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Computing and Digital
Libraries in the Humanities
Reading List
Originally
prepared for SLAIS MA LIS optional course on Computing in the Humanities,
January 2001.
General: Books
| Journals | Web sites
| Recent Conferences
Electronic Text Collections and Humanities
Sites | Metadata
Encoding: General Issues|
SGML | XML | Text
Encoding Initiative
Text Analysis: Software
and Tools | Applications
Advanced Text Analysis: Books
| Web Sites
Electronic Dictionaries: Print
Dictionaries in Electronic Form | Lexical
Databases
Digital Imaging: General
| Description | Projects
Hypertext and Scholarly Editions: Development
| Publications
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1.1
General: Books
- Geoff Barnbrook. (1996).
Language and Computers: A Practical Introduction to the Computer
Analysis of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.
- Christopher S. Butler.
(1992). Computers and Written Texts. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
1992.
- Richard J. Finneran
(ed.). (1996). The Literary Text in the Digital Age. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press.
- Susan Hockey. (2000).
Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Giorgio Perissinotto.
(ed.). (1996). Research in Humanities Computing 5: Selected Papers
from the ACH/ALLC Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara,
August 1995. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
1.2
General: Journals
1.3
General: Web Sites
1.4.
Recent Conferences (with extended abstracts online except
for DRH 1998 and DRH 2000)
ALLCACH and ACHALLC is
the Joint Annual Conference of the Association
for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association
for Computers and the Humanities
2.
Some Electronic Text Collections and Humanities Sites
3. Metadata
- Dublin
Core Home Page
http://dublincore.org/
- Paul Miller, Metadata
for the Masses, Ariadne issue 5, 1996.
A useful introduction to metadata and the Dublin Core. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/metadata-masses/
- Introduction
to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, edited by Murtha Baca,
Getty Research Institute, http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/intrometadata/index.html
- Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) Official Web Site,
at the Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/ead/
- Richard Higgins, The
Encoded Archival Description: Using SGML to Create Permanent Electronic
Handlists. University of Durham, also published in Business Archives
Principles and Practice,73,May 1997. http://www.dur.ac.uk/Library/asc/eadarticle.html
- MASTER:
Manuscript Access Through Standards for Electronic Records.
Standard for manuscript descriptions.
http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/master/
4.
Encoding and Markup
4.1
General Issues
4.3
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
4.4
Text Encoding Initiative
For more references on
SGML and Text Encoding see the Selective
Bibliography for Humanities Computing
5.
Text Analysis
5.1
Software and Tools
- Ian Lancashire et al,
Using TACT With Electronic Texts, Modern Language Association,
1996.
This book is more than a user manual for TACT, a DOS-based suite of
text analysis tools developed at the University of Toronto. It gives
an overview of electronic texts for literary scholarship. The accompanying
CD-Rom contains a large collection of electronic texts, mostly in English,
prepared for use with TACT.
- Concordance
Web site for Concordance Program. http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/
- Susan Hockey, Introduction
to the Use of Computer Corpora in Linguistics.
Web site prepared for workshop at the North American Symposium on Corpora
in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University of Michigan, May 1999.
http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/Susan_Hockey/Intro_to_Corpora/Corpora.htm
- Cathy
Ball's Tutorial on Concordances and Corpora
Very useful introduction to concordances, mostly for corpus and linguistic
analysis. Examples are primarily from Mac-based program Conc. http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/corpora/tutorial.html
5.2
Applications
- Douglas Biber. Variation
Across Speech and Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1988.
Investigates different ways of characterizing written and spoken text,
with emphasis on multivariate analysis.
- J. F. Burrows, Computation
into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels and an Experiment in
Method, Oxford University Press, 1987.
Study of the "idiolects" of 48 major characters in Jane Austen's
novels based on their usage of common words.
- J. F. Burrows, "Not
Unless You Ask Nicely: The Interpretative Nexus Between Analysis and
Information". Literary and Linguistic Computing, 7 (1992),
91-109.
Discusses the value of computer-based analysis with two worked examples.
- Caleb Crain, "The Bard's Fingerprints:
Donald Foster Uses High-powered Computer Tests to Search for Shakespeare's
Hidden Hand. His Critics Challenge Him on Every Move". Lingua
Franca (July 1998), 28-39.
Reaction to Foster's attribution of Funerall Elegye and
Primary Colors and his work with the FBI.
http://www.linguafranca.com/9807/crain.html
- David Holmes, "Authorship
Attribution". Computers and the Humanities, 28 (1994),
87-106.
Summary of authorship attribution techniques by a statistician who has
carried out several attribution studies.
- Anthony Kenny. The Computation of Style. Pergamon; 1982.
Introduction to statistical methods - intended for the non-mathematical
literary scholar.
- Willard
McCarty. Finding Implicit Patterns in Ovid's Metamorphoses with TACT.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/chwp/mccarty/
- Rosanne G. Potter (ed.), Literary Computing and Literary Criticism:
Theoretical and Practical Essays on Theme and Rhetoric. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
Varied collection of essays, some of which are reprints of material
published earlier. See especially the essays by Bailey, Smith, Stevenson,
Ide and Merideth. Also a short annotated bibliography.
- Norman Thomson. "How
to Read Articles Which Depend on Statistics". Literary and
Linguistic Computing, 4 (1989), 6-11.
Discusses criteria for assessing literary statistics.
- David Robey, Sound and Structure in the "Divine Comedy",
Oxford University Press, 2000.
Uses computer-based tools for the analysis of various sound pattern
features in the Divine Comedy.
6
Advanced Text Analysis and Corpus Linguistics
6.1
Books
- Roger Garside, Geoffrey
Leech, Geoffrey Sampson (eds). The Computational Analysis of English:
A Corpus-based Approach. London: Longman, 1987.
Collection of papers describing work at the Unit for Computer Research
on the English Language at the University of Lancaster.
- Roger Garside, Geoffrey
Leech and Tony McEnery (eds). Corpus Annotation: Linguistic Information
from Computer Text Corpora. London, Longman, 1997.
Collection of papers on various aspects of corpus annotation.
- Jenny Thomas and Mick
Short (eds). Using Corpora for Language Research: Studies in the
Honour of Geoffrey Leech. London: Longman, 1996.
Collection of papers showing a variety of corpus-based application.
- Guy Aston and Lou Burnard.
The BNC Handbook: Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
Takes the user through a series of lengthy worked examples on the British
National Corpus.
6.2
Web Sites
7.
Electronic Dictionaries
7.1
Print Dictionaries in Electronic Form
- Oxford English Dictionary
on Compact Disc, Oxford University Press, 1994.
Searches for headwords, etymologies, quotations, dates. User
manual has a good summary of the features of an OED2 entry. Software
is Windows 3.1.
- Perseus
Project
at Tufts University. Editor-in-Chief: Gregory Crane. Ancient Greek
texts from about 30 authors with morphological analysis and linked to
Liddell, Scott and Jones Greek Lexicon. Now also has experimental service
for texts from 10 Latin authors linked to the Lewis and Short Latin
Dictionary. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
and UK mirror site at http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/
- Your
Dictionary
Links to very many on-line dictionaries in over 200 languages. Maintained
by Robert Beard. http://www.yourdictionary.com/
7.2
Lexical Databases
- Nicoletta Calzolari
and Antonio Zampolli, "Lexical Databases and Textual Corpora: A
Trend of Convergence between Computational Linguistics and Literary
and Linguistic Computing", p 273-307 in Research in Humanities
Computing 1, edited by Ian Lancashire, Oxford University Press,
1991.
An important paper and one of the earliest to relate work in computational
linguistics and literary and linguistic computing. Examples are taken
from the Pisa group's machine-readable dictionary of Italian.
- WordNet
On-line lexical database of English developed originally for research
into psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. Developed at
the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University under the direction
of Professor George A. Miller. URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
8.
Digital Imaging
8.1
Imaging: General Issues
8.2
Image Description
8.3
Imaging Projects
9.
Hypertext and Scholarly Editions
9.1
Hypertext Development
9.2 A Sample of Hypertextual Publications
10. Future
General:
Books | Journals | Web
sites | Recent Conferences
Electronic Text Collections and Humanities
Sites | Metadata
Encoding: General Issues|
SGML | XML | Text
Encoding Initiative
Text Analysis: Software
and Tools | Applications
Advanced Text Analysis: Books
| Web Sites
Electronic Dictionaries: Print
Dictionaries in Electronic Form | Lexical
Databases
Digital Imaging: General
| Description | Projects
Hypertext and Scholarly Editions: Development
| Publications
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