Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing

The Priest and the Punched Cards

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Steven E. Jones ISBN: 9781317286530
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 31, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Steven E. Jones
ISBN: 9781317286530
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 31, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

It’s the founding myth of humanities computing and digital humanities: In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Roberto Busa, S.J., persuaded IBM to offer technical and financial support for the mechanized creation of a massive lemmatized concordance to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Using Busa’s own papers, recently accessioned in Milan, as well as IBM archives and other sources, Jones illuminates this DH origin story. He examines relationships between the layers of hardware, software, human agents, culture, and history, and answers the question of how specific technologies afford and even constrain cultural practices, including in this case the academic research agendas of humanities computing and, later, digital humanities.

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It’s the founding myth of humanities computing and digital humanities: In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Roberto Busa, S.J., persuaded IBM to offer technical and financial support for the mechanized creation of a massive lemmatized concordance to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. Using Busa’s own papers, recently accessioned in Milan, as well as IBM archives and other sources, Jones illuminates this DH origin story. He examines relationships between the layers of hardware, software, human agents, culture, and history, and answers the question of how specific technologies afford and even constrain cultural practices, including in this case the academic research agendas of humanities computing and, later, digital humanities.

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