Digital Humanities in Poland short overview of resources for researches Dominika Czyżak

Digital Humanities in Poland short overview of resources for
researches
Dominika Czyżak
University Library, Toruń
dc@umk.pl
October, 2014
Humanities as an academic
discipline deal with:
 humans and figments of their imagination, human
culture,
 Humans as social beings, their life styles and activities…
Humanities …
include fields such as history, literature, languages,
philosophy, art history, as well as digital humanities.
Digital Humanities
 new possibilties offered by digital technologies: digital
archives and libraries, repositories, databases,
 simplification of information retrieval and data –mining,
 prevention of and work against social exclusion – open
and easy access to cultural heritage, thus everybody can
feel involved in development of digital humanities for
the sake of research efficiency
The role of librarians within digital humanities – to
create and manage new tools.
New tools to realize and manage
 digital libraries,
 institutional and subject repositories,
 open journal systems.
Digital libraries in Poland
 institutional, regional or subject-oriented,
 the most common collections: regional materials,
educational materials, cultural heritage,
 collections mostly include digital copies of : old prints,
manuscripts, books, newspapers, journals, maps, music
notes, ephemera, photograps, graphics …
 DjVU format for representation of data,
 have been created since the 2004.
Digital libraries in Poland
 supported by EU, govermental and/or institutioanl
funds,
 publications stored in the Polish digital libraries are in
the public domain or in copyright,
 readers have a possibility to send their proposals or
sugestions.
 Polish Digital Libraries Federation aggregates
information from over 110 digital libraries, contains over
1.987.000 digital objects and serves as an intermediary
between Polish digital libraries and Europeana.
Digital libraries - examples
 Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library
http://kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra 76.440 publications
 Warsaw University of Technology Digital Library
http://bcpw.bg.pw.edu.pl/ 4.523 publications
 Cybra - Lodz Regional Digital Library
http://cybra.lodz.pl/
10.151 publications
 Virtual Archive of Polish Armenians
http://www.archiwum.ormianie.pl/ 4.712 publications
 Armarium.dominican digital library
http://bc.dominikanie.pl/dlibra
Institutional and subject
repositories
 platforms for research output of the university staff,
 used to promote and propagate research work done at
the university,
 hierarchical structure of collections – based on
university units,
 collections mostly include: research articles, academic
papers, conference proceedings, teaching
aids/resources, posters and administrative materials (e.g.
reports), PhD dissertations; the latest papers
Repositories
 all members of the university staff have the right to
deposit new material,
 each depositor is liable for the copyright on the material
he/she submitted
 Poland National Repository Aggregator – is the access
point to 12 open access repositories existing so far in
Poland, via which users can search through more than
32,680 documents
http://agregator.ceon.pl/Welcome.action#
Repositories - examples
 Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego w
Bydgoszczy http://repozytorium.ukw.edu.pl/
 RePolis Silesian University of Technology Digital
Repository
http://repolis.bg.polsl.pl/dlibra
 RUM@K Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
https://repozytorium.umk.pl/
 AMUR Adam Mickiewicz University Repository
https://repozytorium.amu.edu.pl/jspui/index.jsp
Open journal systems – UMK
solution http://apcz.pl/
 Digital Publishing Platform for Magazins: is for all
journals to be published by UMK (under Rector’s order),
the goal is to release all issues online,
 platform uses Open Journal Systems 2.4.3.0, which is an
open source software for the management of academic
journals, developed, supported, and freely distributed by
the Public Knowledge Project under the GNU General
Public License.
 platform offers access to the contents on an Open
Access basis and under non-exclusive license Creative
Commons (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Open journals – other examples
 The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow
http://czasopisma.upjp2.edu.pl/
 other projects: journals importand for Polish culture, e.g.
Kultura Paryska, Zeszyty Literackie
http://www.kulturaparyska.com/
Thank you for your attention,
Dominika Czyżak
dc@umk.pl