The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/
Research Computing Across the Disciplines of the Humanities
Architecture, Archaeology, History, Literature, Music, Religion, et al.
Traditional Activities in Humanities Scholarship:
Selection, Synthesis, Analysis, Interpretation
Traditional Values in Humanities Scholarship:
Fidelity, Accuracy, Detail
A New Mode for Humanities Scholarship:
Collaboration
Text-Based Humanities Computing:
Dante's Inferno, SGML-tagged for references
Interface to Visualization of Textual References
SGML-based VRML Visualization of Reference Clustering
...With Links Back to the Text.
But More Generalized Text Visualization Interfaces Are Needed
In Preparation for Inherently Three-Dimensional Texts
Non-Textual Representations:
Architecture and Archaeology
Need for High Resolution, Multiple Input Types, Real-Time Collaboration
In Order to Arrive at Schematic Analyses
Sophisticated Image Analysis is Needed As Well
In Order to Expose and Search for Formal Patterns
And Historians Need to Model Complex Systems Over Time
In Order to Understand Changing Social Climates.
