Data Management with SHEBANQ as a showcase: a tool for rearchers backed up by sound data paractices

1. Data Archiving and Networked Services
DANS is an institute of KNAW en NWO
Research Data
Vereniging Theologische
Bibliotheken
2015-11-11 Utrecht
Dirk Roorda
dirk.roorda@dans.knaw.nl

2. SHEBANQ
System for HEBrew text:
ANnotations for Queries and Markup
From data analysis to user interface
Giving it to the users:
readers
language scholars
historical linguists
computational linguists
exegetes-hermeneutes
bible translators
publishers
computer scientists

3. The ETCBC database
Eep Talstra 197?-2015
Wido van Peursen 2013-
Constantijn Sikkel
Janet Dyk
Reinoud Oosting
Oliver Glanz
...
2012 Eep Talstra, Constantijn Sikkel, Oliver Glanz,
Reinoud Oosting, and Janet Dyk: Text database of the
Hebrew Bible. DOI 10.17026/dans-x8h-y2bv. Restricted
Access.
2014 Wido van Peursen, Eep Talstra, Constantijn
Sikkel, Janet Dyk, Oliver Glanz, Reinoud Oosting, Gino
Kalkman and Dirk Roorda: Hebrew Text Database
ETCBC4. DOI 10.17026/dans-2z3-arxf. Open Acces
(CC-BY NC)
archived!

4. Queries

5. Parallel Passages
Work with Martijn Naaijer (ETCBC)
on historical linguistic variation.
See parallel on shebanq.

7. Verbal Valency
Work with Janet Dyk (ETCBC)
on verbal semantics.
See valence on shebanq.
clause
has
complement
has direct
object‫נתן‬
has
another direct
object
clause
has
complement
complement
is indirect
object
complement
is locative
determine
primary object
and secondary
objects (pdo,
sdos)
(act of) producing; yielding;
giving (in itself)
produce; yield; give
produce, yield, give
give
give ?or? place
place
make {pdo} (to be (as)/to
become/to do) {sdos}
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0c
10
1i
1c
1l
2

9. Dataset in EASY
all your files and folders
DataSeal of Approval

10. Dataset in EASY
the jump-off page
(landing page)
Links to contextual
information
Persistent identifier
(DOI)

11. Dataset in EASYthe METAdata

12. objectives: findable
2nd hit with google

13. objectives: referable
persistent identifier
(DOI)

14. objectives:
downloadable
select and download

15. objectives: usable
manual;
instructions for data-processing;
how to reproduce results;
how to re-use data;
• usable file formats
• descriptive metadata
• context links
• README file

16. objectives: scholarly
communication
The Research Data Journal is
a digital-only open access
journal, which documents
deposited data sets through
the publication of data
papers.
Data papers are scholarly
publications of medium
length containing a non-
technical description of a
data set and putting the data
in a research context. Each
paper gets a persistent
identifier providing
publication credits to the
author.
The journal concentrates on
the social sciences and the
humanities, covering history,
archaeology, language and
literature in particular. The
publication languages are
English and Dutch.
published by DANS and Brill

17. about
Institute of Dutch
Academy of
Sciences and
National Funding
Organisation
(KNAW & NWO)
since 2005
First predecessor
dates back to
1964 (Steinmetz
Foundation), and
Historical Data
Archive 1989
Mission: promote
and provide
permanent access
to digital research
information

18. DANS services

19. services: dataverse

20. services:

21. DANS pricing structure: WHY?
• Exponential growth in volume and
complexity of data
• Budget growth cannot keep pace
with this
• ‘a business model in which all data
storage will remain free forever is
not viable’

22. DANS pricing structure: HOW?
• Costs to be charged
• Processing data and organizing documentation
• Consultancy
• basic data storage costs (open access principle -> pay for deposit)
• Storage costs
• Archeological companies (fixed project price, based on average)
• Institutional agreements (FOBO structure, institutional agreement,
access through DANS repository)
• Long-term storage in dark archive (excluding access through DANS)

23. DANS pricing structure: HOW MUCH?
• We charge the prices that we pay our third party for the
different levels of basic storage (yearly prices).
• In return for a one-off payment of these costs for five years
in advance, DANS ensures the preservation of the data
“forever”. This will enable the long-term safekeeping of
data from projects with temporary funding.

24. the bigger picture
FO-BO
RDNL

25. front office - back office

26. front-office
• support own research organization
• raise awareness of the importance of data
management
• provide information and training to researchers
• manage local Virtual Research Environments
• facilitate transfer of data to back-office for archiving

27. Theologians are finding their
way
but first things
first: it's EASY

28. dirk.roorda@dans.knaw.nl
https://shebanq.ancient-data.org
thank you
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