Digital humanities : history and development /

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Author / Creator:Le Deuff, Olivier, author.
Imprint:London : ISTE Ltd ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
©2018
Description:xvi, 149 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Information systems, web and pervasive computing series. Intellectual technologies set ; volume 4
Intellectual technologies set ; v. 4.
Information systems, web and pervasive computing series.
Subject:Digital humanities -- History.
Information storage and retrieval systems -- Architecture -- History.
Digital humanities.
Information storage and retrieval systems -- Architecture.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11609929
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ISBN:9781786300164
1786300168
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-145) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Republics of Letters: the Need to Communicate and Exchange
  • 1.1. Republic of Letters
  • 1.2. The role of journals and the beginning of scientific information
  • Chapter 2. The Science of Writings and Documentation
  • 2.1. The importance of media and technology
  • 2.2. A science of writing?
  • 2.3. From bibliotheconomy to bibliology
  • 2.4. Between documentation and documentality
  • Chapter 3. From Lists to Tables, the Question of Indexing
  • 3.1. In the beginning was the index
  • 3.2. The need to handle information
  • 3.3. Index and hypertext
  • 3.4. Indexing as a design
  • 3.5. Indexing knowledge versus indexing existences
  • Chapter 4. The Need to Find Information
  • 4.1. Information overabundance
  • 4.2. The review process
  • 4.3. Retrieving information
  • 4.4. Between editorialization and information architecture
  • Chapter 5. The Researcher's Workstation and the History of Hypertexts
  • 5.1. A hypertextual history
  • 5.2. Paul Otlet and proto-digital humanities
  • 5.3. The success of the Web
  • Chapter 6. The Quantitative Leap: Social Sciences and Statistics
  • 6.1. Statistical reasoning
  • 6.2. A dispute over methods?
  • 6.3. François Furet and history
  • 6.4. Between totalitarian science and the end of science
  • 6.5. Digital literacy or overcoming opposition
  • Chapter 7. Automatic Processing: Concordances, Occurrences and Other Interpretation and Visualization Matrices
  • 7.1. Ostranenie
  • 7.2. Concordances
  • 7.3. Corpus creation
  • 7.4. The word association method
  • Chapter 8. Metadata Systems
  • 8.1. Cataloging
  • 8.2. Markup language
  • 8.3. Folksonomies and the path of open digital humanities
  • 8.4. The Web of data, from tree to graph
  • Chapter 9. The New Metrics: From Scientometrics to Webometrics
  • 9.1. Bibliometrics and scientometrics
  • 9.2. The reduction of science
  • 9.3. The statistical expression of science
  • 9.4. Nalimov's works
  • 9.5. Scientometrics and traditional tools
  • Chapter 10. The Map: More than the Territory
  • 10.1. Cybergeography - a forerunner of digital studies?
  • 10.2. The map is not (only) the territory
  • 10.3. Social networks and sociometry
  • 10.4. A cartographic esthetic
  • 10.5. Modeling and schematics
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index