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Mass Digitization, Digital Humanities, and the New Paradigm of Historical Librarianship

Explore the digitization of written and documentary heritage, the emergence of digital humanities, and the transformation of historical librarianship. Discover the challenges and solutions in providing access to primary, secondary, and tertiary documents online, and the creation of analytical content descriptions and trustworthy transcriptions. Learn how libraries bring added value to end users through aggregation, integration, metainformation preparation, personalization, and open access.

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Mass Digitization, Digital Humanities, and the New Paradigm of Historical Librarianship

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  1. MASS DIGITIZATION OF WRITTEN AND DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE, DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND A NEW PARADIGM OF HISTORICAL LIBRARINSHIP Zdeněk Uhlíř National Library of the Czech Republic Budapest 11.09.2012

  2. WRITTEN AND DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE • historical collections of various type: scrolls, manuscript codices nd sheets, printed books, Einblätter, charters, private and public records, letters, etc. • dead vs. live culture • border: 1800, 1830,1860 – 1st half of the 19th century

  3. DIGITIZATION is not only making images • virtual books = compound digital documents • images • descriptive, structural, technical metadata • full texts • audio ... • virtual environment • aggregation of resources • integration of services • digital tools for further/special/scholarly processing • personalization

  4. MASS DIGITIZATION • overlapping critical mass of material • activities • private • open: Google • closed: ProQuest • public • national: e-codices • international: Manuscriptorium, The CERL Portal • transnational: Europeana • media conversion & paradigm shift

  5. DIGITAL HUMANITIES - conditions • digital environment • open vs. free access • aggregated resources • integrated services • search and heuristic tools • scholarly tools • e-publishing vs. network publishing

  6. DIGITAL HUMANITIES - methodologies • heuristic • individual phenomena • mass phenomena • quantification • regularities = laws • irregularities = changes • comparison • culturomic: words • historic: motifs/episodes • vectoral: strings • edition • pragmatic • critical • contextual

  7. HISTORICAL LIBRARIANSHIP - challenges • why using even visiting libraries if • primary documents (written and documentary heritage) are availble in the Internet? • secondary documents (annotations, commentaries, scholarly papers) are availble in the Internet? • tertiary documents (catalogue records) are availble in the Internet?

  8. HISTORICAL LIBRARIANSHIP – solution • new presentation of primary, secondary, and tertiary documents to end users • direct not through metadata mediated view of primary, i.e. original documents means direct not through metadata mediated search • mass accessibility of primary, i.e. original documents on-line means semi/automatic creation of transcriptions and editions on-line • accessibility of all types of documents on-line means semi/automatic creation of annotations, commentaries and papers on-line

  9. HISTORICAL LIBRARIANSHIP – first step • creating • analytical content descriptions instead of bibliological/codicological in-depth descriptions • trustworthy transcriptions/pragmatic editions and layer-editions as a base for contextul editions • analytical illumination descriptions and combining them with automatic metadata creation concerning image content • material evidence (origin, binding, provenance, etc.) of physical units and relating it the textual works

  10. CONCLUSION • libraries must bring an added value for their end users, i.e. • aggregate resources of specific area • integrate services of specific kind • prepare metainformation of specific type • personalize environment for specific purpose • ensure open access for specific material • create virtual environment for specific intellectual approach

  11. THANK YOU ♥☺♥ Zdeněk Uhlíř Zdenek.Uhlir@nkp.cz

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