Abstract How can librarians at college and undergraduate libraries contribute to digital humanities research? This study describes The Greek Key, a working prototype Virtual Research Environment (VRE) for the analysis of texts and manuscripts. This paper explains how the VRE functions through a case study of passages in Plato and the Book of Genesis. The Greek Key VRE is a collaborative, scalable, multidisciplinary project that has the potential to engage librarians in participatory strategies such as crowdsourcing. The VRE will make it possible to pursue perennial questions in innovative ways and to use new technologies to respond to questions that do not lend themselves to more traditional methods.

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数字人文，图书馆和协作研究：数字文本研究的新技术

摘要高校图书馆和图书馆馆员如何为数字人文研究做出贡献？这项研究描述了The Greek Key，这是一个有效的原型虚拟研究环境（VRE），用于分析文本和手稿。本文通过柏拉图和《创世纪》中各段的案例研究，说明了VRE的功能。Greek Key VRE是一个协作，可扩展，跨学科的项目，有可能使图书馆员参与众包之类的参与性战略。VRE将使人们有可能以创新的方式追究常年问题，并使用新技术来回答那些不适合采用传统方法的问题。