Workshop "Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries and Information Science: what relationship?" Sala Comparetti Florence, October 24th, 2016

1. Digital Humanities,
Digital Libraries,
Information Science:
what relationship?
Anna Maria Tammaro (DILL Università di Parma)
Florence, Sala Comparetti Biblioteca
Umanistica
24 Ottobre 2016

2. Organizers
Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries,
Information Science

3. The problem
Gap between Digital Humanities scholars and Digital Libraries
● Weakness of network among staff, librarians, and faculty
● Lack of shared vocabulary for describing research questions
● Different teaching philosophies and strategies

4. How to bridge the gap?
New partnership?
Information science can be a common ground?
Starting from research?

5. Focus on Italy
Quale ruolo la biblioteca potrebbe assumere? Ancora il focus è sulla collezione

6. Keynotes
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, President of ASIS&T Senior Research Scientist, Lynn
leads the User Studies Activities group in OCLC Research. She was the Chair of
the ALA ACRL
Titia van der Werf is a Senior Program Officer in OCLC Research based in
OCLC's Leiden office. Titia coordinates OCLC Research

7. DH Speakers
Fabio Ciotti President of AIUCD Assistant Professor at the University of Roma Tor Vergata, where he
teaches Digital Literary Studies
Maurizio Lana University of Piemonte Orientale, creator of digilibLT project and chair of the ADHO
Multilinguality Multiculturality Standing Committee.
Enrica Salvatori, University of Pisa, Assistant Professor of History, and Archaeological Informatics.
Maria Simi. Associate Professor. President of the study programmes in Digital Humanities; Member of the
Digital Culture laboratory
Gianmaria Silvello is Assistant professor at Department of Information Engineering of the University of
Padova

8. DL Speakers
Paolo Sirito of Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , Milano. Library
Department
Liliana Gregori of Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Library Department,
Gabriele Lunati Amministratore delegato IFNET-OCLC

9. Communication problem
first!
Everybody has a different focus!

10. Key questions?
What kind of partnership (bridge) between staff, librarians, faculty is needed?
What collaboration is desiderable?
What are the education and training needs of staff, librarians, faculty? Research
has to be done
Is Information Science the common discipline?
Conversation continues in the AIUCD Blog: http://infouma.hypotheses.org