Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2008.

Description:

xxvi, 226 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 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The imaging of historical documents / Andrew Prescott -- Restoration and manuscript archaeology / Meg Twycross -- Representations of sources and data : working with exceptions to hierarchy in historical documents / Donald Spaeth -- Finding needles in haystacks : data-mining in distributed historical datasets / Fabio Ciravegna [and others] -- Digital searching and the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.
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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
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ISBN:

9780754672883 (alk. paper)
0754672883 (alk. paper)

Subject:

History Data processing.
History Methodology.
History Data processing Congresses.
Archaeology Data processing Congresses.
History Methodology Congresses.
Archaeology Methodology Congresses.
Histoire Informatique Congrès.
Archéologie Informatique Congrès.
Histoire Méthodologie Congrès.
Archéologie Méthodologie Congrès.
Histoire Informatique.
Histoire Méthodologie.
15.03 methods and techniques of history.
15.31 methods and techniques of archaeology.
Archaeology Methodology
Archaeology Data processing
Datenverarbeitung
Geschichtswissenschaft
Information und Dokumentation
Methode
Virtuelle Rekonstruktion
Methodology.
Data processing.
Archaeology.
Historical studies.
Digitilize.
Digital techniques.
Visualisation.
Data analysis.
Histoire Conception assistée par ordinateur.
geschiedenis
history
archeologie
archaeology
gegevensverwerking
data processing
methodologie
methodology
Methods in History
Methodiek in de geschiedenis

Form/genre:

Kongress Sheffield 2006.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Congresses (form)
Actes de congrès.

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