Curating textbooks - What are humanities scholars looking for and how can we support their research?

As textbooks both describe and help shape societies, they represent a valuable source for a wide range of humanities research questions and methods. This paper is concerned with the variety of information requirements researchers from the humanities may have when working with these sources. It describes the efforts made at the Georg-Eckert-Institute for International Textbook Research to make the data contained in digitised textbooks as accessible as possible and presents some considerations on the usefulness of more thorough curation and the use of digital humanities tools.