Computers in the humanities and the social sciences

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY AND THE SCHOLARSHIP OF THE FUTURE -- Archaeology -- DATA VISUALISATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY -- AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT SYSTEM WITH DATABASES OF JAPANESE ANCIENT TOMBS AND GEOGRAPHICS -- ON THE COMPUTER-AIDED CLASSIFICATION OF POTTERY SHAPES -- DOCUMENTATION, AUTOMATIC MEASURING, OBJECT RETRIEVAL AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR ECONOMIC AND FUNCTIONAL RESEARCH IN ANCIENT COMMERCIAL POTTERY BY STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL OBJECT STRUCTURE (S ? ? ? S) -- THE A R B O R INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART (OR TREE STRUCTURES AS DOCUMENTS) -- A DATA BASE ON POMPEII PAINTINGS AND FLOORS -- History of Art - Museum Systems -- MUSEUM DATABASES CONSTRUCTED USING STIPPLE -- A COLOR IMAGE DATABASE FOR AN ETHNOLOGY MUSEUM -- FINDING THE SIGNS: PICTURES OF MEDIEVAL LIFE -- THE USE OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN IN ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY -- COMPUTER AND MUSICOLOGY AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION OF 16TH CENTURY MUSIC: GERMAN LUTE TABLATURES -- History -- A DATABASE OF JUSTINIANEAN SOURCES -- THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN DATA BANK IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA -- HOMO EX MACHINA PROSOPOGRAPHY AND CHARTULARIES -- A DATA BASE FOR RESEARCH ON PERSONS AND GROUPS OF PERSONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES -- PATTERNS OF SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTION: SHORT TERM CYCLES AND SECULAR WAVES -- THE DATABASE SAINT-LEGER: COMPUTER AND HISTORY -- ESTABLISHING A RECONSTRUCTIVE METASOURCE ON CENSORSHIP OF NOVELS IN THE EARLY FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT -- AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPONENTS OF ELITE MIGRATION: VIANO DO CASTELO, MINHO, 1826-1931 -- THE FRENCH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM BETWEEN 1831 AND 1981: A STATISTICAL DATA BASE -- DATABASE APPLICATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY: GERMAN TRANSPORT STATISTICS, 1835-1985 -- SYMBOLIC DIMENSIONS OF SERIAL SOURCES HERMENEUTICAL PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTING POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES BASED ON COMPUTERIZED RECORD LINKAGE -- THE GERMAN PARLIAMENTARIAN DATA BASE: CATCHING THE COMPLEXITIES