Future Libraries …considering ‘publishing’

Dr James Baker

Curator, Digital Research

@j_w_baker

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More than resource discovery…

“The emergence of the new

digital humanities isn’t an

isolated academic

phenomenon. The

institutional and disciplinary

changes are part of a larger

cultural shift, inside and

outside the academy, a

rapid cycle of emergence

and convergence in

technology and culture”

Steven E Jones, Emergence of

the Digital Humanities (2013)

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“Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their

analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and human

capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less make sense

of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of computational

linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are working toward a

large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were valued and

transmitted during this period”

David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, ‘Infectious

Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers’ (2013)

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf

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discipline camp and

camps sentence

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“Library based skunkworks - or semi-

independent, research-oriented software

prototyping and makerspace labs—are

an uncommon, yet uncommonly potent,

response to opportunities that open up

when we pay increased organizational

attention to digital tools, methods, and

cultures across the humanities […]

We might therefore consider a digital

humanities skunkworks operation not

only as a site for research innovation,

but as an organizational experiment in

breaking away from shop-worn

service relationships.”

Bethany Nowviskie, ‘Skunks in the Library: A

Path to Production for Scholarly R&D’,

Journal of Library Administration 53:1

(2013), 53-59.

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Thank you!

@j_w_baker

james.baker@bl.uk

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/