From collection curation to knowledge creation: Exploring new roles of academic librarians in digital humanities research.

We present a case study of a collaborative digital humanities project that was led by academic librarians and participated by IT specialists and international scholars. Through the project, we produced and published two open-access products – a bilingual dictionary of historical government official titles, and an online system for crowdsourcing translations. We also contributed metadata, from the dictionary, to an existing large digital humanities project. Whereas the dictionary fills a publication gap and a research need, the crowdsourcing system provides a digital research method for collaborative translations of specialized terms. During this process, we explored and undertook a variety of new roles, ranging from project leader, hybrid scholar to content creator and publisher. Our project demonstrates how academic librarians could dive deep in the realm of digital humanities and plunge into the life cycle of scholarly communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]