Digital Humanities for Librarians

Digital Humanities For Librarians is a one-stop resource for librarians and LIS students working in this growing area of academic librarianship. The broad overview is followed by a series of intensely practical chapters answering questions with step-by-step approaches to both the digital and the human elements of Digital Humanities librarianship.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: What is Digital Humanities?
1.What is Digital Humanities?
2.Who is Doing Digital Humanities?
3.Library Models for Supporting Digital Humanities
Part 2: The Digital Part of Digital Humanities
4.Metadata and Digital Humanities
5.Creating Digital Exhibitions, Archives, and Databases
6.Text Encoding with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)
7.Digital Mapping
8.Computational Text Analysis, or, Big Data for Digital Humanities
Part 3: The Human Part of Digital Humanities
9.Outreach for Digital Humanities
10.Who is on My Team? Collaborators in Digital Humanities
11.Project Management for Digital Humanities
12.Managing Humans in Digital Humanities Projects
13.Managing Data in Digital Humanities Projects
Accompanying website: http://dhforlibrarians.com.

About the author

By Emma Annette Wilson

Summary

Digital Humanities For Librarians is a one-stop resource for librarians and LIS students working in this growing area of academic librarianship. The broad overview is followed by a series of intensely practical chapters answering questions with step-by-step approaches to both the digital and the human elements of Digital Humanities librarianship.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Annette Wilson
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781538116449
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-1644-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Administration & Management, archives, augmented reality, big data, collection development, digital exhibits, digital resources, instruction, library administration, library management, project management, textbook, Library, Archive & Information Management