1. MASS DIGITIZATION OF WRITTEN AND DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE, DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND A NEW PARADIGM OF HISTORICAL LIBRARINSHIP Zdeněk Uhlíř National Library of the Czech Republic Budapest 11.09.2012

2. WRITTEN AND DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE historical collections of various type: scrolls, manuscript codices nd sheets, printed books, Einblätter, charters, private and public records, letters, etc. dead vs. live culture  border: 1800, 1830,1860 – 1st half of the 19th century

3. DIGITIZATION is not only making images virtual books = compound digital documents  images  descriptive, structural, technical metadata  full texts  audio... virtual environment  aggregation of resources  integration of services  digital tools for further/special/scholarly processing  personalization

4. MASS DIGITIZATION overlapping critical mass of material activities  private open: Google closed: ProQuest  public national: e-codices international: Manuscriptorium, The CERL Portal transnational: Europeana media conversion & paradigm shift

5. DIGITAL HUMANITIES - conditions digital environment open vs. free access aggregated resources integrated services search and heuristic tools scholarly tools e-publishing vs. network publishing

6. DIGITAL HUMANITIES - methodologies heuristic  individual phenomena  mass phenomena quantification  regularities = laws  irregularities = changes comparison  culturomic: words  historic: motifs/episodes  vectoral: strings edition  pragmatic  critical  contextual

7. HISTORICAL LIBRARIANSHIP - challenges why using even visiting libraries if  primary documents (written and documentary heritage) are availble in the Internet?  secondary documents (annotations, commentaries, scholarly papers) are availble in the Internet?  tertiary documents (catalogue records) are availble in the Internet?

8. HISTORICAL LIBRARIANSHIP – solution new presentation of primary, secondary, and tertiary documents to end users  direct not through metadata mediated view of primary, i.e. original documents means direct not through metadata mediated search  mass accessibility of primary, i.e. original documents on- line means semi/automatic creation of transcriptions and editions on-line  accessibility of all types of documents on-line means semi/automatic creation of annotations, commentaries and papers on-line

9. HISTORICAL LIBRARIANSHIP – first step creating  analytical content descriptions instead of bibliological/codicological in-depth descriptions  trustworthy transcriptions/pragmatic editions and layer- editions as a base for contextul editions  analytical illumination descriptions and combining them with automatic metadata creation concerning image content  material evidence (origin, binding, provenance, etc.) of physical units and relating it the textual works

10. CONCLUSION libraries must bring an added value for their end users, i.e.  aggregate resources of specific area  integrate services of specific kind  prepare metainformation of specific type  personalize environment for specific purpose  ensure open access for specific material  create virtual environment for specific intellectual approach

11. THANK YOU ♥☺♥ Zdeněk Uhlíř Zdenek.Uhlir@nkp.cz