This presentation was given as part of the Digital Humanities workshop at LIBER 2017, Patras. For more about LIBER and the Digital Humanities Working Group, please see: www.libereurope.eu

1. Digital humanities
Hege Stensrud Høsøien
Director of collections and research
National Library of Norway
LIBER 2017, Patras 5th July

2. National Library of Norway

5. Digitization of books
• 500.000 books
• 50.000 in the public
domain
• 250.000, licensing
agreement, «The
bookshelf»
• Norway is the first
country in the world to
digitize all it’s books –
the entire literary
heritage

6. • But the Norwegians, that's a people preparing for the deep
future. Now they are home to the Svalbard Seed
Vault and they will have all the books stored away.
• Imagine digital archaeologists coming across the remains of
early 21st century civilization in an old data center on the
warming tundra. They look around, find some scraps of
Buzzfeed and The Atlantic, maybe some
Encyclopaedia Britannicas, and then, gleaming in the data:
a complete set of Norwegian literature.
• Suddenly, the Norwegians become to 27th-century humans
what the Greeks were to the Renaissance. Everyone names
the children of the space colonies Per and Henrik, Amalie
and Sigrid. The capital of our new home planet will be
christened Oslo.
AtlanticThe

7. N-GRAM

12. Infrastructure Partnership