digital humanities [and academic libraries] - sandra cowan
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Digital Humanities: DH
o Brief historyo Definitionso Characteristicso Field of scholarshipo Initiativeso Academic libraries
DH: Timeline
1949 – Father Roberto Busa’s Index Thomisticus1960’s - Humanities Computing 1990’s – Text encoding initiative (TEI)2001 - Digital Humanities2011 - King’s College London DH Department20-teens - Digital Scholarship
1949 1990 2001 2016
DH: Definitions
An interdisciplinary area that can be characterized by:
o Using computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities; or
o Asking traditional kinds of humanities-oriented questions about computing technologies; (Kathleen
Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communications at MLA); or o Creating digital resources for study and use in the
humanities
DH: Field of scholarship
o International societieso Scholarly journalso Conferenceso Educationo Centres
DH: Characteristics
• Project-based• Collaborative• Digital tools• Experimental• Interdisciplinary• Open access• Praxis• Pedagogy• Non-traditional scholarly products• Global context
DH: Initiatives
o GO::DH (Global Outlook::Digital Humanities)• Minimal computing• Translation commons• Rewriting Wikipedia project• Around DH in 80 Days
“Every research library is already supporting DH at some level. Libraries acquire special collections and other library materials for the humanities, digitize collections for improved access and utility, and provide repositories for scholarly publications.”
-OCLC Report, 2014
DH: Academic Libraries
DH: Academic Libraries
o Special collectionso Digital collections & digitizationo Text miningo Technologyo Cataloguing & metadatao Preservationo Digital scholarly publishing & Open accesso Humanities labo DH Centres / Networks / Collaboratorso Training and consultationo Librarians as DH researchers