Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings. McCarty, W. In Schreibman, S., Siemens, R., & Unsworth, J., editors, A Companion to Digital Humanities, pages (chapter 19). Blackwell, Oxford, Online Edition edition, 2004. ![Modeling: A Study in Words and Meanings [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex The question of modeling arises naturally for humanities computing from the prior question of what its practitioners across the disciplines have in common. What are they all doing with their computers that we might find in their diverse activities indications of a coherent or cohesible practice? How do we make the best, most productive sense of what we observe? There are, of course, many answers: practice varies from person to person, from project to project, and ways of construing it perhaps vary even more. In this chapter I argue for modeling as a model of such a practice. I have three confluent goals: to identify humanities computing with an intellectual ground shared by the older disciplines, so that we may say how and to what extent our field is of as well as in the humanities, how it draws from and adds to them; at the same time to reflect experience with computers "in the wild"; and to aim at the most challenging problems, and so the most intellectually rewarding future now imaginable.
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