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41 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 3,236 Digital Humanities and Scholarship papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Tuttavia, al fine di garantire una più agevole importazione dei file XML/TEI all’interno di portali come MDL, risulta necessario definire un protocollo condiviso – o uno standard specifico – che regoli in modo uniforme l’inclusione di elementi complessi quali gli stemmi, i collegamenti ipertestuali e i riferimenti interni ad autori, opere e manoscritti.

    Mirabile Digital Library (MDL) · 2026 · DOI

  • Hermeneutics underpins humanities and Information Systems (IS) research methodology, yet it remains understudied as a form of skilled labor across many professional domains, especially in the context of generative AI (GenAI).

    The Tension Of Time And Attention: Generative Ai And Historians’ Hermeneutic Work · 2026

  • ● Update internal process ● DDH data management space ● Coordination with French trusted sources ❏ 115 journals excluded ❏ 473 journals validated ❏ 340 managed by OpenEdition ❏ 100+ not managed by OpenEdition AEGIS-OA Advancing Diamond Open Access Publishing 48 OpenEdition: Data submission Thank you for your attention. Questions or comments?

    Improving the Visibility of Diamond Open Access Publications: Services and Use Cases · 2026 · DOI

  • The population of the LaLaLexiT glossary is still evolving. All entries published so far, as well as those forthcoming, are written in Italian. However, the project is open to contributions from any scholar wishing to submit one or more entries based on their research interests and in accordance with the glossary’s criteria and features. In this case, contributions in English, Spanish, French, or German will also be welcome.

    The LaLaLexiT Digital Glossary: Users’Manual · 2026 · DOI

  • Originality/value: The paper presents a comprehensive theoretical overview of pseudonymity and pseudonomastics, supplemented by an analysis of contemporary and historical examples, thereby contributing to an under-researched field and encouraging further scientific research into this complex phenomenon.

    Pseudonym Between Theory and Practice: The Contribution of Pseudonomastics to the Identification of Authors · 2025 · DOI

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way knowledge is created, discovered and disseminated with a possible impact on the role of digital libraries, including the professional work of the digital librarian, which remains controversial and difficult to predict.

    The impact of artificial intelligence on scholars: an interview with Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo · 2024 · DOI

  • It finds that the proportion of records where this field is formatted in the established way—with items delimited by a double hyphen—is rapidly decreasing, and alternative formatting, including HTML, is becoming increasingly common.

    The Format and Display of the MARC 505 Contents Note: Some Recent Practical Developments · 2024 · DOI

  • Originality/value At present, a digital humanities research platform with real-time characters’ relationships analysis tool that can automatically generate visualized character relationship graphs based on Chinese named entity recognition (CNER) and character relationship identification technologies to effectively assist humanities scholars in interpreting characters’ relationships for digital humanities research is still lacking so far.

    Development and application of a digital humanities research platform for biographies of Malaysian personalities · 2022 · DOI

  • Although the results reflect a low Multimediality and Interactivity, the analysis finds that there is a sensory and affective effort Permanence and Narrative in the mnemonic meshing of skills in Journalistic Online Infographics limited by a poor Visibility of the Infographic compound given by the media, either by failure of Production, of Continuity, Informative, of Usability and/or integration.

    Infographics as a mnemonic structure: analysis of the informative and identity components of infographic online compositions in Iberic newspapers · 2017 · DOI

  • The author principally examines the paper scrap illustrations of late Chicano avant-gardist Mundo Meza, a critical figure in East Los Angeles performance art and yet little known due to his AIDS-related death in 1985.

    Drawn from the Scraps · 2015 · DOI

  • While scholars such as Rainey have been limited by the contours of specific institutional or writer archives, and the self-reported accounts of the field by the writers themselves, our approach transforms large empirical bibliographic data, regarding which poets published where and when, into network visualizations that provide a panoptic view of the modernist field as a whole.

    Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism · 2013 · DOI

  • Bibliographers at medium-sized academic libraries who are assigned to selecting contemporary foreign literature in the original language are often faced with a number of difficulties, ranging from lack of appropriate selection tools and limited knowledge of the language and its literature to severe budgetary constraints.

    The Middle Road · 1992 · DOI

  • WORDLESS BOOKS FOR ALL AGES Karla Hawkins Wende/in UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, LINCOLN Wordless books are plentiful and vary widely in their presentation of concepts and plot complex i ty.

    Wordless Books for All Ages · 1984

  • If the real reasons for Henry’s proposal to the British Association remain unclear, the preceding hypotheses have at least one thing in common. 27 Thus American holdings were far from inadequate for preparing a com- prehensive index; only a small proportion of all the literature remained to be 25 Further investigation of the Baird and Henry papers might yield information suff- cient for a more definitive explanation of Henry’s motivation.

    The Smithsonian Origin of the Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers · 1972 · DOI

  • The most sig- nificant impression one receives is the lack of standardization which is due in part to the different objectives at which the studies aim, The occupation of en- 1 Presented at the annual convention of the National Vocational Guidance Associa- tion, Detroit, Michigan, February, 1931.

    Revision of Occupational Pamphlets · 1931 · DOI

  • Future research should consider broadening the geographical scope of this study, which would facilitate the incorpo- ration of archival materials concerning publishing activities in various districts of the region into academic discourse.

    Source base for publishing business study in Ternopil in late 19th century and first third of 20th century (based on materials from State Archive of Ternopil Region) · 2026 · DOI

  • ” A purposive entity is one oriented toward an end, whose exact nature remains unknown, whereas a purposeful entity has a clear end whose degree of realization can be determined.

    The Fate of the Document in Library and Information Science · 2024 · DOI

  • Simply examining the copies preserved in library collections is insufficient, as the distinctive features of éditions de tête can disappear over time due to reader interventions.

    Přednostní vydání v české literatuře první poloviny 19. století na příkladu Máchova Máje a Nebeského Protichůdců · 2024 · DOI

  • on the one hand, but also the viability of the Cernian poetic imaginary that has long been said and written about is not characterized by originality.

    Panait Cerna în resursele digitale din colecțiilor Bilbliotecii Digitale Dacoromanica · 2022 · DOI

  • Much work still remains to be done within the archives and library professions to ensure these silences are given voice, so that collections are decolonized, that provenance is made clear, and that libraries do not function as further gatekeepers against rather than for public records.

    Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack · 2021 · DOI

  • Research limitations/implications The main limitations of this study were unavailability of labelled older texts and the limited availability of librarians.

    Automatic classification of older electronic texts into the Universal Decimal Classification–UDC · 2020 · DOI

  • It argues that the idea of the document may serve to rethink the role of the patent in technoscience, offering suggestions for new and underexplored venues of research in the nexus of several overlapping research fields, from law to information studies.

    How patents became documents, or dreaming of technoscientific order, 1895-1937 · 2019 · DOI

  • To simplify the modeling, this study is limited to a single type of information resource: textual documents consisting of a sequence of words that may include non-textual material in the form of tables, symbols, equations, and/or illustrations.

    FRBR: Application of the Model to Textual Documents · 2018 · DOI

  • The additional competencies required in order to create digital editions today have thrown up new obstacles for scholars attempting to bring forgotten or understudied texts back into literary history.

    A New Digital Divide: Recovery Editing in the Age of Digitization · 2016 · DOI

  • Hitherto researchers have neglected this page so far, so it has not been fully described and some elements of the layout have not been identified (or misidentified) (see the papers of A.

    Średniowieczna pomoc dydaktyczna. Studium jednej karty z rękopisu Jakuba z Piotrkowa · 2015 · DOI

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