionsGo to top

PublicACLS: Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship
Description:ACLS Occasional Paper No. 37. The report suveys the state of computing in the humanities and makes recommendations. Select
PublicSperberg-McQueen: Bare Bones TEI
Description:Bare Bones TEI is "a very very small subset of the TEI". The tutorial is an introduction to the TEI and encoding addressed to Mark Olsen. It is Document No. TEI U6, 30 Aug 1994, rev. June 1995. Select

Knowledge RepresentationGo to top

PublicOlsen: Toward Meaningful Computing
Description:Viewpoint by Shlomo Argamon and Mark Olsen on the development of new "knowledge browsers." Select
PublicCrane: What Do You Do with a Million Books?
Description:Short article by Greg Crane for D-Lib on how we can enhance the digital libraries being created by outfits like Google. Select
PublicRefining Our Notion of What Text Really Is
Description:A discussion of Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects theses by Renear, Mylonas, and Durand. In 1996 an edited version was published in Research in Humanities Computing by Oxford UP. Select

MarkupGo to top

PublicMcGann: The Marked Text
Description:This is an online preprint of "What is Already Encoded by the Text" in "A Companion to Digital Humanities". Select
PublicElectronic Textual Editing: Editors' introduction
Description:Editors' introduction to Electronic Textual Editing, published by the MLA. Select
PublicBuzzetti and McGann: Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon
Description: Select
PublicSperberg-McQueen: Bare Bones TEI
Description:Bare Bones TEI is "a very very small subset of the TEI". The tutorial is an introduction to the TEI and encoding addressed to Mark Olsen. It is Document No. TEI U6, 30 Aug 1994, rev. June 1995. Select
PublicHuitfeldt: Scholarly Text Processing and Future Markup Systems
Description: Select
PublicMcGann: Marking Texts of Many Dimensions
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on electronic texts. Select
PublicRenear: Text Encoding
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on text encoding. Select
PublicRenear, Mylonas & Durand: Refining Our Notion of What Text Really Is
Description:A follow on to the well known article on "What is a text, really?". A slightly edited version of this paper was published in 1996 in Research in Humanities Computing, Oxford University Press, Nancy Ide and Susan Hockey, eds. Select
PublicRefining Our Notion of What Text Really Is
Description:A discussion of Ordered Hierarchy of Content Objects theses by Renear, Mylonas, and Durand. In 1996 an edited version was published in Research in Humanities Computing by Oxford UP. Select

MetadataGo to top

PublicBerners-Lee: The Semantic Web
Description:Article in Scientific American on the semantic web. Select

MethodsGo to top

PublicContent Analysis Overview
Description:A Writing Guide from Colorado State on Content Analysis which includes discussion of text analysis. Select

MultimediaGo to top

PublicRockwell: Multimedia, Is it a Discipline?
Description:Essay on humanities computing by Geoffrey Rockwell in the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie. Select
PublicRockwell & Mactavish: Multimedia
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on Multimedia. Select
PublicWinder: Robotic Poetics
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on robotic poetics. Select

New Media TheoryGo to top

PublicKrischenbaum: Every Contact Leaves a Trace
Description:About computer forensics and electronic textuality, this was adapted from Kirschenbaum's book manuscript, Mechanisms. Select
PublicKirschenbaum: Every Contact Leaves a Trace (Plain Text)
Description:Plain text version of the Kirschenbaum paper on computer forensics and electronic textuality. Select

NewsGo to top

PublicTAPoR and Text Analysis General News
Description:The full text of the TAPoR General News Channel. Select
PublicNews from the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations
Description:TAPoR news channel for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Select

Oxford Text ArchivesGo to top

PublicFraser: Hypertextual History of Humanities Computing
Description:A web history of Humanities computing by Michael Fraser, "hypertalk delivered at the Computers and Teaching in the Humanities conference, Royal Holloway 1995." It seems to have been last updated in 1996. I have not aggregated the image and example pages. Select

ProgrammingGo to top

PublicRockwell & Ramsay: Untitled Number 4 (PEF)
Description:This dialogue is an updated version of a dialogue performed at the ACH/ALLC 2003 in Athens, Georgia. It is a PDF. There is also a plain text version. Select
PublicRockwell & Ramsay: Unititled Number 4 (Plain Text)
Description:A plain text and updated version of a dialogue performed at the 2003 ACH/ALLC in Athens Georgia. Select
PublicBradley: Text Tools
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on robotic poetics. Select
PublicThe Origins of Pattern Theory
Description:Talk given by Christopher Alexander in 1996 on design patterns and programming. Select
PublicFernandez: Code and Composition
Description:Essay on academic programming and C.P. Snow's two cultures from ACM Ubiquity. Select

Scholarly EditingGo to top

PublicBuzzetti and McGann: Critical Editing in a Digital Horizon
Description: Select
PublicRobinson: Where We Are with Electronic Scholarly Editions
Description:Essay on humanities computing by Peter Robinson in the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie. Select
PublicMcGann: Marking Texts of Many Dimensions
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on electronic texts. Select
PublicMcGann: Radiant Textuality
Description:An online essay by Jerome McGann on online textuality. He later published a book with the same title. Select
PublicLavagnino: Reading, Scholarship, and Hypertext Editions
Description:This paper was published in TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, volume 8, in 1995, pages 109-124. Select

Text AnalysisGo to top

PublicUnsworth: Scholarly Primitives
Description:Paper given as part of a symposium on "Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice" sponsored by King's College, London, May 13, 2000. Select
PublicRommel: Electronic Analysis of Literary Texts
Description: Select
PublicRockwell: Sur la possibilité de l'interprétation assistée par ordinateur
Description:Article on the possibility of text analysis by Geoffrey Rockwell in L'Astrolabe. It was translated by S. Posthumus from "MIMes and MeRMAids: On the possibility of computer-aided interpretation". Select
PublicBradley: Text Tools
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on robotic poetics. Select
PublicBurrows: Textual Analysis
Description:A chapter from A Companion to Digital Humanities on text analysis. Select
PublicRockwell: What is Text Analysis
Description:Wiki page from tada.mcmaster.ca with two short and one long answer to the question, what is text analysis? Select
PublicUnsworth: Forms of Attention
Description:A paper delivered at "The Face of Text: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities," the third conference of the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA), McMaster University, November 19-21, 2004. Select
PublicFinal Report: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
Description:Report from the Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities organized at the University of Virginia in 2005. Select
PublicFinal Report: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
Description:Plain text version of the Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities final report. Select
PublicTAPoR and Text Analysis General News
Description:The full text of the TAPoR General News Channel. Select
PublicRockwell & Bradley: Eye-ConTact
Description:Article in CHWP on Eye-ConTact and text analysis visualization. Select
PublicThe basics of concording
Description:Tutorial on concording basics by Willard McCary. Select
PublicMethod in text-analysis
Description:Tutorial on text analysis by Willard McCarty. Select
PublicContent Analysis Overview
Description:A Writing Guide from Colorado State on Content Analysis which includes discussion of text analysis. Select

Text Analysis Portal for ResearchGo to top

PublicTAPoR and Text Analysis General News
Description:The full text of the TAPoR General News Channel. Select

Text Encoding InitiativeGo to top

PublicSperberg-McQueen: Bare Bones TEI
Description:Bare Bones TEI is "a very very small subset of the TEI". The tutorial is an introduction to the TEI and encoding addressed to Mark Olsen. It is Document No. TEI U6, 30 Aug 1994, rev. June 1995. Select

Text VisualizationGo to top

PublicUnsworth: Scholarly Primitives
Description:Paper given as part of a symposium on "Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice" sponsored by King's College, London, May 13, 2000. Select
PublicRockwell: Visualisation scientifique et analyse de texte
Description:Reprint of "Empreintes dans le sable: visualisation scientifique et analyse de texte" in L'Astrolabe. Select
PublicFinal Report: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
Description:Report from the Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities organized at the University of Virginia in 2005. Select
PublicFinal Report: Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities
Description:Plain text version of the Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities final report. Select
PublicRockwell & Bradley: Eye-ConTact
Description:Article in CHWP on Eye-ConTact and text analysis visualization. Select