The aim of this book is to provide a rationale for a computing practice that is of and for as well as in the humanities. It engages philosophical, historical, ethnographic and critical perspectives to show how computing helps us fulfil the basic mandate of the humane sciences to ask ever better questions. It explores the challenges of imagining and constructing new scholarly resources. It strengthens current practice by stimulating debate on the role of the computer across all disciplines, examining and developing the key notions of collaboration and interdisciplinarity. It gives practitioners a way of conceptualising their practice as an ongoing anthropological encounter, and it gives those with whom they interact a new way of understanding the interdisciplinary language of method. It sketches the complex amalgam of computer science and suggests the basis for a productive relationship. It outlines an agenda for the field to which individual scholars can contribute.

Acknowledgements
Epigraph
Preface
Modelling
Genre
Discipline
Computer Science
Agenda
Bibliography
Index

WILLARD MCCARTY is a Reader in Humanities Computing, King's College London, and founding editor of the online seminar Humanist. Since the mid 1980s he has lectured and published widely on the intellectual foundations for humanities computing and taught courses on the subject at Toronto, Princeton and London.