Digital Collections in Children's Literature: Distance Reading, Scholarship, Community

儿童读物是英国伟大的成功故事之一，但在存档和授予这一遗产的数字访问权限方面，我们严重落后于其他国家。该网络调查儿童图书数字档案馆未来的潜在发展方向。来自世界上最大的藏品之一的鲍德温历史儿童文学图书馆(美国佛罗里达州)的专家和英国越来越多的藏品将汇聚在一起，剑桥大学霍默顿学院的学者和档案工作者将齐聚一堂，研究提供方面的差距、数字档案学术的趋势和该领域的未来方向。我们将对现有的数字研究进行差距和趋势分析。然后，通过一系列的四次会议(两次在剑桥，两次在佛罗里达)，与会者将考虑“远程阅读”和数字人文领域的最新发展--使用计算机访问大量文本--如何影响数字化政策。我们特别注意视觉媒体和互动图书的问题，这是幼儿阅读体验的重要要素，以及如何不仅通过图书馆平台，而且通过社交媒体以数字方式捕捉这些问题。这项工作将加强对这类藏品的学术利用，并进一步使普通公众能够进行数字访问。它将为这两个收藏带来新的数字战略，发表一篇期刊文章来发表我们对远程阅读的发现，以及各种以公众为重点的影响活动。

Children's books are one of the UK's great success stories, yet we severely lag behind other nations when it comes to archiving and granting digital access to this legacy. This network investigates potential future directions for digital archives of children's books. Uniting experts from one of the largest collections in the world, the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature (Florida, USA), and a growing collection in the UK, Homerton College, Cambridge, scholars and archivists will come together to examine gaps in provision, trends in digital archival scholarship, and future directions in the field. We will conduct a gap-and-trend analysis of existing digital research. Then, over a series of four meetings (two in Cambridge and two in Florida), participants will consider how recent developments in 'distant reading' and digital humanities - using computers to access large bodies of texts - can influence digitisation policies. We are especially mindful of issues of visual media and interactive books, important elements of the reading experience for young children, and how these can be captured digitally not only through library platforms, but also through social media. This work will enhance scholarly uses of such collections and also further enable digital access by the general public. It will result in new digital strategies for both collections, a journal article to publish our findings on distant reading, and a variety of public-focussed impact activities.