Digital Humanities

Sally Chambers is Digital Humanities Research Coordinator at the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium where she coordinates the CLARIAH: Open Humanities Service Infrastructure and is National Coordinator for DARIAH Belgium. Sally is Chair of the DARIAH-EU National Coordinator Committee and member of the DARIAH-EU Senior Management Team. She initially worked in academic libraries in the UK in the mid-1990s before joining The European Library (the predecessor of Europeana) at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague in 2005. Previously, she was Secretary-General of DARIAH-EU based in the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities, Germany before joining the GhentCDH in early 2015. Since late 2020, Sally has divided her time between GhentCDH and the KBR, Royal Library of Belgium, where she coordinates the DATA-KBR-BE project to facilitate data-level access to KBR’s digitised and born-digital collections for digital humanities research. She is an active participant in the international Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) Labs community and a co-author of Open a GLAM Lab, a practical guide for setting up, running and maintaining a Digital Cultural Heritage Innovation Lab. Toma Tasovac is Director of the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH) and Director of the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH). With an academic background in Comparative Literature and degrees from Harvard, Princeton and Trinity College Dublin, Toma's areas of scholarly expertise include historical and electronic lexicography, data modeling, digital editions and research infrastructures. He is the co-creator of TEI Lex-0: a baseline encoding format for lexicographic data, which was awarded the 2020 Rahtz Prize for TEI Ingenuity by the TEI Consortium. He has served on a number of major international committees such as the European Research Council (ERC), Europeana Research and JPI Cultural Heritage, and he has played a leadership role in numerous DH projects funded by national and international agencies, including Erasmus+, Horizon 2020 and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Foreword Introduction 1. Setting the digital humanities context: a brief history to digital humanities and the role of libraries 2. Digital scholarship in the humanities: insights from the disciplines 3. Scholarly methods in the digital humanities 4. Getting DiRTy with Research Tools: a Guide for Librarians 5. Digital scholarship in the humanities: an overview of tools and methods 6. Digital humanities and the library: key initiatives 7. Digital humanities and the library: key initiatives 8. Getting involved: opportunities for librarians Index