"Digital Scholarship: The Intersection of Disciplines" Invited talk at Semantics Digital Humanities Workshop, 25th-27th of September 2015, New Seminar Room, St John’s College, University of Oxford, St Giles, OX1 3JP. Organized by Dept of Computer Science, e-Research Centre, and St John's College, University of Oxford.

1. David De Roure
@dder
Digital Scholarship:
The Intersection of Disciplines
DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD E-RESEARCH CENTRE

2. Porter, Bernard. 1939. Being a Map of Physics. Courtesy of Maine State Library and Mark Melnicove. In "10th Iteration (2014): The
Future of Science Mapping," Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, edited by Katy Börner and Samuel Mills. http://scimaps.org

3. http://oxfordschoolofphotography.wordpress.com/tag/tilt-shift-photography/

6. Segolene’s
slide

7. Edwards, P. N., et al. (2013) Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research
Challenges. Ann Arbor: Deep Blue. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97552

8. The Big Picture(s)

9. ChristineBorgman

10. F i r s t

11. Four
Quadrant
Diagram
Digital
Scholarship

12. Citizens

13. Social
Machines
Defini8on
TBL

15. Scientists
Talk
Forum
Image
Classification
data reduction
Citizen Scientists

16. http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/news/report-responsible-use-of-data/

17. https://twitter.com/CR_UK/status/446223117841494016/
Some people's smartphones
had autocorrected the word
"BEAT" to instead read
"BEAR".
"Thank you for choosing an
adorable polar bear," the
reply from the WWF said.
"We will call you today to set
up your adoption."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26723457

18. time
Social Machine instances
@dder

19. Observer of
one social
machine
Observers using third
party observatory
Observer of
multiple social
machines
Human
participants in
Social
Machine
Human participants in
multiple Social Machines
Observer of Social
Machine infrastructure
1
4
2
3
5
6
SM
SM
SM
Social Machine
Observing Social
Machines
7
@dder

20. STORYTELLING AS A STETHOSCOPE
FOR SOCIAL MACHINES
1. Sociality through storytelling potential
and realization
2. Sustainability through reactivity and
interactivity
3. Emergence through collaborative
authorship and mixed authority
Zooniverse
is
a
highly
storified
Social
Machine
Facebook
doesn’t
allow
for
improvisa8on
Wikipedia
assigns
authority
rights
rigidly
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/ora:8033
Tarte, S.M., De Roure, D. and Willcox, P. 2014. Working out the Plot: the Role of
Stories in Social Machines. SOCM2014: The Theory and Practice of Social
Machines, Seoul, Korea, International World Wide Web Conferences pp. 909–914

21. Tarte, S. Willcox, P., Glaser, H. and De Roure, D. 2015. Archetypal Narratives in Social
Machines: Approaching Sociality through Prosopography. ACM Web Science 2015.

22. Crossing the Boundaries of
Discipline
Multi/Inter/Trans/Post

23. Community
SoMware
Supercomputer
Digital
Music
Collec8ons
Grad-­‐sourced
ground
truth
Community
SoMware
Linked
Data
Repositories
Supercomputer
23,000 hours of
recorded music
Music Information
Retrieval Community
SALAMI

24. Sequence alignment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment#/media/File:Histone_Alignment.png

25. Dan Edelstein, Robert Morrissey, and Glenn Roe, To Quote or not to Quote: Citation Strategies in the Encyclopédie.
Journal of the History of Ideas , Volume 74, Number 2, April 2013 . pp. 213-236. 10.1353/jhi.2013.0012
Glenn Roe

26. 3,610 Shared Passages
Montesquieu - 681 passages
• De l'esprit des lois (1746) - 477 passages
• Considérations sur les Romains… (1734) - 173 passages
Voltaire - 528 passages
• Essai sur l'histoire générale… (1756) - 415 passages
Jean-Baptiste Dubos - 229 passages
• Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture (1719) - 227 passages
René Aubert de Vertot - 122 passages
• Histoire des révolutions arrivées dans le gouvernement romain (1727) - 122 passages
Antoine Arnauld & Pierre Nicole - 107 passages
• La logique, or l'art de penser (1662) - 107 passages
Charles Rollin - 100 passages
• Histoire ancienne des Égyptiens (1738) - 94 passages
Montaigne - 91 passages
• Les Essais (1595) - 91 passages
Condillac - 91 passages
• Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746) - 91 passages
Aligned passages in the over 900 texts that predate the publication of the Encyclopédie in the ARTFL-Frantext collection,
from Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Glenn Roe, Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of
Similar Passages in Large Text Collections, Digital Studies - Le Champ numérique 2 (1)
Glenn Roe

27. Psychology and digital technology are
being combined to understand music
in new ways. In the run-up to the
Being Human festival, a group of
students in the audience for Wagner’s
epic ‘Ring Cycle’, conducted by Valery
Gergiev (Birmingham Hippodrome)
will take part in an intriguing
experiment to monitor the sensations
produced over the 16-hour cycle of
four operas.
How do we really
experience Wagner’s music?
http://beinghumanfestival.org/event/hearing-wagner/

28. !Fusing Audio
and Semantic
Technologies
David De Roure, Graham Klyne, Kevin Page, John Pybus and David
Weigl (2015). Music and Science: Parallels in Production. 2nd Intl
Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2015), June 2015.

29. http://chordify.net/

30. Social editions!
Pip Willcox

32. Crossing the Boundaries
of Time*
*and digital–physical

34. Richard O’Bierne

35. First
Folio
Social
Machines
Metadata
Story of the
First Folio
Social
Machines Annotation
David De Roure and Pip Willcox
‘“Coniunction, with the participation of Society”: Citizens, Scale, and
Scholarly Social Machines’
Beyond the PDF: Born-Digital Humanities, Boston, 27–28 April 2015
Pip Willcox

36. Digital
Material
Pip Willcox

37. Elizabeth Williamson

38. A computationally-enabled
sense-making network of
expertise, data, software,
models and narratives
Big Data, in a
Big Data Centre

39. A rehearsal for the future
▶ The Internet of Things
describes a world in which
everyday objects are
connected to a network so
that data can be shared.
▶ But it is really as much about
people as the inanimate
objects.
▶ It is impossible to anticipate
all the social changes that
could be created by
connecting billions of devices.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/internet-of-things-blackett-review

40. Crossing the Boundaries
of Collections

42. The ElEPHãT project used Linked Data to enable
scholarly investigation across dynamic collections
combining EEBO-TCP and the HathiTrust
The ElEPHãT project -- Early English Print in HathiTrust,
a Linked Semantic Worksets Prototype -- demonstrates
the use of Linked Data for combining, through worksets,
information from independent collections into a
coherent view which can be studied and analyzed to
facilitate and improve academic investigation of the
constituents.
The project focuses on the potential symbiosis between
two datasets: the first is Early English Books Online -
Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), a mature corpus
of digitized content consisting of English text from the
first book printed through to 1700, with highly
accurate, fully-searchable, XML-encoded texts; the
second is a custom dataset from the HathiTrust Digital
Library of all materials in English published between
1470 and 1700.

43. ElEPHãT

44. !

45. [The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number,
were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be
expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which
should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating
notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that
the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony
and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and
adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of
music of any degree of complexity or extent.
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/adalovelace/

46. http://collation.folger.edu/2011/08/welcome-to-the-collation/
The Hinman CollatorCarter Hailey’s Comet Portable Optical Collator
Iain Emsley and David De Roure. 2014. “It will discourse most eloquent music”:
Sonifying variants of Hamlet. TEI Conference, Lyon, France, October 2015

47. • Same quest, with some new methods
• Doing things in new ways
• Doing entirely new things
• Social as well as digital
• Semantics as a digital affordance
• Intersection, Scale, and Social Machines
• Other disciplines can learn from working with
the humanities
We're all in some sense digital humans, and digital humanists” @jfwinters

48. david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
@dder
Thanks to Iain Emsley, Terhi Nurmikko-
Fuller, Kevin Page, John Pybus, Glenn Roe,
Ségolène Tarte, David Weigl, Pip Willcox and
all our collaborators, and to the Centre for
Digital Scholarship at the Bodleian Libraries.
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/digital-scholarship-intersection

49. www.oerc.ox.ac.uk
david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
@dder