Hello,
We would like to thank each of you for agreeing to contribute to the
Companion to Digital Humanities to be published by Blackwell's in early
Autumn 2003. We very much look forward to working with you on this project
over the coming months.
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Section I below is a general overview of the Companion. Section II consists
of Format guidelines, Section III has Blackwell's general guidelines for
contributors, and Section IV contains a list of articles, contributor names
and their e-mail addresses. If you have questions at any point, you may
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Drafts should be submitted to the editors no later than 1 November 2002,
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Again, we very much look forward to working with you all.
Sincerely,
Susan Schreibman (ss423@umail.umd.edu)
Ray Siemens (siemensr@mala.bc.ca)
John Unsworth (jmu2m@virginia.edu)
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Section I: Guidelines for Contributors
The purpose of this volume is to survey the field of humanities computing,
to introduce the field's concerns and to serve its curricular needs. We
envision the audience for the Companion to be:
1) students and instructors in upper level undergraduate courses;
2) students at the graduate level;
3) interested readers both within and outside academe.
The Companion is made up of nearly 40 articles, grouped in topical sections
sensible both to those new to the area and to those who have shaped it, and
it is aimed at providing a thorough, concise overview of the field.
The first section, History, consists of one longer article (8,000 words)
giving a general overview, and a number of 4,000 word articles which should
briefly survey the history and current state of computer applications within
a particular discipline.
Sections II (Principles), III (Applications) and IV (Production,
Dissemination and Archiving) each consist of articles 8,000 words in length,
focusing on specific problems, tasks, initiatives, etc.. The exact approach
taken in these articles will depend on the subject being addressed, but a good
rule of thumb would be to bear in mind the needs of both a novice audience
and more expert readers
Although some of the articles may begin with a brief historical and/or
disciplinary context(s), writers should be careful not to duplicate content
from the History section. To this end, we encourage you to communicate
directly with one another if you have concerns about overlap, or if you
would simply like to share ideas or drafts of particular sections.
Each chapter should be accompanied by a list of works cited or consulted
that includes the seminal works in the field, so that those consulting our
volume can use it as a quick reference/ jumping-off point for further work.
In addition, to increase the potential utility of the collection, the
Companion will also be accompanied by a website for related materials and
drafts of material for future editions.
Section II: Format
All essays should be submitted electronically, either on disk or
(preferably) as attachments to email. Submissions may be in TEI-conformant
SGML or XML, or in a common word-processing format (Microsoft Word,
WordPerfect).
Contributors should note that the formatting of any word processed
submissions cannot be reliably preserved, and should therefore avoid
relying excessively on it. The unnecessary use of figures and tables in
particular should be avoided.
Section III: Notes for Contributors (From Blackwell)
Length:
Please do not exceed the contracted length, but note that the lengths quoted
are exclusive of bibliographies. For guidance on the length of
bibliographies, see Bibliography below.
Stylistic and Presentation Points:
Please submit your paper double-spaced throughout, including bibliographies,
to allow room for the copy editor's marks, and leave generous margins on
either side for the same reason.
For longer sections within chapters, you may consider the possibility of
adding a single level of unnumbered subheading that will help the
readability and reference function of the text.
Quotations:
Quotations shorter than thirty words should be run on in the text; longer
quotations should be broken off from the text and indented. [See also
Permissions section below].
Endnotes:
Endnotes should be used in preference to footnotes. These should be kept to
a minimum (see Bibliography).
Signature:
Please add your name in capitals at the end of the article, in the form in
which you wish it to appear in the text and the list of contributors.
Spelling:
This Companion will follow American spelling conventions. However, there is
no need to alter your own practice, as the copy-editor will make the
necessary changes later.
Cross-references:
If you think that another chapter or section is likely to contain related or
further material on some point, please feel free to signal this in the
following form at the end of your chapter: 'see [EXACT TITLE IN CAPITALS]'.
Separate cross-references at the end of an entry should be in the form: 'see
also [EXACT TITLE IN CAPITALS]'. The editor will check all suggested
cross-references against the copy finally submitted and may add some further
cross-references of her own.
Bibliography:
Bibliographic information at the end of each chapter takes the form of
References for Further Reading; 25 items including all works cited in the
chapter itself. Items of further reading should cover material which will
enable the reader to pursue the topic in greater depth.
The word count specified for your chapter is exclusive of bibliography.
The bibliography should be arranged in alphabetical order of author.
Bibliographical items should be cited in the following form:
Books:
Name, A. B. (1991). Title with All Major Words Initial Caps. Place:
Publisher.
Articles in books:
Name, A. B. (1991). Article title with capital letters for first main word
and proper Nouns only. In A. B. & C. D. Name (Eds). Book Title (pp. 00-00).
Place: Publisher.
For foreign titles:
(no English translation)
Name, A. B. (1991). Title following rules of capitalization for given
language. [literal translation]. Place: Publisher.
(with English translation)
Name, A. B. (1991). English language title with capital letters for first
main word, Proper Nouns, or the first word of a sub-title. (A. B. Name,
Trans.). Place: Publisher (Original work published 1930).
Articles in journals:
Name, A. B. (1991). Article in which only first word and Proper Nouns are
capitalized. Journal Name all Initial Capital Letters on Main Words, 35,
00-00.
Web sites:
[The editors have asked Blackwell for an example of their preferred form
for citing web-based materials, and we will send that example along to
this email list when we have it]
Permissions:
It is assumed that quotation will be made for critical purposes and that
permissions will not be required in the majority of instances. Where in
doubt on this point, please supply publication details (author, title,
publisher, date and page number) for all material taken from previously
published sources. It is the contributors' responsibility to seek permission
from their publisher to use passages from their own work in this
publication, and also to seek permission for other material taken from
previously published sources. Note that quotations in excess of 400 words in
copyright, unless demonstrably used for purposes of criticism, require
permission to reproduce.
Editorial Practice:
There are obvious problems in making a large volume of this sort internally
coherent and non-repetitive, and the editor may need to make minor
adjustments to your text without referring the matter to you at the time.
More substantial alteration will, of course, be discussed with you at an
early stage.
Section IV: Table of Contents
Frontmatter:
Foreword, Father Busa, roberto.busa@mi.unicatt.it (4,000 words)
Introduction. The Editors (4,000 words)
1. History:
The History of Humanities Computing, Susan Hockey, s.hockey@ucl.ac.uk (8000
words)
Computing Across the Disciplines (short entries):
Architecture & Archaeology, Nick Eiteljorg, nicke@csanet.org (4,000 words)
Classics, Greg Crane, gcrane@tantalos.perseus.tufts.edu (4,000 words)
History, Will Thomas, wgt9m@virginia.edu (4,000 words)
Language Learning, Peter Liddell, pgl@uvic.ca (4,000 words)
Lexicography, Russ Wooldridge, wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca (4,000 words)
Linguistics, Jan Hajic, hajic@ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz (4,000 words)
Literary Studies, Thomas Rommel, rommel@iu-bremen.de (4,000 words)
Music, Ichiro Fujinaga. ich@jhu.edu, & Susan Forscher Weiss.
sweiss@peabody.jhu.edu (4,000 words)
New Media. Geoff Rockwell. grockwel@mcmaster.ca (4,000 words)
Performing Arts. David Saltz, saltz@arches.uga.edu (4,000 words)
Philosophy and Religion, Charles Ess, cmess@drury.edu (4,000 words)
2. Principles:
How Computers Work, Andrea Laue, akl3s@virginia.edu (8,000 words)
Knowledge Representation in Humanities Computing [the editors] (8,000 words)
Classification and its structures, Michael Sperberg McQueen, cmsmcq@acm.org
(8,000 words)
Databases. Steve Ramsay, sjr3a@virginia.edu (8,000 words)
What is Already Encoded by the Text. Jerry McGann, jjm2f@virginia.edu (8,000
words)
Text Encoding and the Fundamental Problems of the Humanities, Allen Renear,
renear@uiuc.edu (8,000 words)
Perspectives and Communities, Perry Willett, pwillett@indiana.edu (8,000
words)
Maps, Trevor Harris, tharris2@wvu.edu (8,000 words)
Models. Willard McCarty, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk (8,000 words)
3. Applications:
Scholarship and Computing:
Stylistic Analysis and Authorship Studies, Hugh Craig,
Hugh.Craig@newcastle.edu.au (8,000 words)
Preparation and Analysis of Linguistic Corpora, Nancy Ide, ide@cs.vassar.edu
(8,000 words)
Electronic Scholarly Editing. Martha Nell Smith,
Martha_Nell_Smith@umail.umd.edu (8,000 words)
Textual Analysis, John Burrows, lcjfb@cc.newcastle.edu.au (8,000 words)
Cultural Studies and Thematic Research Collections, Carole Palmer,
palmer@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (8,000 words)
Print Scholarship and Digital Resources, Claire Warwick,
C.Warwick@sheffield.ac.uk (8,000 words)
Digital Media and the Analysis of Film, Adrian Miles, adrian.miles@uib.no
(8,000 words)
Creativity and Computing:
Cognitive Stylistics and the Literary Imagination, Ian Lancashire,
ian@chass.utoronto.ca (8,000 words)
Multivariant Narratives, Marie-Laure Ryan, marilaur@msn.com (8,000 words)
Pataphysical Computing, Johanna Drucker, jrd8e@virginia.edu (8,000 words)
Robotic Poetics, Bill Winder, winder@interchange.ubc.ca (8,000 words)
4. Production, Dissemination, Archiving:
Project Design. Daniel Pitti, dpitti@virginia.edu (8,000 words)
Conversion of Primary Sources. Marilyn Deegan,
marilyn.deegan@queen-elizabeth-house.oxford.ac.uk (8,000 words)
Text Tools, John Bradley, john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk (8,000 words)
Specialized Tools and Effects. Matt Kirschenbaum, mk235@umail.umd.edu (8,000
words)
Electronic Publishing, Michael Jensen, mjensen@nas.edu (8,000 words)
Digital Libraries in the Humanities. Lee Ellen Friedland.
lfri@bellatlantic.net (8,000 words)
Preservation, Abby Smith, asmith@clir.org (8,000 words)
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