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The web pages for each section of the module give links to instructional material for the practical aspects of the module content. This bibliography is intended to provide sources of background material for the theoretical aspects of the course and particularly the final essay.

Digital Humanities in general

• Schreiberman S., Siemens R, and Unsworth J (Eds.) (2004) A Companion to Digital Humanities, Blackwell Publishing. ISBN: 1-4051-0321-3. This is an excellent text book for background reading. To start off read the chapter on your particular discipline (and any others you are interested in), there are chapters on archaeology, art history, classics, history, linguistics, literary studies, music, performing arts, philosophy, and theology (Film Studies: see chapter 26). Individual chapters will also be referenced elsewhere
  • Note that this is now available online at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/. Individual chapters can be downloaded and printed off.

• Schreiberman S. and Siemens R. (Eds.) (2008) A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, Blackwell Publishing. The latest volume in this excellent Companion series is now available online at: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/DLS/ where chapters can also be downloaded and printed off.
  

• Shneiderman Ben, (2002) Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
  This is a book about human rather than humanities computing. It’s not central to the content of the module but it explains why computers are used as they are, explains what’s wrong with the way they are used, and explores possible future directions to make computers work as humans do rather than vice–versa (which is a major aim of digital humanities work).

• Busa, Roberto. (1980). ‘The Annals of Humanities Computing: The Index Thomisticus’, in Computers and the Humanities 14:83-90.
  You will find this in the Journals section of the Maughan Library.
  A seminal article by a leading scholar on what is commonly regarded as the first humanities computing project, with reflections on the nature and purpose of the field.

Research, writing and critical thinking skills

• Booth, Wayne C, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M Williams. (2007). The Craft of Research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 7th Edition
  A highly respected book on the hows and whys of research both inside and outside the academy. The earlier editions are also useful and the source of much of the material for this new volume

• Williams Joseph M. (1995) Style: Toward Clarity and Grace. University of Chicago Press. With two chapters coauthored by Gregory G Colomb.
  An excellent and highly recommended (for everyone) writing guide.

The Internet

• Alexander, Janet E and Tate, Marsha Ann . (1999) Web Wisdom.New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
  An excellent guide to methods of evaluating the content of on–line resources and highly recommended reading for this module.

Electronic Publishing - XHTML and Web design

• Jon Duckett (2008) Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML and CSS 2nd Edition (Wrox Beginning Guides) Wiley.
  This book come highly recommended for the Electronic Publication section of this course. There are also copies of the (still useful) 1st edition in the Maughan library. The second edition is also available very cheaply from either Amazon.co.uk or Play.com should you wish to have your own copy.

• Jon Duckett (2005) Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites: Problem, Design, Solution. John Wiley & Sons (Wrox),

• Dan Cederholm (2004) Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, FRIENDS OF ED

• Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler (2004) Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (Paperback). New Riders Press; 2nd edition.

• Molly E Holzschlag (2005) Spring into HTML and CSS. Addison Wesley,

• Kennedy and Musciano (2002) HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 5th edition

• Steve Krug (2005) Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability New Riders; 2 edition

• Renear, Allen H , (2004) Text Encoding. Chapter 17 in Schreiberman, S., Siemens, R, and Unsworth, J (Eds.) A Companion to Digital Humanities, Blackwell Publishing.

• David Schultz (2007) Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML: Modern Guide and Reference. APRESS

• Jeffrey Zeldman. (2006) Designing with Web Standards (voices that matter) Peachpit Press, 2nd Edition.

Text–Analysis

• Burrows, John. (2004) Textual Analysis. Chapter 23 in Schreiberman, S., Siemens, R, and Unsworth, J (Eds.) A Companion to Digital Humanities, Blackwell Publishing.

• Busa, Roberto. (1980). ‘The Annals of Humanities Computing: The Index Thomisticus’, in Computers and the Humanities 14:83-90.
  You will find this in the Journals section of the Maughan Library.
  A seminal article by a leading scholar on what is commonly regarded as the first humanities computing project, with reflections on the nature and purpose of the field.

• Craig, Hugh, (2004) Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies. Chapter 20 in Schreiberman, S., Siemens, R, and Unsworth, J (Eds.) A Companion to Digital Humanities, Blackwell Publishing.

For anyone interested in stylistics or authorship attribution two good papers can be found in ALLC/AHC Volume 22 Number 1 April 2007 (Journal of The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and The Association for Computing and the Humanities)

• Burrows, John. (2007) ‘All the way through: Testing for Authorship in Different Frequency Strata’.
• Garcia A.M. and Martin J.C. (2007) ‘Function Words in Authorship Attribution Studies’.

Electronic Text Archives

• Early English Books Online: http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/library/resources/general/databases/titles/ecco.htm

• Oxford Text Archive. Oxford University: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

• Perseus project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

• Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Numerical and Graphical Analysis and Presentation

• Tufte Edward. (2006) Beautiful Evidence. Graphics Press.

• Tufte Edward. (2001) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd Edn.Cheshire CT: Graphics Press.
  The first of three well respected books that focus on the interpretative aspects of visualisation.

• An introductory, quite inexpensive and highly recommended booklet by the same author and Press is Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions, (1997). There are a few copies still for sale in the CCH office at £5.

Database management

• Greenstein, D.I. (1994) A Historian's Guide to Computing. Oxford University Press.
  Although focussed specifically on historical studies, this book provides a very good introduction to the scholarly and intellectual applications of database technology.

• Ramsay, Stephen . (2004) ‘Databases’ Chapter 15 in Schreiberman, S., Siemens, R, and Unsworth, J (Eds.) A Companion to Digital Humanities, Blackwell Publishing.
  A good overview.

• Date, C.J. (1983) Database: A Primer. Addison-Wesley.
  A classic work on relational database management; quite technical.

Digitisation

• Deegan, Marilyn and Tanner, Simon. (2004) ‘Conversion of Primary Sources’. Chapter 32 in Schreiberman, S., Siemens, R, and Unsworth, J (Eds.) A Companion to Digital Humanities, Blackwell Publishing.

• Pitti, Daniel V. (2004) ‘Designing Sustainable Projects and Publications’. Chapter 31 in Schreiberman, S., Siemens, R, and Unsworth, J (Eds.) A Companion to Digital Humanities, Blackwell Publishing.

• Townsend, Sean, Cressida Chappell and Oscar Struivjé Digitising History: A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents. AHDS Guides to Good Practice. http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/

Backgrounds and contexts

• The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/

Discussion groups

• Humanist (1984––). Willard McCarty, Ed. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
  An electronic seminar concerned with all aspects of humanities computing.

• The Digital Classicist
  website: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
  and wiki: http://wiki.digitalclassicist.org
  A web–based hub for scholars and students interested in the application of Humanities Computing to research into the ancient world.

• The Digital Medievalist: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/
  An international web-based Community of Practice for medievalists working with digital media.

• The Stoa Consortium http://www.stoa.org/
  Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists (and others) everywhere.

• Antiquist: http://www.antiquist.org/
  An online community of heritage computing specialists.

• ICT in Arts and Humanities Research: http://www.ahrcict.rdg.ac.uk/
  

• Digital Arts & Humanities: http://www.arts-humanities.net/
  A place to "share and discuss ideas, promote your research and discover the digital arts and humanities"

Electronic journals

• Ejournal SiteGuide: a Metasource. Ed. Joseph Jones.http://www.library.ubc.ca/ejour/
  A selected and annotated set of links to sites for ejournals, which in turn provide links to individual titles and/or to other collections of links.

Last updated by Elena Pierazzo 19/07/11