The document discusses the relationship between digital humanities (DH) and information science (IS). It provides context on the development of both fields and compares their approaches. While DH focuses on interpretation of cultural artifacts and transferring knowledge to the public, IS emphasizes processes, infrastructure, sustainability, and education. However, the document argues that DH, IS, and libraries can benefit from collaboration by bringing together their complementary strengths in areas like metadata, modeling, and long-term digital preservation.

1. DH vs IW
Der mögliche Beitrag der Informationswissenschaft(ler)
zur IT Anwendung in den Geisteswissenschaften
Digital Humanities meets Information Science,
5. I-Science Day - Potsdam,19.3.2014
Hans-Christoph Hobohm
Potsdam

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Was ist Die-Eitsch?
Tweets von derTagung des Einsteinforums #DHB3:
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„Förtsch (DAI) auf #dhb3 Tagung: wir wissen zwar nicht, was DH ist, aber wir
sind alle hier weil es Geld gibt.“
„Renn (MPI Wissensgeschichte) weiß, was DH ist und möchte nicht
dazugehören #dhb3 Antwort auf Förtsch“
„Alt (FU): Editionswissenschaft = das Zentrum der DH #dhb3 jetzt wissen wir
es“
„Aha: nach Problemen in den Daten suchen. #dhb3 (Förtsch) = retrospektives
Forschungsdatenmanagement #fdm #fhp #infobewertung“ #qualität
„Frage nach Ausbildung in DH: warum denkt man bei solchen Kulturtechniken
nicht an die 'Unis für angewandte Wissenschaften' (FH) #dhb3“
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Melissa Terras, iConference 2014
• „bringing computer science into the study of humanities“
• „understanding best practice of engineering: looking for benchmarks“
• „reading documents: heritage imaging“
• „new analysis techniques“
• „DH = translating between computer scientist and humanists“
• „new teaching and learning opportunities“
• „in the library: a room where they can learn digitizing complex
material“
• „a shared space between departments and the library“
• „public engagement“
• „curatical trust“
• „lots of different people involved, huge mix“
• „try to do something new with computers“
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director UCL, her latest book: Defining Digital Humanities - a Reader (2013)
DH = „a continuum from capturing and collecting to public engagement“

5. Berlin - iConference, March 5, 2014:
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asking Melissa Terras about
the role of IS in DH:
she says „user studies!“
and: DH =
„a continuum from
capturing and collecting to
public engagement“

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McGann, Jerome (2013): Information Technology and the Troubled Humanities. In: Melissa
Terras, Julianne Nyhan und EdwardVanhoutte (Hg.): Defining Digital Humanities.A Reader.
Farnham:Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Chapter 3.
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Jerome McGann:
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„…information technology
is even now transforming
the fundamental character
of the library. The Library,
the chief focus of our
cultural memory as well as
our central symbol of that
memory’s life and
importance.“

7. Willard McCarty:
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„The field variously known
as ‚information studies‘ or
‚library and information
science is not far behind, in
fact may offer a better
home.“
(citing John Unsworth: common
ground „in scholarly communication,
in knowledge representation, in
access to information, in
preservation of the cultural record,
and in the organization and analysis
of information“)
McCarty,Willard (2013):Tree,Turf, Centre, Archipelago - or Wild Acre? Metaphors and Stories for Humanities Computing.
In: Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan und EdwardVanhoutte (Hg.): Defining Digital Humanities.A Reader. Farnham:Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Chapter 5.

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Terras, Melissa (2013): Disciplined: Using Educational Studies to Analyse Humanities Computing.
In: Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan und EdwardVanhoutte (Hg.): Defining Digital Humanities.A Reader. Farnham:Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Chapter 4.
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Selected Definitions from the Day of Digital Humanities: 2009-2012
In: Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan und EdwardVanhoutte (Hg.): Defining Digital Humanities.A Reader. Farnham:Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2013. Chapter 20.

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Directory of Scholars Active. In: Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 5 (May, 1967), pp. 178-241 + update in Vol. 2. No. 2. (Nov. 1967) pp. 71-93
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Directory of Scholars Active. In: Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 5 (May, 1967), pp. 178-241 + update in Vol. 2. No. 2. (Nov. 1967) pp. 71-93

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1986

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1984

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Hobohm, Hans-Christoph (1992): Roman und Zensur zu Beginn der Moderne.
Vermessung eines sozio-poetischen Raumes, Paris 1730-1744.
Frankfurt/M., NewYork: Campus (Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft; 19).

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Hobohm, Hans-Christoph (1992): Roman und Zensur zu Beginn der Moderne.
Vermessung eines sozio-poetischen Raumes, Paris 1730-1744.
Frankfurt/M., NewYork: Campus (Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft; 19).

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Hobohm, Hans-Christoph (1992):
Roman und Zensur zu Beginn der Moderne.
Vermessung eines sozio-poetischen Raumes, Paris 1730-1744.
Frankfurt/M., NewYork: Campus (Studien zur Historischen
Sozialwissenschaft; 19).

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Roberto Busa (1913-2011):
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„three different currents (…)
I call the first current documentaristic or
documentary, in memory of the
American Documentation Society, and of
the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Dokumentation in the 1950s. It includes
databanks, the Internet, and the World
Wide Web, which today are the
infrastructures of telecommunications and
are in continuous ferment.The second
current I call editorial. This is
represented by CDs and their successors,
including the multimedia ones, a new form
of reproduction of a book, with audio-
visual additions. (…) I call the third current
hermeneutic or interpretative, that
informatics most associated with linguistic
analysis.“
Schreibman, Susan; Siemens, Raymond George; Unsworth, John (2004):A companion to digital humanities.
Malden, Mass: Blackwell Pub. (Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 26). Online verfügbar unter http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion

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Susan Schreibman:
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„The TEI's adoption as a model in digital
library projects raised some interesting
issues about the whole philosophy of the
TEI, (…) as flexible as possible. A rather
different philosophy prevails in library and
information science where standards are
defined and then followed closely (…)
It was a pity that there was not more
input from library and information science
at the time that the TEI was being created,
(…) The TEI was, however, used as a
model by the developers of the Encoded
Archival Description (EAD), which has
had a very wide impact as a standard for
finding aids in archives and special
collections.“
Schreibman, Susan; Siemens, Raymond George; Unsworth, John (2004):A companion to digital humanities.
Malden, Mass: Blackwell Pub. (Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 26). Online verfügbar unter http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion

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Cologne Dialogue on DH,
April 23rd and 24th, 2012 at Wahn manor house close to Cologne.

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Wahn controversies
• Controversy 1: Do the Digital Humanities have an intellectual agenda or do they constitute an
infrastructure?
• Controversy 2:Are all approaches towards interdisciplinary research between the Humanities and
Computer Science meaningfully represented by the current concept of Digital Humanities?
• Controversy 3:What is the scope of the Digital Humanities? What is the relationship between individual
disciplines served by them?
• Controversy 4:What is the appropriate role of markup?
• Controversy 5: Big structures or lightweight webs.What is the most sensible technical template for
research infrastructures for the Digital Humanities?
• Controversy 6:“Digital curation” or “digital preservation” is a topic, which has originated within the
world of digital libraries; recently it has been drawn closer and closer to the Digital Humanities.What is
the balance between conceptual work and technology?
• Controversy 7:“Digital Libraries” have started their life as an answer to opportunities created by a
specific stage of technical development.Where are they now, between Computer Science and the Digital
Humanities?
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Gladney: Bsp. Langzeitarchivierung
• „In fact, digital preservation is the only specific topic I found
in recent Digital Humanities Quarterly articles.“
• „Comparison of the definitions of DH and IS suggests that
DH is an unneeded invention!“
• „… much of what DHP describes is covered by Information
Science faculties.“
• „An aspect mostly missing from LDP literature is a sense of
history-in-the-making.“
• „Who might be harmed by considering DH to be a discipline
in itself? … the strongest proponents of an independent DH!
Many of these might overlook the immense IS literature and
its solutions…“
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Gladney, Henry M. (2012): Long-Term Digital Preservation:A Digital Humanities Topic? In: Historical Social Research 37 (3), S. 201–217.

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Anne Burdick et al.:
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„DH = a generative practice —
design as a method of
thinking-through-practice“
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computation, processing;
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digitization, classification,
description, metadata,
organization, navigation.
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curation, analysis, editing
modeling: fundamental activities
of DH
Burdick,Anne; Drucker, Johanna; Lunenfeld, Peter; Presner,Todd; Schnapp, Jeffrey (2012): Digital humanities. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

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Anne Burdick et al.:
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„The Knowledge for carrying
out the implementation of these
designs comes from
* computer science,
* information studies,
* graphic and media design,
* human-computer-interaction,
* and cognitive studies.“
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„ … can be deeply infused with
humanistic values, but only if
humanists are involved.“
Burdick,Anne; Drucker, Johanna; Lunenfeld, Peter; Presner,Todd; Schnapp, Jeffrey (2012): Digital humanities. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

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Pédauque, Roger T. (2007): La redocumentarisation du monde.Toulouse: Cépaduès-éditions.
Re-documentarisation du monde

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Salaün, Jean-Michel (2012):Vu, lu, su. Les architectes de l'information face à l'oligopole du Web. Paris: la Découverte (Cahiers libres).
• vu (Form / Struktur)
= l’édition (Ware)
• lu (Text / Inhalt)
= la bibliothèque (Zugang zu „Text“)
• su (Medium / Transmission)
= le spectacle (Medien)
‚document’ numérique

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DH vs IS
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DH IS
Dokument Kulturgut Wirtschaft/Bildung
Metadaten ad hoc / flexibel normiert
Sammlung Kurator Policy
Ziel Interpretation Bewertung
Analyse Inhalt Wert/Prozesse
Technologie divers IT
Retrieval „Verstehen“ POIN
Serendipity ggf. gewünscht ?
Transfer „greater public“ Nachhaltigkeit
kulturelles Erbe Bildungskanon Archiv
Langzeitarchivierung „Datenmanagement Infrastruktur
Zeitperspektive retrospektiv prospektiv

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Win Win Win
im Sinne Roberto Busas drei Strömungen profitieren
• die DH im ersten „documentaristic current“ — höherer
Return on Investment;
Themen:Wissensrepräsentation, Metadaten, Standards,
Retrieval, Prozesse, Modellierung, Policy-Development,
Geschäftsmodelle, Nutzung und
• für den zweiten, den „editorial current“, brauchen beide Design
Kompetenzen;
Themen: Ästhetik,Visualisierung, Interface, Navigation
• die IS im dritten „hermeneutic current“ — weichere Faktoren
der Geisteswissenschaften - Gegengewicht zur Technologie;
Themen: inhaltliche Diskurse, Philosophie, Hermeneutik,
kritische Position (‚humanistic values‘)
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ElijahMeeks:The DigitalHumanitiesSpecialist(Weblog).ComprehendingDigitalHumanities,2011
Online:https://dhs.stanford.edu/comprehending-the-digital-humanities/
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