I’d be interested in chatting about how librarians and archivists and museum professionals can work with digital humanities efforts. Could we provide an embedded librarian for your course project? Help coordinate digitization and metadata creation? Provide guidance regarding copyright? Assist with long-term digital preservation/curation?
What are we (libs/archs/museums) doing well? How could we be doing better? How can we be better partners in research? Do scholars want a partnership with libs/archs/museums or some other relationship?
#1 by Ben Brumfield on April 13, 2011 - 1:30 am
One intriguing suggestion is that the LAM world may be able to provide the kind of long-term continuity for supporting DH projects that one-time grants are poorly suited for. I’m speaking well outside my experience, but suggest you look over the comments to this Scholarly Kitchen post on a crowdsourcing initiative that is running out of its grant money.
#2 by Jennifer D. Miller on April 12, 2011 - 5:21 pm
Here’s a blog entry from an embedded librarian working with a history professor at Northwestern University: Librarians and Historians, Unite! (Digitally.). His experience is just one of the ways that an embedded librarian could happen in a digital humanities course.