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        Date: 2025-09-16 07:39:52+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: scholarly primitives

The mention of 'scholarly primitives' reminds me of the discussion that
began more than 20 years ago on this topic. A primary source is the
"often quoted" lecture

Unsworth, John. “Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities
researchers have in common, and how might our tools reflect this?”
Symposium on “Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental
practice”, King’s College, London (May 13, 2000)
<https://people.brandeis.edu/~unsworth/Kings.5-00/primitives.html>.

There's also:

Schreibman, Susan, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth, eds. 2016. A New 
Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.

Kaltenbrunner, W. 2015, May 27. Reflexive inertia : reinventing
scholarship through digital practices. Retrieved from
https://hdl.handle.net/1887/33061

Prescott, Andrew. 2012. "Making the Digital Human: Anxieties,
Possibilities, Challenges". Lecture at the Digital Humanities Summer
School, Oxford University, 6 July.

Unsworth, John and Charlotte Tupman. 2012.  "Interview with John
Unsworth, April 2011, carried out and transcribed by Charlotte Tupman".
In Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities, edited by Marilyn
Deegan and Willard McCarty. London: Ashgate.

McCarty, Willard. 2005. Humanities Computing. Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, esp.Chapter 2.

McCarty, Willard. 2002. "Humanities Computing: Essential Problems,
Experimental Practice". Literary and Linguistic Computing 17.1.


Enough, already, with the usual suspects, I hear you say. It's one of
those topics that keeps on ticking, somewhat like the search for
elementary particles. It always deserves a reconsideration--and a
consideration of the reconsiderating.

Best,
WM
--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts,
   Sciences and Humanities (Berghahn); Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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