01053nas a2200121   4500008003900000245006000039210005800099520064700157653001400804653000900818100001900827856008500846       2002                          d00aUnsworth: What is Humanities Computing and What is not?0 aUnsworth What is Humanities Computing and What is not3 aI'll give the short answer to the question »what is humanities computing?« up front: it is foreshadowed by my two epigraphs. Humanities computing is a practice of representation, a form of modeling or, as Wallace Stevens has it, mimicry. It is also (as Davis and his co-authors put it) a way of reasoning and a set of ontological commitments, and its representational practice is shaped by the need for efficient computation on the one hand, and for human communication on the other. We'll come back to these ideas, but before we do, let's stop for a moment to consider why one would ask a question such as »what is humanities computing?«10at_reading10a_DHA1 aUnsworth, John  uhttps://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/157/whatis.html?sequence=2