The virtual representation of the past / edited by Mark Greengrass and Lorna Hughes

These papers were presented at The Expert Seminar, held in Sheffield, England, on 19-21 April 2006

Includes bibliographical references and index

The imaging of historical documents / Andrew Prescott -- Virtual restoration and manuscript archaeology / Meg Twycross -- Representations of sources and data : working with exceptions to hierarchy in historical documents / Donald Spaeth -- Finding needles in haystacks : data-mining in distributed historical datasets / Fabio Ciravegna ... [et al.] -- Digital searching and the re-formulation of historical knowledge / Tim Hitchcock -- Using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software in collaborative historical research / Caroline Bowden -- Stepping back from the trench edge : an archaeological perspective on the development of standards for recording and publication / Julian Richards and Catherine Hardman -- Which? What? When? On the virtual representation of time / Manfred Thaller -- In the kingdom of the blind : visualization and e-science in archaeology, the arts and humanities / Vince Gaffney -- Using geographical information systems to explore space and time in the humanities / Ian Gregory -- Spatial technologies in archaeology in the twenty-first century / Paul Cripps -- Digital artefacts : possibilities and purpose / David Arnold -- "Oh, to make the boards to speak! There's a task!" : towards a poetics of paradata / Richard Beacham -- Electronic corpora of artefacts : the example of the corpus of romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland / Anna Bentkowska-Kafel -- Conclusion : virtual representations of the past : new research methods, tools and communities of practice / Lorna Hughes

This book critically evaluates the virtual representation of the past through digital media. A group of leading experts in the field approach digital research in history and archaeology from a variety viewpoints, including philosophical, methodological and technical.