Construction of Dublin Core metadata for Kazimierz Twardowski's correspondence

This project is one of the pioneering ones in Poland and is an example of the emergence of new tasks facing contemporary humanities. The opportunities opened up by digital humanities entail the need to prepare a new generation of humanities scholars and librarians for scientific activities in a new technological perspective. This means the emergence of new academic professions and the appreciation of professional humanities competences. The internships consist of providing metadata to scanned collections of correspondence by Kazimierz Twardowski, the father of the Lviv-Warsaw philosophical school and an outstanding organizer of science in pre-war Poland. For this purpose, DELab UW and the Scientific Circle "PETRYCY" UW (IFiS) organized internships for students of the University of Warsaw, during which interns acquire competences in the field of contemporary methods of digital humanities, work on source texts and the workshop of a contemporary humanist. Interns use a form compliant with the international standard Dublin Core, built by Alexander Roulois (CNRS Paris) as part of the e-LV Archive project: http://www.elv-akt.net/ We will pursue the following goals within the internship: electronic access, scientific digital elaboration and popularization of Kazimierz Twardowski’s achievements; familiarizing young scientists with new tools used by humanities scholars (Dublin Core, TEI); promoting digital humanities in Polish science. Principal investigator: Wioletta Miskiewicz Coordination: Tomasz Kwiatkowski (Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities); Paweł Rzewuski (Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Warsaw, Faculty of History) Interns: Patrycja Danyło (Faculty of History, Faculty of Polish Studies), Jakub Mańczak (Faculty of History, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology), Jakub Milewski (Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Faculty of Psychology), Emanuel Modrzejewski (Faculty of Polish Studies), Antoni Napieralski (Faculty of Law and Administration), Aleksandra Toczek (Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology), Emilia Włodarczyk (Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology), Tomasz Zaręba (Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology). The internship lasts until the end of January 2015. Training: November 19 — training for interns on handling special collections of the Combined Libraries of IFiS PAN, WFiS UW, PTF and processing correspondence in the DublinCore form. Conducted by Tomasz Kwiatkowski and Paweł Rzewuski November 24 – participation of trainees in lectures by prof. dr. Andreas Witt “Digital Humanities in German University Curricula” and “Metadata-related Standards: TEI Header and CMDI” and in tutorial by dr. Piotr Bański “Metadata Standards” (2 hours) December 1 – participation in the second part of tutorial by dr. Piotr Bański (2 hours)