A Digital Humanities Reading List: Part 3, Skill Building LIBER’s Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group is   gathering literature for libraries with an interest in digital humanities.   Four teams, each with a specific focus, have assembled a list of must-read   papers, articles and reports. The recommendations in this article (the third in   the series) have been assembled by the team in charge of enhancing skills in   the field of digital humanities for librarians, led by Caleb Derven of the   University of Limerick.   The Third Theme: Skill Building The recommended readings and tutorials in this post broadly focus on what   skills are needed for providing DH services in libraries and how library staff   can acquire these skills.   In the case of the former, we examined resources that resonated as   representative or evocative of what skills library staff might obtain allowing   them to participate in digital humanities work or practices. With the latter,   we’ve highlighted a few skills tutorials that provide practical instruction in   useful tools and skills for DH practice. Of course, given the sheer plurality of   both web-accessible and published resources, this posting highlights a   sampling of what’s available. The Working Group’s Zotero library , and items   specifically related to skill building within libraries, offers a surfeit of additional   starting places.   1. Coding for Librarians: Learning by Example, Andromeda Yelton   This issue of Library Technology Reports examines the contexts   of, the motivations for, and concrete examples of coding in   libraries. The chapters in the issue are notable for the range of   libraries represented (albeit in primarily North American settings),   from public to special to academic libraries. The chapters carefully   describe not only the what of coding (specific tools or approaches   used, the problems addressed by the coding, etc.) but also why   librarians should code, and through exploring political and social   dimensions of coding, outlines a sort of ethics of coding in   libraries. The issue makes a strong case for the active role of the   librarian in the creation of the digital library.   https://libereurope.eu/working-group/digital-humanities-digital-cultural-heritage/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200715134541/http://libereurope.eu/blog/dt_team/caleb-derven/ https://www.zotero.org/groups/969489/liber_digital_humanities_working_group/collections/5ZS7CKRJ http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/ltr.51n3 2. Using Open Refine to Create XML Records for Wikimedia Batch   Upload Tool: Nora McGregor   Many of us working in DH or digital library projects that involve any   level of metadata clean-up, data munging or data transformations   have likely encountered Open Refine, a veritable panacea for many   data related issues. This blog post from the British Library’s Digital   Scholarship department provides a comprehensive and detailed   description of a specific approach to uploading collection   metadata to Wikimedia Commons using Open Refine as a core   tool. The post highlights openness as both platform and tool.   3. Digital Humanities Clinics – Leading Dutch Librarians into DH:   Lotte Wilms, Michiel Cock, Ben Companjen   This article describes a series of DH clinics run in academic and   research libraries in the Netherlands aimed towards enabling   library professionals to provide services to students and   researchers, identify skill gaps and provide identifiable solutions   and to assist in automating daily work, echoing themes in the   Library Technology Reports issue noted above. The librarians   involved in the project ran five DH Clinics in 2017 and found that   the model of training collections librarians interested in DH all at   once worked very well, as you not only get the training part in order,   but also put a network in place.   4. Programming Historian   As our first suggestion for DH-related tutorials, the Programming   Historian provides 68 lessons in a wide range of open skills,   technologies and tools, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives,   related to many data and content areas that librarians work with in   DH contexts. The site covers a broad range of use cases that   strongly reverberate with library DH work, from visualisation to   textual analysis to GIS and mapping contexts and digital   publishing.   5. Library Carpentry: What Is Library Carpentry?   Building on the lessons and approach of Software Carpentry and   Data Carpentry, Library Carpentry could be viewed as an essential   prologue before embarking on the deep dives of the Programming   Historian lessons. The tools detailed in Library Carpentry’s lessons   form the core of the work undertaken in many of the resources   noted in this post.   https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2015/12/using-open-refine-to-create-xml-records-for-wikimedia-batch-upload-tool.html https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2015/12/using-open-refine-to-create-xml-records-for-wikimedia-batch-upload-tool.html https://hdl.handle.net/1887/59728 https://programminghistorian.org/ https://programminghistorian.org/ https://librarycarpentry.org/ 6. British Library Digital Scholarship Training Programme   This collection of courses provided by the British Library is aimed   at librarians to provide them with an understanding of Digital   Scholarship and to develop the necessary skills to deliver   DH-related services. Links are provided to all the slides and   resources used in the training. The tools and approaches are   consonant with resources noted above.   The Skill-building team of the Working Group will be providing additional posts   in the coming months that highlight both specific use cases faced in LIBER   institutions and potential challenges in providing DH services.     https://www.bl.uk/projects/digital-scholarship-training-programme