Books by Edward Vanhoutte
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Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now... more Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term ‘Digital Humanities’ is much debated. This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. We provide a historical overview of how the term ‘Humanities Computing’ developed into the term ‘Digital Humanities’, and highlight core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field. To contextualize and frame each included reading, the editors and authors provide a commentary on the original piece. There is also an annotated bibliography of other material not included in the text to provide an essential list of reading in the discipline. This text will be required reading for scholars and students who want to discover the history of Digital Humanities through its core writings, and for those who wish to understand the many possibilities that exist when trying to define Digital Humanities.
Contents: Introduction, Julianne Nyhan, Melissa Terras and Edward Vanhoutte. Section I Humanities Computing: Is humanities computing an academic discipline?, Geoffrey Rockwell; What is humanities computing and what is not?, John Unsworth; Information technology and the troubled humanities, Jerome McGann; Disciplined: using educational studies to analyse ‘humanities computing’, Melissa Terras; Tree, turf, centre, archipelago - or wild acre? Metaphors and stories for humanities computing, Willard McCarty; The gates of Hell: history and definition of digital | humanities | computing, Edward Vanhoutte. Section II Digital Humanities: Humanities computing as digital humanities, Patrik Svensson; Something called digital humanities, Wendell Piez; What is digital humanities and what’s it doing in English departments?, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum; The productive unease of 21st-century digital scholarship, Julia Flanders; Towards a conceptual framework for the digital humanities, Paul Rosenbloom. Section III From the Blogosphere: Digital humanities is a spectrum, or ‘we’re all digital humanists now’, Lincoln Mullen; Who’s in and who’s out, Stephen Ramsay; On building, Stephen Ramsay; Inclusion in the digital humanities, Geoffrey Rockwell; The digital humanities is not about building, it’s about sharing, Mark Sample; I’m Chris, where am I wrong?, Chris Forster; Peering inside the big tent, Melissa Terras; ADHO, on love and money, Bethany Nowviskie. Section IV Voices from the Community: Selected definitions from the Day of Digital Humanities 2009-2012; Digital humanities definitions by type, Fred Gibbs. Section V Further Materials: Selected further reading; Questions for discussion; Index.
Dirk Van Hulle & Edward Vanhoutte (eds.). In het Klad. Tekstgenetische studies. Antwerpen: AMVC, ... more Dirk Van Hulle & Edward Vanhoutte (eds.). In het Klad. Tekstgenetische studies. Antwerpen: AMVC, 1999. 176 p. ISBN: 90-76785-01-5.
Papers by Edward Vanhoutte
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The digital humanities community lost a good friend and colleague with the death of Chuck Bush, l... more The digital humanities community lost a good friend and colleague with the death of Chuck Bush, long-time Treasurer of the Association for Computers and Humanities and an unfailingly warm presence at the annual digital humanities conference which he attended ...
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Books by Edward Vanhoutte
Contents: Introduction, Julianne Nyhan, Melissa Terras and Edward Vanhoutte. Section I Humanities Computing: Is humanities computing an academic discipline?, Geoffrey Rockwell; What is humanities computing and what is not?, John Unsworth; Information technology and the troubled humanities, Jerome McGann; Disciplined: using educational studies to analyse ‘humanities computing’, Melissa Terras; Tree, turf, centre, archipelago - or wild acre? Metaphors and stories for humanities computing, Willard McCarty; The gates of Hell: history and definition of digital | humanities | computing, Edward Vanhoutte. Section II Digital Humanities: Humanities computing as digital humanities, Patrik Svensson; Something called digital humanities, Wendell Piez; What is digital humanities and what’s it doing in English departments?, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum; The productive unease of 21st-century digital scholarship, Julia Flanders; Towards a conceptual framework for the digital humanities, Paul Rosenbloom. Section III From the Blogosphere: Digital humanities is a spectrum, or ‘we’re all digital humanists now’, Lincoln Mullen; Who’s in and who’s out, Stephen Ramsay; On building, Stephen Ramsay; Inclusion in the digital humanities, Geoffrey Rockwell; The digital humanities is not about building, it’s about sharing, Mark Sample; I’m Chris, where am I wrong?, Chris Forster; Peering inside the big tent, Melissa Terras; ADHO, on love and money, Bethany Nowviskie. Section IV Voices from the Community: Selected definitions from the Day of Digital Humanities 2009-2012; Digital humanities definitions by type, Fred Gibbs. Section V Further Materials: Selected further reading; Questions for discussion; Index.
Papers by Edward Vanhoutte
Contents: Introduction, Julianne Nyhan, Melissa Terras and Edward Vanhoutte. Section I Humanities Computing: Is humanities computing an academic discipline?, Geoffrey Rockwell; What is humanities computing and what is not?, John Unsworth; Information technology and the troubled humanities, Jerome McGann; Disciplined: using educational studies to analyse ‘humanities computing’, Melissa Terras; Tree, turf, centre, archipelago - or wild acre? Metaphors and stories for humanities computing, Willard McCarty; The gates of Hell: history and definition of digital | humanities | computing, Edward Vanhoutte. Section II Digital Humanities: Humanities computing as digital humanities, Patrik Svensson; Something called digital humanities, Wendell Piez; What is digital humanities and what’s it doing in English departments?, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum; The productive unease of 21st-century digital scholarship, Julia Flanders; Towards a conceptual framework for the digital humanities, Paul Rosenbloom. Section III From the Blogosphere: Digital humanities is a spectrum, or ‘we’re all digital humanists now’, Lincoln Mullen; Who’s in and who’s out, Stephen Ramsay; On building, Stephen Ramsay; Inclusion in the digital humanities, Geoffrey Rockwell; The digital humanities is not about building, it’s about sharing, Mark Sample; I’m Chris, where am I wrong?, Chris Forster; Peering inside the big tent, Melissa Terras; ADHO, on love and money, Bethany Nowviskie. Section IV Voices from the Community: Selected definitions from the Day of Digital Humanities 2009-2012; Digital humanities definitions by type, Fred Gibbs. Section V Further Materials: Selected further reading; Questions for discussion; Index.
Likewise, our thinking about the digital scholarly edition should take an inclusive approach towards the accomplishments of the past. The current models for the social edition tend to underestimate the essential function of the scholarly edition in the transmission of (literary) works to next generations and focus mainly on collaboration, engagement, and participation. Claims about the 'anonymous' apparatus variorum, the failure of 'self-contained' editions and the role of the editor as 'progenitor of knowledge creation', for instance, signal some misunderstandings of traditional bibliography from the perspective of the social web. It seems that the attack on the authorial intention by sociological theories – the work as a social product – and processional theories – the work as a process rather than a product – in the 1980s and 1990s now migrates to an attack on the editorial role by the advocates of the social edition who see the scholarly text as a uniquely collaborative process defined by the available social technologies.
Therefore I wish to reiterate the importance of the 'four traditional basic tastes' of a scholarly edition – the constituted reading text, the apparatus variorum, the genetic and transmissional history, and the commentary – and add social technologies as savoriness or umami to the editorial dish. Surely, technlogical research and development affects the user's experience with a digital edition and it alters the ways and the conditions in which editors edit and construct their editions, but it hardly replaces the achievements and insights of traditional bibliography. An inclusive approach towards tradition and innovation is therefore key.