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The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities covers a wide range of issues encountered in the world's libraries and archives as they continue to expand their support of, and direct engagement in, DH research and teaching.
List of contents
List of figures; List of contributors; Editors' introduction; Section 1: Ethical and legal foundations - 1. The Illusion of Everything: Notions of Completeness in National Digital Collections; 2. Bibliographic Diaspora and Cultural Heritage; 3. Nimble Tents and Bunkers: The Role of Libraries in Rapid-Response DH; 4. Bridging Traditional DH and Archives through Computational Archival Science; 5. The Cruel Optimism of Infrastructure: a Call to Mend; 6. Infrastructures of Power: Archives as Epistemological Palimpsests; 7. Copyright Is the Lock; Non-Expressive Fair Use Is the Key: Research with In-Copyright Texts; Section 2: Collections as data - 8. Getting Back in the Flow: An Outline For a Semi-Automated Digitization Workflow to Improve the Quality of Digital Collections; 9. Archival Collections as Data: A Global View from Japan; 10. Which Collections as Data? Advancing the Use of External Collections for Digital Scholarship; 11. Libraries, Archives, and the Born-Digital Humanities; 12.Hidden Patterns: An Introduction to Text Mining for Libraries; 13. Selling Our Soul (For Total Control)? Linked Open Data and GLAM; 14. Publishing Large Collections of Digitised Printed Material: the National Library of the Netherlands; Section 3: Publishing and other public-facing practices - 15.Digital Publishing for Smaller Libraries: the Case of Quire at Pitts Theology Library; 16.The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs: A Case Study of the Creation and Growth of a Collaborative, Pedagogy-Driven Digital History Project; 17.Multidisciplinary Research on Family Historians: Framing Current Challenges in Cultural Heritage; 18.Preserving Digital Humanities Projects Using Principles of Digital Longevity; 19. The Static Advantage: Increased Agility and Sustainability of Static-Web-Driven Development for Digital Humanities Projects; 20. Integrating Human-Centred Systems Design into Libraries' Digital Ecosystems; 21. Development of an IIIF-Compatible Digital Collection and Image Usage Analysis: The Case of the Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive; Section 4. The profession and the disciplines - 22. Essential Entanglements: Digital Preservation and the Digital Humanities; 23. The Information Sciences and the Digital Humanities: Building an Informational Ecosystem; 24. Interfacing in the Archive: Making Online Collections Work
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with Digital Humanities Research; 25. Interdisciplinarity as the Framework for Transition of Digital to Computational Archive: A Case Study of Digital Curation; 26. Towards a Framework for Digital Scholarship for Higher Education; 27. Archival and Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Connect Them in Practice; Section 5: DH in Organisations - 28.Leveraging and Creating Library Structures to Support Online Exhibitions; 29. Digital Preservation Expertise and Labour Throughout the Project Lifecycle; 30. Digital Humanities at the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Between Age-Old Objectives and New Uses; 31. A Nation and its Research: the National Library of Israel in Two Worlds; 32. Archives, Digital Search, and AI Ethics; 33. Embedding Digital Humanities in the British Library; Index.
About the author
Isabel Galina Russell is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her main research interests are Digital Humanities, libraries and digital collections and digital preservation. She is a founding member of the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD).
Glen Layne-Worthey is Associate Director for Research Support Services in the HathiTrust Research Center, based in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences. Formerly, he was Digital Humanities Librarian at Stanford (1997-2019).
Both editors have served in leadership roles in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
Summary
The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities covers a wide range of issues encountered in the world’s libraries and archives as they continue to expand their support of, and direct engagement in, DH research and teaching.
