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THE PROGRAMMER AND THE SCHOLAR: A CONVERSATION
THE PROGRAMMER AND THE SCHOLAR: A CONVERSATION

Author(s): Willard McCarty
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Economy, Literary Texts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Geography, Regional studies, Library and Information Science, Maps / Cartography, Information Architecture, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Philology, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Digital humanities; modelling; agenda; collaboration; interdisciplinary research; absolute consistency and complete explicitness; markup.

Summary/Abstract: The prospects of a new centre for digital humanities brings to mind those once prominent centres that have disappeared, hence the question of what they did or did not do that would have made the difference. Here I suggest that they failed for lack of an intellectual agenda. Drawing from the early history of digital humanities, an ethnographic vignette of my own research, close attention to the machinery of computing and work in the history of the physical sciences, I suggest a beginning to such an agenda.

  • Issue Year: 62/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 7-24
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English