A Companion to Digital Humanities

This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing.
* Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field.
* Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject.
* Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving.
* Accompanied by a website featuring supplementary materials, standard readings in the field and essays to be included in future editions of the Companion.

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.