Getting computers into Humanists' thinking: John Bradley and Julianne Nyhan

Has Interviewer
Julianne Nyhan
Has Interviewee
John Bradley
Date
09-Sep-14
Location
Bradley's office in Drury Lane, King's College London
Language
English
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Computation and the Humanities interviews
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MP3
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Title
Getting computers into Humanists' thinking: John Bradley and Julianne Nyhan
Interview Summary
This interview tool place in Bradley's office in Drury Lane, King's College London on 9 September 2014 around 11.30am. Bradley recalls that his interest in computing started in the early '60s. As computer time was not then available to him he sometimes wrote out in longhand the FORTRAN code he was beginning to learn from books. One of his earliest encounters with Humanities Computing was the concordance to Diodorus Siculus that he programmed in the late '70s. The printed concordance that resulted filled the back of a station wagon. The burgeoning Humanities Computing community in Toronto at that time collaborated both with the University of Toronto Computer Services Department (where Bradley was based) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, founded by Ian Lancashire. Aware of the small but significant interest in text analysis that existed in Toronto at that time and pondering the implications of the shift from batch to interactive computing he began work as a developer of Text Analysis Computing Tools (TACT). He also recalls his later work on Pliny, a personal note management system, and how it was at least partly undertaken in response to the lack of engagement with computational text analysis he noted among Humanists. In addition to other themes, he reflects at various points during the interview on models of partnership between Academic and Technical experts.
Subject
An oral history interview on the history of Digital Humanities for the Hidden Histories project
Processed Derivative Material
Full text: inChapter 14 ofComputation and the Humanities
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Interview audio files are made available under a creative commons licence “by-nc-nd” with the following characteristics:• by: the content must be attributed to me and the interviewer.• non-commercial: commercial use of the content is not allowed.• no derivative works: the material is to be allocated in its original form and may not beedited.See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode.
Related Resource
Julianne Nyhan and Andrew Flinn 2016. Computation and the Humanities: towards an oral history of Digital Humanities. Springer.
Bibliographic Citation
Julianne Nyhan and John Bradley, “Getting computers into Humanists' thinking: John Bradley and Julianne Nyhan,”Hidden Histories: Digital Humanities 1949 - Present, accessed October 21, 2024,https://hiddenhistories.omeka.net/items/show/48.
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Computation and the Humanities interviews