Thinking about interpretation: Pliny and scholarship in the humanities.
Pliny is a piece of software that is meant to stimulate discussion within the Digital Humanities (DH) about how tools might be built that could find greater acceptance within the wider humanities community; something that has eluded the DH to date. Unlike many other tool projects within the DH, whic...
| Published in: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 263 - 280 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2008
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