Libraries, research infrastructures and the digital humanities: are we ready for the challenge?

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Identity crisis?

or chance of a lifetime?

… are you ready for the challenge? www.njlibraries.org/vid.mpeg

What are the humanities? Wikipedia: ‘ancient and modern languages, literature, history, philosophy, rel igion, visual and performing arts’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities

What are the humanities? Wikipedia: ‘the humanitiesthat are alsoregarded as socialsciencesincludehistory, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, lawand linguistics’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities

What are the humanities?

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities? Kings College: ‘to study the possibilities of computingfor arts and humanitiesscholarship and, in collaborationwithlocal, national and international research partners across the disciplines, to design and buildapplicationswhichimplement these possibilities, in particularthosewhichproduce online

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities? UCL: ‘Digital Humanities research and teaching takes place at the intersection of digital technologies and humanities…’www.ucl.ac.uk/dh-blog/2012/01/20/infographic-quantifying-digital-humanities/

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities? GCDH: ‘Digital Humanities (DH) is anarea of research, teaching, and developmentconcerned with the intersection of computing and the various disciplines of the www.gcdh.de/en/ Humanities.’

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities? DARIAH-EU: ‘digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts’ www.dariah.eu

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities? http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities? http://www.allc.org/publications/llc-journal-digital- scholarship-humanities

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities? http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?http://dh2013.unl.edu/ Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 1 Nov 2012 Workshop proposal deadline: 15 Feb 2013

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities? http://thatcamp.org/

Are their (digital)humanities in eScience?

What is infrastructure?

What is research infrastructure? http://thatcamp.org/•Pan European Data Networkfor theEuropean research andeducationcommunity

What is research infrastructure?•secure, world-wideroamingaccess servicedevelopedfor the internationalresearch andeducationcommunity www.eduroam.org

Data as research infrastructure?

Libraries as research infrastructure? www.europeana-libraries.eu

The Web as research infrastructure?

Research infrastructures in Europe andbeyond http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=esfri

Humanities and Social SciencesResearch Infrastructures

DARIAH on the ESFRI Roadmap

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts andHumanities (DARIAH)

Countries participating in DARIAH•Austria•Croatia•Denmark•France (Host Country)•Germany (Coordinator)•Greece•Ireland•The Netherlands (Coordinator)•Slovenia•Serbia

DARIAH Coordinating InstitutionsAustria: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften andUniversity of ViennaCroatia: Institut RuđerBoškovićDenmark: Århus UniversityFrance: Le Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueGermany: Niedersächsische Staats- und UniversitätsbibliothekGöttingenGreece: Academy of Athens - Research Centre for the Study ofModern Greek HistoryIreland:Trinity College DublinThe Netherlands: Data Archiving Networked ServicesSerbia: Center for Digital Humanities, BelgradeSlovenia: Institute of Contemporary History

Establishing a European Organisation•DARIAH is beingestablished asa European ResearchInfrastructure Consortium (ERIC)

DARIAH-EU as an ‘Integrating Activity’ DARIAH-DE DARIAH-DK DARIAH-AT DARIAH-IE DARIAH-SI DARIAH-NL DARIAH-HR DARIAH-FR DARIAH-GR DARIAH-RS

Greater than the sum of the parts…

DARIAH Virtual Competency Centres (VCCs) •To establish a sharedtechnology platform for Arts and Humanities research •To expose and shareresearchersknowledge, methodologies and expertise •To facilitate the exposure and sharing of scholarly content •To interface withkeyinfluencers in and for the Arts and Humanities

Isidore www.rechercheisidore.fr www.rechercheisidore.fr/sparql/ www.rechercheisidore.fr/api/

Humanities and Social Sciencesportal www.openedition.org

Web publishing platform www.revues.org

Academic blogs http://hypotheses.org/

Humanities and social sciencesevents http://calenda.org/

TextGrid www.textgrid.de/en

Visualisation http://dev2.dariah.eu/e4d

Digital Archaeology Viewing platform of the DomusSeveriana on the Palatine in Rome as in its construction phase in Flavian time (about 80 CE). Visualisation of the visual axis of the DomusSeveriana over the city of Rome – German Archaeological Institute

DIGHUMLAB http://dighumlab.dk/

Web archive research http://www.netlab.dk http://netarkivet.dk/in-english/

Sound and image tools http://www.larm-archive.org/about-larm/

NARCIS: Gateway to scholarly information in TheNetherlands Enhancedpublications: ‘anEnhancedPublication is a newform of communication in science, whereresearchersmakepublicationsavailable online in conjunctionwithothermaterial’ www.narcis.nl

Enhanced publications: a doctoral thesis www.narcis.nl

Enhanced publications: archaeological research www.narcis.nl

Slovenian Digital Humanities portal www.sidih.si

Low engagement from libraries…Lossau: ‘Researchlibraries’ engagementwithRIs (researchinfrastructures hasbeen low’. (p134) http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/8028/8387

What is the role for libraries? Ben Showers: ‘exploring the evolvingrole of the librarysupportingrese archers’ http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/23/does-the- library-have-a-role-to-play-in-the-digital-humanities/

What is the role for libraries? Ben Showers: potentialrolesforlibraries in the Digital Humanities: •Managing Data •As ‘EmbeddedLibrarians’ •Digitisation and Curation •Digital Preservation •Discovery and Dissemination http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/23/does-the- library-have-a-role-to-play-in-the-digital-humanities/

What is the role for libraries? Ben Showers: ‘a researcher- centricapproachneeds to beadopted’ http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/23/does-the- library-have-a-role-to-play-in-the-digital-humanities/

What is the role for libraries? Miriam Posner: •The complexity of collaboratingwithfaculty •peculiardynamics of this kind of relationship •the project willsufferif the relationshipisn’ttrulyequita ble http://miriamposner.com/blog/?p=1274

Alternative Academics #alt-acNowviskie: librarians as ‘handmaidens ofscholarship, peoplewith a calling –with a vocation to serve?’ or as‘alternativeacademics?’ … ‘in truepartnershipwith the digitalhumanities…’ http://nowviskie.org/2011/a-skunk-in-the-library/

Support or collaboration? https://twitter.com/schambers3/status/248805681237458945 Lossau: ‘The success of the library is notwhen the librariansclap, butwhen the researchers do’

A DH and the library bibliography http://miriamposner.com/blog/?page_id=1033

What do humanities researchers want?1. Makeit easy to use2. Makeit easy to cite3. Put it in theirworkflow4. Provide clarityonobjects and processes5. Build a community6. Provide research support7. Make the informationeasilyreusable8. Offer ways to visualisecollections9. Thinkaboutlinked data10. Provide a criticalmass of content EuropeanaLibrariesnewsletter, July 2011 http://tinyurl.com/8rje85k

Understanding researcher needs http://www.dariah.eu/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc _details&gid=477&Itemid=200

Understanding researcher needs www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf

Understanding researcher needs Benardou, Agiatis; Constantopoulos, Panos; Dallas, Costis; Gavrilis, Dimitris, A Conceptual Model for Scholarly Research Activity: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/14945

Who to collaborate with?Affiliated projects•EHRI, CENDARI, NeDiMAHSibling initiatives•BAMBOO, CLARIN, TEICultural heritage initiatives•Europeana, DC-NetTechnological initiatives•EGI, EUDAT Larger circle initiatives •APA, GRDI2020, OpenAIRE

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) www.ehri-project.eu

Colloborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure(CENDARI) www.cendari.eu

Network for Digital Methods in the Arts andHumanities (NeDiMAH) Themes: •Space and time •Visualisation •Linked data &ontologies •Digital Data •Large-scaletext •Scholarly digital editions www.nedimah.eu

Project Bamboo www.projectbamboo.org

OpenAIRE: Open Access Infrastructure for Europe www.openaire.eu

Towards Europeana for Researchers

Europeana ‘research’ Cloud will be developingtools, services and undertaking dissemination thatestablish closer links with research communities 73

Europeana for research use1. To provide access, via Europeana, to 2.4m new metadata records and 5m research– focused digital items from across European universities, libraries, data centres and publishers.2. To develop a digital platform, named Europeana Research, to discover and use European research content3. Via this cloud, provide tools and services for researchers that permit innovative research that exploits digitised content in Europeana.

Assessing Researcher Needs in the Cloud and Ensuring Community Engagement Agiatis Benardou (DCU – Athena RC), Costis Dallas (DCU – Athena RC), Sally Chambers (DARIAH-EU)To identify and define the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities that will besupported via the Europeana CloudTo develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for researchin the Humanities and Social SciencesTo improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in theHumanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation ofcontent in the Europeana CloudTo actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishinguser requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud

Partnership ATHENA Research Center (Athena RC) - WP Leader Institutefor War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) Trinity College Dublin (TCD) National Library of Wales (NLW) University of Gothenburg (UGOT) LIBER – Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) The University Of Edinburgh (UEDIN) Consortium Of European Research Libraries (CERL) Europeana Foundation (EF)

DARIAH Virtual Competency Centres (VCCs) •To establish a sharedtechnology platform for Arts and Humanities research •To expose and shareresearchersknowledge, methodologies and expertise •To facilitate the exposure and sharing of scholarly content •To interface withkeyinfluencers in and for the Arts and Humanities

Emerging technologies?Niels Brügger 2012

The Web as a research resource http://www.netlab.dkNiels Brügger ( 2012, forthcoming): ‘the tiresometaskoffindingdocuments in archives and libraries is now madepossiblewith a mouse click overshadowsthat the very mediumforthisactivity – the web, online as well as archived – is in itself avaluable and validsource to contemporaryhistory’

Nano publications? www.nanopub.org

www.nanopub.org ‘A nanopublication is the smallest unit of publishableinformation: anassertionabout anythingthatcanbeuniquelyidentifiedand attibuted to itsauthor. Individual nanopublicationscanbecitedbyothersandmonitoredfortheir impact on the community.’

www.nanopub.org

Humanities Nano Publication? Evil in Philosophy German Blanke, Tobias

Get involved!http://dh2013.unl.edu/ Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 1 Nov 2012 Workshop proposal deadline: 15 Feb 2013

Joining forces! http://elag2013.org/

2nd DARIAH-EU General VCC meetingVienna, Austria, 28-30 November 2012 http://tinyurl.com/8mrjo6r

Digital Transformations Moot, 19 November 2012 ‘Moot’ is and oldEnglish word for a meeting of peoplewhere important matters are discussed. … to hack, to make, to breakwww.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Digital-Transformations-Moot.aspx

Libraries: participating node in thescholarly research infrastructure Karen Calhoun: ‘catalogue 2.0’ is not a catalogue at all, but a participating node (a repository) in a looselyconnected, network- levelscholarly research infrastructure’ SallyChambers: ‘libraries are a participating node in a looselyconnected, network- levelscholarly research infrastructure’ ?? (Van de Sompel et al. 2004)www.dlib.org/dlib/september04/vandesompel/09vandesompel.html

Working together

Are you ready for the challenge? www.njlibraries.org

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