Humanities Research Using Computers

This is an international collection of invited papers which describe the experiences of a number of people working in the humanities who have used computers to help them with quite complex tasks.

The authors present new ideas and ways of achieving particular ends, reporting fruitful and creative uses of computers in the humanities.

The chapters include an account of the teaching of basic computer skills to humanities undergraduates, a description of preservation and cataloguing at the British Library, the use of advanced computing techniques in the gathering and recording of history and the establishment of a database for a catalogue of art objects.

Two chapters (one from the USSR) discuss natural language processing, and the book closes with a chapter from Christopher Turk which looks into the future.

This book should be helpful to those using, or thinking of using, computers in humanities research, and who are wondering what is possible and how it can be achieved.

It may also be of interest to those in computer services departments at universities and elsewhere who are asked to advise researchers on the use of computers.