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[1] From: Huskey, Samuel J. <huskey@ou.edu>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.191: Software for a digital library? (58)
[2] From: Greta Boers <greta.boers@duke.edu>
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 37.191: Software for a digital library? (50)
[3] From: Karadkar, Unmil (unmil.karadkar@uni-graz.at) <unmil.karadkar@uni-graz.at>
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 37.191: Software for a digital library? (12)
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Date: 2023-09-07 14:38:05+00:00
From: Huskey, Samuel J. <huskey@ou.edu>
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 37.191: Software for a digital library?
Dear Hein,
It all depends on how you define those requirements. :-)
By “converting texts to digital format,” do you mean turning the texts into PDF?
If yes, then with or without Optical Character Recognition for the purpose of
searching and extracting text? Or do you mean converting the texts to a more
structured format, like XML or HTML?
“Storing the data” probably also means that you’ll need to search the data and
retrieve it. How sophisticated do you need the search functionality to be? The
search results will also be determined by the metadata you associate with your
texts. How are you planning to organize the texts?
Displaying the results on screens and cell phones can be accomplished in a very
basic way with templates (e.g., based on Bootstrap) that are openly available
for different Content Management Systems like Drupal and WordPress or static
site generators like 11ty and Jekyll. But it’s likely that you’ll want to
customize the templates for your library’s purposes. In that case, you’ll need
the services of a front end designer.
I would be happy to discuss this topic with you in more detail off list, if that
would be helpful.
Sincerely,
Sam
Samuel J. Huskey
Professor
Department of Classics and Letters
CARN 116
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019-4042
On Sep 6, 2023, at 11:46 PM, Humanist <humanist@dhhumanist.org> wrote:
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 37, No. 191.
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Date: 2023-09-06 09:07:14+00:00
From: Hein Viljoen <Hein.Viljoen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Software for a digital library
Please excuse my ignorance, but what software would the list members recommend
for scanning and converting texts to digital format, storing the data, and
displaying it on screens and on cell phones? And which digital formats would be
best? We are developing a proposal for a digital library.
Hein Viljoen
North-West University
South Africa
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Date: 2023-09-07 09:28:22+00:00
From: Greta Boers <greta.boers@duke.edu>
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 37.191: Software for a digital library?
Dear Professor Viljoen,
I wonder if a citation or reference manager is what you need. One can create
and store all kinds of attachments in their records. There are 100s of these.
Some are better for a specific project than others, because they are more
flexible, for example if you are uploading copyrighted materials and need to
control access to the library. Some have better privacy protections than
others, depending on the kind of research you are doing or if you will need an
embargo for publication. Some are proprietary, others open source. Generally,
they do the following:
Create records, or export records, from research databases, catalogs,
and the web into your database;
Attach pdfs, pdf markups, images, research notes to the records;
Offer desktop and cloud storage;
Manage group libraries and projects;
Export, upload, or share the library on different devices;
Import records into a Word document, and integrate the citations in-text
or in footnotes;
Format the document according to the bibliographic style, like MLA,
Harvard, Chicago, etc.
If you think this is what you need, I usually teach EndNote or Zotero. I'm glad
to Zoom with you and demonstrate them, but I also saw that your library offers a
subscription to EndNote: https://library.nwu.ac.za/referella as well as classes
for it. (Your librarians have a fantastic website!). I prefer EndNote, as it's
more robust, and I've had to 'clean up' fewer EndNote libraries than Zotero
libraries for researchers. If it's a group project across institutions or
internationally, all the participants would need to have a subscription, so many
researchers choose Zotero instead, and it is open source.
Here's DUL's page on citation managers:
https://library.duke.edu/research/citing/tools. We have a comparison chart for
the three that we support: https://library.duke.edu/research/citing/tools-
comparison. Wikipedia has an exhaustive, valuable list of reference/citation
managers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software
Do you think that's what you are looking for? Let me know if that helps.
Greta
Greta Gezina Boers
Librarian for Classical Studies, and the Linguistics Program
Lilly Library, Box 90725
Duke University
Durham, NC 27702
She/Her/Hers
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Date: 2023-09-07 08:15:46+00:00
From: Karadkar, Unmil (unmil.karadkar@uni-graz.at) <unmil.karadkar@uni-graz.at>
Subject: RE: [Humanist] 37.191: Software for a digital library?
Dear Hein,
There is not one software that would do all of those things. Digital Library
projects have a long history of being underplanned and their complexity,
underestimated. In the last few years, much has been written about planning such
projects. It's long reading but I think it is well worth investing the time
before undertaking a DL project. Here is a quick starting point:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=digital+library+project+planning&t=opera&ia=web
Best,
-unmil.
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