Workshop Open Platforms for Digital Humanities II. Towards a Network of Open Correspondence Projects, Palazzone della Scuola Normale Superiore, Cortona, 26-27 settembre 2013.
Building a Network of Open Correspondence Projects A model for Open ScienceFrancesca Di Donato
This document summarizes a presentation about building a network of open correspondence projects. It discusses why a network is needed, as letters create graphs between people and places like the web. It advocates for open science principles where primary sources, transcriptions, metadata and other materials are digital, online, open and linked. Examples are given of existing open science projects in different domains. The presentation argues that open science allows for "planned serendipity" and changes the direction of knowledge sharing for the benefit of the scholarly community.
This document summarizes a seminar on digital history and Ed Ayers' work developing open narrative and digital history projects. It discusses Ayers' 1993 book "The Promise of the New South" and its use of open narrative. It then summarizes Ayers' later digital history project "The Valley of the Shadow" and how it addressed some limitations of open narrative. Finally, it discusses another of Ayers' projects called "The Differences Slavery Made" and how it further developed narrative and database approaches to do digital history work.
This document provides an introduction to a seminar on hypertext and critical theory. It discusses several postmodern theorists and concepts that are relevant to understanding hypertext, including intertextuality, networks, and the readerly vs writerly text. It also examines how some key aspects of hypertext, such as its non-linear structure and links between lexias, relate to and realize ideas from postmodern critical theory. Finally, it raises questions about the effects of hypertext and whether hypertext technologies can achieve or go beyond postmodern goals.
Victor de Boer discusses how linked data can be used for digital humanities research. He explains that linked data allows researchers to integrate heterogeneous datasets while retaining their original data models, enabling new types of analysis. Examples are given of projects that have applied linked data principles to cultural heritage data from museums, historical texts, biographical data, and maritime records. Linked data facilitates exploring connections between these datasets and reusing background knowledge from other sources.
What are the Digital Humanities and what use are they to me?Andrew Prescott
The document discusses the definition and uses of digital humanities. It provides a definition from Willard McCarty from 1996 which states that digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field that applies computing tools to humanities data and uses computing in creating such data. It focuses on how computing assists humanities scholarship and teaching, theoretical problems from computing perspectives, and understanding and mechanizing scholarly processes. Digital humanities is manifested in teaching, research, and service. The document also discusses how digital humanities can be useful for scholars in contributing to the renegotiation of cultural records, and provides many examples of digital humanities projects across various humanities disciplines.
Du Literary and linguistic computing aux Digital Humanities : retour sur 40 a...OpenEdition
The document discusses the evolution of digital humanities from literary and linguistic computing to humanities computing to digital humanities. Key points include:
1) Digital technologies have transformed humanities scholarship by making objects of study digital and changing research methods.
2) Early work in literary and linguistic computing in the 1960s-1980s used computers to analyze texts but was only accessible to technical experts.
3) Humanities computing from the 1980s-1990s saw institutionalization and standardization through projects like the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
4) Digital humanities from the 1990s onward has been shaped by increased digitization, collaboration, and development of new infrastructures and approaches like linking and analyzing
Crowdsourcing texts of many dimensionsJustin Tonra
This paper associated with these slides analyses the theoretical and practical implications of crowdsourcing two different kinds of text: transcriptions and annotations. Two projects that adopt the model for these respective purposes are Transcribe Bentham and Ossian Online. They exhibit differing motivations for choosing this model, and aim to crowdsource tasks whose requirements and biases place particular demands and restrictions on participants. As a consequence, the accuracy of the term crowdsource must be questioned for more subjective tasks that require the generation of original intellectual content.
Building a Network of Open Correspondence Projects A model for Open ScienceFrancesca Di Donato
This document summarizes a presentation about building a network of open correspondence projects. It discusses why a network is needed, as letters create graphs between people and places like the web. It advocates for open science principles where primary sources, transcriptions, metadata and other materials are digital, online, open and linked. Examples are given of existing open science projects in different domains. The presentation argues that open science allows for "planned serendipity" and changes the direction of knowledge sharing for the benefit of the scholarly community.
This document summarizes a seminar on digital history and Ed Ayers' work developing open narrative and digital history projects. It discusses Ayers' 1993 book "The Promise of the New South" and its use of open narrative. It then summarizes Ayers' later digital history project "The Valley of the Shadow" and how it addressed some limitations of open narrative. Finally, it discusses another of Ayers' projects called "The Differences Slavery Made" and how it further developed narrative and database approaches to do digital history work.
This document provides an introduction to a seminar on hypertext and critical theory. It discusses several postmodern theorists and concepts that are relevant to understanding hypertext, including intertextuality, networks, and the readerly vs writerly text. It also examines how some key aspects of hypertext, such as its non-linear structure and links between lexias, relate to and realize ideas from postmodern critical theory. Finally, it raises questions about the effects of hypertext and whether hypertext technologies can achieve or go beyond postmodern goals.
Victor de Boer discusses how linked data can be used for digital humanities research. He explains that linked data allows researchers to integrate heterogeneous datasets while retaining their original data models, enabling new types of analysis. Examples are given of projects that have applied linked data principles to cultural heritage data from museums, historical texts, biographical data, and maritime records. Linked data facilitates exploring connections between these datasets and reusing background knowledge from other sources.
What are the Digital Humanities and what use are they to me?Andrew Prescott
The document discusses the definition and uses of digital humanities. It provides a definition from Willard McCarty from 1996 which states that digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field that applies computing tools to humanities data and uses computing in creating such data. It focuses on how computing assists humanities scholarship and teaching, theoretical problems from computing perspectives, and understanding and mechanizing scholarly processes. Digital humanities is manifested in teaching, research, and service. The document also discusses how digital humanities can be useful for scholars in contributing to the renegotiation of cultural records, and provides many examples of digital humanities projects across various humanities disciplines.
Du Literary and linguistic computing aux Digital Humanities : retour sur 40 a...OpenEdition
The document discusses the evolution of digital humanities from literary and linguistic computing to humanities computing to digital humanities. Key points include:
1) Digital technologies have transformed humanities scholarship by making objects of study digital and changing research methods.
2) Early work in literary and linguistic computing in the 1960s-1980s used computers to analyze texts but was only accessible to technical experts.
3) Humanities computing from the 1980s-1990s saw institutionalization and standardization through projects like the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI).
4) Digital humanities from the 1990s onward has been shaped by increased digitization, collaboration, and development of new infrastructures and approaches like linking and analyzing
Crowdsourcing texts of many dimensionsJustin Tonra
This paper associated with these slides analyses the theoretical and practical implications of crowdsourcing two different kinds of text: transcriptions and annotations. Two projects that adopt the model for these respective purposes are Transcribe Bentham and Ossian Online. They exhibit differing motivations for choosing this model, and aim to crowdsource tasks whose requirements and biases place particular demands and restrictions on participants. As a consequence, the accuracy of the term crowdsource must be questioned for more subjective tasks that require the generation of original intellectual content.
1. The document discusses the history and evolution of books and publishing, from the printing press to modern digital formats and standards.
2. It traces milestones like the development of hypertext in the 1960s, the invention of the World Wide Web in the 1980s/90s, and modern standards for ebooks and web publications.
3. The document argues that while books have long provided structure and organization of content, digital formats now integrate more tightly with the web and allow for new capabilities like text mining and semantic augmentation while still providing standardization and citation mechanisms.
Designing the Digital Humanities Library Lab @ Leuven (DH3L)Demmy Verbeke
This document discusses the design of the Library Lab at the University of Ghent. It begins by defining digital humanities as involving three groups: programmers, scholars, and libraries/repositories. It then discusses the role of libraries in digital humanities, including preservation, digitization, discovery/dissemination, and managing data. Reasons for having a digital humanities center are given, such as collecting expertise, enabling funding/stability for projects, and fostering collaboration. Digital humanities centers provide training, workshops, collections, tools, research support, and act as hubs connecting technology and scholars. Some centers are based in libraries. The document concludes by introducing the new Library Lab at the University of Ghent.
The role of research libraries in a European e-science environmentWouter Schallier
This document discusses the role of research libraries in supporting e-science, which involves large-scale computing, data-intensive research conducted over the internet in collaborative and distributed teams. E-science requires new strategies for research support through integrated infrastructures. Research libraries must reinvent themselves by integrating library services into virtual research environments, supporting data management and preservation, and recruiting content like datasets for repositories. This will allow libraries to remain essential partners in the new information environment of e-science.
Digital History Seminar and Archives and Society Seminar
Institute of Historical Research
23 June 2015
http://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2015/06/15/23-june-2015-exploring-big-and-small-historical-datasets-reflections-on-two-recent-projects/
Digital Research at the British Library: Libraries full of data and mainstrea...James Baker
The British Library is conducting digital research by digitizing collections and using computational tools to analyze large datasets. Researchers can now gain insights from millions of documents that were previously impossible to comprehensively study alone. The Library is also training staff in digital methodologies and collaborating with outside partners to support new forms of digital scholarship.
A New Computer Assisted Literary Criticismzalakrutika
Computer-assisted literary criticism uses computers to analyze and manipulate literary texts in new ways. It is closely tied to digital humanities, which uses digital tools and methods to study various humanities fields like history, philosophy, linguistics and literature. Some key aspects covered are the use of computers for stylistic analysis of literature, organizations that support digital humanities research, and how digital humanities is transforming research and teaching in English departments through tools for analyzing texts with various media.
This document summarizes Donald Spaeth's presentation on digital history given at the University of Glasgow in 2013. It discusses the history of computing in history from the 1980s to the present, highlighting how historians have increasingly adopted digital tools and online resources in their research and teaching. The document also examines some of the opportunities and challenges of new developments like MOOCs and disseminating teaching content more widely online.
This document discusses efforts to make European cultural heritage data more accessible online. It describes how Europeana provides access to over 5.9 million objects from libraries, museums and archives, with a target of 10 million by 2010. A key challenge is that the data is heterogeneous in format and language. The document proposes using semantic web technologies like controlled vocabularies and linked open data to better interconnect and enrich the metadata from different cultural heritage institutions. This would allow the creation of a more open and interconnected "web of cultural heritage data".
Chcete vědět víc? Mnoho dalších prezentací, videí z konferencí, fotografií i jiných dokumentů je k dispozici v institucionálním repozitáři NTK: http://repozitar.techlib.cz
Would you like to know more? Find presentations, reports, conference videos, photos and much more in our institutional repository at: http://repozitar.techlib.cz/?ln=en
Digital librarianship - BIALL/CLSIG/SLA Europe Open DaySimon Bowie
A presentation delivered on 18th April 2013 at the BIALL / CLSIG / SLA Europe Graduate Trainee Open Day. Discusses the emerging role of the 'digital librarian', how I developed into this career, and what skills are required of future librarians.
DARIAH aims to create a digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities in Europe. As humanities research becomes more collaborative and data-driven due to advances in information and communication technologies, stable pan-European research infrastructures are needed. DARIAH would provide continuity and support for digital arts and humanities research by giving access to distributed digital resources through a strong European data infrastructure. It currently has 14 member organizations across 10 countries working to prepare the technical and organizational foundations to establish DARIAH through obtaining financial commitments.
The European Student Parliament organizes debates around different topics. Smart cities is one of them. What is behind the Smart City concept, how a Smart City can become MyCity, and how a map of this Smart City would look like - those are topics of the expert hearing and the follow-up debate
This document describes the Semantically Mapping Science (SMS) Platform, which aims to integrate heterogeneous data from the social sciences domain. The SMS Platform addresses challenges like linking heterogeneous data at scale, enriching data, and enabling usable browsing and querying of data. It utilizes semantic technologies like linked data and ontologies. The core modules of the platform are for data curation, browsing/querying, data enrichment, and data linking. Applications of the platform include a faceted browser, data enrichment services, and tools for data linking. An example use case demonstrates how the platform can integrate different datasets to analyze factors predicting university performance.
Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities: some thoughts on what, why, and ...James Baker
Slides for a talk I gave at CHASE Digital Training Programme Opening Conference, Open University, 20 February 2015.
Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/a95f4cee472af0d1773f
This document discusses the connections between open science, open educational resources, and shared infrastructure. It notes that research produced today can become the basis for education tomorrow. Several principles for open access knowledge and cultural works are presented. Effective information management systems rely on factors like capacity, sustainability, financial support, and interoperability. A rich technology ecosystem with APIs, metadata schemas, vocabularies and hosting options enables experimentation. Systems should facilitate communication and form connections between services to link learning objects for education and research results. Standards like metadata schemas and open licensing can help research objects be reused as learning objects. The document explores a digital repository system called Invenio that uses templates to build a data model and connect resources.
Invited talk at the 4th workshop of the Open European Nephrology Science Center (OpEN.SC)
Institute of Pathology, Charité, Humboldt University Berlin, May, 8th – 9th 2009
Whose Archives? Reflections on ethics and the cultural significance of web ar...WARCnet
This document discusses the cultural significance and ethical implications of web archiving based on two case studies: Archive Team and the archiving of Tumblr content. It addresses how the cultural priorities and technical commitments of archivists shape what and how content is archived. It reflects on how preemptive archiving interfaces with platforms' large-scale removal of social media content. The document examines Archive Team's origins and ethos of treating all websites equally and prioritizing urgent action over debates. It raises questions about whose archives are being created and whose ethics guide archiving decisions that can impact online communities.
Este documento describe los servicios principales que ofrecen los Centros Servidores o hosts, que son ordenadores de gran capacidad que alojan aplicaciones y servicios para usuarios conectados. Los principales servicios incluyen correo electrónico, navegación web, sesiones remotas, transferencia de archivos, foros de discusión y búsqueda de información organizada por menús. Para conectarse a un Centro Servidor se necesita conocer el número de teléfono de su nodo de módems.
1. The document discusses the history and evolution of books and publishing, from the printing press to modern digital formats and standards.
2. It traces milestones like the development of hypertext in the 1960s, the invention of the World Wide Web in the 1980s/90s, and modern standards for ebooks and web publications.
3. The document argues that while books have long provided structure and organization of content, digital formats now integrate more tightly with the web and allow for new capabilities like text mining and semantic augmentation while still providing standardization and citation mechanisms.
Designing the Digital Humanities Library Lab @ Leuven (DH3L)Demmy Verbeke
This document discusses the design of the Library Lab at the University of Ghent. It begins by defining digital humanities as involving three groups: programmers, scholars, and libraries/repositories. It then discusses the role of libraries in digital humanities, including preservation, digitization, discovery/dissemination, and managing data. Reasons for having a digital humanities center are given, such as collecting expertise, enabling funding/stability for projects, and fostering collaboration. Digital humanities centers provide training, workshops, collections, tools, research support, and act as hubs connecting technology and scholars. Some centers are based in libraries. The document concludes by introducing the new Library Lab at the University of Ghent.
The role of research libraries in a European e-science environmentWouter Schallier
This document discusses the role of research libraries in supporting e-science, which involves large-scale computing, data-intensive research conducted over the internet in collaborative and distributed teams. E-science requires new strategies for research support through integrated infrastructures. Research libraries must reinvent themselves by integrating library services into virtual research environments, supporting data management and preservation, and recruiting content like datasets for repositories. This will allow libraries to remain essential partners in the new information environment of e-science.
Digital History Seminar and Archives and Society Seminar
Institute of Historical Research
23 June 2015
http://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2015/06/15/23-june-2015-exploring-big-and-small-historical-datasets-reflections-on-two-recent-projects/
Digital Research at the British Library: Libraries full of data and mainstrea...James Baker
The British Library is conducting digital research by digitizing collections and using computational tools to analyze large datasets. Researchers can now gain insights from millions of documents that were previously impossible to comprehensively study alone. The Library is also training staff in digital methodologies and collaborating with outside partners to support new forms of digital scholarship.
A New Computer Assisted Literary Criticismzalakrutika
Computer-assisted literary criticism uses computers to analyze and manipulate literary texts in new ways. It is closely tied to digital humanities, which uses digital tools and methods to study various humanities fields like history, philosophy, linguistics and literature. Some key aspects covered are the use of computers for stylistic analysis of literature, organizations that support digital humanities research, and how digital humanities is transforming research and teaching in English departments through tools for analyzing texts with various media.
This document summarizes Donald Spaeth's presentation on digital history given at the University of Glasgow in 2013. It discusses the history of computing in history from the 1980s to the present, highlighting how historians have increasingly adopted digital tools and online resources in their research and teaching. The document also examines some of the opportunities and challenges of new developments like MOOCs and disseminating teaching content more widely online.
This document discusses efforts to make European cultural heritage data more accessible online. It describes how Europeana provides access to over 5.9 million objects from libraries, museums and archives, with a target of 10 million by 2010. A key challenge is that the data is heterogeneous in format and language. The document proposes using semantic web technologies like controlled vocabularies and linked open data to better interconnect and enrich the metadata from different cultural heritage institutions. This would allow the creation of a more open and interconnected "web of cultural heritage data".
Chcete vědět víc? Mnoho dalších prezentací, videí z konferencí, fotografií i jiných dokumentů je k dispozici v institucionálním repozitáři NTK: http://repozitar.techlib.cz
Would you like to know more? Find presentations, reports, conference videos, photos and much more in our institutional repository at: http://repozitar.techlib.cz/?ln=en
Digital librarianship - BIALL/CLSIG/SLA Europe Open DaySimon Bowie
A presentation delivered on 18th April 2013 at the BIALL / CLSIG / SLA Europe Graduate Trainee Open Day. Discusses the emerging role of the 'digital librarian', how I developed into this career, and what skills are required of future librarians.
DARIAH aims to create a digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities in Europe. As humanities research becomes more collaborative and data-driven due to advances in information and communication technologies, stable pan-European research infrastructures are needed. DARIAH would provide continuity and support for digital arts and humanities research by giving access to distributed digital resources through a strong European data infrastructure. It currently has 14 member organizations across 10 countries working to prepare the technical and organizational foundations to establish DARIAH through obtaining financial commitments.
The European Student Parliament organizes debates around different topics. Smart cities is one of them. What is behind the Smart City concept, how a Smart City can become MyCity, and how a map of this Smart City would look like - those are topics of the expert hearing and the follow-up debate
This document describes the Semantically Mapping Science (SMS) Platform, which aims to integrate heterogeneous data from the social sciences domain. The SMS Platform addresses challenges like linking heterogeneous data at scale, enriching data, and enabling usable browsing and querying of data. It utilizes semantic technologies like linked data and ontologies. The core modules of the platform are for data curation, browsing/querying, data enrichment, and data linking. Applications of the platform include a faceted browser, data enrichment services, and tools for data linking. An example use case demonstrates how the platform can integrate different datasets to analyze factors predicting university performance.
Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities: some thoughts on what, why, and ...James Baker
Slides for a talk I gave at CHASE Digital Training Programme Opening Conference, Open University, 20 February 2015.
Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/a95f4cee472af0d1773f
This document discusses the connections between open science, open educational resources, and shared infrastructure. It notes that research produced today can become the basis for education tomorrow. Several principles for open access knowledge and cultural works are presented. Effective information management systems rely on factors like capacity, sustainability, financial support, and interoperability. A rich technology ecosystem with APIs, metadata schemas, vocabularies and hosting options enables experimentation. Systems should facilitate communication and form connections between services to link learning objects for education and research results. Standards like metadata schemas and open licensing can help research objects be reused as learning objects. The document explores a digital repository system called Invenio that uses templates to build a data model and connect resources.
Invited talk at the 4th workshop of the Open European Nephrology Science Center (OpEN.SC)
Institute of Pathology, Charité, Humboldt University Berlin, May, 8th – 9th 2009
Whose Archives? Reflections on ethics and the cultural significance of web ar...WARCnet
This document discusses the cultural significance and ethical implications of web archiving based on two case studies: Archive Team and the archiving of Tumblr content. It addresses how the cultural priorities and technical commitments of archivists shape what and how content is archived. It reflects on how preemptive archiving interfaces with platforms' large-scale removal of social media content. The document examines Archive Team's origins and ethos of treating all websites equally and prioritizing urgent action over debates. It raises questions about whose archives are being created and whose ethics guide archiving decisions that can impact online communities.
Este documento describe los servicios principales que ofrecen los Centros Servidores o hosts, que son ordenadores de gran capacidad que alojan aplicaciones y servicios para usuarios conectados. Los principales servicios incluyen correo electrónico, navegación web, sesiones remotas, transferencia de archivos, foros de discusión y búsqueda de información organizada por menús. Para conectarse a un Centro Servidor se necesita conocer el número de teléfono de su nodo de módems.
Este documento es un resumen de 3 oraciones o menos de un documento escrito por Gabriela Arismendi en febrero de 2017 para la Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica del Instituto Politécnico "Santiago Mariño" en Maturín, Venezuela. El documento parece tratar sobre la resolución de ejercicios.
The Mad Thick Feck: Using Linguistic Clues to Characterize PadraicDavid Clarke
A paper using linguistic analyses to characterize Padraic in Martin McDonough's The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
Excerpted from the 7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities Conference Proceedings (ISSN# 1541-5899)
The document summarizes techniques for Rotary club membership recruitment. It discusses identifying potential new members from organizations like chambers of commerce, recruiting younger professionals and women. The recruitment process involves informing prospects about Rotary's history and projects in polio eradication and other areas. New members are introduced to club activities and values through an orientation process before induction. Involving new members quickly in club roles and events helps with retention.
Dans la rubrique "Informations diverses" du JO du 15 mars 2017, le ministère des finances et des comptes publics a publié la "Situation mensuelle de l'Etat" janvier 2017.
El documento describe cómo funciona Bitcoin. Explica que Bitcoin es una moneda descentralizada que no está controlada por ningún estado u organización. Detalla el proceso de crear una dirección Bitcoin, realizar una transacción de pago enviando bitcoins a otra dirección, y cómo la transacción es verificada a través de la minería y registrada de forma segura en la blockchain. También cubre algunos riesgos de seguridad asociados con el uso de dinero electrónico como Bitcoin.
Este documento resume el concepto de potencial de producción de hidrocarburos. El potencial de producción se define como el proceso de explotación racional de petróleo y gas natural de los yacimientos cumpliendo con las leyes ambientales y de seguridad. Se calcula como la suma de los potenciales de todos los pozos productores activos e inactivos que puedan ser incorporados a producción dentro de los próximos tres meses, considerando los contratos y arreglos administrativos existentes.
This document provides guidance for a case study assignment on music video production. It includes 5 tasks to complete:
1) Understanding the purposes and strategies of music videos.
2) Exploring styles, techniques and conventions used in music video production.
3) Conducting a case study analysis of at least 3 music videos considering points from tasks 1 and 2.
4) The document also provides learning outcomes, assessment criteria, and tips for completing the case study. It encourages using examples and linking to external videos to support points.
Arquitectura moderna exponentes y obras mas destacadaskeylin Ramirez
El documento resume las principales obras y exponentes de la arquitectura moderna. Describe algunas de las obras más destacadas de arquitectos como Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Gaudí y Gehry. Explica que el uso de nuevos materiales como el acero y el hormigón transformaron la arquitectura, permitiendo estructuras más ligeras y funcionales. El modernismo surgió como una reacción contra los estilos historicistas, buscando diseños adaptados a la técnica y costumbres de la época.
Families struggle to cook quick, healthy meals during the week due to time constraints. The document proposes a mobile app called CookSmart to help parents easily plan weekly meals, create shopping lists, and track pantry items. User research in the form of interviews found that parents want efficient meal planning to spend less time cooking and more time with family. Prototypes were created and tested to refine the app's features and user flow.
This document summarizes a presentation about the history and future of digital repositories and text analysis tools. It discusses how text collections have evolved from non-digital and dispersed, to digitized but dispersed, to full text collections in repositories, and finally to texts organized into corpora. However, many challenges remain, such as incomplete digitization and a lack of tools for combining close and distant reading. The document envisions a future of distributed infrastructure that connects dispersed data and tools. However, careful interpretation of results will still be needed to understand what texts are included or missing and make valid claims.
Data versus Text: 30 years of confrontationLou Burnard
The document discusses the evolution of humanities computing and digital humanities from the 1940s to the present. Key points include:
- Early work in literary and linguistic computing in the 1940s-1980s focused on concordances, statistics, and analyzing texts as data.
- Humanities computing from 1980-1994 saw the rise of encoding standards, digital libraries and resources, and debate around whether it was a discipline.
- Digital humanities from 1995 onwards was driven by the rise of the web and mass digitization, requiring new collaborative and open infrastructures and practices.
- Current work focuses on combining text analysis with other data types, moving beyond documents to networked resources, and producing "uncritical editions
Slides from the International Forum of the Faculty of Slavic Studies at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” 2019 where I talked about how I saw digital text. First published at: http://www.teodorapetkova.com/intertextuality/digital-text-as-a-phenomenon-of-culture/
The document discusses the connections between annotation and scholarship in a digital context. It explores how digital annotation differs from pre-digital annotation and the new possibilities it offers to humanities scholarship. It discusses early conceptions of annotation on the web by Berners-Lee and how annotation was almost featured in the Mosaic browser. It also examines scholarly practices like reading, notetaking, and how annotation serves as a nexus between these activities and the writing process. Finally, it discusses how digital tools can support annotation and scholarship throughout the research process.
This document summarizes a presentation about using semantic annotation to improve open science. It discusses a project called EUROCORR that published correspondence from Jacob Burckhardt online in an open access format. The project annotated the digital library with metadata, transcriptions, and linked open data to make the information more accessible and interoperable. It argues this can enable new ways of conducting collaborative research by allowing analysis of networks and relationships in the data. The presentation advocates open science by encouraging funding agencies to require data sharing and documenting work online to evaluate and reward new forms of contribution.
Semantic annotation of digital libraries. A model for science communicationFrancesca Di Donato
This document summarizes a presentation about using semantic annotation to improve open science practices in digital libraries. It describes a project that published transcriptions and metadata from historical correspondence online using open standards to make the data more accessible and interoperable. The project aims to enrich scientific knowledge by allowing researchers to analyze relationships in the data and compare discussions over time. The presenter argues that open science should become an imperative for scientists by changing incentives to reward contributions like data sharing that build on previous findings. Adopting new collaborative online practices could help manage knowledge as a commons and change the "traffic direction" of science.
Digital Humanities as Innovation: ‘constant revolution’ or ‘moving to the su...Andrea Scharnhorst
Andrea Scharnhorst & Sally Wyatt
Paper given at the "New Trends in eHumanities" Research Meeting of the eHumanities group, 4 June 2015
Digital Humanities as Innovation: ‘constant revolution’ or ‘moving to the suburbs’?
Digital humanities uses computing technologies to conduct and present humanities research. It involves investigating, analyzing, synthesizing, and presenting information in digital formats. The document discusses how digital humanities is being used in English departments, including for electronic literature, text analysis, and data mining large text corpora. It provides examples of digital humanities projects and argues that digital humanities is needed to foster collaboration, adapt to technological changes, and support interdisciplinary work at the intersection of humanities and computing fields.
Doing the Digital: How Scholars Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ComputerAndrew Prescott
Slides from keynote presentation to Social Media Knowledge Exchange meeting on Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century, University of Cambridge, 4 June 2015. Examines my changing relationship to scholarly communication, current pressures and drivers, and likely future trends.
ARIN6912 Presentation Week 5: Digital Environmentskittysquish
1. The document discusses the differences between traditional literature and hypertext/digital literature. Hypertext allows for searchability, links between documents, and greater accessibility of published works.
2. It explores how the internet has influenced and will continue to influence culture through a changing sense of geography and encouraging globalization.
3. Several views are presented on the internet's impact on literature and culture, including arguments that it can bring order to culture, transform readers into active users, and change the experience of reading. However, others argue print books are still superior due to their portability and tangibility.
VIII Encuentros de Centros de Documentación de Arte Contemporáneo en Artium -...Artium Vitoria
"Crossing the boundaries of Arts and Sciences: Can Linked Data help Refactoring Natural Sciences?" by Gildas Illien, Chief Librarian, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (National Natural History Museum Library), Paris.
"Atravesar las fronteras entre las artes y las ciencias: ¿pueden los datos enlazados reestructurar las ciencias naturales?" por Gildas Illien, bibliotecario jefe del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Biblioteca), París.
The document provides an overview of the early history and development of the World Wide Web. It discusses key figures and technologies that contributed to the Web, including:
- Tim Berners-Lee's invention of HTML, HTTP, and the first website in 1989 to solve the problem of knowledge management at CERN.
- Early computer networks like ARPANET and BBS communities that helped pioneer the concepts of distributed networks and online communities.
- The "Hyperland" documentary that envisioned many aspects of hypertext and digital media that would be realized by the Web.
- How the Web brought together networks, hypertext, and digital communities in a way that shaped its social and cultural impact.
sustainable digital publishing of archival catalogues1AvanNispen
This document discusses the importance and challenges of standardizing and sharing archival data in a digital world. It notes that while archival institutions describe their holdings in different ways, research infrastructures need standardized data to integrate information. The document provides guidance to archival institutions on describing their holdings according to archival standards, uniquely identifying items, determining the appropriate level of description, standardizing data input, publishing descriptions online, and sharing data with external partners. It emphasizes that establishing guidelines and policies can help institutions systematically work towards standardization and sharing their archival data.
Notational systems and cognitive evolutionJeff Long
October 29, 2005: “Notational Systems and Cognitive Evolution”. Presented at the 2005
Annual Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics. Paper published in conference proceedings.
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Building a Network of Open Correspondence Projects. A model for Open Science
1. Building a Network of Open
Correspondence Projects
A model for Open Science
Francesca Di Donato
SNS - ERC
francesca.didonato@sns.it
This presentation is released under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
Open Platforms for Digital Humanities II
Towards a Network of Open Correspondence Projects
Cortona, September 26-27 2013
3. There are many project on the Web
Letters create graphs between persons/
places
The Web is a graph too
4. Topology of the Network
The existence of a path from a node to another one is a
graph property - it doesn’t depend on our ability to find it
(Euler, 1736)
Direct network
Small world network
Hubs and authorities
Pareto principle
12. Some examples
1. Polymath Project (2009)
A collaborative space for mathematical research
3. HapMap (2002) http://hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
The goal of the International HapMap Project is to develop
a haplotype map of the human genome which will
describe the common patterns of human DNA sequence
variation
2. GenBank (1996)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
Genetic data are immediately shared online
13. 4. Galaxy Zoo http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
200.000 volounteers cooperate with a group of experts
in classifying galaxies
5. Wikipedia (2000 - on)
A collaborative Encyclopedia
6. MAPPA Project (2011-14)
Study predictive computational tools applicable to the
archaeological potential of an urban area
Create the first italian open digital archaeological archive
7. Transcribe Bentham http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
A collaborative transcription project
18. Funding agencies policies
(ERC, Horizon2020, National Science Foundation)
Results (OA mandatory)
Data (OA mandatory; fundings only for
digitized documents)
22. "My dear Francesco, I have lately kept praising the age in
which we live, because of the great, indeed divine gift of
the new kind of writing which was recently brought to us
from Germany. In fact, I saw a single man printing in a
single month as much as could be written by hand by
several persons in a year. ... It was for this reason that I
was led to hope that within a short time we would have
such a large quantity of books that there wouldn't be a
single work which could not be procured ... Yet — oh false
and all too human thoughts — I see that things turned out
quite differently [...] now that everyone is free to print
whatever they wish, they often disregard that which best
and instead write, merely for the sake of entertainment,
what would best be forgotten, or, better still, be erased
from all books. And even when they write something
worthwhile they twist and corrupt it to the point where it
would be much better to do without such books [...]"
Niccolò Perotti, Cornucopiae, seu Latinae linguae commentarii, V.Curio, Basileae, 1526, col. 1033
cit. by Robert Darnton, The case for books. Past, present, future, PublicAffairs, 2010
24. References
Images
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[slide 20] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/
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[slide 21] http://thoughtleadershipleverage.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/serendipity-unexpected.jpg
A.L. Barabasi, Linked, http://barabasilab.com/LinkedBook/
R. Darnton, The case for books. Past, present, future, PublicAffairs, 2010
M. Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science,
Princeton University Press, 2011.