Digital Humanities in Poland short overview of resources for researches Dominika Czyżak University Library, Toruń [email protected] 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 [email protected]