1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities
The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities covers a wide range of issues encountered in the world’s libraries and archives as they continue to expand their support of, and direct engagement in, DH research and teaching.
In addition to topics related to the practice of librarianship, and to libraries and archives as DH-friendly institutions, we address issues of importance to library and archives workers themselves: labour; sustainability; organisation and infrastructure; and focused professional practices that reflect the increasingly important role of librarians and archivists as active research partners. One of the central motifs of this book is that the “two” fields — DH, on the one hand, and the library, archival, and information sciences on the other — are in fact deeply intertwined, productively interdependent, and mutually reinforcing. We place these on an equal footing, considering how they coexist and collaborate in equal partnership.
This Companion will be of interest to DH practitioners and theorists, especially those who work in libraries and archives, and those who work with them. Likewise, “non-DH” (or “not-yet-DH”) library and archival administrators, reference and public service librarians, cataloguers, and even those who work primarily with the tangible collections, will find here echoes and implications of the most venerable traditions and practices of our shared profession.
List of figures
List of contributors
Editors’ introduction
Glen Layne-Worthey, Isabel Galina Russell
Section 1: Ethical and legal foundations
1.The Illusion of Everything: Notions of Completeness in National Digital Collections
Isabel Galina Russell
2.Bibliographic Diaspora and Cultural Heritage
Pablo Avilés
3.Nimble Tents and Bunkers: The Role of Libraries in Rapid-Response DH
Quinn Dombrowski, Alex Gil, Anna Kijas and Carrie Pirmann
4.Bridging Traditional DH and Archives through Computational Archival Science
Richard Marciano, Rosemary Grant, Alexis Hill, Phillip Nicholas, Noah Scheer, Alan Wierdak, Mark Conrad, Ray McCoy, Myeong Lee, Priscilla Robinson
5.The Cruel Optimism of Infrastructure: a Call to Mend
Sarah Potvin, Spencer Keralis, Elizabeth Grumbach
6.Infrastructures of Power: Archives as Epistemological Palimpsests
James B. Harr III
7.Copyright Is the Lock; Non-Expressive Fair Use Is the Key: Research with In-Copyright Texts
Glen Layne-Worthey
Section 2: Collections as data
8.Getting Back in the Flow: An Outline For a Semi-Automated Digitization Workflow to Improve the Quality of Digital Collections
Mirjam Cuper
9.Archival Collections as Data: A Global View from Japan
Toru Aoike
10.Which Collections as Data? Advancing the Use of External Collections for Digital Scholarship
Kathi Woitas
11.Libraries, Archives, and the Born-Digital Humanities
Paul Gooding
12.Hidden Patterns: An Introduction to Text Mining for Libraries
Silvia Gutierrez
13.Selling Our Soul (For Total Control)? Linked Open Data and GLAM
Toby Burrows, Deb Verhoeven, Mike Jones
14.Publishing Large Collections of Digitised Printed Material: the National Library of the Netherlands
Steven Claeyssens
Section 3: Publishing and other public-facing practices
15.Digital Publishing for Smaller Libraries: the Case of Quire at Pitts Theology Library
Spencer W. Roberts, Elizabeth R.Miller
16.The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs: A Case Study of the Creation and Growth of a Collaborative, Pedagogy-Driven Digital History Project
Amy Lucadamo, R.C. Miessler, Ian Isherwood
17.Multidisciplinary Research on Family Historians: Framing Current Challenges in Cultural Heritage
Henriette Roued, Ann-Sofie Klareld
18.Preserving Digital Humanities Projects Using Principles of Digital Longevity
J. Matthew Huculak, Corey Davis
19.The Static Advantage: Increased Agility and Sustainability of Static-Web-Driven Development for Digital Humanities Projects
Olivia M. Wikle, Devin Becker, Evan Peter Williamson
20.Integrating Human-Centred Systems Design into Libraries’ Digital Ecosystems
Talia Méndez
21.Development of an IIIF-Compatible Digital Collection and Image Usage Analysis: The Case of the Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive
Chifumi Nishioki
Section 4. The profession and the disciplines
22.Essential Entanglements: Digital Preservation and the Digital Humanities
Trevor Owens
23.The Information Sciences and the Digital Humanities: Building an Informational Ecosystem
Sulema Rodríguez-Roche
24.Interfacing in the Archive: Making Online Collections Work for and with Digital Humanities Research
Tracy Stuber, Emily Pugh, Bryce Dwyer, Megan Sallabedra
25.Interdisciplinarity as the Framework for Transition of Digital to Computational Archive: A Case Study of Digital Curation
Roxanne Missingham, Ingrid Mason
26.Towards a Framework for Digital Scholarship for Higher Education
John Knox, Theresa Burress
27.Archival and Artificial Intelligence: A Framework to Connect Them in Practice
Isnardo Reducindo, Gustavo Olague
Section 5: DH in organisations
28.Leveraging and Creating Library Structures to Support Online Exhibitions
Tess Colwell, Trip Kirkpatrick
29.Digital Preservation Expertise and Labour Throughout the Project Lifecycle
Emily Higgs Kopin, Mikala Narlock
30.Digital Humanities at the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Between Age-Old Objectives and New Uses
Marie Carlin, Arnaud Laborderie, Antoine Silvestre de Sacy
31.A Nation and its Research: the National Library of Israel in Two Worlds
Tsafra Siew
32.Archives, Digital Search, and AI Ethics
William A. Ingram, Sylvester A. Johnson
33.Embedding Digital Humanities in the British Library
Mia Ridge, Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Neil Fitzgerald, Nora McGregor, Rossitza Atanassova, Stella Wisdom
Index
Biography
Isabel Galina Russell is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her main research interests are Digital Humanities, libraries and digital collections and digital preservation. She is a founding member of the RedHD (Red de Humanidades Digitales).
Glen Layne-Worthey is Associate Director for Research Support Services in the HathiTrust Research Center, based in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences. Formerly, he was Digital Humanities Librarian at Stanford, 1997-2019.
Both editors have served in leadership roles in the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
