This document discusses the need for a new digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities called DARIAH. It outlines how humanities research is increasingly relying on large digital datasets and resources requiring networked infrastructure. The document describes how DARIAH would provide access to digitized cultural heritage resources and tools to analyze these resources. It also discusses the organizational structure and partnerships needed to establish DARIAH and ensure its long-term sustainability to support innovative digital humanities research across Europe.
Lorna hughes 12 05-2013 NeDiMAH and ontology for DHlorna_hughes
This document describes NeDiMAH, a network examining the use of digital methods in the arts and humanities. NeDiMAH is funded by the European Science Foundation and chaired by Lorna Hughes. It aims to research advanced ICT methods, develop activities/publications/networking, and create a map of digital humanities in Europe and a taxonomy of methods. NeDiMAH includes 16 supporting member organizations and has working groups on topics like spatial modeling, visualization, and scholarly publishing. A key output will be a formal ontology of digital methods to provide evidence of their use and enable evaluation of digital humanities projects.
DARIAH aims to develop a digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities in Europe. It will provide access to digitized cultural heritage resources and tools for computational analysis. The infrastructure will be organized through virtual competency centers located at partner institutions that focus on specific tasks like research, education, content curation and legal issues. It is estimated to cost 6 million euros annually and will involve national contributions related to GDP. The preparation project is establishing the strategic, financial, organizational and technical foundations, with the goal of starting construction of DARIAH in 2011 to support innovative, digitally-enabled humanities research on a European scale.
The document discusses the need for a new digital research infrastructure called DARIAH to support humanities research in Europe. It proposes that DARIAH would provide access to digitized cultural heritage data and tools to process this information. The infrastructure would link distributed resources across Europe and support innovative, international and interdisciplinary digital humanities research through a decentralized network of national and thematic organizations. Preparation projects are underway to define DARIAH's strategic vision, business model, technical architecture and governance structure.
2010 09-30 ectel 2010 vlobato ctic and tel some exampleseMadrid network
2010-09-30 ECTEL 2010 CTIC and TEL some examples
Vanesa Lobato
CTIC and TEL: Some examples from a dual point of view
Spanish Track: TEL research in Spain
Jennifer Serventi (Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts) presentation at HASTAC III: Traversing Digital Boundaries, April 19-21, 2009 at University of Illinois
This document discusses the need for a new digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities called DARIAH. It outlines how humanities research is increasingly relying on large digital datasets and resources requiring networked infrastructure. The document describes how DARIAH would provide access to digitized cultural heritage resources and tools to analyze these resources. It also discusses the organizational structure and partnerships needed to establish DARIAH and ensure its long-term sustainability to support innovative digital humanities research across Europe.
Lorna hughes 12 05-2013 NeDiMAH and ontology for DHlorna_hughes
This document describes NeDiMAH, a network examining the use of digital methods in the arts and humanities. NeDiMAH is funded by the European Science Foundation and chaired by Lorna Hughes. It aims to research advanced ICT methods, develop activities/publications/networking, and create a map of digital humanities in Europe and a taxonomy of methods. NeDiMAH includes 16 supporting member organizations and has working groups on topics like spatial modeling, visualization, and scholarly publishing. A key output will be a formal ontology of digital methods to provide evidence of their use and enable evaluation of digital humanities projects.
DARIAH aims to develop a digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities in Europe. It will provide access to digitized cultural heritage resources and tools for computational analysis. The infrastructure will be organized through virtual competency centers located at partner institutions that focus on specific tasks like research, education, content curation and legal issues. It is estimated to cost 6 million euros annually and will involve national contributions related to GDP. The preparation project is establishing the strategic, financial, organizational and technical foundations, with the goal of starting construction of DARIAH in 2011 to support innovative, digitally-enabled humanities research on a European scale.
The document discusses the need for a new digital research infrastructure called DARIAH to support humanities research in Europe. It proposes that DARIAH would provide access to digitized cultural heritage data and tools to process this information. The infrastructure would link distributed resources across Europe and support innovative, international and interdisciplinary digital humanities research through a decentralized network of national and thematic organizations. Preparation projects are underway to define DARIAH's strategic vision, business model, technical architecture and governance structure.
2010 09-30 ectel 2010 vlobato ctic and tel some exampleseMadrid network
2010-09-30 ECTEL 2010 CTIC and TEL some examples
Vanesa Lobato
CTIC and TEL: Some examples from a dual point of view
Spanish Track: TEL research in Spain
Jennifer Serventi (Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts) presentation at HASTAC III: Traversing Digital Boundaries, April 19-21, 2009 at University of Illinois
Presentation at the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC), July 2013. Panel description:
The Digital Humanities offers not only new tools to support what we do in the Humanities, but also new ways of thinking about what it is that we do. This panel will build upon Alan Liu’s keynote discussion of ideas for digital tools for humanities advocacy and speak to the way non-digital centres can benefit from digital humanities initiatives.
Text and data mining - the opportunities and the EU conundrum - why aren’t we...FutureTDM
This document discusses a conference on text and data mining (TDM) opportunities in the European Union. It notes the vast amount of digital data available and the potential of TDM to address grand challenges and increase science efficiency. However, TDM faces legal barriers around data protection and copyright. The conference aims to establish a framework and research agenda to increase TDM adoption in Europe, overcome barriers, raise awareness of benefits, and foster cross-sector collaboration around TDM. It will create an online knowledge hub with tools and resources to support the TDM community and policymakers. The goal is to make EU research more competitive globally and ensure policy supports TDM-driven innovation.
Parthenos Training: Infrastructures - The infrastructural turnParthenos
The document discusses the history of research infrastructures (RIs) and knowledge infrastructures. It notes that the idea of an RI was first conceived in the 3rd century BC with the founding of the Library of Alexandria. It also discusses how over the past 200 years, there has been an exponential increase in information gathering and the development of technologies to organize information. The document highlights 2006 as a turning point with the publication of the ESFRI Roadmap and a report calling for investment in digital RIs to support humanities research. Finally, it discusses challenges for digital libraries in maintaining large volumes of scholar-generated content, enabling new methodologies, and maintaining high upfront investment.
Milena Dobreva (University of Malta, MT): How to Index Biographical Data from Archival Documents Using the Methods of the Citizen Science
co:op-READ-Convention Marburg
Technology meets Scholarship, or how Handwritten Text Recognition will Revolutionize Access to Archival Collections.
With a special focus on biographical data in archives
Hessian State Archives Marburg Friedrichsplatz 15, D - 35037 Marburg
19-21 January 2016
(Inter)disciplinary Infrastructures for Social Sciences and Humanitiesdri_ireland
As part of a webinar series on Open Research in Ireland, the National Open Research Forum (NORF) presented a webinar focused on Infrastructures to support Open Research on 30 March 2021. This presentation on (inter)disciplinary infrastructures for social sciences and humanities was delivered by Sally Chambers (Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities).
This document discusses FAIR data principles and open data. It provides an overview of the FAIR data principles of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable data. It outlines the benefits of open data in a big data world but also acknowledges the challenges of implementing open data practices. The document proposes establishing an African Open Data Forum and developing research data infrastructure, skills training, policies and strategies to support open science and FAIR data practices in Africa.
The domain as unifier, how focusing on social history can bring technical fie...Marieke van Erp
Invited talk given at the final CEDAR symposium about the interaction between (social) history, language technology, and semantic web.
https://socialhistory.org/en/events/final-cedar-mini-symposium
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.
Prezentacja wygłoszona podczas spotkania: Obywatele na rzecz otwartego, przejrzystego i rozliczalnego rządu – seminarium dyskusyjne dla strażników prawa do informacji w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej,
23-25 listopada 2011 http://www.informacjapubliczna.org.pl/46,608,miedzynarodowe_seminarium_dyskusyjne_o_staniu_na_strazy_prawa_do_informacji.html/
Presentation delivered at Citizens for transparent, accountable and open government 23-25 November 2011 http://www.informacjapubliczna.org.pl/38,609,citizens_for_transparent_accountable_and_open_government.html
This document proposes a panel discussion at the 4th eResearch Australasia Conference to discuss challenges and opportunities around making sense of data in the arts and humanities. The panel will explore questions around the nature of data in these domains, current eResearch practices, and what infrastructures could help facilitate data use and uptake of technologies. The goal is to build on ideas from previous conference papers and encourage discussion on meaningful use of data in arts and humanities research through facilitated audience interaction. The panelists are researchers and professionals active in digital humanities and eResearch support.
The document discusses the vision and challenges of e-humanities, particularly in Germany. It outlines views from different academic disciplines on how digital tools and data-driven scholarship are developing. Key points include the potential of open access and data sharing, the heterogeneity of humanities data, and the need for international cooperation on standards and best practices. Challenges addressed include copyright issues, integrating new approaches into research, and rethinking roles and careers to support e-humanities.
This document discusses the principles of evidence-based legislation. It argues that evidence-based policy making requires legislation that is grounded in scientific evidence and data. It outlines some of the tools, standards, and training needed to support evidence-based legislation, including legal informatics tools, global standards for knowledge representation, and developing digital skills among lawmakers. Examples provided include a legal interoperability lab project in Greece that uses authoring tools and data standards to pilot evidence-based approaches. The conclusion calls for investments in research services and cooperation to help smaller institutions implement evidence-based legislative approaches.
The document discusses various online tools for visualizing and sharing data on the participatory web. It provides examples of tools for mapping and spatial data visualization, including ProgrammableWeb, GeoCommons, and OpenStreetMap. It also lists tools for numeric data visualization like Graphwise, Numbrary, and Swivel. The document questions whether these types of online data visualization tools are just a temporary phenomenon or have more lasting potential to support academic research and open data initiatives.
Collaboration to Curation: The High Rise Project meets Edinburgh DataShare University of Edinburgh
Slides describing the evolution of the Edinburgh DataShare repository and The High-Rise Project and the (potential) collaborative mechanisms that will enable the digital content to be ingested and preserved in the Edinburgh DataShare DSpace repository environment
This document discusses challenges with curating and sharing research data to support reuse. It notes that while the amount of digital research data being created is growing rapidly, current systems for preserving data are not optimally designed with input from researchers. Researchers have various concerns about openly sharing their data that need to be addressed. Studies found that engaging researchers early and building trusted relationships is important for developing effective data curation solutions tailored to different research practices and disciplines.
Welcome slides for the LIS DREaM workshop 3 at the Britist Library on Monday 30th January 2012.
Further details about this event can be found at http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-3-workshop-monday-30-january-2012/
This document summarizes the goals and events of the DREaM Project, which aims to develop a formal UK-wide network of library and information science (LIS) researchers. The project is led by Professor Hazel Hall of Edinburgh Napier University and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The goals are to build research capacity, raise quality standards, and establish long-term research collaborations in LIS and beyond. Key events included a launch conference in July 2011 and future workshops in October 2011, January 2012, and April 2012 to bring together LIS practitioners and researchers.
Presentation at the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC), July 2013. Panel description:
The Digital Humanities offers not only new tools to support what we do in the Humanities, but also new ways of thinking about what it is that we do. This panel will build upon Alan Liu’s keynote discussion of ideas for digital tools for humanities advocacy and speak to the way non-digital centres can benefit from digital humanities initiatives.
Text and data mining - the opportunities and the EU conundrum - why aren’t we...FutureTDM
This document discusses a conference on text and data mining (TDM) opportunities in the European Union. It notes the vast amount of digital data available and the potential of TDM to address grand challenges and increase science efficiency. However, TDM faces legal barriers around data protection and copyright. The conference aims to establish a framework and research agenda to increase TDM adoption in Europe, overcome barriers, raise awareness of benefits, and foster cross-sector collaboration around TDM. It will create an online knowledge hub with tools and resources to support the TDM community and policymakers. The goal is to make EU research more competitive globally and ensure policy supports TDM-driven innovation.
Parthenos Training: Infrastructures - The infrastructural turnParthenos
The document discusses the history of research infrastructures (RIs) and knowledge infrastructures. It notes that the idea of an RI was first conceived in the 3rd century BC with the founding of the Library of Alexandria. It also discusses how over the past 200 years, there has been an exponential increase in information gathering and the development of technologies to organize information. The document highlights 2006 as a turning point with the publication of the ESFRI Roadmap and a report calling for investment in digital RIs to support humanities research. Finally, it discusses challenges for digital libraries in maintaining large volumes of scholar-generated content, enabling new methodologies, and maintaining high upfront investment.
Milena Dobreva (University of Malta, MT): How to Index Biographical Data from Archival Documents Using the Methods of the Citizen Science
co:op-READ-Convention Marburg
Technology meets Scholarship, or how Handwritten Text Recognition will Revolutionize Access to Archival Collections.
With a special focus on biographical data in archives
Hessian State Archives Marburg Friedrichsplatz 15, D - 35037 Marburg
19-21 January 2016
(Inter)disciplinary Infrastructures for Social Sciences and Humanitiesdri_ireland
As part of a webinar series on Open Research in Ireland, the National Open Research Forum (NORF) presented a webinar focused on Infrastructures to support Open Research on 30 March 2021. This presentation on (inter)disciplinary infrastructures for social sciences and humanities was delivered by Sally Chambers (Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities).
This document discusses FAIR data principles and open data. It provides an overview of the FAIR data principles of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable data. It outlines the benefits of open data in a big data world but also acknowledges the challenges of implementing open data practices. The document proposes establishing an African Open Data Forum and developing research data infrastructure, skills training, policies and strategies to support open science and FAIR data practices in Africa.
The domain as unifier, how focusing on social history can bring technical fie...Marieke van Erp
Invited talk given at the final CEDAR symposium about the interaction between (social) history, language technology, and semantic web.
https://socialhistory.org/en/events/final-cedar-mini-symposium
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.
Prezentacja wygłoszona podczas spotkania: Obywatele na rzecz otwartego, przejrzystego i rozliczalnego rządu – seminarium dyskusyjne dla strażników prawa do informacji w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej,
23-25 listopada 2011 http://www.informacjapubliczna.org.pl/46,608,miedzynarodowe_seminarium_dyskusyjne_o_staniu_na_strazy_prawa_do_informacji.html/
Presentation delivered at Citizens for transparent, accountable and open government 23-25 November 2011 http://www.informacjapubliczna.org.pl/38,609,citizens_for_transparent_accountable_and_open_government.html
This document proposes a panel discussion at the 4th eResearch Australasia Conference to discuss challenges and opportunities around making sense of data in the arts and humanities. The panel will explore questions around the nature of data in these domains, current eResearch practices, and what infrastructures could help facilitate data use and uptake of technologies. The goal is to build on ideas from previous conference papers and encourage discussion on meaningful use of data in arts and humanities research through facilitated audience interaction. The panelists are researchers and professionals active in digital humanities and eResearch support.
The document discusses the vision and challenges of e-humanities, particularly in Germany. It outlines views from different academic disciplines on how digital tools and data-driven scholarship are developing. Key points include the potential of open access and data sharing, the heterogeneity of humanities data, and the need for international cooperation on standards and best practices. Challenges addressed include copyright issues, integrating new approaches into research, and rethinking roles and careers to support e-humanities.
This document discusses the principles of evidence-based legislation. It argues that evidence-based policy making requires legislation that is grounded in scientific evidence and data. It outlines some of the tools, standards, and training needed to support evidence-based legislation, including legal informatics tools, global standards for knowledge representation, and developing digital skills among lawmakers. Examples provided include a legal interoperability lab project in Greece that uses authoring tools and data standards to pilot evidence-based approaches. The conclusion calls for investments in research services and cooperation to help smaller institutions implement evidence-based legislative approaches.
The document discusses various online tools for visualizing and sharing data on the participatory web. It provides examples of tools for mapping and spatial data visualization, including ProgrammableWeb, GeoCommons, and OpenStreetMap. It also lists tools for numeric data visualization like Graphwise, Numbrary, and Swivel. The document questions whether these types of online data visualization tools are just a temporary phenomenon or have more lasting potential to support academic research and open data initiatives.
Collaboration to Curation: The High Rise Project meets Edinburgh DataShare University of Edinburgh
Slides describing the evolution of the Edinburgh DataShare repository and The High-Rise Project and the (potential) collaborative mechanisms that will enable the digital content to be ingested and preserved in the Edinburgh DataShare DSpace repository environment
This document discusses challenges with curating and sharing research data to support reuse. It notes that while the amount of digital research data being created is growing rapidly, current systems for preserving data are not optimally designed with input from researchers. Researchers have various concerns about openly sharing their data that need to be addressed. Studies found that engaging researchers early and building trusted relationships is important for developing effective data curation solutions tailored to different research practices and disciplines.
Welcome slides for the LIS DREaM workshop 3 at the Britist Library on Monday 30th January 2012.
Further details about this event can be found at http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-3-workshop-monday-30-january-2012/
This document summarizes the goals and events of the DREaM Project, which aims to develop a formal UK-wide network of library and information science (LIS) researchers. The project is led by Professor Hazel Hall of Edinburgh Napier University and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The goals are to build research capacity, raise quality standards, and establish long-term research collaborations in LIS and beyond. Key events included a launch conference in July 2011 and future workshops in October 2011, January 2012, and April 2012 to bring together LIS practitioners and researchers.
This document discusses new directions for e-science in the arts and humanities. Specifically, it discusses using networks to connect resources like virtual libraries and museums. It also addresses challenges like dealing with large datasets from simulations and linking heterogeneous resources. Finally, it provides examples of past e-science projects in areas like dance documentation, image analysis, and musicology that have helped map e-science approaches to digital humanities research.
This slide deck was designed to initiate a conversation with participants of Vancouver ChangeCamp '09 on how we can use social media tools to engage in adaptive strategies to climate change in British Columbia and Canada.
The document discusses challenges in archiving digital records and research data. It summarizes an audit of King's College London to identify digital information created, how it is used, and preservation risks. The project aims to develop a system for managing both business records and research material. Risks identified include insufficient storage, authenticity, and unclear retention periods. Strategies involve infrastructure, education, and policies for managing different types of digital records and data over their lifecycles.
Paul Rodriguez Jr. is a professional skateboarder from Chatsworth, California. Some of his career highlights include becoming the first pro skater sponsored by Nike in 2004 and winning gold at the X Games in both 2004 and 2005 for street skating. He began skating at age 12 when his famous comedian father Paul Rodriguez bought him his first board. Paul has appeared in movies and television shows in addition to his skating career. He is known for his relaxed and consistent style on a skateboard.
Examination of what criteria give online tutors the x factor in terms of facilitating online learning in synchronous spaces. This presentation was delivered through the Open University H818 online conference on Networked Professionals.
This document provides an overview of digital humanities (DH), including definitions, history, tools and projects. It discusses DH as using technology to enhance humanities research and communication. Definitions presented emphasize DH as an umbrella term for diverse activities involving technology and humanities scholarship. The history outlines early use of computers in humanities and development of standards like TEI. Tools discussed include network analysis, data visualization, text analysis, and GIS. Examples provided are DH projects mapping relationships and visualizing data. The role of libraries in supporting DH through collections, expertise, partnerships and experimentation is also covered.
Slides from NITLE Digital Scholarship Seminar: National Perspective, Jennifer Serventi, Senior Program Officer, Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities
Slides for presentation given at the first Digital Humanities Congress held in Sheffield from 6 – 8 September 2012 with the support of the Network of Expert Centres and Centernet.
URL http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/dhc2012
This document provides an overview of digital humanities (DH), including definitions, a brief history, tools used in DH, and examples of DH projects and centers. DH is defined as using computational tools and methods to expand humanities research and communication. It has evolved from humanities computing beginning in the 1960s. Libraries play a key role in DH through activities like digitization, curation, and providing tools and space for DH work. The document discusses several DH tools and projects in South Africa and worldwide as illustrations.
Rebecca Grant - DH research data: identification and challenges (DH2016)dri_ireland
Presentation made by Rebecca Grant as part of the panel session “Digital data sharing: the opportunities and challenges of opening research” at the Digital Humanities conference, Krakow, 15 July 2016. This paper “DH research data: identification and challenges” provided an introduction to concepts of research data in the digital humanities, including accepted definitions of what constitutes research data in a DH context.
Brown Bag: New Models of Scholarly Communication for Digital Scholarship, by ...Micah Altman
In his talk for the MIT Libraries Program on Information Science, Steve Griffin discusses how how research libraries can play a key and expanded role in enabling digital scholarship and creating the supporting activities that sustain it.
DYAS: The Greek Research Infrastructure Network for the Humanitiesariadnenetwork
Presentation by:
Panos Constantopoulos
Athens University of Economics and Business,
Athena Research Centre
Costis Dallas
Toronto University,
Panteion University,
Athena Research Centre
Presenter: Dimitris Gavrilis
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
An introduction to the Digital Curation CentreMichael Day
The document introduces the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), which aims to support and promote digital curation and preservation. It provides an overview of the DCC's objectives, activities, partners, and services. The DCC conducts research, develops tools and infrastructure, and provides resources, training, and community engagement to advance the field of digital curation.
Digital humanities involves the intersection of digital technologies and humanities research. It can include building digital collections and tools for authoring, analyzing, and managing research. Digital humanities centers typically offer resources like databases, tools for analysis, and training. They serve as hubs for innovation and experimentation in applying new technologies to answer humanities questions. Debates include whether digital humanities should apply technologies or critically examine their impact, and whether databases can support narrative scholarship. Visualizations are increasingly important in digital humanities for exploring subjects like ancient cities in new ways.
ARIADNE is a European Commission funded project that brings together existing archaeological data infrastructures to integrate distributed datasets and enable researchers to use powerful new technologies as part of archaeological research methodology. The project will provide trans-national access to data centers, tools, and guidance, and create new web services based on common data repository interfaces and innovative technologies to stimulate new avenues of archaeological research using past data in current studies. ARIADNE aims to contribute to a new community of researchers ready to exploit information technology and incorporate it into established archaeological research methods.
MOVING: Applying digital science methodology for TVETMOVING Project
This document provides an overview of the MOVING project, which aims to improve digital information management skills through an open interdisciplinary platform. It discusses two use cases: one focused on legal accountants managing compliance information, and the other on junior researchers managing research literature. For each use case, the document describes the objectives, tasks, relevant personas, and a mock-up of the proposed digital tools. It also provides information on designing the tools using a human-centered approach and testing them through the MOVING technology platform. The overall goal is to empower users across different fields and backgrounds to apply data analytics tools in their work.
A whirlwind introduction to digital humanities for CDP Digital Humanities: Collections & Heritage - current challenges and futures workshop. February 22, 2018 Imperial War Museum
A Digital Library Initiative for Scholarly Monographs: An Activity Theory Ana...Jennifer McCauley
The document summarizes research on a digital library initiative between a university library and press to provide dual print and electronic delivery of scholarly monographs. It describes the stakeholders and contextual tensions between the organizations. An activity theory analysis identified various activities within the initiative and stressors that influenced the selection and implementation of technologies. The implications suggest further exploration of uncertainty and stressors within digital library activities.
Bibliotheca Digitalis. Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks. From Primary Source to Data.
DARIAH / Biblissima Summer School, 4-8 July 2017, Le Mans, France.
5th and last day, July 8th – Digital representation and data accuracy for Humanities.
Humanities at Scale and Dariah-EU.
Nicolas Larrousse – Research officer, TGIR Huma-Num.
Abstract: https://bvh.hypotheses.org/3330#resume-NLarousse
The proliferation of communication technologies is profoundly changing the nature of academic practice. In this presentation I describe the impact of blogging and social networking tools on the practice and dissemination of academic research across disciplinary boundaries. I suggest that the traditional notion of the university is giving way to communities of scholars who are not tied to particular institutions, and less dependent on traditional forms of dissemination and publication. The resulting ‘democratisation’ of academia is portrayed in terms of a tension between democracy and expert knowledge mediated by technology.
One prominent contemporary challenge for technologists is to understand the ongoing impact of technological change on academic communities. At The Open University, the Digital Scholarship research team is mapping the use of Twitter in order to better understand user engagement with these technologies. I will present headline findings from this research and discuss the implications for scholarly practice at the OU.
Rebecca Grant DAH Research Presentationdri_ireland
Presentation given by Rebecca Grant of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Research in the Digital Age symposium at the Trinity Long Room Hub, 14 July, 2015. The presentation gives an overview of some of the key concepts and drivers in research data management for the arts and humanities, and introduces the Digital Repository of Ireland as potential place of deposit for such data.
This document outlines Work Package 1 (WP1) of a project related to Europeana Cloud. WP1 has several objectives: 1) Identify humanities and social sciences research communities to support, 2) Develop a research content strategy for Europeana based on usefulness for research, and 3) Improve understanding of tools/processes to inform Europeana Cloud development. It will identify key research communities, survey their digital practices/tool use, hold expert forums, and engage communities at conferences to establish user requirements. The end goal is a Europeana Research platform with tools to annotate, organize and share content according to research needs.
WSI Stimulus Project: Centre for longitudinal studies of online citizen parti...Ramine Tinati
This document summarizes a mid-term presentation on a project to establish a centre for longitudinal studies of online citizen participation systems. The project aims to improve research in this area through activities like performing a literature review of citizen science methods, reviewing existing citizen science platforms, and developing a citizen science data collection toolkit. Initial findings show citizen science activity is predominantly located in western countries. The project also examines player interactions on the EyeWire citizen science platform using mixed methods. Long term goals include providing a research data catalogue and establishing the University of Southampton as a hub for citizen science studies.
what we do Based at CeRch, King’s College London Funded by JISC
ICT Guides: funded by JISC MN: Funded by AHRC 2005-08
This is what a-h.net looks like now – the two services have been merged, and content added to become a comprehensive knowledge base of the field.
With JISC funding, the priorities were around embedding expertise and therefore protecting investment in ICT in arts and humanities
Projects: greater visibility of publicly funded research with digital output Methods: Advanced ICT methods include: text analysis and mining; image analysis; moving image capture and analysis; and quantitative and qualitative data analysis. They can be found at a key point of intersection between disciplines, collections and researchers: data-rich disciplines (e.g. archeology, library and information science, and musicology) have refined new ICT methods, and within the data-driven sciences research methods have emerged around data and information processes. The use of advanced ICT methods can effect significant benefits in arts and humanities scholarship: they can enhance existing research methods (for example, by harnessing the processing power of grid technologies to allow large datasets to be searched quickly and efficiently, and in complex or novel ways); and they enable new research methods (for example, developing pattern matching algorithms for image analysis that can be applied to digital images of manuscripts). New approaches can also come about from creative collaboration: for example, the REACH (Researching e-Science Analysis of Census Holdings) workshop series investigated the potential application of grid computing to use of historical census datasets, by applying record linkage research methods developed by researchers in Physics working on the AstroGrid project
Computational methods demand the utmost rigour and precision in their application, and accordingly, research practitioners working in the emerging field of the digital humanities have begun to formalize new theories of the interaction between content, analytical and interpretative tools and technologies, methodological approaches, and disciplinary kinships. The discussion about methodologies of use also gives a focus to any discussion of the role, and future use of, digital tools for the arts and humanities . It creates a framework for investigation of existing activity and requirements, and for the work that is still required at a strategic (i.e., funding) level, as well as understanding how digital tools sit within research practice , by understanding and demonstrating how digital tools can best support advanced ICT Research Methods in the arts and humanities.
The discussion about methodologies of use also gives a focus to any discussion of the role, and future use of, digital tools for the arts and humanities. It creates a framework for investigation of existing activity and requirements, and for the work that is still required at a strategic (i.e., funding) level, Shows how digital tools sit within research practice, by understanding and demonstrating how digital tools can best support advanced ICT Research Methods in the arts and humanities. It used to be thought that ‘methodologies of use’ related merely to the end-use of digital materials by scholars (for example, applying text analysis to a re-existing digital corpus). However, methodologies of use are an equally crucial component of the entire digital life cycle. The use of advanced digital tools and methods by researchers impacts on decisions made at every stage of this life cycle: selection, digitization, curation, preservation, and, most importantly, sustainability over the long term. The way that digital resources end up being used may be unanticipated at the outset; or they may have value for different communities and disciplines than originally intended. Conversely, some digital resources are less “valuable” to scholarship because their creator did not factor methodologies of use into the development of the resources. This resource is an evidence base for the integration of advanced methods into various communities of practice. Showcases expertise of MN, AHeSSC, the AHDS, and the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative. The work of all these projects has contributed to the development of a body of evidence that shows the value and use of ICT in the arts and humanities, Provides input into the future agenda for ICT in the arts and humanitie digital resources, while now ubiquitous (some 50 per cent of new projects funded by the AHRC have a digital output), are also expensive to develop, assessing and articulating their value, use and impact is not only timely, but also essential in this period of reduced centralized funding for such work. Important: cross-research council initiative. This reflects the fact that as the e-Science field matures, it is becoming recognized as one in which enables collaboration, and in which partnerships between different aspects of research, and indeed, between researchers from multiple disciplines, must be supported in order for the e-Infrastructure to be fully exploited. There are mutual benefits for collaboration: that the arts and humanities could benefit form scientific approaches to dealing with large amounts of data; and that the scientific and computational disciplines could benefit form a better understanding of arts and humanities approaches to complex data. research life cycle of discovery, analysis, publication and dissemination, and anticipates the additional layer of collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange Provide valuable evidence about the emerging e-Rsearch infrastructure for the arts and humanities.