On DH in Mexico

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-266
Author(s):  
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste ◽  
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Government Support ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Institute

Isabel Galina is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, a research institute for bibliographic studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. The university is also home to the Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico’s national library. Isabel Galina discusses the emergence of digital humanities and her views on how DH works within this particular structure and related issues to do with understanding national bibliographical collections in the digital age, in particular regarding e-legal deposit and digital preservation. She discusses the difficulties in identifying, selecting, and incorporating born-digital materials. In the interview, Isabel Galina also describes how she got involved in DH, the creation of the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD), and other DH developments in Mexico and Latin America. Finally, the conversation examines university and government support for DH as well as a look at DH works in Mexico in collaboration with other countries, and in particular hosting the international Digital Humanities conference in Mexico City in 2018.

scholarly journals Collezioni cartografiche e digital humanities per una nuova fruizione del patrimonio: il caso della Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-107
Author(s):  
Sara Belotti
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Reggio Emilia ◽  
Music Collection ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Library Project

Digital humanities is an emerging discipline that has become increasingly popular in recent years, thanks to the implementation of numerous projects that aim at a dynamic dialogue between digital technologies and humanistic research. This is the scope of the project launched by the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (BEU) di Modena in 2017, which, in collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, included the study, cataloguing and digitization of the cartographic collection, along with the music collection and the Muratorian collection. This project led to the creation of a digital library, inaugurated in June 2020, which not only allowed the enhancement of the cartographic collection, still little known, and to make it available, albeit only virtually, to scholars, but also led to the adoption of the IIIF protocol that allows to compare, edit, annotate and share the documents of the Este collection and collections that participate in the same circuit, providing new useful tools for research. In this context, the contribution, starting from the presentation of the Estense Digital Library project, presents the cartographic collection of the BEU and offers a reflection on the potential that the new digital media provide for the study of cartography and, more broadly, of heritage in the digital age.

Ciência da Informação e Humanidades Digitais

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO CARLOS PALETTA
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

This work aims to presents partial results on the research project conducted at the Observatory of the Labor Market in Information and Documentation, School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo on Information Science and Digital Humanities. Discusses Digital Humanities and informational literacy. Highlights the evolution of the Web, the digital library and its connections with Digital Humanities. Reflects on the challenges of the Digital Humanities transdisciplinarity and its connections with the Information Science. This is an exploratory study, mainly due to the current and emergence of the theme and the incipient bibliography existing both in Brazil and abroad.Keywords: Digital Humanities; Information Science; Transcisciplinrity; Information Literacy; Web of Data; Digital Age.

The National Library of Venezuela

1989 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Virginia Betancourt
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Book Industry ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
National Book ◽  
The Creation ◽  
National Information ◽  
National Systems

The National Library of Venezuela, now 141 years old, has 900 staff and a 1988 budget of $14.5 million. Its stock of c.2 million items includes over 1 million books and manuscripts, 15,000 periodicals, and audiovisual materials. Many changes have taken place since 1974 during a process of modernization, as part of a project to create a national information system, including the development of a National Audiovisual Archive (the first in Latin America) and the creation of a conservation service. During this time the National Library has also carried out a series of actions to support and promote the national book industry. As a result of the experience accumulated, the National Library is able to serve as a reference point for other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in planning and developing their own services and national systems.

scholarly journals National bibliography in the digital age: international recommendations and domestic experience

Bibliosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
N. К. Lelikova
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Modern World ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Creation

The main directions of the development of the national bibliogra-phy in the modern world, the problems of the formation of the system of the national bibliography in Russia, issues related to the current national bibliogra-phy, retrospective national bibliography are presented. The activity of the IFLA Bibliography Section on the regulation of the activity of national bibliographic agencies and the creation of national bibliographic resources is covered. The article describes the activity of the National Bibliographic Agency in Russia (Russian Book Chamber), the National Library of Russia and their role in the creation of a national bibliography in the digital age.

scholarly journals Reimagining the Archival Control Model of the National Archives of Australia for the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-105
Author(s):  
Carey Garvie
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Control Model ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
University Of Houston ◽  
National Archives ◽  
National Archives Of Australia ◽  
The University

The University of Houston Libraries previously had no data surrounding the environmental sustainability of its digital preservation program. We set out to gather this data and package it in a way that can be communicated easily to stakeholders such as Libraries administration. Additionally, we explore ways that the digital preservation program could become more environmentally sustainable in the future, and we provide actionable recommendations that other digital preservationists can quickly and easily implement to reduce the carbon footprint of their organization's digital preservation program.

scholarly journals Introduction, Cuba Conference: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Crompton ◽  
Raymond Siemens
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
National Library ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Books And Reading

The fourth of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) “Birds of a Feather” gatherings took place between December 11 and 14, 2012, and included Cuban academic site visits to the National Library and the Casa de las Américas, one of the most preeminent publishers in Latin America. In addition to exploring opportunities for partnership and collaboration in the Americas through unconference discussions, at the conference, the group shared work centred around the digital scholarly edition through the Birds of a Feather structured presentation and discussion.

Facets of Mexican Thought: José Vasconcelos (1871-….)

1946 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-334
Author(s):  
Kurt F. Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Latin American ◽  
National Library ◽  
Jose Vasconcelos ◽  
American Military ◽  
National University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Synthetic View ◽  
American Thought

Modern Ibero-American thought is generally neither distinguished by originality nor by systematic integrity. The Mexican philosophers Antonio Caso and José Vasconcelos, both to-day well advanced in years, are two notable exceptions to this rule. Both are systematic thinkers as well as prolific writers, and Vasconcelos combines with a synthetic view of life and civilization a vigorous originality of expression, two gifts which in their conjunction make it quite understandable that he is regarded by many of the intellectual leaders of Latin America as one of the most representative exponents of Ibero-American ideas in general and of Mexican philosophic thought in particular. A comprehensive monograph, dealing with the life and work of José Vasconcelos is being published this autumn by Dr. Oswaldo Robles, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Mexico and Academic Rector of the Latin-American Military University in Mexico City. The writings of Vasconcelos comprise more than twenty volumes of works on metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics; a History of Philosophy; a History of Mexico; essays, biographies, and tragedies; and an extensive autobiography in four volumes. The author of this imposing oeuvre is at present Director of the National Library of Mexico and engaged in carrying through important reforms in that venerable institution.

Measuring Progress: Recent Developments in Digital Preservation in the Library Community

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Ingeborg Verheul ◽  
Hilde Van Wijngaarden
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
National Library ◽  
Library Community ◽  
Commercial Interest ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
National Libraries

The article notes that over the last decade digital preservation has changed from a niche subject to an integrated part of library organization. It summarizes the results of a survey conducted in 2005 by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, national library of the Netherlands, on best practice in digital preservation, which involved 15 national libraries. As well as the essential technical solutions, the need for the creation of preservation policy plans emerged from the survey as crucial to the whole digital preservation process. The article also describes important developments since the survey was conducted. It shows how best practice is evolving into de facto standards and identifies the beginnings of commercial interest in the marketing of tools for digital preservation.

Facets of Mexican Thought: José Vasconcelos (1871-….)

1946 ◽  
Vol 2 (03) ◽  
pp. 322-334
Author(s):  
Kurt F. Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Latin American ◽  
National Library ◽  
Jose Vasconcelos ◽  
American Military ◽  
National University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Synthetic View ◽  
American Thought

Modern Ibero-American thought is generally neither distinguished by originality nor by systematic integrity. The Mexican philosophers Antonio Caso and José Vasconcelos, both to-day well advanced in years, are two notable exceptions to this rule. Both are systematic thinkers as well as prolific writers, and Vasconcelos combines with a synthetic view of life and civilization a vigorous originality of expression, two gifts which in their conjunction make it quite understandable that he is regarded by many of the intellectual leaders of Latin America as one of the most representative exponents of Ibero-American ideas in general and of Mexican philosophic thought in particular. A comprehensive monograph, dealing with the life and work of José Vasconcelos is being published this autumn by Dr. Oswaldo Robles, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Mexico and Academic Rector of the Latin-American Military University in Mexico City. The writings of Vasconcelos comprise more than twenty volumes of works on metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics; a History of Philosophy; a History of Mexico; essays, biographies, and tragedies; and an extensive autobiography in four volumes. The author of this imposing oeuvre is at present Director of the National Library of Mexico and engaged in carrying through important reforms in that venerable institution.

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