One Origin of Digital Humanities Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words

This book gathers, and makes available in English, with new introductions, previously out of print or otherwise difficult to access articles by Fr Roberto Busa S.J. (1913 - 2011). Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of Busa, an oral history inte

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One Origin of Digital Humanities Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words

One Origin of Digital Humanities

Julianne Nyhan Marco Passarotti •

Editors

One Origin of Digital Humanities Fr Roberto Busa in His Own Words

Foreword by Steven E. Jones

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Editors Julianne Nyhan University College London (UCL) London, UK

Marco Passarotti Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy

Translated by Philip Barras, Andreia Carvalho, and Tessa Hauswedell

ISBN 978-3-030-18311-0 ISBN 978-3-030-18313-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18313-4

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Table of Contents List of Figures ....................................................................................................... ix List of Tables ......................................................................................................... xi Foreword ............................................................................................................. xiii Preface and Acknowledgements .......................................................................... xix About the editors ................................................................................................ xxv Chapter 1 Introduction, or Why Busa Still Matters. Marco Passarotti and Julianne Nyhan ....................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 2 A First Example of Word Index Automatically Compiled and Printed by IBM Punched Card Machines. Roberto Busa S.J. ..........