Books in the Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities series

Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age explores one major manuscript repository's digital presence and poses timely questions about studying books from a temporal and spatial distance via the online environment.

Traditional critical editing is considered by many to be inadequate for the expression and interpretation of complex works of literature. This book discusses whether and how paradigms for developing and using critical editions are changing to reflect the increased commitment to and assumed significance of digital tools and methodologies.

Offers an overview of the place of images in the changing information environment, and the use, function, and appropriation of digital images in both institutional and personal settings. This book covers the history, technical underpinnings, sustainability, application, and management of digital images.

Critically evaluates the virtual representation of the past through digital media. This title features experts in the field who approach digital research in history and archaeology from a variety of viewpoints, including philosophical, methodological and technical.

Digital technology has had a radical impact on all the disciplines associated with the visual arts. This book provides expert views of that impact. By looking at the advanced ICT methods, it details the long-lasting effects and advances that are made possible in art history and its associated disciplines.

Collaboration within digital humanities is both a pertinent and a pressing topic as the traditional mode of the humanist, working alone in his or her study, is supplemented by explicitly co-operative, interdependent and collaborative research. This book presents fourteen essays by leading authors in the digital humanities.

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are variants on a search box. This book offers a discussion of this form of interface design, including a theoretical basis for why it is important, and examples of how it can be done.

Presents a picture of realities of how ICT is being used in musicology as well as prospects and proposals for how it could be fruitfully used. This book highlights the breadth and inter-disciplinary nature of the subject matter. It is suitable for technologists, musicologists, musicians and music educators.

A collection of essays and interviews that investigates the practices which expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of technologies. It explores the intersections between theatre, performance and digital technologies, challenging expectations and furthering discourse across the disciplines.

The frequency with which particular words are used in a text can tell us something meaningful both about that text and also about its author because their choice of words is seldom random. This collection brings together research on the field on the construction of word-lists for the analysis of both frequency and keyword usage.

This reader brings together the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. It provides a historical overview of how the term 'Humanities Computing' developed into the term 'Digital Humanities', and highlights core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field.

This reader brings together the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. It provides a historical overview of how the term 'Humanities Computing' developed into the term 'Digital Humanities', and highlights core readings which explore the meaning, scope, and implementation of the field.

There has been an exponential explosion in the production and consumption of video online and yet there is a scarcity of knowledge and cases about video and the digital archive. This book seeks to address that through the lens of the project Circus Oz Living Archive. This project provides the case study foundation for the articulation of the issues, challenges and possibilities that the design and development of digital archives afford. Drawn from eight different disciplines and professions, the authors explore what it means to embrace the possibilities of digital technologies to transform contemporary cultural institutions and their archives into new methods of performance, representation and history.