Susan Schreibman is Assistant Director of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, a faculty member of the University of Maryland Libraries, and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of English. Her recent publications include Computer-Mediated Discourse: Reception Theory and Versioning and ongoing work on the Thomas MacGreevy Archive.Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria. Formerly he was Professor of English at Malaspina University-College and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. Founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, he is also editor of several Renaissance texts and coeditor of several collections on humanities computing topics. John Unsworth is Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is founding coeditor of Postmodern Culture, an e-journal, and founding Director of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

"A Companion to Digital Humanities stands on its own as a post-Revolution snapshot. It shows what happened immediately after computing became both practical, necessary and omnipresent in the Humanities.... Let there be another volume like this to document the next five years." (Classical Journal Online, May 2009) “Offers the best general introduction to this amorphous field.” (Literary Research Guide)

• Notes on Contributors viiiForeword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities xviRoberto A. BusaThe Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction xxiiiSusan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John UnsworthPART I History1 The History of Humanities Computing 3Susan Hockey2 Computing for Archaeologists 20Harrison Eiteljorg, II3 Art History 31Michael Greenhalgh4 Classics and the Computer: An End of the History 46Greg Crane5 Computing and the Historical Imagination 56William G. Thomas, III6 Lexicography 69Russon Wooldridge7 Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences 79Jan Hajic¡8 Literary Studies 88Thomas Rommel9 Music 97Ichiro Fujinaga and Susan Forscher Weiss10 Multimedia 108Geoffrey Rockwell and Andrew Mactavish11 Performing Arts 121David Z. Saltz12 ‘‘Revolution? What Revolution?’’ Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion 132Charles EssPART II Principles13 How the Computer Works 145Andrea Laue14 Classification and its Structures 161C. M. Sperberg-McQueen15 Databases 177Stephen Ramsay16 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions 198Jerome McGann17 Text Encoding 218Allen H. Renear18 Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes 240Perry Willett19 Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings 254Willard McCartyPART III Applications20 Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies 273Hugh Craig21 Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora 289Nancy Ide22 Electronic Scholarly Editing 306Martha Nell Smith23 Textual Analysis 323John Burrows24 Thematic Research Collections 348Carole L. Palmer25 Print Scholarship and Digital Resources 366Claire Warwick26 Digital Media and the Analysis of Film 383Robert Kolker27 Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination 397Ian Lancashire28 Multivariant Narratives 415Marie-Laure Ryan29 Speculative Computing: Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing 431Johanna Drucker (and Bethany Nowviskie)30 Robotic Poetics 448William WinderPART IV Production, Dissemination, Archiving31 Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications 471Daniel V. Pitti32 Conversion of Primary Sources 488Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner33 Text Tools 505John Bradley34 ‘‘So the Colors Cover the Wires’’: Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability 523Matthew G. Kirschenbaum35 Intermediation and its Malcontents: Validating Professionalism in the Age of Raw Dissemination 543Michael Jensen36 The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries 557Howard Besser37 Preservation 576Abby SmithIndex 592

Susan Schreibman is Assistant Director of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, a faculty member of the University of Maryland Libraries, and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of English. Her recent publications include Computer-Mediated Discourse: Reception Theory and Versioning and ongoing work on the Thomas MacGreevy Archive.Ray Siemens is Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria. Formerly he was Professor of English at Malaspina University-College and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. Founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal Early Modern Literary Studies, he is also editor of several Renaissance texts and coeditor of several collections on humanities computing topics. John Unsworth is Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is founding coeditor of Postmodern Culture, an e-journal, and founding Director of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

"A Companion to Digital Humanities stands on its own as a post-Revolution snapshot. It shows what happened immediately after computing became both practical, necessary and omnipresent in the Humanities.... Let there be another volume like this to document the next five years." (Classical Journal Online, May 2009) “Offers the best general introduction to this amorphous field.” (Literary Research Guide)

• Notes on Contributors viiiForeword: Perspectives on the Digital Humanities xviRoberto A. BusaThe Digital Humanities and Humanities Computing: An Introduction xxiiiSusan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John UnsworthPART I History1 The History of Humanities Computing 3Susan Hockey2 Computing for Archaeologists 20Harrison Eiteljorg, II3 Art History 31Michael Greenhalgh4 Classics and the Computer: An End of the History 46Greg Crane5 Computing and the Historical Imagination 56William G. Thomas, III6 Lexicography 69Russon Wooldridge7 Linguistics Meets Exact Sciences 79Jan Hajic¡8 Literary Studies 88Thomas Rommel9 Music 97Ichiro Fujinaga and Susan Forscher Weiss10 Multimedia 108Geoffrey Rockwell and Andrew Mactavish11 Performing Arts 121David Z. Saltz12 ‘‘Revolution? What Revolution?’’ Successes and Limits of Computing Technologies in Philosophy and Religion 132Charles EssPART II Principles13 How the Computer Works 145Andrea Laue14 Classification and its Structures 161C. M. Sperberg-McQueen15 Databases 177Stephen Ramsay16 Marking Texts of Many Dimensions 198Jerome McGann17 Text Encoding 218Allen H. Renear18 Electronic Texts: Audiences and Purposes 240Perry Willett19 Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings 254Willard McCartyPART III Applications20 Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies 273Hugh Craig21 Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora 289Nancy Ide22 Electronic Scholarly Editing 306Martha Nell Smith23 Textual Analysis 323John Burrows24 Thematic Research Collections 348Carole L. Palmer25 Print Scholarship and Digital Resources 366Claire Warwick26 Digital Media and the Analysis of Film 383Robert Kolker27 Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination 397Ian Lancashire28 Multivariant Narratives 415Marie-Laure Ryan29 Speculative Computing: Aesthetic Provocations in Humanities Computing 431Johanna Drucker (and Bethany Nowviskie)30 Robotic Poetics 448William WinderPART IV Production, Dissemination, Archiving31 Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications 471Daniel V. Pitti32 Conversion of Primary Sources 488Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner33 Text Tools 505John Bradley34 ‘‘So the Colors Cover the Wires’’: Interface, Aesthetics, and Usability 523Matthew G. Kirschenbaum35 Intermediation and its Malcontents: Validating Professionalism in the Age of Raw Dissemination 543Michael Jensen36 The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries 557Howard Besser37 Preservation 576Abby SmithIndex 592