Digital ecosystems of eHumanities resources and services

Having concentrated in (Kuster et al., 2007) on the services that contribute to TextGrid, we now look in details at the second key aspect of eHumanities digital ecosystems, content, which in the case of TextGrid consists primarily of textual and image resources. We analyze the role of those resources as first-class citizens of this eHumanities ecosystem. Abstracting from the concrete use case of TextGrid, we look at grid-based digital ecosystems from the new paradigm of resource-oriented architectures (ROA) and elaborate on the implications that this paradigm shift will have for digital ecosystems.