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Building the Abnormal Hieratic Global Portal
The document outlines the development of a global portal for studying abnormal hieratic, a script from 7th century BCE Egypt, aimed at enhancing access to digitized texts and facilitating academic collaboration. It discusses the portal's goals, which include housing published transcriptions and promoting teaching, as well as addressing open issues and future steps necessary for its implementation. The initiative is supported by Leiden University's Centre for Digital Scholarship and aims to contribute to the open science movement.
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- 1. Discover the worldat Leiden UniversityDiscover the world at Leiden University Building the Abnormal Hieratic Global Portal Ben Companjen, Digital Scholarship Librarian/RSE
- 2. Discover the worldat Leiden University Overview 1. What is Abnormal Hieratic? 2. Why do we need a portal? 3. Centre for Digital Scholarship’s work 4. The portal 5. Open issues and next steps
- 3. Discover the worldat Leiden University What is Abnormal Hieratic? • A script used in Egypt in the 7th century BCE • Used mostly for contracts and financial statements • Written on papyri • Hieratic: cursive derivative of Egyptian hieroglyphs • Abnormal: harder to read than 'normal' Hieratic • "Abnormal hieratic is actually something that you can learn. And learn to love." – Koen Donker van Heel
- 4. Discover the worldat Leiden University Why a "Global Portal" for AH? • Growing interest in studying Abnormal Hieratic, but not enough human resources to teach • (Crash) courses and books only provide limited access to original texts and scripts • Access to digitised AH papyri is still rare; we want to show possibilities • Proof of concept for a 'community of source materials', envisioned by the Faculty of Humanities
- 5. Discover the worldat Leiden University UBL/CDS provides supports the transition towards Open Science At its core, Open Science aims at: • increasing research quality • boosting collaboration, • speeding up the research process, • making the assessment of research more transparent, • promoting public access to scientific results, • as well as introducing more people to academic research. Open Science Policy Platform Recommendations, 2018, p. 4 cited from: Friesike, S & Schildhauer, T 2015, Open science: Many good resolutions, very few incentives, yet. in Incentives and Performance, Springer, pp. 277-289. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09785-5_17 5 © Univ. California Irivine https://www.lib.uci.edu/dss nature.com/articles/sdata201618
- 6. Discover the worldat Leiden University 6 UBL/CDS provides support for OA, data management, use of digital data and copyright
- 7. Discover the worldat Leiden University Support (skills) with the use of digital data 7 • Collaboration environments (Virtual Research Environments) • Text & Data Mining • Enrichment of digital objects (metadata, annotations, transcriptions) • Database modelling & websites
- 8. Discover the worldat Leiden University Enrichment of digital objects
- 9. Discover the worldat Leiden University 9 Using IIIF to import book structures
- 10. Discover the worldat Leiden University 10 (Crowd) transcription
- 11. Discover the worldat Leiden University Goals of a portal 1. Bring together published texts, i.e. transcriptions, transliterations and translations 2. Teaching the study of Abnormal Hieratic with papyri 3. Discuss and annotate texts 4. Create a name book and dictionary to help new papyri be deciphered
- 12. Discover the worldat Leiden University 12 Teach with digitised manuscripts
- 13. Discover the worldat Leiden University 13 Notes and questions
- 14. Discover the worldat Leiden University 14 Manually constructed manifests
- 15. Discover the worldat Leiden University 15 Explaining manuscripts with annotations
- 16. Discover the worldat Leiden University "Content search"
- 17. Discover the worldat Leiden University Process: Scrum-like prototyping
- 18. Discover the worldat Leiden University Components • WordPress • Plugins, theme • Simple Annotation Server • Indexing script • Elasticsearch • Search script
- 19. Discover the worldat Leiden University Open issues • Modelling annotations - HTML ‘blob’ or something more structured? - Parallel transcriptions and translations with TEI? • Authentication for annotations - Access control is still missing - And so is provenance • Zooming in on search results - Using the Mirador API? Or Content Search? • Infrastructure administration - IT Shared Service Centre is more strict in what they install than I am - We're finally about to be reachable from the Internet...
- 20. Discover the worldat Leiden University Next steps • Build a Namenbuch (book of names) and dictionary • Add community functionality - Including discussion about annotations • Explore other platforms - Omeka S / Madoc looks great - Craft CMS
- 21. Discover the worldat Leiden University Almost generally available… • https://lab.library.universiteitleiden.nl/abnormalhieratic • https://github.com/LeidenUniversityLibrary/
- 22. Discover the worldat Leiden University Partners • Leiden Papyrological Institute - Koen Donker van Heel - Juan José Archidona-Ramírez - Elena Hertel • Faculty of Humanities - Ferdinand Harmsen • Centre for Digital Scholarship - Ben Companjen - Laurents Sesink - Peter Verhaar
- 23. Discover the worldat Leiden UniversityDiscover the world at Leiden University Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- #6 However OS is more than a list of various movements. It is about opening up the research process, opening up your work from the start of your research project to the final conclusions and beyond. This ‘definition’ by the way is a citation of a closed book chapter. More and more research funders, policy makers and institution require open science or FAIR data. EU: starting 2020 ‘open access’ and FAIR data are default. Also journals more and more have a Data Availability Policy (DAP): Authors must make all data publicly available, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article.” For example PLoS and Nature. Research Life Cycle Univ. California Irivine https://www.lib.uci.edu/dss At its core, Open Science aims at: “increasing research quality, boosting collaboration, speeding up the research process, making the assessment of research more transparent, promoting public access to scientific results, as well as introducing more people to academic research”. Open Science Policy Platform Recommendations, 2018, p. 4
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- #27 Leiden University firmly believes in the importance of (fundamental) research that is driven by curiosity. Quality and excellence are pivotal here. The University has almost 600 professors (around 500 professors and 90 professors by special appointment, who have a part-time position). 23.5 per cent of our professors are female. This is not yet in balance, but compared with other Dutch universities we are doing well. Leiden is actively engaged in raising this percentage and aims to appoint an increasing number of excellent women scientists. Researchers are given the freedom and the resources to excel, and they publish more than 5,700 academic and scientific articles every year. The share of Leiden researchers in the most cited publications every year is relatively high and is above the world average. Scientists from Leiden University score highly in acquiring person-related subsidies and awards, nationally (NWO) and internationally (ERC). Around 400 young researchers are awarded a doctorate every year in Leiden. The University has state-of-the-art research facilities including electron microscopes (NeCEN) and a 7 Tesla MRI scanner. The Leiden University Libraries hold unique (Western and Oriental) collections that are used extensively by Leiden researchers. These collections attract scholars from all parts of the world.