Semantic Catalogue as Digital Humanities

Abstract

In the dialogue on the relationship between libraries and the digital humanities, the former is commonly referred to as the creator of the conditions for the latter. The library provides and takes care of the digital ecosystem in which digital humanities projects can take place. Libraries can be directly and creatively involved in digital humanities undertaking since not only can philology, textology, linguistics, literature or history become digital but also the discipline of descriptive enumeration and systematic description of books: the bibliography. This paper argues that the networked edition of the traditional library card catalogue (building a semantic catalogue serving as a domain knowledge system) can be regarded as digital bibliography.