1. New tasks, new roles: Libraries in the tension
between Digital Humanities, Research Data,
and Research Infrastructures
Dr. Stefan Schmunk | Jasná, 3rd April 2017
Research & Development
Department (RDD)
@DARIAHde
@StefanSchmunk

2. • Introduction
• Digital Humanities: DARIAH-DE and TextGrid
• Research Data in the Arts and Humanities
• Digital Scholarly Editions as new tasks for Research
Libraries
• Conclusion
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Overview – Agenda

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Arts and Humanities
& Social Science Computer Science
Libraries & Archives – Information Science
Digital Humanities =
Applied digital enabled research
in the Arts and Humanities
Digital Humanities – an interdisciplinary approach

4. - funding: 2011-2019
- Continous operation after
2019
- funded by
- about 15 m euros
- consortium of 17 partners:
universities, research
institutions, computing
centres, libraries, Academy
of Sciences and
Humanities, SME, NGO
- funding: 2006-2015
(integration in DARIAH-DE)
- funded by
- about 8 m euros
- consortium of 10 partners:
universities, research
institutions, computing
centre, library, Academy of
Sciences and Humanities,
SME
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www.de.dariah.eu www.textgrid.de

5. … supports digitally-enabled
research and teaching in the
arts and humanities
- Teaching
- Research
- Research Data
- Technical Infrastructure
… supports the creation of
digital editions in the humanities
and cultural studies
- Tools for text enrichment and
annotation
- Repository for long term
preservation
- Training and education
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è Research driven and conceptualized as an architecture of par4cipa4on

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Teaching (support, training)
• Workshops on methods,
expert colloquia, Summer Schools
• Coordination of national and
international curricular developments
Research Data (research data
collections, research data management)
• Best practices for metadata,
standardised exchange of data,
ontologies
• Development of generic search,
collection and schema registry
• Development of a tool based
federation architecture for research
data
Research (DH & Information
Science)
• DH methods and practices
• Use Cases: Annotation, Big Data
• Tools and services
• Bibliography Doing Digital Humanities
Technical Infrastructure
(development and provision of
infrastructural services)
• collaborative research environments,
virtual machines, monitoring,
authentication and authorization
infrastructure etc.
DARIAH-DE – four main tasks

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Definition Research Data
“By research data in the Arts and Humanities is meant
all those sources and outputs that are based on a
research question, collected either by scholars,
libraries, archives or any other institution, which may
be described, evaluated and/or generated and stored
in machine-readable form for analyzing, archiving
purposes, citability, and for further processing.”
Research Data – Arts and Humanities

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• Metadata, bibliographical data, finding aids
• Digital and/or digitized data and/or digital
representation of analog data
• Digital objects (tool generated data)
• Full text, transcripts
• Enriched full text
• Images, movies, music & notes
• Authority files, controlled vocabularies, ontologies
• ...
Research Data – Arts and Humanities

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Research Data Collection – epidat
• Data: 30.000 inscriptions of more than 130 Jewish cemeteries in
Germany and the Netherlands (1050-2000)
• Contains: Digitized Data, transcripts,
maps, photographs, and
archival sources
• Methods: Visual Analytics,
Named-Entity-Recognition,
Temporal-Spatial Visualization
Source: http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi-bin/epidat?info=edv&art=art6
Example: Epigraphical Database

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Photography
Scholarly Edition – synoptical view of inscriptions
Burial site
Symbols
Further information about Epidat:
Thomas Kollatz
kol@steinheim-institut.org
Example: Epigraphical Database

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• DARIAH-DE Geo-
Browser
• Visualisation of
data, sets, and
collection
• Temporal-Spatial-
Contextualisation
• Open Source tool
as a service for the
community
Source:
http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi-bin/epidat?
info=e4d&lang=de
Epidat: Data-Visualisation
www.geobrowser.de.dariah.eu

12. Research data are representations of observations, objects, or other
entities used as evidence of phenomena for the purposes of research or
scholarship” C.L. Borgman (2015). Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked
World.
New challenges in the Humanities dealing with
Research data concerning:
• Discovering data
• Access to data
• Extended search strategies for data
• Using data tools (and generating data)
• Linking articles with data à enhanced publications
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What is the situation for the Digital Humanities?

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Tool-oriented approach ...
Building a Data Federation Architecture
https://de.dariah.eu/data-federation-architecture
No Silos
Interoperability!

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Repositories for the Arts and Humanities
https://de.dariah.eu/publish https://textgridrep.org
DARIAH-DE Repository TextGrid Repository
Integra4ng exis4ng tools
Analyze and visualize
Data e.g. Voyant Tools
Archive,
store,
preserve,
but also:
explore,
find,
analyze and
visualize

15. • period: 1859 - 1880s
• 67 notebooks
• 64 - 120 leaves each
• < 10.000 pages
Theodor Fontane
(1819 - 1898)
Digital Scholarly Edition
Theodor Fontane‘s Notebooks
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https://fontane-nb.dariah.eu/index.html

16. MATERIAL VIRTUAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT USAGE
FONTANE-NOTEBOOK-
PORTAL
(Digital EdiJon powered
by SADE)
TEXTGRID REPOSITORY
(Long term
preservaJon of
research data)
www.textgridrep.de
PRINT EDITION
via XML-Print
with Walter-deGruyter
Publishing House
TEXTGRID
LABORATORY
TEXTGRID
REPOSITORY
XML/TEI-
Encoding
DigiJzed
Material
XML-Editor DicJonaries
Metadata
RelaJons
e.g. DTA, GND, …
Material
Appraisal
Digital Objects Ingest
Editorial
Principles and
TranscripJon
PracJces
Metadata
Schema
TranscripJons Conversion
TEI as XSD
Philological EdiJon
Text Cons4tu4on
Cri4cal Apparatus
Editorial Comments
Register
Report and Guidelines
etc.
InformaJon
Science
Prepara4on of the Digital
Publica4on (visualiza4on)
Data aggrega4on
etc.
Export to SADE
(existdb, Lucene, Ba4k,
DigiLib, …)
PublicaJon
(Persistent Iden4fier,
Metadata Validia4on)
Plugins
Object
Hierarchy
Exemplary Workflow – New Taks and challenges
for Research Libraries
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17. Anlass der Präsentation (Fußzeile)

18. Research
Object
Research Data
observational data,
audio, video,
interviews, statistical
data, ...
Publication
• Documentation of research
data for replication and
detection of fraud
• Sharing and publication of
research data: „old“ data for
new research
• Building up research
infrastructures for scientist
• Keep digital data usable
despite changes in
technology, organisations,
background knowledge, ...
• Supporting researchers
during the project phase
(embedded data managers)
New Tasks for Libraries:
Data, Infrastructures, and Digital Humanities
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19. • Scientific Information is more than a journal article or
a book
• Libraries should open their catalogues to any kind of
information
• The catalogue of the future is NOT ONLY a window
to the library‘s holding, but
• A portal in a net of trusted providers of scientific
content
Consequences for Libraries
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20. Libraries will be ...
• Data provider
• Informa4on centers (advise and consult scien4st)
• Scien4fic so^ware houses
• Training facili4es
• Experts for enhanced publica4ons
• Hoster of research infrastructures
• Research ins4tu4ons in the field of informa4on science
• Networked informa4on facili4es (open interfaces)
• ...
„Vision 2030“ for Libraries
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21. It is not only a challenge …
… it is an opportunity
Libraries should ride the wave …
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22. Thank you
for your attention!
Dr. Stefan Schmunk
schmunk@sub.uni-goettingen.de
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@DARIAHde
@StefanSchmunk

23. DARIAH-DE Homepage http://de.dariah.eu
DARIAH-EU Homepage http://dariah.eu
DARIAH-DE Repository
https://de.dariah.eu/publish
DARIAH Working Papers
https://de.dariah.eu/working-papers
DARIAH-DE Research Data Services
Collection Registry http://colreg.de.dariah.eu
Schema Registry http://schereg.dariah.eu
Generic Search http://search.de.dariah.eu
DHd-Blog http://dhd-blog.org
DHd-Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/dhdkanal
Links and references
TextGrid Homepage
www.textgrid.de
Download TextGridLab
www.textgrid.de/download
TextGrid Repository
www.textgridrep.de
technical Documentation
www.textgrid.de/dev
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