Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities: An Analysis of DH Courses in LIS Education

Abstract

The digital humanities (DH) remain a growing area of interest among researchers and a locus of new positions within libraries, especially academic libraries, as well as archives, museums, and cultural heritage organizations. In response to this demand, many programs that train information professionals have developed specific curricula around DH. This paper analyzes courses offered within two overlapping contexts: American Library Association (ALA) accredited programs and iSchools. In addition to documenting the scope and extent of DH courses in these settings, we also analyze their contents, relating our findings to previous research, including analysis of job ads and interviews with professionals.

Taking up Artificial Intelligence as Teaching and Learning Content in the Digital Humanities – Topics, Categorisations, and Examples

“…Subject-specific content in DH teaching also exists but is more tied to a specific discipline and is less understood across the board (such as digital philology, text technologies or digital linguistics (Sahle, 2013)). Sula and Berger (2023) analyse key themes addressed in DH curricula and characterise data (big data, data visualisation, projects on data or project data, data specificity for DH and data analysis), methodologies (on data in general, data and modelling approaches as well), and overarching DH topics (digital and humanities aspects in general) as inherent to the curriculum.…”

“…in the field of image analysis and restoration (e.g., Fiorucci et al, 2020;Farella et al, 2022), object recognition and classification (e.g., Bassier et al, 2020;Nockels et al, 2022), AI supported artistic expressions (e.g., Cetinic and She, 2022;Mikalonyt and Kneer, 2022) or translation, transcription, and text analysis (e.g., He et al, 2016;Nockels et al, 2022). There are also studies that examine DH courses and their content and topics to classify them (e.g., Sahle, 2013;Walsh et al, 2021;Sula and Berger, 2023).…”