1. www.twitter.com/schambers3
www.slideshare.net/schambers3
Libraries, research
infrastructures and the
digital humanities: are
we ready for the
challenge?
Sally Chambers

2. Context...
A librarian ...
Libraries, research infrastructures and
the digital humanities: are we redy for
the challenge?
... workingfor a...
... in a...

3. Identity crisis?

4. or chance of a lifetime?

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

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

7. 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

8. What are the humanities?

9. 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

10. 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/

11. 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.’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20. Are their (digital)
humanities in eScience?

21. What is infrastructure?

22. What is research infrastructure?
http://thatcamp.org/
•Pan European Data Networkfor the
European research and
educationcommunity

23. What is research infrastructure?
•secure, world-
wideroamingaccess service
developedfor the international
research and
educationcommunity
www.eduroam.org

25. Data as research infrastructure?

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

27. The Web as research infrastructure?

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

29. Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Infrastructures

30. DARIAH on the ESFRI Roadmap

31. Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and
Humanities (DARIAH)

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

33. DARIAH Coordinating Institutions
Austria: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften and
University of Vienna
Croatia: Institut RuđerBošković
Denmark: Århus University
France: Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Germany: Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Göttingen
Greece: Academy of Athens - Research Centre for the Study of
Modern Greek History
Ireland:Trinity College Dublin
The Netherlands: Data Archiving Networked Services
Serbia: Center for Digital Humanities, Belgrade
Slovenia: Institute of Contemporary History

34. Establishing a European Organisation
•DARIAH is beingestablished as
a European Research
Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC)

35. 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

36. Greater than the sum of the parts…

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

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

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

40. Humanities and Social Sciences
portal
www.openedition.org

41. Web publishing platform
www.revues.org

42. Academic blogs
http://hypotheses.org/

43. Humanities and social sciences
events
http://calenda.org/

44. TextGrid
www.textgrid.de/en

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

46. 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

47. DIGHUMLAB
http://dighumlab.dk/

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

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

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

51. Enhanced publications: a doctoral thesis
www.narcis.nl

52. Enhanced publications: archaeological research
www.narcis.nl

53. Slovenian Digital Humanities portal
www.sidih.si

54. Low engagement from libraries…
Lossau: ‘Research
libraries’ engagement
withRIs (research
infrastructures has
been low’. (p134)
http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/8028/8387

55. 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/

56. 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/

57. 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/

58. 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

59. Alternative Academics #alt-ac
Nowviskie: librarians as ‘
handmaidens of
scholarship, peoplewith a calling –
with a vocation to serve?’ or as
‘alternativeacademics?’ … ‘in true
partnershipwith the digital
humanities…’
http://nowviskie.org/2011/a-skunk-in-the-library/

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

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

62. What do humanities researchers want?
1. Makeit easy to use
2. Makeit easy to cite
3. Put it in theirworkflow
4. Provide clarityonobjects and
processes
5. Build a community
6. Provide research support
7. Make the
informationeasilyreusable
8. Offer ways to visualisecollections
9. Thinkaboutlinked data
10. Provide a criticalmass of content
EuropeanaLibrariesnewsletter, July 2011
http://tinyurl.com/8rje85k

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

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

65. 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

66. Who to collaborate with?
Affiliated projects
•EHRI, CENDARI, NeDiMAH
Sibling initiatives
•BAMBOO, CLARIN, TEI
Cultural heritage initiatives
•Europeana, DC-Net
Technological initiatives
•EGI, EUDAT
Larger circle initiatives
•APA, GRDI2020, OpenAIRE

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

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

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

70. Project Bamboo
www.projectbamboo.org

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

72. Towards Europeana for Researchers

73. Europeana ‘research’ Cloud will be developing
tools, services and undertaking dissemination that
establish closer links with research communities
73

74. Europeana for research use
1. 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 content
3. Via this cloud, provide tools and services for
researchers that permit innovative research
that exploits digitised content in Europeana.

75. 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 be
supported via the Europeana Cloud
To develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-
based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for research
in the Humanities and Social Sciences
To improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of
content in the Europeana Cloud
To actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishing
user requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud

76. 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)

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

78. Emerging technologies?
Niels Brügger 2012

79. The Web as a research resource
http://www.netlab.dk
Niels Brügger ( 2012, forthcoming): ‘the tiresometaskof
findingdocuments in archives and libraries is now made
possiblewith a mouse click overshadowsthat the very medium
forthisactivity – the web, online as well as archived – is in itself a
valuable and validsource to contemporaryhistory’

80. Nano publications?
www.nanopub.org

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

82. www.nanopub.org

83. Humanities Nano Publication?
Evil in Philosophy
German
Blanke, Tobias

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

85. Joining forces!
http://elag2013.org/

86. 2nd DARIAH-EU General VCC meeting
Vienna, Austria, 28-30 November 2012
http://tinyurl.com/8mrjo6r

87. 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 break
www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Digital-Transformations-Moot.aspx

88. Libraries: participating node in the
scholarly 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

89. Working together

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

91. Image Credits
www.newzealandnz.co.nz/wp-
content/uploads/2012/09/Bungee-Jumping.jpg
www.sparehed.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/03/tumblr_m084uoQDpv1r6bqsko1_12
80.png
http://www.munch.museum.no/content.aspx?id=9
http://www.getabba.com/collection/digital/VCD_the_winner_t
akes_it_all_cvr1.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J9r7AR8oGAk/SaRZHv824GI/AAAAA
AAADBk/LIMpB5KT20w/s320/MyHero(2).jpg
http://www.instructables.com/image/FQLVSY5FFNE7LDH/
Whirlpool-in-Photoshop.jpg/

92. Image Credits
http://itcilo.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/toolbox.jpg
http://alienhippy.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/picture1-
jigsaw-puzzle.jpg
http://www.calgreeks.com/wp-
content/uploads/2011/09/sustainability-pic.jpg
http://blogs-
images.forbes.com/johnkotter/files/2011/06/Network.jpg
http://www.end-your-sleep-deprivation.com/images/sleep-
questions-man.jpg
http://www.oudaen.nl
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-
KR2O6Ruqa9w/TcgmDElKGUI/AAAAAAAAAX8/4Z6aQNMAlRU/s
1600/conversation.jpg
http://www.mapsofworld.com/images/world-countries-
flags/france-flag.gif

93. Image Credits
http://www.mapsofworld.com/images/world-countries-
flags/france-flag.gif
http://www.flags.net/images/largeflags/NETH0001.GIF
http://www.oldthinkernews.com/wp-
content/uploads/2010/12/brain-chip.jpg
http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/web-30-6.jpg
http://www.aic.org.al/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/web-
traffic.jpg