Digital humanities and its convergences with Library Science

Authors

  • Ariel Antonio Morán Reyes Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Keywords:

Digital Humanities, Library Science Fundamentals, Knowledge management, Digital citizenship, Digital Democracy

Abstract

While Library Science and the digital humanities have many ways of interaction, we can say that the most confluent is knowledge management (especially with the advent of Big Data). The librarian has the capacities to operate a wide range of digital humanities projects, which does not implicate that they can fully articulate them, for it will require to formalize its conceptual approach. One of the most fruitful manifestations developed in recent years between Library Science and the digital humanities is produced through theoretic research —in addition to the development of information tools and resources—. In the areas of digital democracy ( as the increase of citizen politic participation through the use of computational technology routed towards communication and the exchange of information) and the digital citizenship (understood as a framework made of norms and rights which is widened with the use of these technologies).

Author Biography

Ariel Antonio Morán Reyes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Ariel Antonio Morán-Reyes is a librarian and philosopher (with previous studies in economy) who worked as cataloger of rare books at the National Library of Mexico until the end of 2009. In 2010, he became part of the Bibliographic Research Institute of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) through a scholarship. His main research interests span from studies of print culture to urbanism and macroeconomics. He teaches courses on content analysis at UNAM’s Library and Information Research Institute, and has led video conferences, such as the “Dialogues on Philosophy of Information”, at the Inter-American School of Library Science. He has published his research in journals of librarianship, but also philosophy: "Library Trends" (United Staes), "InCID: Revista de Ciência da Informação e Documentação" (Brazil), "Investigación Bibliotecológica: Archivonomía, Bibliotecología e Información" (Mexico), "Noticiero de la AMBAC" (Mexico), "Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología" (Colombia), "Escritos" (Colombia), "Información, Cultura y Sociedad" (Argentina), et al., and a collaboration in Proceedings of ISKO-Brasil in 2013, and "Ideias emergentes em biblioteconomia" by Federação Brasileira de Associações de Bibliotecários, Cientistas da Informação e Instituições. From 2012 to 2013, he was a researcher at the CICINF (Research Center for Information Science) in Colombia. One of his most recent works is the “Political-Electoral Thesaurus” for the Federal Electoral Institute in Mexico. He is a student in the doctorate program in Library and Information Science at UNAM. Member of the "Red Humanidades Digitales" since 2015.

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Published

2017-03-24

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 12 (2016): Humanidades digitales

Section

Tema del mes

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