Digital Libraries And the Challenges of Digital Humanties

by Rydberg-cox, Jeffrey A.

• ISBN13: 9781843341642
• ISBN10: 1843341646
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Chandos Pub

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
Preface	xi
About the author	xv
Introduction	1	(26)
Case studies	2	(8)
The challenge for digital libraries	10	(2)
What is a digital library?	12	(5)
Pre-digital analogies to digital humanities	17	(5)
Contents of this book	22	(2)
Notes	24	(3)
Providing access to texts	27	(24)
What is tagging?	28	(6)
The text encoding initiative	34	(5)
How to display XML texts	39	(1)
Challenges to encoding	39	(4)
How does it help?	43	(4)
Notes	47	(4)
Helping readers understand scholarship	51	(20)
Parsers and parsed corpora	51	(2)
Keyword analysis	53	(3)
Information retrieval	56	(2)
Advanced information retrieval: query expansion, visualisation and multilingual searching	58	(7)
Linking similar passages	65	(2)
Conclusion	67	(1)
Notes	68	(3)
Enabling new scholarship	71	(14)
Quantitative studies of literature	71	(4)
Quantitative studies of vocabulary	75	(3)
Lexicography	78	(4)
Conclusion	82	(1)
Notes	82	(3)
New scholarship, the digital library and the institutional repository	85	(6)
Notes	90	(1)
Conclusion	91	(2)
Bibliography	93	(8)
Index	101