The Proposed Companion to Humanities Computing

The Proposed Companion to Humanities Computing

Ray
Siemens

Malaspina University-College
siemensr@mala.bc.ca

John
Unsworth

IATH, University of Virginia
jmu2m@virginia.edu

Susan
Schreibman

MITH, University of Maryland
susan_schreibman@umail.umd.edu

2002

University of Tübingen

Tübingen

ALLC/ACH 2002

editor

Harald
Fuchs

encoder

Sara
A.
Schmidt

What lies at the intersection of computational methods and humanities scholarship
-- humanities computing -- is of growing importance, an importance that is seen
both in the rise of contributions made by such approaches to field specific
research and research dissemination, and in its representation in the
undergraduate and graduate curriculum of a growing number of institutions. Even
so, there is no single resource available to introduce this field's concerns and
to serve its curricular needs. Our Companion to Humanities
Computing is, thus, proposed as much out of pragmatic necessity, to
address the unmet needs of a growing area of inquiry, as it is out of curricular
service, to serve those needs by offering a selection of specially commissioned
articles representative of the central concerns shared by all those interested
in humanities computing.
Aimed specifically at serving students and instructors in upper level
undergraduate courses, those at the graduate level, and interested leaders both
within and outside academe, the Companion will provide a representation of the
field and its curricular concerns that documents the field's evolution, its
current state, and its potential future.