IEEE Oxford Presentatie Alfalab 2008

Alfalab
Construction and Deconstruction of a
Digital Humanities Experiment
Joris van Zundert Huygens Institute (KNAW) The Hague, The Netherlands [email_address] Anne Beaulieu Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email_address] Douwe Zeldenrust Meertens Institute (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email_address]

Introducing Alfalab
Alfalab is being created by Anne Beaulieu • Joris van Zundert • Douwe Zeldenrust • Rob Zeeman • Maarten Hoogerwerf • Charles van den Heuvel • Smiljana Antonijevic • Ruud Bronmans • Dirk Roorda • Leen Breure • Karina van Dalen • Ronald Dekker • Arjen Versloot • Sander Strating • Derk Drukker • Kees Mandemakers • Henk Wals • Paul Wouters • Peter Doorn • Reinier Salverda • Melle de Vries • Hans Bennis • Suzanne van Kaam • Bas Doppen • and a growing number of others cooperating...

Motivation for Alfalab
Our Cultural Commonwealth , The report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. ACLS, 2006
Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship: Past, Present, Future . A Report on the Workshop 22-24 October, 2008, Turf Valley Resort, Ellicott City, Maryland. March 2009

Motivation for Alfalab
Little uptake of digital tools and 'method' in humanities
Lack of Collaboration
Lack of VRE's and Virtual Laboratories
Lack of critical mass of digitized
Problem of heterogeneity of tools, data and method
Alfalab tries to meet the suggested requirements in a small controlled community setting

What Alfalab wants to be
A collaboration on all levels
Exploration of and experimentation on the 'laboratory metaphor'
Objectives
Success and fail factors
Community building 'how-to'
Exploration of form and function of tools
Work in progress

The naive nativity of an 'alpha-lab'...

Learning in progress
Less portal
Less lab
Focus on community building
Rethinking interfaces and visualization
Rethinking academic publishing and peer review
Reconciling heterogeneity
Organizational model

Collaboration key
tools & interfaces
distributed data
workshops
desimination
networked project leadership shared development effort collaborative vision community involvement

Project scope
Phase 1
Exploration
Planning, motivating & financing phase 2
Networking (DARIAH, CLARIN, Nines, Bamboo etc.)
Phase 2
Implementation
Less infrastructure
Focus on networking, organization
Mapping research heuristics on tools and data
1.4 MEuro
Phase 1: 2009 - 2011

Current state
From portal to distributed networked tools and data
Tools: 2 demonstrators in progress
'TeksLlab' (TextLab)
'GisLab' (GeospatialLab)
3 rd demonstrator lab planned
Project on digital publication and peer review
Finding and leveraging synergy effects
Collaborative publications
TekstLab * GisLab

Alfalab
microtoponym pilot
Rob Zeeman Meertens Instituut (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email_address] Charles van den Heuvel Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email_address] Douwe Zeldenrust Meertens Institute (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands [email_address] Arjen Versloot Fryske Akademy (KNAW) Leeuwarden, The Netherlands [email_address] Sander Strating Fryske Akademy (KNAW) Leeuwarden, The Netherlands [email_address] Leen Breure University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands [email_address]

Google Earth

Prototype Microtoponym Meertens Instituut

Knowledge Infrastructure Cultural History (KICH)

Closing – Q&A

Joris van Zundert [email_address] Douwe Zeldenrust [email_address] Anne Beaulieu [email_address] Alfalab Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment http://alfalablog.knaw.nl http://earth.google.com http://www.hgnnederland.nl http://www.kich.nl http://www.meertens.knaw.nl http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl http://www.vks.knaw.nl

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