Acknowledgements

Authors:

The book is a collective outcome with contributions from Mahendra Mahey, Abigail Potter, Aisha Al-Abdulla, Armin Straube, Caleb Derven, Ditte Laursen, Gustavo Candela, Katrine Gasser, Kristy Kokegei, Lotte Wilms, Milena Dobreva-McPherson, Paula Bray, Sally Chambers, Sarah Ames, Sophie-Carolin Wagner and Stefan Karner.

Co-funders:

UCL Qatar, Qatar University Library, The British Library and the Library of Congress, USA

Organising committee:

Mahendra Mahey (BL), Milena Dobreva-McPherson (UCL Qatar), Georgios Papaioannou (UCL Qatar), Samia Al-Shiba (Qatar University Library), Somia Salim (UCL Qatar) and Dania Jalees (UCL Qatar)

External Reviewers

Wendy Durham, Ruth Hansford, Rachel Withington and Jennifer Quealy

Institutions which supported the initiative, providing their staff members with time to attend:

• Austrian National Library / Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Austria

• The British Library, UK

• Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, Spain

• Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium

• History Trust of South Australia, Australia

• Library of Congress, USA

• KB National Library of the Netherlands, The Netherlands

• National Library of Scotland, UK

• Qatar University Library, Qatar

• The Royal Danish Library / Det Kgl. Bibliotek, Denmark

• State Library of New South Wales, Australia

• UCL Qatar, Qatar

• University of Alicante, Spain

• University of Limerick, Ireland

The authors

• Abigail Potter, Senior Innovation Specialist at the Library of Congress with the LCLab working to support new and creative uses of digital collections that engage diverse audiences.

• Aisha Al-Abdulla, Section Head of the Digital Repository and Archives at Qatar University Library, managing the first Open Access Institutional Repository QSpace in the State of Qatar.

• Armin Straube, Teaching Fellow in Library and Information Studies at UCL Qatar. And he is an archivist with work experience in data curation, digital preservation and web archiving.

• Caleb Derven, Head of Technical and Digital Services at the
  Glucksman Library, University of Limerick with overall responsibility for strategy and operations related to collections, digital resources and library systems.

• Ditte Laursen, Head of Department, Royal Danish Library, is responsible for the acquisition of digitally born cultural heritage materials, long-term preservation of digital heritage collections, and access to digital cultural heritage collections. She is also Member of the board of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries.

• Gustavo Candela, Associate Professor at the University of Alicante and member of the Research and Development department atThe Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.

• Katrine Gasser, Section Head of IT at KB Labs in the Royal Danish Library, managing a team of experts in programming, networking and research.

• Kristy Kokegei, Director of Public Engagement at the History Trust of South Australia oversees the organisation’s public programming, digital engagement, marketing, learning and education programmes across 4 state government-funded museums, supporting and enabling 350 community museums and historical societies across South Australia.

• Lotte Wilms, Digital Scholarship advisor managing the KB Lab and co-chair for the LIBER Working Group Digital Humanities and a board member of the IMPACT Centre of Competence.

• Mahendra Mahey, Manager of British Library Labs (BL Labs), an Andrew W. Mellon foundation and British Library-funded initiative supporting and inspiring the use of its data in innovative ways with scholars, artists, entrepreneurs, educators and innovators through competitions, awards and other engagement activities.

• Milena Dobreva-McPherson, Associate Professor Library and
  Information Studies at UCL Qatar with international experience of working in Bulgaria, Scotland, Malta and Qatar.

• Paula Bray, DX Lab Leader at the State Library of NSW is responsible for developing and promoting an Innovation Lab utilising emerging and existing web technologies to deliver new ways to explore the Library’s collections and its data.

• Sally Chambers, Digital Humanities Research Coordinator at
  Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Ghent University, Belgium and National Coordinator for DARIAH, the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities in Belgium. She is one of the instigators of KBR Digital Research Lab at the Royal Library of Belgium.

• Sarah Ames, Digital Scholarship Librarian at the National Library of Scotland, responsible for the Digital Scholarship Service and the Data Foundry.

• Sophie-Carolin Wagner, Co-Founder of Research Institute for Art and Technology (RIAT), Co-Editor of the Journal for Research Cultures and Project Manager of ÖNB Labs at the Austrian National Library.

• Stefan Karner, Technical Lead of the ÖNB Labs at the Austrian National Library, co-responsible for developing a platform to provide access to some of the library's data and metadata, for users to create and share annotations and other data.

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