Bibliography and References

Week 1: Introductory

1. WEB SOURCES

2. Association for Computers and the Humanities

   http://www.ach.org/

   association for literary & linguistic computing

   http://www.allc.org/

   Humbul Humanities Hub

   http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

   Digital Resources for the Humanities

   University of Newcastle Upon Tyne - http://drh2004.ncl.ac.uk/index.php

   Digital Medievalist Project

   University of Lethbridge - http://www.digitalmedievalist.org

   SIL International

   http://www.sil.org/

3. PRINT SOURCES
4. • • Hockey, Susan. A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities. Duckworth: London. 1980.
       First published in 1980, Susan Hockey's book remains a great overview to the types of traditional humanities computing projects involving text. She covers seminal work in: indexing/concordancing/dictionaries, vocabularies/collocations/dialectology, linguistic analysis, stylistics/authorship, textual criticism, sound patterns, indexing/cataloguing/retrieval.
     • Oakman, Robert L. Computer Methods for Literary Research. University of Georgia Press: Athens. 1984.
       Divided into a discussion of Fundamentals of Literary Computing and a discussion Computers in Literary Research, this book has been basic reading for literary computing.
     • Shaviro, Steve. connected: or what it means to live in the network society. Minnesota: Minneapolis. 2003.
       This book examines the continual experimentation in science and technology which produces the cultural and social forces in which we find ourselves and links them to a social theory based in the pages of science fiction.

Week 2: Rights management

1. WEB SOURCES

2. Scholarly Communication Center - Copyright Tutorial

   http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/tutorial/

   WEB Law FAQ

   http://www.patents.com/

   UW- LIBR 598 : Art, Copyright, and the WEB (1996) Bibliography

   University of Washington - http://staff.washington.edu/jcmills/class/biblio.html

3. PRINT SOURCES
4. • • Johnston, Linda K. and Derrie B. Roark. A Copyright Sampler. CJCLS: Chicago. 1996.
       The books groups samples of copyright documents by type: board policies, informational documents, interlibrary loan, library reserves, print duplication, video applications, distance learning, computer software, and computer technology.
     • Hoffmann, Gretchen McCord. Copyright in Cyberspace. Neal-Schuman: New York. 2001.
       The book provides a great background to copyright law, the basics of the internet, and recent changes to the law. It then considers copyright in cyberspace, linking, browsing, using digital images, and liabilities. Specific library applications of copyright law are also considered.
     • Litman, Jessica. Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet. Prometheus: Amherst. 2001.
       This book covers basic copyright notions and especially considers the impact of networking and file sharing on copyright issues.

Week 3: Imaging

1. WEB SOURCES

2. A Few Scanning Tips

   http://www.scantips.com/

   Graphics and Digital Images

   http://www.wfu.edu/~matthews/misc/miscellaneous.html#Graphics

   Joint Photographics Experts Group - JPEG

   http://www.jpeg.org/

3. PRINT SOURCES
4. • • Koelling, Jill Marie. Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach. Altamira: Walnut Creek. 2004
       This text starts with a good definition of terms in imaging and includes many good black-and-white examples in the text.
     • Lee, Stuart. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. Neal-Schuman: New York. 2001
       A good beginning guide to forming a digital image collection, this text also provides detailed information about file formats, organization, and delivery.

Week 4: New media 1 - video

1. WEB SOURCES

2. Pinhole Journal

   http://www.pinholeresource.com/

   Artists Using Science and Technology

   http://ylem.org/

   HotWired

   http://hotwired.wired.com/

   MicrocinemaScene

   http://www.microcinemascene.com/

3. PRINT SOURCES
4. • • Mitchell, William. City of Bits. MIT: Cambridge. 1995.
     • Schwartz, Bucky. Video Constructions. Olive Productions: Pittsburg. 1994.
     • Steward, Winston. Digital Video Solutions. Muska & Lipman: Cincinnati. 2002.
       An ebook available through UW libraries, this book covers the basics of planning a video project, producing a video, editing a video, and posting video on the WEB.

Week 5: New media 2 - audio

1. WEB SOURCES

2. UNESCO: DIGIARTS Portal

   http://portal.unesco.org/digiarts

   Digital Artists

   http://digitalarts.lcc.gatech.edu/unesco/

   Audio File Format FAQ

   http://www.cnpbagwell.com/audio.html

   Electronic Music Foundation

   http://www.emf.org/

   Electronic Music Foundation Institute

   http://www.emfinstitute.emf.org/

3. PRINT SOURCES
4. • • Pope, Stephen Travis and Guido van Rossum. Machine Tongues XVIII: A Child's Garden of Sound File Formats. Computer Music Journal: 19:1. Spring 1995.
       SoundFiles: Sampling rates, sound channels and more.
     • Fiormonte, Domenico and Jonathan Usher, eds. New Media and the Humanities: Research and Applications. Oxford. 1998.
       This is a collection of papers "examining the impact of the new technologies on old forms of communication".
     • Harries, Dan. The New Media Book. BFI: London. 2002.
       This collection of essays is divided into five parts: technologies, production, texts, consumption, and contexts.
     • Everett, Anna and John Thornton Caldwell, eds. New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality. Routledege: New York. 2003.
       The essays in this collection by theorists, scholars, and practioners of new media seek to underline the role of humanistic values in the new electronic world.
     • Gitelmen, Lisa and Geoffrey B. Pingree, eds. New Media, 1740-1915. MIT: Cambridge. 2003.
       In a collection of essays, the impact of a range of historical technologies and their impact on culture through time is presented in this book.

Week 6: Text

1. WEB SOURCES

2. Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities

   http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/

   eserver.org accessible writing

   http://eserver.org/

   Project Gutenberg

   http://www.gutenberg.net/

   Women Writers Project

   Brown University - http://www.wwp.brown.edu/

   Text Encoding Initiative

   http://www.tei-c.org/

   World Wide Web Consortium

   http://www.w3.org/

   Unicode Home Page

   http://www.unicode.org/

3. PRINT SOURCES
4. • TEXT PROCESSING
   • • Butler, Christopher S. Computers and Written Texts. Blackwell: Oxford. 1992.
       This collection contains essays by many early names in text processing which cover the major areas of text handling in the humanities.
     • Kenny, Anthony. The Computation of Style. Pergamon: Oxford. 1982.
       This seminal work tackles the role of statistics in literary analysis for stylistics and authorship studies.
     • Kew, Jonathan and McConnel, Stephen. Formatting Interlinear Text. SIL: Dallas. 1990.
       Using the TeX mark-up language for typesetting interlinear text.
     • Olsen, Solveig, ed. Computer-Aided Instruction in the Humanities. MLA: New York. 1985.
       This book provides a look at 12 early projects that try to bring technology into the humanities classroom. Much of the information is dated. Published in 1985, most of projects described would now be delivered via the internet.
     • Thorpe, James. Principles of Textual Criticism. The Huntington Library: San Marino. 1972.
       Written before the wide adoption of computer methods, this book nevertheless lays out important considerations for would-be "electronic editors/taggers" using English and American examples.
   • TAGGING
   • • SoftQuad. The SGML Primer. SoftQuad: Toronto. 1991.
       This 26 page manual explains in a very concise way the features of SGML, which underlies HTML, XHMTL, and XML. It has a great chart on the back cover.
     • van Herwijnen, Eric. Practical SGML. Kluwer: Dordrecht. 1993.
       Some would say that SGML was never practical, but this text takes a comprehensive view of SGML, including mathematics and graphics, databases, and electronic data interchange.

Week 7: Databases

1. WEB SOURCES

2. Applications of Databases to the Humanities and Social Sciences

   University of Lyon - http://nte-socio.univ-lyon2.fr/Marc_Grange/BDConception_en.htm

3. PRINT SOURCES
4. • Hernandez, Michael J. Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-on Guide to Relational Database Design. Addison-Wesley: Boston. c2003.
   • Taniar, David. Web-powered Databases. Idea Group: Hershey. c2003.
     This text is available as an ebook through UW libraries.

Week 8: Metadata and Accessibility

1. WEB SOURCES

2. Dublin Core

   http://dublincore.org/

   MARC Standards

   http://www.loc.gov/marc/

   Resources - Making WEB Sites Accessible

   http://www.washington.edu/computing/accessible/resources.html

   User Centered WEB Design

   http://www.washington.edu/webguides/workbook/

   User Centered WEB Design

   - University of Washington: assistive technology, universal design, accessible web design/distance learning

   http://www.washington.edu/doit/

   ADA Standards for Accessible Design

   http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/

3. PRINT SOURCES
4. • Miller, Paul ed., Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities: A Practical Implementation of the Dublin Core. AHDS: London. 1997.
     This book provides a simple outline of the 15 Dublin Core elements, a explanation of these elements, and examples of how these are used by the Oxford Text Archive, Performing Arts Data Service, and the Visual Arts Data Service.
   • Caplan, Priscilla. Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians. ALA: Chicago. 2003.
     This introduction to metadata lists important metadata schemes: MARC, Dublin Core, Library of Congress, Rich Site Summary (RSS), and more. It also includes a very helpful glossary of terms.
   • Baca, Murtha, ed. Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. Getty: Los Angeles. 1998.
     With a glossary of terms and WEB addresses for each acronym, this guide defines metadata with special reference to the world wide web and includes a "crosswalk" or mapping of 9 common metadata standards/schemes.

Week 9: Project Presentations

• students present term project

Week 10: Preservation

1. WEB SOURCES

2. Electronic Storage Media

   http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/electronic-records/electronic-storage-media/

   Video History Project Preservation

   http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/index.html

   DSpace Federation

   http://www.dspace.org/

   Digital Well

   http://digitalwell.org/

   NIST CD Preservation: One Page Summary

   http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/onepage.pdf

   CD and DVD Care and Handling Guide (NIST)

   http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/carefordisc/CDandDVDCareandHandlingGuide.pdf

3. PRINT SOURCES
4. • • St-Laurent, Gilles. The Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials. Commission on Preservation and Access: Washington, DC. 1991.
       This article contains a brief description of the characteristics of various media as affected by heat, humidity, and other factors over time.
     • Saffady, William. Stability, Care and Handling of Microforms, Magnetic Media and Optical Disks. ALA: Chicago. 1991