Humlab Showcase

The initiative aims to disseminate digital competences in ALM (archives, libraries, museums) and research communities, and strengthen networks among ALM, education, and research sectors. The goal is to improve practices of working with digital content and data analysis tools. Over past decades libraries have accumulated large collections of digital resources, however, their potential for research and education is not fully deployed. Libraries lack necessary infrastructures, skills, and knowledge that would enable them to provide digital research services while researchers do not have access to library collections to use their digital tools for metadata mining, text analysis, application of GIS, and data visualization. This project targets collaboration and knowledge transfer between library professionals, academic researchers, and IT specialists in the form of a "library lab" or competence centre that helps to develop new services for education and research.

The project consists of a series of intensive workshops and summer schools, rotating among participant countries - Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The outcome of the workshops will be piloted in research projects that is to be based on the collections of national libraries of Baltic states. As a result of the project, the national libraries in the participating countries will produce new online teaching and learning materials for in-depth digital exploration of digital heritage content.