Enabling personal authoring and narrative making through sustainable reuse of digital objects
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This document discusses enabling personal authoring and narrative making using digital objects from interactive teaching and learning tools. It describes the CVCE ePublication multi-lingual model, which allows users to customize content, integrate different types of cultural heritage objects, and organize the content into a coherent narrative using the MyPublications authoring tool. The tool is being improved through an iterative process to focus on usability and meet the needs of learners, teachers, and researchers who will use it to write publications, explore narratives, and share their work.
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Enabling personal authoring and narrative making through sustainable reuse of digital objects
- 1. Enabling personal authoring and narrative making: Sustainable resuse of digital objects for interactive teaching and learning tools DH BENELUX Dr Catherine Jones et al., June 8-9th 2015 1 @SpatialK8; @CVCEeu_dh http://cvcedhlab.hypotheses.org/
- 3. 3 Academic models of publishing Copyright of Dave Simonds, reproduced with kind permission Source: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574
- 4. 4 Features of enhanced publications What is an epublication? – Traditional publications are enriched with additional information – Makes use of linking different objects (different types of data) • To describing, sharing, discovering, reuse and repurposing of the scientific content (Bechhofer, Roure etc al., 2010) Benefits – Greater transparency into the research process – Ability to reuse objects – Enhancing user experiences: • Interactive • Immersive
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- 8. 01/09/2014 – Title 8 CVCE ePublication multi-lingual model for European Integration 7 key features: 1. Aggregations 2. Identity 3. Sustainability 4. Traceability and transparency 5. Metadata 6. Reuse 7. Repurpose
- 9. 9 Reusing CVCE objects for personal authoring MyPublications
- 10. 10 MyPublications – its purpose • Authoring tool that enables user to : – Customise content from all CVCE ePublications – Integrating a diverse range of cultural heritage objects such as: • Documents • Photographs • Images • Treaties • Interviews – Organise content in a coherent narrative
- 11. 11 Who are our users? 1. Learners 2. Teachers 3. Researchers
- 12. 12 Simplified model of the MyPublications platform
- 13. 01/09/2014 – Title 13 Working with resources – object reuse
- 14. 01/09/2014 – Title 14 Personal authoring and developing narratives
- 16. 16 Exploring the narrative – Slideshow presentation view
- 17. 17 Sharing your narrative EN - The major crises of the Cold War http://www.cvce.eu/mypublications/content/-/publication/51dced57-4d5d-4ab8-9833-0a65ec56664a
- 18. 18 Improving former solution based on knowledge about users Focus on Usability • Observing users interacting with former solution • evaluation that considered various pillars of usability : – How easy is it for users to achieve their goal??? • Developed using iterative development process called Scrum Satisfaction Progressive Disclosure Learnability No dead ends Memorability Recognition over recall Error handling /accuracy Fitt’s Law = size and distance Efficiency Affordance
- 19. 19 Digital Toolbox- future developments • “Open MyPublications” – ability to publish your work on CVCE.eu • Improve the management of how users create and structure their publications • Improve the method for viewing/reading a publication • MySearch • Improving how to find and discover useful resources • Store searches for future use • Improving how to manage Resources – Improve methods for managing historical objects (resources) once they have been selected • Timelines – Enable users to create event timelines from their selected resources • Annotations – Enable users to annotate make notes associated with different objects
- 20. 20 The Team • Dr Catherine Emma Jones • Dr Lars Wieneke • Alexandre Genon • Frederic Reis • Frederic Allemand • Victoria Mouton
- 21. Login to the digital toolbox and MyPublications via www.CVCE.eu Thank you for listening 21
Editor's Notes
- Digital humanities and the corresponding transformation of paper based artefacts into digital objects as well as digital borne objects has triggered a move away from traditional models of academic publishing. It has led to the emergence of new forms of publishing for scientific knowledge, developing practices that are more attuned with web 2.0 technologies and the digital age. There has been a shift away from the simple metaphor of the traditional academic peer-reviewed paper recreated in electronic form towards platforms that are both machine and human readable and offer a more interactive and enhanced user experience. Open access etc
- Aggregations: ePublications aggregate content derived from many different publishable objects which themselves are aggregations of individual resource objects such texts or photographs. Identity all objects and ePublications have an individual and persistent identfier in the form of a unique URL. Traceability and transparency CVCE users must be able to trace the steps undertaken by the researcher through transparency in research methods to produce the ePublication. 4.Metadata : without descriptive machine readable metadata the ePublications and their constituent objects could not be reused or repurposed effectively. 5.Reuse: Enabling reuse of the object in another context but with the same content for example as part of user derived ePublications 6.Repurpose: Changing the way the object is used for example integrating it within a timeline of a map. 7.Sustainability: ensuring long‐term access to objects (in relation to copyright restrictions) and through the use of persistent identifiers.
- Users can organise content in a progression that connects historical artifacts /events together Curation of objects to suit individual research purposes.
- The CVCE data repository uses Alfresco content management system to manage, store and retrieve a wide variety of cultural heritage objects such as documents, photographs, cartoons and videos. These objects are then served to the Java based open source Liferay documents and media portal which delivers our CVCE ePublications to the web and our half a million website users. The tool then works through the client side and is written using a combination of HTML 5, CSS & JavaScript to create an interface that calls saves and embeds links to any type of cultural heritage object found within the CVCE collection. The resulting MyPublication is essentially a series of sequential object links and original texts (sections, sub sections and paragraphs) all stored alongside the metadata in a MYSQL database.
- Register, login, find resources, create publication, publish publication How intuitive is it to use… http://www.slideshare.net/eralston/top-5-usability-principles