Research support services in digital humanities: approaches, technologies, tools

Abstract

The goal of the research. Analysis of the realization of digital humanities projects in a number of EU countries (based on materials from the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) platform) and determination of the role of libraries in the implementation of humanities research support services. Methodology. Descriptive, analytical and experimental methods were applied, which involved the use of the operating environment of virtual scientific services, which were the object of the study. The scientific novelty lies in the comprehensive analysis and generalization of best practices in supporting humanities research bylibraries, scientific institutions, and academic projects. Conclusions. An analysis of leading digital humanities projects in Europe indicates their successful completion of the stage of introducing digitized resources into scientific circulation and the current priority given to the implementation of tools suitable for analytics of large multiformat data with maximum productivity. Humanities research support services contain a significant number of innovative technological solutions for archaeography, source studies, codicology, lexicography, paleography, prosopography, etc., allowing to achieve significant scientific results in archival, library and museum work. The absolute majority of the analyzed projects are corporate, specialists from scientific and cultural institutions, libraries, programmers are involved in their implementation, which generally corresponds to the multidisciplinary nature of the development of science at the present stage. It was found that the role of libraries in digital humanities projects is realized through the implementation of such research support services as management of scientific content and research data management, cataloging and reference support, the use of subject ontologies and linked data for resource systematization, curation of digital collections, attribution and provenance of cultural artifacts, intellectual analysis of text, expertise and training of users in digital science tools.

Keywords

• data analytics, library services, big data, research data visualization, research services, european association for digital humanities, artificial intelligence applications, historical and cultural heritage resources, digital culture, digital humanities projects.