New Technologies and Renaissance Studies

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Being Reborn: The Humanities, Computing and Styles . . . . . 1
of Scientic Reasoning
Willard McCarty
A Pragmatics of Re-Conception? (A Response to Willard . . . . 23
McCarty, “Being Reborn: The Humanities, Computing
and Styles of Scientic Reasoning”)
Raymond G. Siemens
Digital Still Images and Renaissance Studies (with a Short . . . 27
Section on Digital Video)
Michael Greenhalgh
Renaissance Studies and New Technologies: A Collection . . . 73
of “Electronic Texts”
David L. Gants and R. Carter Hailey
Electronic Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Susan Forscher Weiss and Ichiro Fujinaga
Iter: Building an Eective Knowledge Base . . . . . . . . . 101
William R. Bowen
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto
EMLS: A Case Study in the Development of an . . . . . . . . 144
Academic Ejournal
Lisa Hopkins, Raymond G. Siemens, and Matthew Steggle
Creating a Website for Writing on Hands: Memory and . . . . . 161
Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Peter M. Lukehart
Reading and Teaching Shakespeare in the Virtual Library . . . 177
Rebecca Bushnell
Performers on the Road: Tracking Their Tours with the . . . . 191
REED Patrons and Performances Website
Sally-Beth MacLean and Alan Somerset
The Perdita Project: Women’s Writing, Manuscript . . . . . . 230
Studies and XML Tagging
Jonathan Gibson
Encoding Renaissance Electronic Texts . . . . . . . . . . 243
Ian Lancashire
The Devil is in the Details: An Electronic Edition of the . . . . 261
Devonshire MS (British Library Additional MS 17,492), its
Encoding and Prototyping
Raymond G. Siemens, Karin Armstrong, and Barbara Bond
Coincidental Technologies: Moving Parts in Early Modern . . . 300
Books and in Early Hypertext
Richard Cunningham
The Exploration and Development of Tools for Active . . . . . 321
Reading and Electronic Texts
Stephanie F. Thomas