Free E-Book: A Companion to the Digital Humanities

This is the freely available, electronic version of A Companion to Digital Humanities, a collection of essays providing a comprehensive description of the history, development and current status of the digital humanities and humanities computing. Divided into four parts – history; principles; applications; and production, dissemination and archiving – this volume represents essential reading for anyone interested in the field at any level. The history section traces humanities computing within specific subject areas such as Archaeology; Art History; Linguistics; Literary Studies; and the Performing Arts, whereas the principles section addresses not only how computers work but also classification and its structures; text encoding; and the audiences and purposes of electronic texts and modeling. The applications section has some emphasis on text, and features essays on: the preparation and analysis of linguistic corpora; electronic scholarly editing; and textual analysis; as well as overviews of digital media and the analysis of film, and robotic poetics. In the final section, users will find essays concerning designing sustainable projects and publications; the past, present and future of digital libraries; and preservation. Contributors to the volume include Marilyn Deegan, Susan Hockey, and Willard McCarty. The print volume is published by Blackwell (link)