1. Are We Ready for the Digital Humanities? Atlantic Provinces Library Association Lisa Goddard Memorial University Libraries May 2011 Atlantic Provinces Library Association Lisa Goddard Memorial University Libraries May 2011

2. What are the Digital Humanities? How can libraries support DH?

3. Humanities Philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language. Core library users. Core print users.

4. Digital Humanities Opening up new knowledge and new ways of learning through the application of digital technologies to any humanities subject. DH is about creating digital toolsets that allow users to undertake new forms of research in the humanities. Growing interest and investment.

5. George Mason: CHNM

6. Stanford Literary Lab

7. U Virginia Scholar’s Lab

8. Digital Humanities in Canada U Alberta U Toronto U Victoria UNB U Montreal McMaster McGill York

9. Digital Humanities Projects

10. Thematic Digital Archives

11. Virtual Anthologies

12. Aggregate, Annotate, Review

13. GIS & Mapping

14. Clustering & Visualization

15. Text Transcription & Markup

16. Edition Comparisons

17. 3D Sculpture Modeling

18. Tool Building

19. Anatomy of a DH Project Dunning et al, “Freeing up digital content with text mining”, Serials. 22(2), July 2009

20. Text Corpus 17 th C English news pamphlets Dec 1653 to May 1654 British Library electronic texts 312 documents, 800 000 words

21. CLAWS: Part of Speech Tagging Grammar parsing tool (Linguistics) Identifies proper nouns, common nouns, plural nouns, adjectives, prepositions… 95–97% accuracy

22. Geographical Analysis

24. USAS: Semantic Parsing... two_N1 ships_M4 from_Z5 Dunkirk_Z2 have_Z5 brought_M2 Men_S2.2m Arms_B1,_PUNC and_Z5 Ammunition_G3 to_Z5 Middleton_Z1mf Ships = M4 (shipping, swimming, etc.) Men = S2.2m (People:-Male) Ammunition = G3 (warfare, defence and the army; weapons)

25. GIS Mapping: Topic ‘War’

26. GIS Mapping: Topic ‘Money’

27. DH Growing Pains

28. DH Library Fears The Humanists are leaving us for the Computer Scientists.

29. Digital Humanities Sources

30. Primary source materials

34. Large text corpora

38. Proposed settlement In-copyright works owned by universities Non-consumptive purposes One or two centres

39. Linguistic Corpora

40. Historical Linguistic Corpora

41. Historical GIS Data

42. Historical Census Datasets

43. Etext Preferences: Cost

44. Etext Preferences: Quality

45. Etext Preferences: Availability

46. Licensing & Rights Multi-layered sources with different licensing conditions. Copyright over annotations, data sets, other user-generated information. Need for clearly expressed rights info.

47. Copyright review project

48. Library Role: Sources Acquire & preserve primary sources Digitization & transcription Open, flexible formats Large text aggregations Data sets Licensing & copyright

49. Digital Humanities Metadata

50. Traditional Metadata Access to print collections Authorities Thesauri Bibliographies Indexes Concordances

51. Finding Aids: Primary Sources

52. Finding Aids: Data Sets

53. Name Authorities

55. Specialized Thesauri

56. Full Text Markup Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)

57. Metadata: TEI Dramatis Personae Wagner …

58. Metadata: TEI For is he not Corpus naturale ?

59. Metadata: TEI Nothing so sweet as Magicke magic is to him;

60. Metadata: TEI +- -+ ++ -- -+- --+ metrical prominence metrical non-prominence foot boundary metrical line boundary

61. Metadata: TEI both go to law: I will prosecute you. —

62. Controlled Vocabularies

64. Metadata: Library Role Metadata crosswalks Controlled vocabularies Thesauri & taxonomy Name authorities Text mark-up

65. Digital Humanities Preservation

66. Preservation: Library Role Storage infrastructure Digital objects & texts User generated annotations User generated data sets Software environments & tools Preservation metadata Long term access

67. Library Support for Digital Humanities Sources Licensing Digitization Metadata GIS & Data Sharing Preservation

68. Thank you. Lisa Goddard Scholarly Communications Librarian lgoddard@mun.ca http://www.library.mun.ca/goddard.php