A presentation at the National Library of Serbia, 27 February 2015

1. From catalogue 2.0 to the digital humanities:
exploring the future of librarianship
National Library of Serbia
27 February 2015

2. Who am I?
• (Digital) Librarian (Humanist)
• 2005 – 2011: Worked for The European Library, at
the National Library of the Netherlands
• 2011 – 2015: Worked for DARIAH-EU at the
Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities, Germany
• February 2015 - : DARIAH-BE at the Ghent Centre
for Digital Humanities, Belgium

3. The evolving catalogue

4. The evolving library catalogueThe evolving library catalogue

5. Traditional cataloguing tools: AACR2Traditional cataloguing tools: AACR2
www.aacr2.org

6. Traditional cataloguing tools: MARC 21Traditional cataloguing tools: MARC 21
www.loc.gov/marc

7. Traditional cataloguing tools: COMARCTraditional cataloguing tools: COMARC
www.cobiss.net/cobiss_platform.htm

8. Traditional cataloguing tools: ISBDTraditional cataloguing tools: ISBD
www.ifla.org/publications/international-
standard-bibliographic-description

9. How do traditional cataloguing tools
need to evolve?

10. The cataloguing evolution…The cataloguing evolution…
www.ifla.org/publications/functional-
requirements-for-bibliographic-records

11. The cataloguing evolution…The cataloguing evolution…
www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/ and
www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-
jan08-final.pdf

12. The cataloguing evolution…The cataloguing evolution…
www.loc.gov/aba/rda/

13. MARC must die?

14. MARC must
die?
ELAG 2011
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/hes_watching_you/images_html/wanted_for_murder.htmlwww.slideshare.net/schambers3/marc-must-die

15. MARC must die?
A new globally accepted data model
http://www.mkbergman.com/wp-
content/themes/ai3/images/2009Posts/090628_data_model_relationships.png

16. Bibliographic Framework Transition InitiativeBibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/

17. Bibliographic Framework Transition InitiativeBibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/bibframe.html

18. Cataloguing and the Web?

19. W3C Library Linked Data Incubator GroupW3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group
www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/

20. IFLA: Semantic Web Special Interest GroupIFLA: Semantic Web Special Interest Group
http://www.ifla.org/swsig

21. British Library and Linked DataBritish Library and Linked Data
www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html

22. Library of Congress Library Linked Data ServiceLibrary of Congress Library Linked Data Service
http://id.loc.gov/

23. Europeana Data Model (EDM) for LibrariesEuropeana Data Model (EDM) for Libraries
http://pro.europeana.eu/share-your-data/data-guidelines/edm-
case-studies/europeana-libraries-edm

24. Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB)Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB)
http://swib.org/swib14/index.php

25. The metadata universe

26. Seeing Standards: A visualisation of the metadata
universe by Jenn Riley
Seeing Standards: A visualisation of the metadata
universe by Jenn Riley
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/

27. … from digital libraries to digital
scholarship …

28. What is digital scholarship?

29. What is digital scholarship?
• ‘Allowing scientists to do faster, better
or different research’
• ‘new forms of data- and information-
intensive, distributed, collaborative
scholarship’
• ‘Intersection of scholarly behaviour and
technology’
Christine L. Borgman (2007)
Scholarship in the digital age: information,
infrastructures and the internet
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/scholarship-digital-age

30. What is digital humanities?
Kings College: ‘to study the possibilities of
computing for arts and humanities
scholarship and, in collaboration with local,
national and international research partners
across the disciplines, to design and build
applications which implement these
possibilities, in particular those which
produce online research publications’
www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh

31. What is digital humanities?
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh/2012/01/20/infographic-quantifying-digital-humanities/
UCL: ‘Digital Humanities
research and teaching takes
place at the intersection of
digital technologies and
humanities…’

32. What is digital humanities?
GCDH: ‘Digital Humanities (DH) is an area of
research, teaching, and development
concerned with the intersection of
computing and the various disciplines of the
humanities…’
www.gcdh.de/en

33. 3 Spheres of Digital Humanities
In-kind
Cash
• Digital Humanities: Individual
subject, transcending traditional
disciplines, focus on theory and
methods
• Digital <Subject>: Disciplines which
were fundamentally changed
through digital media and methods
(e.g. Computer Linguistics,
Archaeoinformatics, …)
• <Subject> with DH: Disciplines
which incorporate digital methods
and tools and consider them a part
of their traditional canon
Thanks to: Patrick Sahle and Walter Scholger

34. Digital Lexicography
http://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/konferenzen/-/k/14017
Toma Tasovac presenting:
Interfacing Diachrony: Visualizing
Linguistic Change on the Basis of
Digital Editions of Serbian 18th-
Century Texts at DH 2012.

35. Digital Archaeology
www.dainst.org/
Viewing platform of the Domus Severiana on the Palatine in
Rome as in its construction phase in Flavian time (about 80
CE). Visualisation of the visual axis of the Domus Severiana
over the city of Rome – German Archaeological Institute

36. Internet Research
http://www.netlab.dk

37. Digital Textual Scholarship
www.textgrid.de/en
A virtual research environment for
researchers in the text-based
humanities to create, analyse, edit,
store and publish their research data

38. Multimedia Research
… a digital infrastructure to facilitate researchers’ access to the
Danish radiophonic cultural heritage including appropriate tools
and a bibliography
LARM Audio Research Archive
http://larm.blogs.ku.dk/about-larm/

39. What is DARIAH?

40. Sally Chambers
DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
What is DARIAH?
DARIAH aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled
research and teaching across the humanities and arts…
…a connected network of tools, information, people
and methodologies for investigating, exploring and
supporting research across the digital arts and
humanities…
…for researchers, by researchers…

41. Who is DARIAH for?
Image source: http://www.utsa.edu/today/images/graphics/diversity2.jpg
A wide variety of research communities across the
arts and humanities

42. A quick history of DARIAH
In-kind
Cash
• 2006: DARIAH included in the ESFRI
Roadmap
• 2008 – 2011: Preparatory Phase
project, Preparing DARIAH
• 2011 – 2013: ‘Transition Phase’,
establishing the DARIAH-ERIC,
integrating national activities
• 2014+: DARIAH-ERIC

43. 15 Founding Members
In-kind
Cash
Founding Members
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Founding Members
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Serbia
Slovenia
Candidate countries
Lithuania
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland

44. Network of Contributions

45. Network of Services
Scholarly events
Open access repository
Academic blogging

46. Network of Services
Multilingual
training materials
Scholarly Methods Ontology
Summer Schools

47. Network of Services
Persistent Identification
AAI Infrastructure
Collaboration Tools

48. DARIAH in SerbiaDARIAH in Serbia
https://dariah.eu/about/our-partners/serbia/country-profile

49. Belgrade Center for Digital HumanitiesBelgrade Center for Digital Humanities
http://www.humanistika.org/

51. Network of research communities
Image source: http://relenet.com/images/social-network_illu_farbig.png
Research projects within the humanities that have received
national or European funding and whose work programme
comprises of an important move towards using digital methods
are a core stakeholder group for DARIAH activities

52. Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods

53. European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)
www.ehri-project.eu
Supporting the Holocaust research community by
opening up a portal that will give online access to
dispersed sources relating to the Holocaust, and by
encouraging collaborative research through the
development of tools

54. Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure
(CENDARI) www.cendari.eu
is a research collaboration aimed at integrating
digital archives and resources for research on
medieval and modern European history.

55. Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological
Dataset Networking in Europe (ARIADNE)
www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu
…aims to integrate the existing archaeological
research data infrastructures so that researchers can
use the various distributed datasets with new and
powerful technologies, as an integral component of
archaeological research methodology.

56. Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities
(NeDiMAH)
www.nedimah.eu
Themes:
•Space and time
•Visualisation
•Linked data & ontologies
•Digital Data
•Large-scale text
•Scholarly digital editions

57. Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT)
http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/
… an international network offering
coordinated training and research in
digital scholarly editing…

58. For researchers, by researchers…
Digital Literary
Studies
Digital Medieval Studies

59. Supporting digital research?

60. Low engagement from libraries
http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/8028/8387
Norbert Lossau:
‘Research libraries’
engagement with RIs
(research infrastructures)
has been low’. (p134)

61. ca. 100 DARIAH Partner Institutions
… 8% are libraries

62. Increasing engagement from libraries
www.libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research
Research infrastructures present
major opportunities for research
libraries

63. What do humanities researchers want?
http://www.rin.ac.uk/humanities-case-studies
1. Make it easy to use
2. Make it easy to cite
3. Put it in their workflow
4. Provide clarity on objects and
processes
5. Build a community
6. Provide research support
7. Make the information easily
reusable
8. Offer ways to visualise
collections
9. Think about linked data
10. Provide a critical mass of content

64. What do humanities researchers want?
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/sites/default/files/
reports/supporting-the-changing-research-practices-of-historians.pdf

65. What do humanities researchers want?
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/research-data-management-forum-
rdmf/rdmf10-research-data-management-arts-and-humanities

66. What do humanities researchers want?
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/research-data-management-forum-
rdmf/rdmf10-research-data-management-arts-and-humanities

67. How can we support the needs of
humanities researchers?
www.rluk.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/RLUK-Re-skilling.pdf

68. Opportunities for libraries
www.libereurope.eu/committee/scholarly-research
•Raise the profile of the research library
•Regain close working relationships with researchers
•New services, e.g. Linking publicatios and research data
•Contributing knowledge in metadata, repositories,
ontologies etc.

69. Libraries and Research Data
Management
www.libereurope.eu/news/ten-recommendations-
for-libraries-to-get-started-with-research-data-
management

70. Libraries and Research Data
Management
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/how-guides/how-develop-rdm-services

71. Libraries and Research Data
Management
https://databank.ora.ox.ac.uk/about

72. Beyond Institutional Repositories
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/39/98/81/PDF/IJDLS_V1.5.pdf
Danger of institutional repositories becoming digital cemeteries
without good quality metadata…

73. Scholarly work and open access
http://tags.hypotheses.org/18
Scholarly blogging as a ‘first layer of scholarly publication’ …
‘curated by librarians in a coherent way’ … ‘changing the roles
of research libraries, so they can provide the necessary editorial
support in such environments’

74. Scholarly blogging
Publication platform for academic
blogs, enabling researchers to
provide real-time updates of
developments in their own research
http://hypotheses.org/

75. Libraries and the digital humanities?

76. Does the library have a role to play
in the digital humanities?
•Discovery and Dissemination
•Managing Data
•As ‘Embedded Librarians’
•Digitisation and Curation
•Digital Preservation
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/23/does-the-
library-have-a-role-to-play-in-the-digital-humanities/
‘a researcher-centric
approach needs to be
adopted’
Ben Showers: ‘exploring
the evolving role of the
library supporting
researchers’

77. Does the library have a role to play
in the digital humanities?
http://miriamposner.com/blog/digital-humanities-and-the-library

78. DH and libraries…DH and libraries…
http://dharchive.org/paper/DH2014/Workshops-909.xml

79. DH + LibDH + Lib
http://acrl.ala.org/dh/

80. TEI and LibrariesTEI and Libraries
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Libraries/

81. … a DH Centre and Library
collaboration …

82. Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, BelgiumGhent Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgium
http://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/

83. LibraryLab @ the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy LibraryLibraryLab @ the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Library
http://www.flw.ugent.be/bibliotheek/librarylab

84. GhentCDH and the LibraryLabGhentCDH and the LibraryLab
www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/content/topic-modelling-workshop

85. THATCamp Ghent @ ELAG2013THATCamp Ghent @ ELAG2013
852013/05/30
ELAG 2013
Partners in Research – Chambers & Scheltjens
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boekentoren/8868717578 http://ghent2013.thatcamp.org
PicturebyGeertRoels

86. THATCamp Ghent 2015THATCamp Ghent 2015
http://ghent2015.thatcamp.org/

87. … towards the library of the future …

88. UGent Ledeganck
Library of the
Botanical Institute
1883
http://www.beeldbank.ugent.be/fotoalbums/universiteitsarchief
882013/05/30
ELAG 2013
Partners in Research – Chambers & Scheltjens
19th Century Library19th Century Library

89. UGent Blandijn
Library Medieval
History, 2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/faclibflw/3931462838
892013/05/30
ELAG 2013
Partners in Research – Chambers & Scheltjens
20th Century Library20th Century Library

90. InQBate, University
Library of Sussex
http://www.designinglibraries.org.uk
902013/05/30
ELAG 2013
Partners in Research – Chambers & Scheltjens
21st Century Library21st Century Library

91. The ‘Digital Humanities Novel’The ‘Digital Humanities Novel’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Penumbra%27s_24-
Hour_Bookstore
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour
Bookstore … looks “at the
modern conflict and
transition between new
technology (electronic) and
old (print books)… “

92. The library of the future ….The library of the future ….
… is a space in between…… is a space in between…

93. Libraries of the future…Libraries of the future…
http://ebookfriendly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Libraries-
of-the-future-cartoon-by-Tom-Gauld.jpg

94. … and most importantly… and most importantly
‘The success of the library is not when the librarians
clap, but when the users do’
Norbert Lossau, University of Göttingen