Supportive Services for Digital Scholarly Editors in the National Library: A Marriage of Necessity or the Necessity of a Marriage?

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Due to the constantly evolving nature of digital scholarly editions, this user group has some\nunmet needs. A supportive service in a national library can help meet these needs since they\nare service-centered institution whose mandate includes national textual heritage and they\nshould have staff with the required competences.\nThe research aim of this thesis is to achieve a collaboration between the two institutions that\nwill support scholarship in its present processes and safeguard editions for ongoing\nsustainability and developmant. To achieve this it determines the answer to three objectives\nconcerning the current state of the edition in each institution, their needs (especially those\nwhich are unmet) and the facilities and competences necessary to meet the needs.\nThe investigation is an interprevist, instrumental case study which uses interviews as a\ncollection technique since the topic is subjective and institutionally context bound, there is a\nneed to have a rich and de

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