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(2012) Understanding digital humanities, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Cultures of formalisation
towards an encounter between humanities and computing
Joris van Zundert, Smiljana Antonijevic, Anne Beaulieu, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Douwe Zeldenrust
pp. 279-294
The past three decades have seen several waves of interest in developing crossovers between academic research and computing; molecular biology is often cited as the prime exemplar of "what computation can do for a field". The humanities and social sciences have also been the terrain of such interactions,at times through bottom-up collaborations, and at times through concerted policy-driven efforts (Wouters and Beaulieu 2006). The main developments vary across national contexts and disciplines. In our local context (in the Netherlands), we can roughly identify the following waves: the "history and computing" and "literature and computing" efforts of the 1970s and 1980s;the collaboratory and infrastructure discussions of the last decade; the current efforts at developing computational humanities, and recent emphasis on virtual research environments (VREs) of which Alfalab1 can be regarded as an example.
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van Zundert, J. , Antonijevic, S. , Beaulieu, A. , van Dalen-Oskam, K. , Zeldenrust, D. (2012)., Cultures of formalisation: towards an encounter between humanities and computing, in D. M. Berry (ed.), Understanding digital humanities, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 279-294.
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