Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.
Contents:
Part 1: What is digital humanities? What is digital humanities? ; Who is doing digital humanities? ; Library models for supporting digital humanities -- Part 2: The digital part of digital humanities. Metadata for digital humanities ; Creating digital exhibitions, archives, and databases ; Text encoding with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) ; Digital mapping ; Computational text analysis, or, Big data for digital humanities -- Part 3: The human part of digital humanities. Outreach for digital humanities ; Who is on my team? : collaborators in digital humanities ; Project management for digital humanities ; Managing humans in digital humanities projects ; Managing data in digital humanities projects.
Summary:
"Digital Humanities For Librarians is a one-stop resource for librarians and LIS students working in this growing area of academic librarianship. The broad overview is followed by a series of intensely practical chapters answering questions with step-by-step approaches to both the digital and the human elements of Digital Humanities librarianship."-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.