Eileen Gardiner

Digital Humanities (eBook, ePUB)

A Primer for Students and Scholars

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Digital Humanities is a comprehensive introduction and practical guide to how humanists use the digital to conduct research, organize materials, analyze, and publish findings. It summarizes the turn toward the digital that is reinventing every aspect of the humanities among scholars, libraries, publishers, administrators, and the public. Beginning with some definitions and a brief historical survey of the humanities, the book examines how humanists work, what they study, and how humanists and their research have been impacted by the digital and how, in turn, they shape it. It surveys digital humanities tools and their functions, the digital humanists' environments, and the outcomes and reception of their work. The book pays particular attention to both theoretical underpinnings and practical considerations for embarking on digital humanities projects. It places the digital humanities firmly within the historical traditions of the humanities and in the contexts of current academic and scholarly life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316287576
• Artikelnr.: 52864133

Autorenporträt

Eileen Gardiner is the publisher of Italica Press. Currently she is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol. She is the former co-executive director of the Medieval Academy of America and the former co-director of ACLS Humanities E-Book. She holds a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature, with a specialization in medieval literature. Dr. Gardiner has published several articles and books on medieval vision literature, including her Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante. She is the editor of Hell-on-Line, a website that comprises a comprehensive collection of visions, tours and descriptions of the infernal otherworld from various religious and cultural traditions; and The Pilgrim's Way to St. Patrick's Purgatory, a project that traces for the modern pilgrim the medieval route from Dublin to Lough Derg in County Donegal. Her recent articles include "Visions and Journeys," in Dante in Context, edited by Lino Pertile and Zygmunt G. Baranski (Cambridge University Press, 2015); "Hell," in the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 11: The Middle Ages and Reformation, edited by Carolyn Muessig (De Gruyter, 2015); and "Heaven, Purgatory and Hell," in Handbook of Medieval Culture vol. 1, edited by Albrecht Classen (De Gruyter, 2015). Dr. Gardiner's forthcoming articles include "Heaven and Hell," in The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying, edited by Christopher M. Moreman (Routledge); and "The Vision of Tnugdal," in Imagining the Medieval Afterlife, edited by Richard Pollard (Cambridge University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to the digital humanities
2. The organization of humanities research
3. The elements of digital humanities: text and document
4. The elements of digital humanities: object, artifact, image, sound, space
5. Digital tools
6. Digital environments
7. Publication: pre-release, release, and beyond
8. The meta-issues of digital humanities 1
9. Meta-issues 2: copyright and other rights, DRM, open access
10. The evolving landscape for the digital humanities
Epilogue: the half-life of wisdom
Appendix: digital tools.