One origin of Digital Humanities: Fr Roberto Busa in his own words
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 15720
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- B - Edited book
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10.1007/978-3-030-18313-4
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- Springer
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-18313-4
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- Nyhan is the lead editor of this book and the author of the vast bulk of the new and substantial material it contains. The book emerged from her extensive oral history and archival research on the history of Digital Humanities, which enabled her to identify previously out of print or inaccessible writings of Busa, and have them translated into English for the first time. Each article is paired with a new introduction that Nyhan wrote; in addition, a substantial new chapter that Nyhan co-wrote with Passarotti analyses Busa’s intellectual legacy for Digital Humanities methodology. A complete bibliography of Busa (1949-2009) that Nyhan verified and edited for publication, and an oral history interview that she did with Busa’s translator (Philip Barras), is also included. Nyhan put a great deal of work into the checking and editing of the translations (from French, German, Italian and Portuguese, and translated the German texts herself) and into working with the external scholars who she also engaged to comment on those translations. This authoritative collection makes available, for the first time, fundamental difficult to source primary and secondary sources that are crucial for the writing of histories of the Digital Humanities. The book moreover presents a deeper, more complex account of the data-led work of Busa, whose work is highly-cited yet little critiqued, and thus a new insight into the data-foundations of the (Digital) Humanities.
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