Digital Humanities from 1949-1979

By sec4grp1

  • Fr. Roberto Busa Begins Index Verborum

    Fr. Roberto Busa begins index verborum of all words in St. Thomas Aquinas and related authors

  • Quantitive Authorship Aproach

    Morgan proposes a quantitative study of vocabulary as a mean to investigate the authorship of Epistles and Mendenhall. He characterized the styles of different authors frequency distribution of words

  • First published Authorship Study

    A "machine" was used to help compile and understand the overall word count and what this meant.

  • Mosteller and Wallace begin work

    They try to identify the authorship of the 12 disputed papers of the federalist papers. It was generally accepted that Madison was the author of all 12. One of the most influental authorship investigations of the early 60's

  • IBM Conference at Yorktown Heights and Preceedings

    In 1964, IBM organized a conference at Yorktown Heights. The subsequent publication, Literary Data Processing Conference Proceedings, edited by Jess Bessinger and Stephen Parrish (1965), almost reads like something from twenty or so years later, except for the reliance on punched cards for input. Papers discuss complex questions in encoding manuscript material and also in automated sorting for concordances where both variant spellings and the lack of lemmatization are noted as serious impediment

  • IBM Conference at Yorktown Heights

    Lead to the Writing of Literary Data Processing Conference Proceedings

  • Literary Data Processing Conference Proceedings

    edited by Jess Bessinger and Stephen Parrish Published

  • ALLC/ACH Proceedings

    The proceedings, meticulously edited by Wisbey (1971), set the standard for subsequent publications. A glance through them indicates the emphasis of interest on input, output, and programming as well as lexicography, textual editing, language teaching, and stylistics. Even at this time the need for a methodology for archiving and maintaining electronic texts was fully recognized.

  • Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing/Association for Computers and the Humanities

    The first of a regular series of conferences on literary and linguistic computing and the precursor of what became the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing/Association for Computers and the Humanities (ALLC/ACH) conferences was organized by Roy Wisbey and Michael Farringdon at the University of Cambridge in March, 1970.

  • ALLC/ACH First Conference

    Roy Wibey and Michael Farringdon Organized the first conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing/Association for Computers and the Humanities (ALLC/ACH) at the university of Cambridge.

  • The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)

    The Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing was founded at a meeting in King's College London. Met on even numbered years.

  • First Printed Volumes of Text Published

    The first printed volumes of text were published.

  • International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH)

    By the mid-1970s, another series of conferences began in North America, called the International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH), and were held in odd-numbered years to alternate with the British ALLC.

  • Oxford Text Archive (OTA)

    The establishment of the Oxford Text Archive (OTA) in 1976 was needed to ensure that a text that a researcher had finished with was not lost.

  • Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)

    Grew from the International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH) founded in the mid-70s

  • Dolores Burton Writes Articles in Computers and Humanities

    Dolores Burton writes four articles in Computers and Humanities to bring concordances together.

  • Material from St. Thomas Aquinas Put on CD-ROM

    Material from St. Thomas Aquinas Put on CD-ROM.
    Included a user guide in Latin, English, and Italian.

  • Fr. Busa Receives Busa Award

    Fr. Busa is the first recipient of the Busa Award.This award recognizes outstanding achievment in applying technology to humanistic research. At his award speech in Debrecen, Hungary, he talked about the potential of the World Wide Web to deliver scholarly material with analytical tools.