This document discusses digital scholarship and social machines. It begins with an overview of digital humanities and social machines. It then provides examples of digital scholarship projects that utilize large datasets, citizen science, and social annotation. These examples demonstrate how digital methods can facilitate collaboration at scale. The document argues that a digital strategy is needed to guide investment and support for research using digital infrastructure and methods at universities.
06.06.20
Remote Telepresence Talk
The 2006 NCSA Private Sector Program Annual Meeting
In Honor of John Stevenson’s Retirement
Title: NCSA and Telepresence Collaboration
La Jolla, CA
Digital Scholarship: Intersection, Automation, and Scholarly Social MachinesDavid De Roure
Keynote talk at DCDC 2019, Birmingham, November 2019. The theme of the conference was "Navigating the digital shift: practices and possibilities". The talk presents six short stories of my journeys in the evolving knowledge infrastructure. Thank you to all my fellow travellers and guides. (The slides all have a black strip of 2 or 3 lines at the top - this was for live captioning.)
06.06.20
Remote Telepresence Talk
The 2006 NCSA Private Sector Program Annual Meeting
In Honor of John Stevenson’s Retirement
Title: NCSA and Telepresence Collaboration
La Jolla, CA
Digital Scholarship: Intersection, Automation, and Scholarly Social MachinesDavid De Roure
Keynote talk at DCDC 2019, Birmingham, November 2019. The theme of the conference was "Navigating the digital shift: practices and possibilities". The talk presents six short stories of my journeys in the evolving knowledge infrastructure. Thank you to all my fellow travellers and guides. (The slides all have a black strip of 2 or 3 lines at the top - this was for live captioning.)
From the Shared Internet to Personal Lightwaves: How the OptIPuter is Transfo...Larry Smarr
08.04.03
Invited Talk
Cyberinfrastructure Colloquium
Clemson University
Title: From the Shared Internet to Personal Lightwaves: How the OptIPuter is Transforming Scientific Research
Clemson, SC
Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC, presenta "Performing Arts Experiences in Academic Networks", on explica algunes de les experiències dutes a terme mitjançant xarxes acadèmiques, com l'Anella Científica, en els camps de les arts escèniques i les humanitats.
Aquesta presentació ha tingut lloc dins el taller celebrat a l'Institut del Teatre els dies 10 i 11 de novembre de 2014 per posar en comú i presentar eines i experiències de diferents institucions culturals i acadèmiques d'Europa pel que fa a l'evolució d'entorns creatius distribuïts i broadcasting cultural.
The Importance of Large-Scale Computer Science Research EffortsLarry Smarr
05.10.20
Talk at Public Seminar on Large-Scale NSF Research Efforts for the Future Computer Museum
Title: The Importance of Large-Scale Computer Science Research Efforts
Mountain View, CA
Presentation to Digital Humanities class at Pratt Institute on the history of computing in the field of archaeology and current digital humanities projects.
The Singularity: Toward a Post-Human RealityLarry Smarr
06.02.13
Talk to UCSD's Sixth College
Honor's Course on Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near
Title: The Singularity: Toward a Post-Human Reality
La Jolla, CA
OptIPuter-A High Performance SOA LambdaGrid Enabling Scientific ApplicationsLarry Smarr
07.03.21
IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award Keynote
At the Joint Meeting of the: 8th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems
2nd International Workshop on Ad Hoc, Sensor and P2P Networks
11th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Title: OptIPuter-A High Performance SOA LambdaGrid Enabling Scientific Applications
Sedona, AZ
Calit2: An Experiment in Social NetworksLarry Smarr
06.08.16
Invited Talk
Conversation on Social Networks, Social Movements
Third Annual Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory
University of California Humanities Research Institute, UCI
Title: Calit2: An Experiment in Social Networks
Irvine, CA
Global Telepresence in Support of Global Public HealthLarry Smarr
08.04.17
Briefing
University of California School of Global Health
All Campuses Planning Committee
Calit2@UCSD
Title: Global Telepresence in Support of Global Public Health
La Jolla, CA
"Digital Scholarship: The Intersection of Disciplines"
Invited talk at Semantics Digital Humanities Workshop, 25th-27th of September 2015, New Seminar Room, St John’s College, University of Oxford, St Giles, OX1 3JP. Organized by Dept of Computer Science, e-Research Centre, and St John's College, University of Oxford.
Intersection Scale and Social Machines 2016David De Roure
Opening talk for the Introduction to Digital Humanities Workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2016. Presented 3 July 2016 in St Hugh's College.
From the Shared Internet to Personal Lightwaves: How the OptIPuter is Transfo...Larry Smarr
08.04.03
Invited Talk
Cyberinfrastructure Colloquium
Clemson University
Title: From the Shared Internet to Personal Lightwaves: How the OptIPuter is Transforming Scientific Research
Clemson, SC
Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC, presenta "Performing Arts Experiences in Academic Networks", on explica algunes de les experiències dutes a terme mitjançant xarxes acadèmiques, com l'Anella Científica, en els camps de les arts escèniques i les humanitats.
Aquesta presentació ha tingut lloc dins el taller celebrat a l'Institut del Teatre els dies 10 i 11 de novembre de 2014 per posar en comú i presentar eines i experiències de diferents institucions culturals i acadèmiques d'Europa pel que fa a l'evolució d'entorns creatius distribuïts i broadcasting cultural.
The Importance of Large-Scale Computer Science Research EffortsLarry Smarr
05.10.20
Talk at Public Seminar on Large-Scale NSF Research Efforts for the Future Computer Museum
Title: The Importance of Large-Scale Computer Science Research Efforts
Mountain View, CA
Presentation to Digital Humanities class at Pratt Institute on the history of computing in the field of archaeology and current digital humanities projects.
The Singularity: Toward a Post-Human RealityLarry Smarr
06.02.13
Talk to UCSD's Sixth College
Honor's Course on Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near
Title: The Singularity: Toward a Post-Human Reality
La Jolla, CA
OptIPuter-A High Performance SOA LambdaGrid Enabling Scientific ApplicationsLarry Smarr
07.03.21
IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award Keynote
At the Joint Meeting of the: 8th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems
2nd International Workshop on Ad Hoc, Sensor and P2P Networks
11th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Title: OptIPuter-A High Performance SOA LambdaGrid Enabling Scientific Applications
Sedona, AZ
Calit2: An Experiment in Social NetworksLarry Smarr
06.08.16
Invited Talk
Conversation on Social Networks, Social Movements
Third Annual Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory
University of California Humanities Research Institute, UCI
Title: Calit2: An Experiment in Social Networks
Irvine, CA
Global Telepresence in Support of Global Public HealthLarry Smarr
08.04.17
Briefing
University of California School of Global Health
All Campuses Planning Committee
Calit2@UCSD
Title: Global Telepresence in Support of Global Public Health
La Jolla, CA
"Digital Scholarship: The Intersection of Disciplines"
Invited talk at Semantics Digital Humanities Workshop, 25th-27th of September 2015, New Seminar Room, St John’s College, University of Oxford, St Giles, OX1 3JP. Organized by Dept of Computer Science, e-Research Centre, and St John's College, University of Oxford.
Intersection Scale and Social Machines 2016David De Roure
Opening talk for the Introduction to Digital Humanities Workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2016. Presented 3 July 2016 in St Hugh's College.
Opening talk for the Introduction to Digital Humanities Workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015. Presented 20 July 2015 in St Anne's College.
Seminar at CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Date: Friday October 30, 2015. Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Location: D463 (Star)
Abstract:
Today we are witnessing several shifts in scholarly practice, in and across multiple disciplines, as researchers embrace digital techniques to tackle established research questions in new ways and new questions afforded by digital and digitized collections, approaches, and technologies. Pervasive adoption of technology, coupled with the co-creation of new social processes, has created a new and complex space for scholarship where citizens both generate and analyse data as they interact at the intersection of the physical and digital. Drawing on a background in distributed computing, and adopting the lens of Social Machines, this talk discusses current activity in digital scholarship, framing it in its interdisciplinary settings.
Bio:
David De Roure is Professor of e-Research at University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, and chairs Oxford’s Digital Humanities research programme. He previously directed the Digital Social Research programme for the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and serves as a strategic advisor in new forms of data and realtime analytics. Trained in electronics and computer science, his career has involved interdisciplinary collaborations in chemistry, astrophysics, bioinformatics, social computing, digital libraries, and sensor networks. His personal research is in Computational Musicology, Web Science, and Internet of Things. He is a frequent speaker and writer on digital research and the future of scholarly communications. URL: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder
Keynote talk at the Web Science Summer School, Singapore, 8 December 2014. Today we see the rise of Social Machines, like Twitter, Wikipedia and Galaxy Zoo—where communities identify and solve their own problems, harnessing commitment, local knowledge and embedded skills, without having to rely on experts or governments.
The Social Machines paradigm provides a lens onto the interacting sociotechnical systems of our hybrid digital-physical world, citizen-centric and at scale—emphasising empowerment and sociality in a world of pervasive technology adoption and automation.
This talk will present the Social Machines paradigm as an approach to social media analytics and a rethinking of our scholarly practices and knowledge infrastructure.
A whirlwind introduction to digital humanities for CDP Digital Humanities: Collections & Heritage - current challenges and futures workshop. February 22, 2018 Imperial War Museum
A dystopian view of our evolving knowledge infrastructure. Talk in session "Reproducibility in new digital scholarship – bigger, faster, better?" at the Alan Turing Institute Symposium on Reproducibility for Data Centric Research, St Hugh's, Oxford, 7th April 2016
Rare (and emergent) disciplines in the light of science studiesAndrea Scharnhorst
Andrea Scharnhorst. Insights from TD1210. presentation given at Exploratory Workshop “Integrating the stake of rare disciplines at the European level” COST, Brussels, September 9, 2015
New forms of data for the social sciences: Smarter cities, more efficient organisations, and healthier communities. Wednesday 3rd November 2015, UCL, London, United Kingdom
Big Data Challenges for the Social SciencesDavid De Roure
Big Data: Challenges for the social sciences. Panel presentation at the World Social Science Forum, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa. Tuesday 15 September, 2015
Keynote on "Social Machines: Democratisation, Disintermediation, and Citizens at Scale" presented at the Web Science and Big Data Analytics Conference on Information Transparency and Digital Democracy, Tuesday, 25th August 2015, Jakarta Indonesia
The Long and the Short of it:a history of Social MachinesDavid De Roure
Talk for the Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015. Presented 24 July 2015 in St Anne's College, Oxford.
Short paper presentation at the The 1st International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop (DLfM 2014) 12TH SEPTEMBER 2014 (FULL DAY), LONDON, UK in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014.
Working out the plot: the role of Stories in Social MachinesDavid De Roure
Paper by Ségolène Tarte, David De Roure and Pip Willcox, presented at 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines, in conjunction with WWW2014, Seoul, Korea, 7 April 2014. Proceedings in ACM Digital Library dx.doi.org/10.1145/2567948.2578839, preprint on http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/ora:8033
Web Observatories, e-Research and the Importance of Collaboration. WST 2014 Webinar series, 20th March 2014
See Web Science Trust http://webscience.org/
Digital Scholarship Intersection Scale Social Machines
1. David De Roure
@dder
Digital scholarship:
Intersection, Scale, and
Social Machines
DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD E-RESEARCH CENTRE
Centre for Digital Scholarship
2. Porter, Bernard. 1939. Being a Map of Physics. Courtesy of Maine State Library and Mark Melnicove. In "10th Iteration (2014): The
Future of Science Mapping," Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, edited by Katy Börner and Samuel Mills. http://scimaps.org
4.
Digital
Humanities
Social
Machines
Engineering
Cyber
Linguis.cs
English
Oxford
Mar.n
School
Saïd
Colleges
ARC
IT
Services
ECI
Geography
SKA
CUDA
Physics
Computer
Science
Maths
History
Oxford
Internet
Ins.tute
Music
Pharma
Archaeology
Classics
Zoology
DDeR 2015-04-25
Museums
7. Edwards, P. N., et al. (2013) Knowledge Infrastructures: Intellectual Frameworks and Research
Challenges. Ann Arbor: Deep Blue. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/97552
11. RCUK Big Data – 21st century raw
material
Energy Efficient
Computing
Infrastructure
(STFC)
De-identified admin
(including health) data
Business
data
Open data
(public sector)
Social media
data
Research
data
Longitudinal
survey data
Open data
Securely held data
Environment
data
Business and LG
Data Research
Centres
(ESRC)
Admin Data Research
Centres (ESRC)
High Performance
Data Environment
(NERC)
Clinical
data
Medical Bioinformatics (MRC)
Understanding Populations
(ESRC)
Clinical Practice Datalink
(MHRA, NIHR)
100,000 Genome Project NHS)
Research Data Facility
(EPSRC)
European Bioinformatics
Institute (EMBL)
Bioscience E-Infrastructure
(BBSRC)
Square Kilometre Array (STFC)
Digital Transformations
(AHRC)
Archive
data
Open Data
Institute
Commercial
Research
Understanding
Populations (ESRC)
http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/infrastructure/big-data/
21. New Forms of Data CDT
▶ Much of the value of ‘new forms of data’ lie in the
potential for them to be analysed in near real-time,
which presents opportunities for revealing
phenomena as they unfold, enabling timely response
with immediate influence. Such analysis brings distinct
new computational requirements, requires new skills,
and makes new demands on the ease of use and
capability of the national e-Infrastructure.
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/postgraduates/dtc/dtc-policy/commissioning-of-centres-for-doctoral-training.aspx
23. Community
SoOware
Supercomputer
Digital
Music
Collec.ons
Student-‐sourced
ground
truth
Community
SoOware
Linked
Data
Repositories
Supercomputer
23,000 hours of
recorded music
Music Information
Retrieval Community
SALAMI
25. Dan Edelstein, Robert Morrissey, and Glenn Roe, To Quote or not to Quote: Citation Strategies in the Encyclopédie. Journal of the
History of Ideas , Volume 74, Number 2, April 2013 . pp. 213-236. 10.1353/jhi.2013.0012
26. 3,610 Shared Passages
Montesquieu - 681 passages
• De l'esprit des lois (1746) - 477 passages
• Considérations sur les Romains… (1734) - 173 passages
Voltaire - 528 passages
• Essai sur l'histoire générale… (1756) - 415 passages
Jean-Baptiste Dubos - 229 passages
• Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture (1719) - 227 passages
René Aubert de Vertot - 122 passages
• Histoire des révolutions arrivées dans le gouvernement romain (1727) - 122 passages
Antoine Arnauld & Pierre Nicole - 107 passages
• La logique, or l'art de penser (1662) - 107 passages
Charles Rollin - 100 passages
• Histoire ancienne des Égyptiens (1738) - 94 passages
Montaigne - 91 passages
• Les Essais (1595) - 91 passages
Condillac - 91 passages
• Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746) - 91 passages
Aligned passages in the over 900 texts that predate the publication of the Encyclopédie in the ARTFL-Frantext collection,
from Russell Horton, Mark Olsen, and Glenn Roe, Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of
Similar Passages in Large Text Collections, Digital Studies - Le Champ numérique 2 (1)
27.
28. Psychology and digital technology are
being combined to understand music
in new ways. In the run-up to the
Being Human festival, a group of
students in the audience for Wagner’s
epic ‘Ring Cycle’, conducted by Valery
Gergiev (Birmingham Hippodrome)
will take part in an intriguing
experiment to monitor the sensations
produced over the 16-hour cycle of
four operas.
How do we really
experience Wagner’s music?
http://beinghumanfestival.org/event/hearing-wagner/
32. The
R
Dimensions
Research
Objects
facilitate
research
that
is
reproducible,
repeatable,
replicable,
reusable,
referenceable,
retrievable,
reviewable,
replayable,
re-‐interpretable,
reprocessable,
recomposable,
reconstructable,
repurposable,
reliable,
respecUul,
reputable,
revealable,
recoverable,
restorable,
reparable,
refreshable?”
@dder 14 April 2014
sci
method
access
understand
new
use
social
cura.on
Research
Object
Principles
34. First
Folio
Social
Machines
Metadata
Story of the
First Folio
Social
Machines Annotation
David De Roure and Pip Willcox
‘“Coniunction, with the participation of Society”: Citizens, Scale, and
Scholarly Social Machines’
Beyond the PDF: Born-Digital Humanities, Boston, 27–28 April 2015
41. Digital Scholarship @ Oxford
We have seen the affordances of digital in scholarship:
digitize, democratize, discover, access, analyze, automate,
create, cite, curate, link, scale, share, re-use.
We can answer old questions in new ways, and new questions.
We see the future university leading in digital scholarship.
How do we get there?
1. Digital strategy to guide coherent investment
2. Innovation with new digital technology and methods
3. Co-creating capability with scholars and content
4. Ongoing support for research using digital infrastructure
42. David De Roure
david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
Centre for Digital Scholarship
Thanks to Christine Borgman, Chris Lintott, Richard O’Bierne,
Glenn Roe, Ségolène Tarte, Pip Willcox; CofK, FAST,
FORCE11, SOCIAM, Transforming Musicology; AHRC,
EPSRC, ESRC, JISC, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/digital-scholarship-intersection-scale-social-machines
Editor's Notes
Developing data landscape and boom in ‘big data’ – which includes electronic data not designed for research but with potential research value which records transactions, communications, physical movements (e.g. customer databases, service delivery records, internet search activity, etc.). This diagram describes the vision at the time when RCUK was setting the Big Data Agenda to secure investment. The ESRC has moved since then to consolidating Business/LG and ADRN into the ESRC Big Data network, for which a diagram will be presented shortly explaining the different stages and where the present call sits.
ESRC was allocated 64m and much of this is being used to set up the ESRC Big Data Network.
The ESRC’s Big Data Network will support the development of a network of innovative investments which will strengthen the UK’s competitive advantage in Big Data for the social sciences. The core aim of this network is to facilitate access to different types of data and thereby stimulate innovative research and develop new methods to undertake that research.
Although you should note that diagram it is only illustrative in terms of how the UKDS and ADS will work across – that is still under discussion; and only illustrative in the number of Business and Local Government Data Research.
This network has been divided into three phases. In Phase 1 of the Big Data Network the ESRC has invested in the development of the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) which will provide access to de-identified administrative data collected by government departments for research use – focus of this meeting and all your grants.
A few words about Phase 2 and 3 before we pass to Vanessa to talk about the ADRN some more.
Phase 2 is currently bring commissioned and will deal primarily with business data and/ or local government data.
Phase 3, further details of which will be released in the last autumn / winter and will focus primarily on third sector data and social media data.
It is expected that there will be opportunities for interaction across all elements of the ESRC Big Data Network and that they will all work together around the wider objectives of facilitating access to different forms of data and of ensuring maximum impact is generated from the use of that data for the mutual benefit of data owners and researchers, and through the research facilitated by the Network, benefit society and the economy more generally.