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Abstract

The relationship between the eHumanities and digital libraries is changing as both transform, mature and become more dynamic and productive.

For many years the relationship manifested itself primarily in the digitisation of text and images, and in the development and application of standards such as TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) Guidelines and the use of xml for archiving and modes of representation through digital library.

About the speaker

Ross Coleman is Director of Sydney eScholarship, an initiative of the University of Sydney Library. Ross has extensive experience in initiating and managing a number of digital library projects, beginning in 1996 with the first major ARC funded digitisation project, the “Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project, 1840-45” a collaboration between Sydney, the National Library of Australia and State Library of NSW. Ross was instrumental in establishing SETIS, the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service, re-establishing Sydney University Press and most recently the Sydney eScholarship service. He was a foundation committee member of the Australian eHumanities Network, is currently a CI and board member of AustLit and the Dictionary of Sydney projects and a member of the Steering Committee of the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories (APSR).