The Library as a Digital Research
infrastructure: Digital Initiatives and Digital
Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales
Lorna Hughes
University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections,
National Library of Wales
Möglichkeiten der automatischen
Manuskriptanalyse: Trier, 24-02-2014

Ymchwil
Research
Digital Collections and the National Library of Wales
• Digitisation supports:
• Access to Welsh and Celtic
materials by global audience
• Preservation
• Collections enhancement and
reunification
• Transformation of scholarship
• Community engagement
• A cohesive, national collection
• Underlying principle: free
access to digital content
• www.llgc.org.uk

Ymchwil
Research
NLW Research Programme in Digital Collections
• A collaborative research programme
• Researching the impact and use of existing and emerging digital
collections
• Engagement with the communities of practice in digital humanities
around digital content
• A focus for digital humanities, combining digital
collections, tools, methods
• Building sustainable digital resources that have a impact on scholarship
• Develop strategic digitization initiatives for specific research needs
• Foster interoperability and re-use of collections
• Increase the embedding of digital content into scholarship
• Activities
• Research on digital collections development, use and discovery
• Project development
• Collaborations with partners in Wales and beyond
• Outreach, dissemination and publications
• Four Digital Humanities PhD students in collaboration with Universities in
Wales
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Research
Welsh outlook, Vol. 7, No. 1 Jan. 1920
[advert]

4

Negative photostat print of NLW Peniarth 610 MS 191

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The Hengwrt Chaucer (Peniarth MS 392)
Imaging, 1926

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Imaging: 1926

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Imaging: 1931

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Imaging: 1939

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National Library of Wales journal
, Vol 1, no. 2, 1939
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The Manuscript ‘Laboratory’?!

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‘The Merthyr Fragment’, NLW MS 21972D, 1936
authentication

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‘The Merthyr Fragment’, Western Mail, 1936

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De Consolatione Philosophiae: Peniarth MS 393
Correspondence, 1879

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Discoveries through imaging…1930

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‘The Cave’ at NLW, in 1939 and 2012

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The Cult of Saints in Wales: Medieval Welshlanguage sources and their transmission
•

•

•
•
•
•

Online editions of digitised medieval
Welsh Saints lives from the NLW
collections will be developed by
researchers from the University of Wales
King’s College, London Department of
Digital Humanities will develop KILN XML
platform for digital scholarly edition of
digital manuscripts
NLW will host, implement and sustain the
edition
Output: a transferrable tool for creating
online editions of NLW manuscripts as
part of NLW Digital Library
Supporting
annotation, searching, comparing
manuscripts
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/
research/projects/current/welsh.aspx
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Research
Photospectral imaging of the Hengwrt Chaucer at NLW by
team from Yale Computer Science Department

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Research
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Digitally enabled scholarship of medieval manuscripts: Using
Photospectral images in the “Canvas Viewer”
http://manifests.ydc2.yale.edu/viewer.html

http://ydc2.yale.edu/research-support/digitallyenabled-scholarship-medieval-manuscripts

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Modern digital capture with UV lighting on damaged mss

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Imaging manuscript under UV light at NLW

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NeDiMAH: Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and

Humanities
Chairs
Lorna Hughes, UK (Chair)
Fotis Jannidis, Germany,
Susan Schreibman, Ireland





Researching the practice of advanced
digital methods in the arts and
humanities
Their classification and expression via 3
outputs:
– Map of digital humanities in Europe
– A collaborative forum of
communities of practice
– An ontology of digital methods in the
humanities

Support from 16 Member Organizations:
1. Bulgarian Academy of Science
2. The National Foundation of Science, Higher Education
and Technological Development of the Republic of
Croatia (NZZ)
3. The Danish Council for Independent Research –
Humanities (FKK),
4. The Academy of Finland – Research Council for Culture
and Society
5. TGE ADONIS – National Centre for Scientific Research
(CNRS)
6. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
7. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, (MTA)
8. Irish Research Council for the Humanities (IRCHSS),
9. Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
10. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
(NOW)
11. Research Council of Norway (NCR)
12. Portugal Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
13. Romanian National Research Council (CNCS)
14. Swedish Research Council (VR)
15. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
16. UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

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NeDiMAH Working Groups
Methodological Working Groups
1. Spatial and Temporal Modelling
2. Information Visualization
3. Linked Data
4. Corpora: Building and developing
5. Using Corpora: Information retrieval and modelling
6. Scholarly editions
7. Scholarly publishing
8. ICT Methods Taxonomy
NeDiMAH support for digital methods in manuscript analysis
– Bursaries for the DiXT training workshop at Cambridge, 2014: Medieval and
Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

– Developing an interdisciplinary workshop and publication on digital methods
for manuscript analysis

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Research
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The Library as a Digital Research infrastructure: Digital Initiatives and Digital Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales

  • 1. The Library as a Digital Research infrastructure: Digital Initiatives and Digital Manuscripts at the National Library of Wales Lorna Hughes University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections, National Library of Wales Möglichkeiten der automatischen Manuskriptanalyse: Trier, 24-02-2014 Ymchwil Research
  • 2. Digital Collections and the National Library of Wales • Digitisation supports: • Access to Welsh and Celtic materials by global audience • Preservation • Collections enhancement and reunification • Transformation of scholarship • Community engagement • A cohesive, national collection • Underlying principle: free access to digital content • www.llgc.org.uk Ymchwil Research
  • 3. NLW Research Programme in Digital Collections • A collaborative research programme • Researching the impact and use of existing and emerging digital collections • Engagement with the communities of practice in digital humanities around digital content • A focus for digital humanities, combining digital collections, tools, methods • Building sustainable digital resources that have a impact on scholarship • Develop strategic digitization initiatives for specific research needs • Foster interoperability and re-use of collections • Increase the embedding of digital content into scholarship • Activities • Research on digital collections development, use and discovery • Project development • Collaborations with partners in Wales and beyond • Outreach, dissemination and publications • Four Digital Humanities PhD students in collaboration with Universities in Wales Ymchwil Research
  • 4. Welsh outlook, Vol. 7, No. 1 Jan. 1920 [advert] 4 Negative photostat print of NLW Peniarth 610 MS 191 Ymchwil Research
  • 5. The Hengwrt Chaucer (Peniarth MS 392) Imaging, 1926 Ymchwil Research
  • 9. National Library of Wales journal , Vol 1, no. 2, 1939 Ymchwil Research
  • 11. ‘The Merthyr Fragment’, NLW MS 21972D, 1936 authentication Ymchwil Research
  • 12. ‘The Merthyr Fragment’, Western Mail, 1936 Ymchwil Research
  • 13. De Consolatione Philosophiae: Peniarth MS 393 Correspondence, 1879 Ymchwil Research
  • 15. ‘The Cave’ at NLW, in 1939 and 2012 Ymchwil Research
  • 17. The Cult of Saints in Wales: Medieval Welshlanguage sources and their transmission • • • • • • Online editions of digitised medieval Welsh Saints lives from the NLW collections will be developed by researchers from the University of Wales King’s College, London Department of Digital Humanities will develop KILN XML platform for digital scholarly edition of digital manuscripts NLW will host, implement and sustain the edition Output: a transferrable tool for creating online editions of NLW manuscripts as part of NLW Digital Library Supporting annotation, searching, comparing manuscripts http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/ research/projects/current/welsh.aspx Ymchwil Research
  • 18. Photospectral imaging of the Hengwrt Chaucer at NLW by team from Yale Computer Science Department Ymchwil Research
  • 21. Digitally enabled scholarship of medieval manuscripts: Using Photospectral images in the “Canvas Viewer” http://manifests.ydc2.yale.edu/viewer.html http://ydc2.yale.edu/research-support/digitallyenabled-scholarship-medieval-manuscripts Ymchwil Research
  • 24. Modern digital capture with UV lighting on damaged mss Ymchwil Research
  • 25. Imaging manuscript under UV light at NLW Ymchwil Research
  • 27. NeDiMAH: Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities Chairs Lorna Hughes, UK (Chair) Fotis Jannidis, Germany, Susan Schreibman, Ireland   Researching the practice of advanced digital methods in the arts and humanities Their classification and expression via 3 outputs: – Map of digital humanities in Europe – A collaborative forum of communities of practice – An ontology of digital methods in the humanities Support from 16 Member Organizations: 1. Bulgarian Academy of Science 2. The National Foundation of Science, Higher Education and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia (NZZ) 3. The Danish Council for Independent Research – Humanities (FKK), 4. The Academy of Finland – Research Council for Culture and Society 5. TGE ADONIS – National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) 6. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 7. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, (MTA) 8. Irish Research Council for the Humanities (IRCHSS), 9. Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) 10. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW) 11. Research Council of Norway (NCR) 12. Portugal Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) 13. Romanian National Research Council (CNCS) 14. Swedish Research Council (VR) 15. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) 16. UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Ymchwil Research
  • 28. NeDiMAH Working Groups Methodological Working Groups 1. Spatial and Temporal Modelling 2. Information Visualization 3. Linked Data 4. Corpora: Building and developing 5. Using Corpora: Information retrieval and modelling 6. Scholarly editions 7. Scholarly publishing 8. ICT Methods Taxonomy NeDiMAH support for digital methods in manuscript analysis – Bursaries for the DiXT training workshop at Cambridge, 2014: Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age – Developing an interdisciplinary workshop and publication on digital methods for manuscript analysis Ymchwil Research