A New Companion to Digital Humanities

Susan Schreibman is Professor of Digital Humanities and Director of An Foras Feasa, the Institute for Research in Irish Historical & Cultural Traditions at NUI Maynooth. Her research in the digital humanities ranges from text encoding and the creation of digital scholarly editions, to more recent interests in virtual worlds and data mining. She is the co-editor of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Ray Siemens, Wiley Blackwell, 2007), and the founding editor of several web-based projects, including Letters of 1916 (hhtp: //letters1916.ie), The Thomas MacGreevy Archive (http: //macgreevy.org), Irish Resources in the Humanities (hhtp: //irith.org), and The Versioning Machine (http: //v-machine.org), a tool to edit and visualize multiple versions of deeply-encoded text. Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. In 2014 he received the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations' Antonio Zampolli Prize for outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. Dr. Siemens has published numerous articles on the intersection of literary studies and computational methods and is the co-editor of A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (with Susan Schreibman, Wiley Blackwell, 2007) and Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology (with Kenneth M. Price, 2013), the MLA's first born digital open access anthology. http: //web.uvic.ca/ siemens/. John Unsworth is Professor of English, Vice Provost for Library and Technology Services, Chief Information Office, and University Librarian at Brandeis University. In August of 2013, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on the National Humanities Council. A co-founder of Postmodern Culture, the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, he organized, incorporated, and chaired the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium; co-chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions; served as President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and later as chair of the steering committee for the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations; as well as serving on many other editorial and advisory boards.

Notes on Contributors viii
Preface xvii


Part I Infrastructures 1


1 Between Bits and Atoms: Physical Computing and Desktop Fabrication in the Humanities 3
Jentery Sayers, Devon Elliott, Kari Kraus, Bethany Nowviskie, and William J. Turkel


2 Embodiment, Entanglement, and Immersion in Digital Cultural Heritage 22
Sarah Kenderdine


3 The Internet of Things 42
Finn Arne Jørgensen


4 Collaboration and Infrastructure 54
Jennifer Edmond


Part II Creation 67


5 Becoming Interdisciplinary 69
Willard McCarty


6 New Media and Modeling: Games and the Digital Humanities 84
Steven E. Jones


7 Exploratory Programming in Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Research 98
Nick Montfort


8 Making Virtual Worlds 110
Christopher Johanson


9 Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities 127
Scott Rettberg


10 Social Scholarly Editing 137
Kenneth M. Price


11 Digital Methods in the Humanities: Understanding and Describing their Use across the Disciplines 150
Lorna Hughes, Panos Constantopoulos, and Costis Dallas


12 Tailoring Access to Content 171
Séamus Lawless, Owen Conlan, and Cormac Hampson


13 Ancient Evenings: Retrocomputing in the Digital Humanities 185
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum


Part III Analysis 199


14 Mapping the Geospatial Turn 201
Todd Presner and David Shepard


15 Music Information Retrieval 213
John Ashley Burgoyne, Ichiro Fujinaga, and J. Stephen Downie


16 Data Modeling 229
Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis


17 Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities 238
Johanna Drucker


18 Zen and the Art of Linked Data: New Strategies for a Semantic Web of Humanist Knowledge 251
Dominic Oldman, Martin Doerr, and Stefan Gradmann


19 Text Analysis and Visualization: Making Meaning Count 274
Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell


20 Text?]Mining the Humanities 291
Matthew L. Jockers and Ted Underwood


21 Textual Scholarship and Text Encoding 307
Elena Pierazzo


22 Digital Materiality 322
Sydney J. Shep


23 Screwmeneutics and Hermenumericals: the Computationality of Hermeneutics 331
Joris J. van Zundert


24 When Texts of Study are Audio Files: Digital Tools for Sound Studies in Digital Humanities 348
Tanya E. Clement


25 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions 358
Jerome McGann


26 Classification and its Structures 377
C. M. Sperberg?]McQueen


Part IV Dissemination 395


27 Interface as Mediating Actor for Collection Access, Text Analysis, and Experimentation 397
Stan Ruecker


28 Saving the Bits: Digital Humanities Forever? 408
William Kilbride


29 Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities 420
Melissa Terras


30 Peer Review 439
Kathleen Fitzpatrick


31 Hard Constraints: Designing Software in the Digital Humanities 449
Stephen Ramsay


Part V Past, Present, Future of Digital Humanities 459


32 Beyond the Digital Humanities Center: the Administrative Landscapes of the Digital Humanities 461
Andrew Prescott


33 Sorting Out the Digital Humanities 476
Patrik Svensson


34 Only Connect: The Globalization of the Digital Humanities 493
Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Katherine L. Walter, Alex Gil, and Neil Fraistat


35 Gendering Digital Literary History: What Counts for Digital Humanities 511
Laura C. Mandell


36 The Promise of the Digital Humanities and the Contested Nature of Digital Scholarship 524
William G. Thomas III


37 Building Theories or Theories of Building? A Tension at the Heart of Digital Humanities 538
Claire Warwick


Index 553