Our Curator of Digital Collections, Dr Steven Claeyssens will be presenting at the Innovative Library in Digital Era 2017 conference on 3-5 April 2016 in Jasná, Slovakia.
Our Curator of Digital Collections, Dr Steven Claeyssens will be presenting at the Innovative Library in Digital Era 2017 conference on 3-5 April 2016 in Jasná, Slovakia:
What do Digital Humanists want from a library? Experiences from a national library.
A new field asks for a new approach in assisting our patrons. At the National Library of the Netherlands (KB), we have ample experience with assisting Digital Humanities scholars. However, we found there is no one way solution for catering for the needs of Digital Humanists.
This talk presents our experiences with assisting DH scholars by reflecting upon their requirements for both data selection and tool use. We identified both valuable as well as incompatible user requirements, indicating the conflicting expectations and interests of different disciplines and researchers. We therefore argue that a close collaboration between scholars and librarians is essential if we really want to advance the use of digital libraries in the field of Digital Humanities.
About the conference
For the 20th time, the beautiful surroundings of Low Tatras will create a scenery for the ilide2017conference where as usually the digital preservation, digital collections access and digital processing experts from around the world will gather. The aim of the ilide or Innovative Library in Digital Era conferences is to bring subjects fully reflecting its name and present visionary and original ideas based on an extensive experience of the participating experts and institutions. The presentations will be given by leading representatives of the most important institutions dedicated to librarianship, archiving, information technology, cultural and collecting activities.
Main themes of this year’s conference are:
- repositories and research data archiving
- open science
- digital humanities
- digital scholarship