Digital Libraries and the Challenges of Digital Humanities

Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox (Author)

9781843341345, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 30 November 2005

120 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 0.9 cm, 0.19 kg

One of the major challenges facing librarians and curators of digital repositories are the innovative ‘born digital’ documents created by scholars in the humanities. These documents range from the parsed corpora created by linguists to traditional reference information presented in electronic databases, to rich, multi-media hypertexts combining audio, still and moving video and text, and many other sorts of material. Too often, librarians think of electronic resources solely as providing access to subscription databases. This book encourages librarians to think holistically of the life cycle of electronic resources from new items being created at their institution, to end-user access, to long term preservation of digital resources.

Providing access to texts
Helping readers understand scholarship
Enabling new scholarship
New scholarship, the digital library and the institutional repository.

Subject Areas: Library & information sciences [GL]