Title & Author:

The virtual representation of the past / edited by Mark Greengrass, Lorna Hughes.

Publication:

Farnham : Ashgate, c2008.

Description:

xxvi, 226 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Digital research in the arts and humanities

Notes:
These papers were presented at The Expert Seminar, held in Sheffield, England, on 19-21 April 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The imaging of historical documents / Andrew Prescott -- Restoration and manuscript archaeology / Meg Twycross -- Representations of sources and data : working with exceptions to hierarchy in historical documents / Donald Spaeth -- Finding needles in haystacks : data-mining in distributed historical datasets / Fabio Ciravegna ... [et al.] -- Digital searching and the re-formulation of historical knowledge / Tim Hitchcock -- Using computer-assisted qualitative data-analysis software in historical research / Caroline Bowden -- Stepping back from the trench edge : an archaeological perspective on the development of standards for recording and publication / Julian Richards and Catherine Hardman -- Which? What? When? : on the virtual representation of time / Manfred Thaller -- In the kingdom of the blind : visualization and e-science in archaeology, the arts and humanities / Vince Gaffney -- Using geographical information systems to explore space and time in the humanities / Ian Gregory -- Spatial technologies in archaeology in the twenty-first century / Paul Cripps -- Digital artefacts : possibilities and purpose / David Arnold -- "Oh, to make the boards to speak! There's a task!" : towards a poetics of paradata / Richard Beacham -- Electronic corpora of artefacts : the example of the corpus of romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland / Anna Bentkowska-Kafel -- Conclusion : virtual representations of the past : new research methods, tools and communities of practice / Lorna Hughes.

Summary:

This book critically evaluates the virtual representation of the past through digital media. A group of leading experts in the field approach digital research in history and archaeology from a variety viewpoints, including philosophical, methodological and technical.

Resources:
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780754672883 (alk. paper)
0754672883

Subject:

History Data processing.
History Methodology.
Histoire Informatique.
Histoire Méthodologie.

Added entries:

Greengrass, Mark, 1949-
Hughes, Lorna M.
Digital research in the arts and humanities.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271847
Call No.: BIB 205123
Status: Available