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The Library as a Digital Research infrastructure: Digital Initiatives and Digital Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales

Lorna HughesUniversity of Wales Chair in Digital

Collections, National Library of Wales

Möglichkeiten der automatischen Manuskriptanalyse: Trier, 24-02-2014

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Digital Collections and the National Library of Wales

• Digitisation supports: • Access to Welsh and

Celtic materials by global audience

• Preservation• Collections enhancement

and reunification• Transformation of

scholarship• Community engagement

• A cohesive, national collection

• Underlying principle: free access to digital content

• www.llgc.org.uk

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NLW Research Programme in Digital Collections

• A collaborative research programme• Researching the impact and use of existing and emerging digital

collections• Engagement with the communities of practice in digital humanities

around digital content• A focus for digital humanities, combining digital collections, tools,

methods • Building sustainable digital resources that have a impact on scholarship

• Develop strategic digitization initiatives for specific research needs• Foster interoperability and re-use of collections• Increase the embedding of digital content into scholarship

• Activities• Research on digital collections development, use and discovery• Project development• Collaborations with partners in Wales and beyond • Outreach, dissemination and publications• Four Digital Humanities PhD students in collaboration with

Universities in Wales

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4Negative photostat print of NLW Peniarth 610 MS 191

Welsh outlook, Vol. 7, No. 1 Jan. 1920 [advert]

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The Hengwrt Chaucer (Peniarth MS 392)Imaging, 1926

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Imaging: 1926

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Imaging: 1931

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Imaging: 1939

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National Library of Wales journal , Vol 1, no. 2, 1939

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The Manuscript ‘Laboratory’?!

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‘The Merthyr Fragment’, NLW MS 21972D, 1936 authentication

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‘The Merthyr Fragment’, Western Mail, 1936

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De Consolatione Philosophiae: Peniarth MS 393Correspondence, 1879

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Discoveries through imaging…1930

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‘The Cave’ at NLW, in 1939 and 2012

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The Cult of Saints in Wales: Medieval Welsh-language sources and their transmission • Online editions of digitised medieval

Welsh Saints lives from the NLW collections will be developed by researchers from the University of Wales

• King’s College, London Department of Digital Humanities will develop KILN XML platform for digital scholarly edition of digital manuscripts

• NLW will host, implement and sustain the edition

• Output: a transferrable tool for creating online editions of NLW manuscripts as part of NLW Digital Library

• Supporting annotation, searching, comparing manuscripts

• http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/research/projects/current/welsh.aspx

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Photospectral imaging of the Hengwrt Chaucer at NLW by team from Yale Computer Science Department

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http://ydc2.yale.edu/research-support/digitally-enabled-scholarship-medieval-manuscripts

Digitally enabled scholarship of medieval manuscripts: Using Photospectral images in the “Canvas Viewer” http://manifests.ydc2.yale.edu/viewer.html

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Modern digital capture with UV lighting on damaged mss

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Imaging manuscript under UV light at NLW

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NeDiMAH: Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities

Researching the practice of advanced digital methods in the arts and humanities

Their classification and expression via 3 outputs:

– Map of digital humanities in Europe

– A collaborative forum of communities of practice

– An ontology of digital methods in the humanities

Support from 16 Member Organizations:

1. Bulgarian Academy of Science2. The National Foundation of Science, Higher

Education and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia (NZZ)

3. The Danish Council for Independent Research – Humanities (FKK),

4. The Academy of Finland – Research Council for Culture and Society

5. TGE ADONIS – National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

6. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)7. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, (MTA)8. Irish Research Council for the Humanities

(IRCHSS), 9. Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)10.Netherlands Organisation for Scientific

Research (NOW)11.Research Council of Norway (NCR)12.Portugal Foundation for Science and

Technology (FCT)13.Romanian National Research Council (CNCS)14.Swedish Research Council (VR)15.Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)16.UK Arts and Humanities Research Council

(AHRC)

Chairs Lorna Hughes, UK (Chair)Fotis Jannidis, Germany,Susan Schreibman, Ireland

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NeDiMAH Working GroupsMethodological Working Groups

1. Spatial and Temporal Modelling

2. Information Visualization

3. Linked Data

4. Corpora: Building and developing

5. Using Corpora: Information retrieval and modelling

6. Scholarly editions

7. Scholarly publishing

8. ICT Methods Taxonomy

NeDiMAH support for digital methods in manuscript analysis – Bursaries for the DiXT training workshop at Cambridge, 2014:

Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

– Developing an interdisciplinary workshop and publication on digital methods for manuscript analysis

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