The Virtual Representation of the Past

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Mark Greengrass, Lorna M. Hughes
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - Business & Economics - 226 pages
This unique book critically evaluates the virtual representation of the past through digital media. A distinguished team of leading experts in the field approach digital research in history and archaeology from contrasting viewpoints, including philosoph
 

Contents

Introduction
1
The Imaging of Historical Documents
7
Virtual Restoration and Manuscript Archaeology
23
5
40
Working with Exceptions
49
1
61
VIRTUAL HISTORIES AND PREHISTORIES
63
5
71
Visualization and EScience
125
Using Geographical Information Systems to Explore Space
135
1
136
Spatial Technologies in Archaeology in the Twentyfirst Century
147
THE VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION OF HISTORICAL
157
Oh to make boards to speak There is a task
171
The Example of the Corpus
179
Virtual Representations of the Past New Research
191

Digital Searching and the Reformulation of Historical Knowledge
81
Using Computerassisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software
91
1
92
An Archaeological Perspective
101
Which? What? When? On the Virtual Representation of Time
115
Glossary of Acronyms and Terms
203
Bibliography
209
Index
223
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