'Attention, attention, exploring minds acknowledge digital structure!' The shift to digital humanities has happened, so what should information scientists do in response?
This article examines the impact of the digital humanities on information science and information scientists and how information scientists can contribute to digital collaborations in the digital humanities. This article uses three basic concepts—user-researcher, digital information system, and digi...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 43 - 64 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=150091616&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 150091616 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 2055768X JEO9 jtl: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities issn: 2055768X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2021 vid: 36 iid: 1 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 150091616 10.1093/llc/fqaa008 ppf: 43 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 449KB tig: atl: 'Attention, attention, exploring minds acknowledge digital structure!' The shift to digital humanities has happened, so what should information scientists do in response? aug: au: Engerer, Volkmar P affil: Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen, Denmark su: Information scientists Digital humanities Metadata Collecting of accounts Information science Information storage & retrieval systems New Zealand sug: subj: New Zealand Information scientists Digital humanities Metadata Collecting of accounts Information science Information storage & retrieval systems ab: This article examines the impact of the digital humanities on information science and information scientists and how information scientists can contribute to digital collaborations in the digital humanities. This article uses three basic concepts—user-researcher, digital information system, and digital research object—as the framework for a description of the digital humanities shift and discusses the consequences of this shift for information science with reference to these concepts. The second part of the article investigates the two pillars of the digital humanities shift, acknowledgement of digital structure and the exploring mind, in more detail. In the case of correspondences, acknowledgement of digital structure involves respecting the 'thing-like' properties of letters that cannot be handled (searched, classified, etc.) unless they are translated into digitized metadata; this elevates metadata to genuine digital research objects. These theoretical issues are illustrated by the Prior archive, a collection of digitized letters, manuscript drafts, and other 'grey' material bequeathed from the New Zealand logician-philosopher Arthur Norman Prior. The concept of the 'exploring mind' is connected to a movement in information science, away from the needful user and information gap paradigm towards more open and exploratory information behaviour in the digital humanities. A concluding literature review examines selected works of information science that deals with non-standard, serendipitous information behaviour and identifies exploratory and serendipitous design features of information systems for the digital humanities. These features are represented in a taxonomy consisting of six design categories. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: © 2019 EADH: The European Association for Digital Humanities. item: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities holder: Oxford University Press / USA dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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