Supporting Digital Humanities Research: The Innovative Approaches of Libraries

Abstract

With traditional humanities researches and modern digital technologies combined, Digital Humanities (DH) has come to the fore in recent years, an emerging field of library service studies. With the case study method, the article summarizes the research methods and characteristics of Digital Humanities. Also, it analyzes the impact Digital Humanities poses on libraries, and in turn, libraries could contribute to the "life cycle" of Digital Humanities researches in the light of data navigation, data mining, metadata management, and data publishing support, data security and retention and data literacy education. Methods discussed in the article could be employed by the library of Jianghan University, in hope of lifting the standard of Digital Humanities services.