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

儿童图书是英国最伟大的成功案例之一，但在对这些遗产进行存档和数字化访问方面，我们严重落后于其他国家。这个网络调查了儿童图书数字档案的潜在未来方向。联合世界上最大的收藏之一——鲍德温历史儿童文学图书馆（美国佛罗里达州）的专家，以及英国剑桥大学荷马顿学院不断增长的收藏，学者和档案工作者将聚集在一起，研究数字档案奖学金的供应差距，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，在一系列的四次会议（两次在剑桥，两次在佛罗里达）中，与会者将考虑“远程阅读”和数字人文学科（使用计算机访问大量文本）的最新发展如何影响数字化政策。我们特别关注视觉媒体和互动书籍的问题，这是幼儿阅读体验的重要元素，以及如何通过图书馆平台和社交媒体以数字方式捕捉这些内容。这项工作将加强这些馆藏的学术用途，并进一步使公众能够以数字方式访问。它将为这两个藏书带来新的数字策略，发表我们关于远程阅读的发现的期刊文章，以及各种以公众为中心的影响活动。

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.