The Electronic Resources Librarian's Role in Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications

Angela Dresselhaus’ presentation focused on the digital humanities within digital scholarship. She introduced her talk with a quote from Jennifer Adams and Kevin Gunn at the Catholic Universities of America: “Digital humanities is an emerging field revolving around the intersection of traditional humanities disciplines and technology.” After reading several definitions and descriptions of digital humanities, Dresselhaus defined digital humanities as a field where digital resources assist with the study of humanities. The lack of personnel in the past had made this next to impossible. Now, with technological innovations, staff can readily engage in activities such as data visualization, mapping, and text mining. One specific software product, WordSeer, was developed through the National Endowment for the Humanities and can perform text mining and provide visualizations of the data collected.