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MASS DIGITIZATION OF WRITTEN AND
DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE, DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND A
NEW PARADIGM OF HISTORICAL LIBRARINSHIP
Zdeněk UhlířNational Library of the Czech Republic
Budapest 11.09.2012
WRITTEN AND DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
historical collections of various type: scrolls, manuscript codices nd sheets, printed books, Einblätter, charters, private and public records, letters, etc.
dead vs. live culture border: 1800, 1830,1860 – 1st half of the 19th
century
DIGITIZATION is not only making images
virtual books = compound digital documents images descriptive, structural, technical metadata full texts audio ...
virtual environment aggregation of resources integration of services digital tools for further/special/scholarly processing personalization
MASS DIGITIZATION
overlapping critical mass of material activities
private open: Google closed: ProQuest
public national: e-codices international: Manuscriptorium, The CERL Portal transnational: Europeana
media conversion & paradigm shift
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - conditions
digital environment open vs. free access aggregated resources integrated services search and heuristic tools scholarly tools e-publishing vs. network publishing
DIGITAL HUMANITIES - methodologies
heuristic individual phenomena mass phenomena
quantification regularities = laws irregularities = changes
comparison culturomic: words historic: motifs/episodes vectoral: strings
edition pragmatic critical contextual
HISTORICAL LIBRARIANSHIP - challenges
why using even visiting libraries if primary documents (written and documentary
heritage) are availble in the Internet? secondary documents (annotations,
commentaries, scholarly papers) are availble in the Internet?
tertiary documents (catalogue records) are availble in the Internet?
HISTORICAL LIBRARIANSHIP – solution
new presentation of primary, secondary, and tertiary documents to end users
direct not through metadata mediated view of primary, i.e. original documents means direct not through metadata mediated search
mass accessibility of primary, i.e. original documents on-line means semi/automatic creation of transcriptions and editions on-line
accessibility of all types of documents on-line means semi/automatic creation of annotations, commentaries and papers on-line
HISTORICAL LIBRARIANSHIP – first step
creating analytical content descriptions instead of
bibliological/codicological in-depth descriptions trustworthy transcriptions/pragmatic editions and layer-
editions as a base for contextul editions analytical illumination descriptions and combining them
with automatic metadata creation concerning image content
material evidence (origin, binding, provenance, etc.) of physical units and relating it the textual works
CONCLUSION
libraries must bring an added value for their end users, i.e.
aggregate resources of specific area integrate services of specific kind prepare metainformation of specific type personalize environment for specific purpose ensure open access for specific material create virtual environment for specific
intellectual approach
