Digital Scholarship

by Deyrup; Marta Mestrovic

• ISBN13: 9780789036889
• ISBN10: 0789036886
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Collecting important original essays by librarians and archivists #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; all of whom are actively engaged in building digital collections #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; Digital Scholarshipdetails both challenges and proven solutions in establishing, maintaining, and servicing digital scholarship in the humanities. This volume further explores the ways in which the humanities have benefited from the ability to digitize text and page images of historic documents, mine large corpuses of texts and other forms of records, and assemble widely dispersed cultural objects into common repositories for comparison and analysis--making new research questions and methods possible for the first time. The ten notable scholars included in Digital Scholarshipoffer a balanced view of the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to digitization, reporting both progress and problems, examining new business models, new forms of partnerships, and the new technologies and resources that make many more library and archival services available. Librarians and library staff everywhere will find Digital Scholarshipan essential text for the modern library and an illuminating resource for anyone looking to understand the changing face of research in the electronic age.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
A Universal Humanities Digital Library: Pipe Dream or Prospective Future?	p. 1
The "Russian Doll Effect": Making the Most of Your Digital Assets	p. 13
The Lives of Others: Editing Electronic Editions of Correspondence	p. 23
The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online	p. 36
The Hemeroteca Digital of the National Library of Spain	p. 49
GIS Technology as an Alternative Way of Access to Historical Knowledge	p. 72
Toward Enduring, Global Access to Catholic Research Resources	p. 92
Digital Partners: Collaborating to Build Digital Resources	p. 105
Illuminating the Manuscript Leaves: Digitization Promotes Scholarship and Outreach	p. 117
I See the Light: Using Web-based Exhibits to Enhance Interactive Archival Scholarship	p. 132
Contributors	p. 145
Index	p. 149
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