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and defined. It is considered that the “Data Infrastructure” of Digital Humanities is based on
the “data”, which fully embodies the characteristics of large scale, long time coverage, wide
geographical scope, small description granularity and multiple dimensions of “data”. It is an open,
public and sustainable “middle-end” data platform which is independent of specific application
development and research in specific fields and between the “background” of information
infrastructure and the “front-end” of research in specific fields. Based on the investigation of
the current situation of theoretical research and practical application of infrastructure in the
fields of humanities and GLAM, this paper analyzes the general functional requirements and
technical specifications of “Data Infrastructure” for Digital Humanities research, including four
aspects: cross institutional co-construction and sharing, cross network open access, cross domain
knowledge consilience, and cross space-time version iteration. Taking the Digital Humanities
practice of Shanghai Library as an example, this paper demonstrates the combination of
Bibliographic Control, Authority Control, and Knowledge Organization, Evidence-based practice
methods and Linked Data, Knowledge Graph, and Big Data technology are expected to provide
some methodological contribution to the construction of “Data Infrastructure”. At the same time,
that the GLAM institutions have accumulated massive, structured and standardized open data and
resource integration experience lays the foundation for the construction of “Data Infrastructure”.
Finally, the following conclusions are drawn：the specific research work should be handed over to
the humanities researchers. GLAM institutions are committed to strengthening the application of
new technologies, promoting data openness, interconnection and knowledge consilience, building
a public, open and sustainable “Data Infrastructure”, and providing new research paradigm,
knowledge production and knowledge communication to support humanities research. Those are
what GLAM institutions should and can do in the Digital Humanities tide. However, this paper
puts forward the concept, definition, general functional requirements and technical specifications
of “Data Infrastructure”, the demonstrated contribution of library methodology, and the role
of institutions in the construction of Digital Humanities Data Infrastructure, which needs to be
discussed in depth with more GLAM practitioners and researchers in specific fields and further
tested during the practice in the future.

Information literacy instruction for all: Global progress and future scenarios
in China
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HUANG Ruhua, FENG Jie, HUANG Yuting, SHI Leyi & HUANG Ying〇
This study reveals the characteristics of, and progress in, “Information Literacy Instruction for All”
(ILIFA) around the globe. The purpose is to provide suggestions for China’s ILIFA strategy, to

* Correspondence should be addressed to HUANG Ying, Email: ying.huang@whu.edu.cn, ORCID: 0000-0003-0115-4581.