Exclusive to everyone? E-Science and the Critical Edition Stuart Dunn AHRC ICT Methods Network workshop 22nd September 2006 CCH, King’s College London

'The development and deployment of a networked infrastructure and culture through which resources - be they processing power, data, expertise, or person power - can be shared in a secure environment, in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies explored' ‘ Culture : The total range of activities and ideas of a group of people with shared traditions, which are transmitted and reinforced by members of the group’.

'The development and deployment of a networked infrastructure and culture through which resources - be they processing power, data, expertise, or person power - can be shared in a secure environment, in which new forms of collaboration can emerge, and new and advanced methodologies explored'

Data Computation Access Grid

Data

Computation

Access Grid

What technologies are needed to enable the collaborative research environments required for such 'democratization' of the critical edition? Virtual Research Environments - JISC VRE project History of Political Discourse project (Hull/UEA) Web services Access Grid AHRC workshop ‘The AG in Collaborative Arts and Humanities Research’ (Sheffield) Technologies for linking data/multimedia to texts…? ‘ Linking E-Archives and Publications’ (York) Semantically-savvy tools for collaborative editing. E.g. TextGrid Tools for describing concepts and the relationships between them (ontologies).

Virtual Research Environments -

JISC VRE project History of Political Discourse project (Hull/UEA)

Web services

Access Grid

AHRC workshop ‘The AG in Collaborative Arts and Humanities Research’ (Sheffield)

Technologies for linking data/multimedia to texts…?

‘ Linking E-Archives and Publications’ (York)

Semantically-savvy tools for collaborative editing. E.g. TextGrid

Tools for describing concepts and the relationships between them (ontologies).

Do users need such editions? Will they ever trust them? Identification of user requirements is a dynamic and ongoing process Tracking usage through deep log analysis of user behaviour Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities (UCL) Challenges are both technological and non-technological Peer-review. AHRC ICT Strategy Project ‘Peer Review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts and humanities’ (IHR)

Identification of user requirements is a dynamic and ongoing process

Tracking usage through deep log analysis of user behaviour

Log Analysis of Internet Resources in the Arts and Humanities (UCL)

Challenges are both technological and non-technological

Peer-review.

AHRC ICT Strategy Project ‘Peer Review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts and humanities’ (IHR)

How should access to the editorial process be managed? Who decides who gets to edit the text? Should it be managed at all? Directly linked to the tech issue of security, authentication and access control. E.g. Shibboleth Access control of wikis Directly linked to the non-tech issue of trust e-Science certificates, issued under authority of CCLRC by Registration Authorities (RAs)

Directly linked to the tech issue of security, authentication and access control. E.g. Shibboleth

Access control of wikis

Directly linked to the non-tech issue of trust

e-Science certificates, issued under authority of CCLRC by Registration Authorities (RAs)

How should version control be maintained? Workflow history can become part of the intellectual content of the edition Essential to maintain author attribution for each version Version control of what?! Annotation - both human and machine-readable Grid-enabled data collection and analysis – semantic annotation in skills-based learning

Workflow history can become part of the intellectual content of the edition

Essential to maintain author attribution for each version

Version control of what?!

Annotation - both human and machine-readable

Grid-enabled data collection and analysis – semantic annotation in skills-based learning

Existing library and information (infra)structures How should OSCEs be cited? Who should be cited? Do they need to be closely integrated with existing LIS systems? Digital libraries? T. Blanke, S. Dunn and A. Dunning, ‘Digital libaries in the Arts and Humanities - Current practices and future possibilities’, InScit conference (Oct ‘06) Sustainability

How should OSCEs be cited?

Who should be cited?

Do they need to be closely integrated with existing LIS systems?

Digital libraries?

T. Blanke, S. Dunn and A. Dunning, ‘Digital libaries in the Arts and Humanities - Current practices and future possibilities’, InScit conference (Oct ‘06)

Sustainability