UF Digital Humanities Library Group’s Developing Librarian Project

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Several folks from the UF Digital Humanities Library Group’s Developing Librarian Project Team will be attending THATCamp-Florida. This is a proposal for a talk session where representatives from the group provide updates on the project to date, activities, and plans for the future.

As we explain on the group blog, the University of Florida Developing Librarian Project is a pilot collaborative re-skilling program for librarians interested in supporting campus Digital Humanities activities and staffing the Scott Nygren Scholars Studio in Library West.

Our charter explicitly details our scope, deliverables, outcomes, etc. We modeled our project after Columbia University Libraries’ Breaking the Code project. Our year-long program is funded by an internal Smathers Libraries mini grant, proposed in May 2014. Training has focused on building project management and digital project skills, as well as hands-on practice with enhancing intellectual access to the Baldwin Library’s digitized Grimm Brothers sub-collection through a project titled Mining the Brothers Grimm: Curating a digital subcollection.

Work with the 19 previously digitized Grimm collection items offers participants practical experience working with Digital Humanities software (for digital curation, text markup, text and data mining, visualization, linked data, and online exhibits). This project blog chronicles and shares our planning, training, practical work, and experiences during the pilot phase of our project and may continue to highlight group activities beyond the grant period. We’ll use this site as a convenient location for internal business and information sharing and point interested users to the products of our work as they become available. Once the grant period ends this site may change, so don’t expect preservation of its full contents.

Working groups and participants:

  • Digital Humanities Library Group (DHLG)
    • Developing Librarian Project members per mini grant proposal
      • Landor, Blake (PI)
      • Taylor, Laurie (Co-PI)
      • Alteri, Suzan
      • Arlen, Shelley
      • Asher, Alan
      • Clapp, Missy
      • Cusick, Jim
      • Freeman, Richard
      • Harms, Sarah (Student assistant)
      • Jefferson, Rebecca
      • Langford, Gerald
      • McAuliffe, Carol
      • McBride, Peggy
      • Reboussin, Dan
      • Roberts, Judith
      • Saltzburg, Richard
      • Van Hook, John
    • Working Groups
      • Text Enhancement Initiative (TEI)
        • Alteri, Suzan
        • Arlen, Shelley
        • Freeman, Richard
        • Landor, Blake
        • Langford, Gerald
        • Van Hook, John
      • Blog
        • Freeman, Richard
        • Harms, Sarah
        • Reboussin, Dan
      • Exhibit
        • Arlen, Shelley
        • Fitzsimmons, Rebecca
        • Jefferson, Rebecca
        • McAuliffe, Carol
        • McBride, Peggy
      • Studio & Events
        • Alteri, Suzan
        • Clapp, Missy
        • Harms, Sarah
        • McBride, Peggy
        • Taylor, Laurie

More information on the UF Developing Librarian Project is available on the group blog: ufdevelopinglibrarian.wordpress.com/ as well as in the meeting and internal grant materials: ufdc.ufl.edu/l/results/?t=dhlg