国外图书馆支持数字人文研究进展

Review on Library Supporting Digital Humanities Abroad

[目的/意义]数字人文是图书馆服务边界延伸的新兴领域,了解国外图书馆支持数字人文发展研究动态对促进我国图书馆实践创新具有重要的现实意义。[方法/过程]利用文献调研、内容分析和案例解读等方法,在阐述数字人文与图书馆关系的基础上,评析图书馆支持数字人文发展研究现状。[结果/结论]图书馆可以在资源导航、工具应用、项目维护、数字保存、元数据管理、版权指导、学术评价以及数字出版等方面为数字人文发展提供支持;可以从发展培训计划、优化课程设计、开辟研究空间、开展协同合作等方面开展实践;就发展前景来看,图书馆应当为馆员提供培训机会、合理授权和激励机制等保障。

[ Purpose/significance ]Digital Humanities is an emerging field of service for the library. This paper pro- vides a useful reference for the development and improvement of library supporting services for digital humanities in China. [ Method/process] In order to explore the foreign research trends of library supporting development of digital humanities, this paper elaborates the relationship between digital humanities and library, and then analyses the situation of library sup- porting development of digital humanities abroad, using the methods of literature research, content analysis and case inter- pretation. [Result/conclusion] The service items provided for digital humanities by library include resource navigation, tool application, project maintenance, digital preservation, metadata management, copyright guidance, academic evaluation, and digital publishing. The practical approaches for library include developing training plan, optimizing curriculum design, building research space, and carrying out collaboration. In order to support digital humanities research more efficiently, libraries should provide some promising measures for their librarians, including sufficient training opportunities, reasonable authority and incentive.