COST Workshop Ancona

Presentation by Manuel:

• Digital Literacy exists in younger Scholars, but their work style is idiosyncratic
• Scholars need to have trust in the infrastructure
• It is unclear if scholars need encouragement to use new media
• Conditions of scholarship:
  • Quoting
  • Consensus
  • Preservation

Christine:

• General observations
• Suggests book project on discovery
  • Paolo later sends suggestions
  • People agree that they can provide chapters of 5-10 pages
  • Manuel (for the first) is willing to collect and edit the results

General:

• It was said that there was not yet a huge success in building communities for digital scholarly research

Project presentations:

• Bruemmer project http://bruemmer.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de - collection of letters/information about literary figures. Interesting: The German libraries have a central database (http://kalliope-portal.de/) of this information. Usage is pay only. The mapping tool from Bruemmer is free
• Topelius project
• ...

Mailing list:

• It was agreed to create a mailing list for all people that were at the meeting.