A talk exploring the implications for digital library infrastructures in the face of developments in how humanities scholars are engaging in computational research of library collections.
People, Communities and Platforms: Digital Cultural Heritage and the WebTrevor Owens
Libraries, archives and museums are sites of community memory. The first public computerized bulletin board system was called community memory. Trevor’s talk will explore the connections between the development of the web as a global knowledge base, the open source software movement, and digital strategy for libraries, archives and museums. This keynote talk will synthesize research on the history of online community software with practical experience working on open source digital library projects. This exploration underscores the essential role cultural heritage institutions need to play in this era of the web and some important distinctions between how the concept of community is deployed in discussions of the web.
Shaping our Future: Digitization Partnerships Across Libraries, Archives and ...UBC Library
The document discusses trends in digital information and digitization, including convergence through collaboration between libraries, archives and museums. It provides examples of collaborative digitization projects and how they help inspire new kinds of research. Open source and open access models are also discussed as important trends. Professional competencies must evolve as the roles of librarians, archivists and curators converge in the digital realm. Global organizations have a role to play in encouraging partnerships and training.
1) The digital archive complicates notions of materiality and the relationship between the physical and digital. Digitization disrupts traditional hierarchies of archives by making materials more accessible and mutable.
2) Media archaeology approaches the digital archive through studying the histories of different media and technologies. It examines how digital archives operate as dynamic networks and social platforms rather than static stores of history.
3) As physical archives become digitized, concepts of the archive are shifting from places that freeze time and regulate access/use, to archives that are in constant motion and allow for remixing. The boundaries between archive and database are also blurring.
This document summarizes a presentation by Joan K. Lippincott on e-research and digital scholarship. It discusses how new technologies enable combining dispersed resources in new ways and data mining large collections to gain new insights. Examples are provided of projects that analyzed combined datasets, such as a slave trade database. New forms of scholarship are emerging using 3D visualization, augmented reality, and student projects. Digital scholarship centers in libraries support these activities through specialized services, expertise, and creating communities of collaboration among students, faculty, and information professionals. Challenges include promoting these new areas and developing sustainable models.
Digital Libraries Digital Humanities: Current and Emerging Roles for Librarianskgerber
This document summarizes a presentation on digital libraries and digital humanities. It discusses definitions of digital libraries, types of digital libraries organized by discipline, audience, institution, or geography. It also discusses digital humanities projects and organizations. The document notes skills needed for digital librarians including technologies like imaging, metadata, programming, and project management. It lists sources for job postings and grant opportunities. Finally, it discusses necessary tools for digital librarians like metadata standards, XML, digital imaging software, and repository software.
Technology Trends in Libraries - Today & TomorrowRachel Vacek
This presentation discusses the basic concepts of Web 2.0 and how they are being used in libraries. It provides examples of these concepts, and emphasizes that over the next several years, the concepts of Web 2.0 (collaboration, participation, tagging, community, etc.) will only grow, but the actual technologies themselves will change.
Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that explores how digital technologies can be used to enhance the study of the humanities. It involves using digital tools and methods to address questions in humanities subjects like history, literature, linguistics, philosophy and art history. Some key aspects of Digital Humanities mentioned are developing digital archives and text analysis tools, creating multimedia works, visualizing data, and using digital tools in teaching humanities topics.
People, Communities and Platforms: Digital Cultural Heritage and the WebTrevor Owens
Libraries, archives and museums are sites of community memory. The first public computerized bulletin board system was called community memory. Trevor’s talk will explore the connections between the development of the web as a global knowledge base, the open source software movement, and digital strategy for libraries, archives and museums. This keynote talk will synthesize research on the history of online community software with practical experience working on open source digital library projects. This exploration underscores the essential role cultural heritage institutions need to play in this era of the web and some important distinctions between how the concept of community is deployed in discussions of the web.
Shaping our Future: Digitization Partnerships Across Libraries, Archives and ...UBC Library
The document discusses trends in digital information and digitization, including convergence through collaboration between libraries, archives and museums. It provides examples of collaborative digitization projects and how they help inspire new kinds of research. Open source and open access models are also discussed as important trends. Professional competencies must evolve as the roles of librarians, archivists and curators converge in the digital realm. Global organizations have a role to play in encouraging partnerships and training.
1) The digital archive complicates notions of materiality and the relationship between the physical and digital. Digitization disrupts traditional hierarchies of archives by making materials more accessible and mutable.
2) Media archaeology approaches the digital archive through studying the histories of different media and technologies. It examines how digital archives operate as dynamic networks and social platforms rather than static stores of history.
3) As physical archives become digitized, concepts of the archive are shifting from places that freeze time and regulate access/use, to archives that are in constant motion and allow for remixing. The boundaries between archive and database are also blurring.
This document summarizes a presentation by Joan K. Lippincott on e-research and digital scholarship. It discusses how new technologies enable combining dispersed resources in new ways and data mining large collections to gain new insights. Examples are provided of projects that analyzed combined datasets, such as a slave trade database. New forms of scholarship are emerging using 3D visualization, augmented reality, and student projects. Digital scholarship centers in libraries support these activities through specialized services, expertise, and creating communities of collaboration among students, faculty, and information professionals. Challenges include promoting these new areas and developing sustainable models.
Digital Libraries Digital Humanities: Current and Emerging Roles for Librarianskgerber
This document summarizes a presentation on digital libraries and digital humanities. It discusses definitions of digital libraries, types of digital libraries organized by discipline, audience, institution, or geography. It also discusses digital humanities projects and organizations. The document notes skills needed for digital librarians including technologies like imaging, metadata, programming, and project management. It lists sources for job postings and grant opportunities. Finally, it discusses necessary tools for digital librarians like metadata standards, XML, digital imaging software, and repository software.
Technology Trends in Libraries - Today & TomorrowRachel Vacek
This presentation discusses the basic concepts of Web 2.0 and how they are being used in libraries. It provides examples of these concepts, and emphasizes that over the next several years, the concepts of Web 2.0 (collaboration, participation, tagging, community, etc.) will only grow, but the actual technologies themselves will change.
Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that explores how digital technologies can be used to enhance the study of the humanities. It involves using digital tools and methods to address questions in humanities subjects like history, literature, linguistics, philosophy and art history. Some key aspects of Digital Humanities mentioned are developing digital archives and text analysis tools, creating multimedia works, visualizing data, and using digital tools in teaching humanities topics.
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/
Makerspaces: a great opportunity to enhance academic libraries, Stellenbosch...Fers
Makerspaces in academic libraries can enhance learning and collaboration. They provide tools and resources for students and faculty from all disciplines to create, invent, and learn practical skills. By supporting making and tinkering, libraries can help generate new knowledge and research in line with the mission of academic institutions. Recommended activities for an academic library makerspace include 3D printing, electronics, crafts, and hosting workshops on various making topics.
EP is the dissemination of Information in electronic format and its distribution to potential users either on electronic networks such as internet and Intranet or in stand-alone formats such as CD-ROMs and Diskette.
Synonym for EP is CAP (Computer Assisted Publishing)
Topic Maps: Romancing Conversation TopicsJack Park
1) The document discusses how to improve online political conversations through mapping topics of discussion.
2) Topic mapping involves representing important issues, perspectives, and their relationships as topics to help weave perspectives together and augment understanding of complex systems.
3) By recording conversations, mapping the topics and relationships discussed, and reflecting on them, it may be possible to conduct more civil online political discussions and continuously improve conversations over time.
Preservation for all: the future of government documents and the “digital FDL...James Jacobs
Preservation for all: the future of government documents and the “digital FDLP” puzzle. A presentation at the Ohio GODORT spring 2011 meeting (by invitation). Friday, June 3, 2011 at the State Library of Ohio.
Agenda:
library principles and best practices
case studies:
--Everyday Electronic Materials (EEMs) “Water droplets”
--Archive-it “Oceans”
--lockss-usdocs “Waterfalls”
--Collaboration: delicious, state agency databases “Reservoirs”
--reflection of projects based on principles
Libraries are evolving to become community centers that facilitate interactive computing, multimedia creation, and visualization tools for patrons. They are collaborating with indie publishers and encouraging local history archives and digital collections to be added. Libraries are also working to provide access to vast digital repositories and ensure long-term preservation of e-content through digital archives.
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.
This document discusses the emergence of digital humanities and cooperative research. It notes that digital humanities allows for more collaborative work between researchers through online accessibility of documents and data. This represents a significant change from the traditionally solitary nature of humanities work. The document also references challenges like copyright that can inhibit innovation in digital humanities. Overall, it advocates strengthening cooperative networks and open systems to take advantage of new opportunities in digital research.
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.
Libraries and media centers are no longer just places for quiet reading but are learning hubs that help students access both physical and online information. Librarians guide students to information through books or online sources and ensure all students feel comfortable, regardless of interests. While technology has changed how information is accessed and produced, libraries continue meeting students' research needs and providing spaces for both individual work and collaboration. The library of the future remains a vital destination for all types of information seekers.
Calhoun and Brenner: Engaging your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digita...ALATechSource
The document discusses engaging communities through cultural heritage digital libraries. It covers discoverability of digital libraries through integrated and decentralized methods. This includes getting attention on the web through links and metadata sharing. The document also discusses moving from static repositories to more social platforms that allow participation. Examples given include crowdsourcing content enrichment and participatory collection building. The goal is to shift focus from collections to opening knowledge creation and having chatty, unpredictable digital libraries through various engagement strategies.
Going social: the librarians bag of tricksBonaria Biancu
The document discusses the transition of libraries to Library 2.0 by embracing social media and web 2.0 technologies and principles. Key points include engaging users through social computing applications like blogs, wikis and podcasts; harnessing user participation and collaboration; and meeting users online through channels they use regularly like social networking sites and repositories. The goal for librarians is to have conversations with users through many platforms, gather and organize information for them, and share and remix content to better serve users in online spaces.
Libraries, research infrastructures and the digital humanities: are we ready ...Sally Chambers
This document discusses libraries and their potential role in supporting digital humanities research infrastructures. It describes how libraries could help manage data, serve as embedded librarians working directly with researchers, assist with digitization and curation efforts, and help with the discovery and dissemination of digital scholarship. The document emphasizes that libraries need to adopt a researcher-centric approach and form truly equitable collaborations in order to meaningfully contribute to digital humanities work.
This document discusses virtual libraries. It begins by defining a virtual library as an organized set of links to items on the network that enables users to find information elsewhere. It then discusses key aspects of virtual libraries including their purpose, features, functions, design and development. Some advantages are immediate access to resources not in physical collections and availability anywhere with an internet connection. Challenges include different interfaces for each product and limitations in coverage. Overall, the document provides an overview of virtual libraries, their advantages, and some challenges to their use.
This document provides an overview of digital humanities (DH), including brief definitions, a history of DH, examples of DH tools and projects, and recommendations for further reading. It describes DH as using digital technologies to enhance research in the humanities and explores new methods of scholarly communication. The history discusses early examples from the 1940s onwards and the rise of digital libraries and DH centers from the 1990s on. Tools highlighted include visualization, text analysis, GIS, and digital exhibits. Recommended resources give context to the role of libraries and provide examples of digital projects and tools.
The Role of the Library in a Digital WorldBobbi Newman
The document discusses the role of libraries in a digital world. It notes that the digital divide still exists, with many Americans lacking broadband access. Public libraries help bridge this divide, as over 77 million Americans used a library's computers and internet in 2009. The document also discusses the concept of digital literacy and the skills needed to find, evaluate and communicate information online. It argues that libraries can help develop these 21st century skills in patrons and promote inclusion in a digital society.
The document discusses the concept of a "living document" which aims to facilitate knowledge sharing and discovery on the semantic web. A living document would link concepts within documents to external resources and the community using the document. It would apply social tagging to document management to create a document-centric social network based on tags and semantic web technologies. This would allow harvesting collective intelligence to provide new insights and discoveries by computation and inference beyond the original data.
The document discusses the promise of web science as an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the world wide web. It outlines how perspectives of the web have evolved from a database to a digital library to a cognitive and socio-cognitive space. The need for web science is described to better understand, engineer, and ensure the social benefits of the evolving web. Key aspects of web science include building models of web phenomena through an observatory approach and taking both observational and engineering perspectives.
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.
This document discusses digital humanities, including its interdisciplinary nature, dynamic dialogue between emerging technologies and humanities research, and construction of "boundary objects" that have different meanings in different contexts but a common structure. It provides examples of digital humanities projects involving text analysis, metadata, and data visualization. It also addresses issues around humanities data sources, quantification, distant reading, and enrichment and interpretation of data.
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.
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/
Makerspaces: a great opportunity to enhance academic libraries, Stellenbosch...Fers
Makerspaces in academic libraries can enhance learning and collaboration. They provide tools and resources for students and faculty from all disciplines to create, invent, and learn practical skills. By supporting making and tinkering, libraries can help generate new knowledge and research in line with the mission of academic institutions. Recommended activities for an academic library makerspace include 3D printing, electronics, crafts, and hosting workshops on various making topics.
EP is the dissemination of Information in electronic format and its distribution to potential users either on electronic networks such as internet and Intranet or in stand-alone formats such as CD-ROMs and Diskette.
Synonym for EP is CAP (Computer Assisted Publishing)
Topic Maps: Romancing Conversation TopicsJack Park
1) The document discusses how to improve online political conversations through mapping topics of discussion.
2) Topic mapping involves representing important issues, perspectives, and their relationships as topics to help weave perspectives together and augment understanding of complex systems.
3) By recording conversations, mapping the topics and relationships discussed, and reflecting on them, it may be possible to conduct more civil online political discussions and continuously improve conversations over time.
Preservation for all: the future of government documents and the “digital FDL...James Jacobs
Preservation for all: the future of government documents and the “digital FDLP” puzzle. A presentation at the Ohio GODORT spring 2011 meeting (by invitation). Friday, June 3, 2011 at the State Library of Ohio.
Agenda:
library principles and best practices
case studies:
--Everyday Electronic Materials (EEMs) “Water droplets”
--Archive-it “Oceans”
--lockss-usdocs “Waterfalls”
--Collaboration: delicious, state agency databases “Reservoirs”
--reflection of projects based on principles
Libraries are evolving to become community centers that facilitate interactive computing, multimedia creation, and visualization tools for patrons. They are collaborating with indie publishers and encouraging local history archives and digital collections to be added. Libraries are also working to provide access to vast digital repositories and ensure long-term preservation of e-content through digital archives.
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.
This document discusses the emergence of digital humanities and cooperative research. It notes that digital humanities allows for more collaborative work between researchers through online accessibility of documents and data. This represents a significant change from the traditionally solitary nature of humanities work. The document also references challenges like copyright that can inhibit innovation in digital humanities. Overall, it advocates strengthening cooperative networks and open systems to take advantage of new opportunities in digital research.
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.
Libraries and media centers are no longer just places for quiet reading but are learning hubs that help students access both physical and online information. Librarians guide students to information through books or online sources and ensure all students feel comfortable, regardless of interests. While technology has changed how information is accessed and produced, libraries continue meeting students' research needs and providing spaces for both individual work and collaboration. The library of the future remains a vital destination for all types of information seekers.
Calhoun and Brenner: Engaging your Community Through Cultural Heritage Digita...ALATechSource
The document discusses engaging communities through cultural heritage digital libraries. It covers discoverability of digital libraries through integrated and decentralized methods. This includes getting attention on the web through links and metadata sharing. The document also discusses moving from static repositories to more social platforms that allow participation. Examples given include crowdsourcing content enrichment and participatory collection building. The goal is to shift focus from collections to opening knowledge creation and having chatty, unpredictable digital libraries through various engagement strategies.
Going social: the librarians bag of tricksBonaria Biancu
The document discusses the transition of libraries to Library 2.0 by embracing social media and web 2.0 technologies and principles. Key points include engaging users through social computing applications like blogs, wikis and podcasts; harnessing user participation and collaboration; and meeting users online through channels they use regularly like social networking sites and repositories. The goal for librarians is to have conversations with users through many platforms, gather and organize information for them, and share and remix content to better serve users in online spaces.
Libraries, research infrastructures and the digital humanities: are we ready ...Sally Chambers
This document discusses libraries and their potential role in supporting digital humanities research infrastructures. It describes how libraries could help manage data, serve as embedded librarians working directly with researchers, assist with digitization and curation efforts, and help with the discovery and dissemination of digital scholarship. The document emphasizes that libraries need to adopt a researcher-centric approach and form truly equitable collaborations in order to meaningfully contribute to digital humanities work.
This document discusses virtual libraries. It begins by defining a virtual library as an organized set of links to items on the network that enables users to find information elsewhere. It then discusses key aspects of virtual libraries including their purpose, features, functions, design and development. Some advantages are immediate access to resources not in physical collections and availability anywhere with an internet connection. Challenges include different interfaces for each product and limitations in coverage. Overall, the document provides an overview of virtual libraries, their advantages, and some challenges to their use.
This document provides an overview of digital humanities (DH), including brief definitions, a history of DH, examples of DH tools and projects, and recommendations for further reading. It describes DH as using digital technologies to enhance research in the humanities and explores new methods of scholarly communication. The history discusses early examples from the 1940s onwards and the rise of digital libraries and DH centers from the 1990s on. Tools highlighted include visualization, text analysis, GIS, and digital exhibits. Recommended resources give context to the role of libraries and provide examples of digital projects and tools.
The Role of the Library in a Digital WorldBobbi Newman
The document discusses the role of libraries in a digital world. It notes that the digital divide still exists, with many Americans lacking broadband access. Public libraries help bridge this divide, as over 77 million Americans used a library's computers and internet in 2009. The document also discusses the concept of digital literacy and the skills needed to find, evaluate and communicate information online. It argues that libraries can help develop these 21st century skills in patrons and promote inclusion in a digital society.
The document discusses the concept of a "living document" which aims to facilitate knowledge sharing and discovery on the semantic web. A living document would link concepts within documents to external resources and the community using the document. It would apply social tagging to document management to create a document-centric social network based on tags and semantic web technologies. This would allow harvesting collective intelligence to provide new insights and discoveries by computation and inference beyond the original data.
The document discusses the promise of web science as an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the world wide web. It outlines how perspectives of the web have evolved from a database to a digital library to a cognitive and socio-cognitive space. The need for web science is described to better understand, engineer, and ensure the social benefits of the evolving web. Key aspects of web science include building models of web phenomena through an observatory approach and taking both observational and engineering perspectives.
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.
This document discusses digital humanities, including its interdisciplinary nature, dynamic dialogue between emerging technologies and humanities research, and construction of "boundary objects" that have different meanings in different contexts but a common structure. It provides examples of digital humanities projects involving text analysis, metadata, and data visualization. It also addresses issues around humanities data sources, quantification, distant reading, and enrichment and interpretation of data.
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.
How to use science maps to navigate large information spaces? What is the lin...Andrea Scharnhorst
A. Scharnhorst (2016) Wie können Wissenschaftskarten zur Suche in grossen Informationsräumen eingesetzt werden? How to use science maps to navigate large information spaces? What is the link between science maps and predictive models of science? Invited lecture Fraunhofer-Institut für Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen, Euskirchen, Germany, December 7, 2016
Conceptual Organization And Retrieval Of Text By Historiansjgerber
The document discusses the challenges of organizing and retrieving documents and how human memory and metaphor can inform solutions. It summarizes a study interviewing historians about how they organize research materials physically and mentally. The study found historians rely on chronological, geographic and contextual details. The document proposes an online historical atlas project called Visible Past that spatially and temporally organizes information to enhance research and learning.
Presentation given at the HEA Social Sciences learning and teaching summit 'Exploring the implications of ‘the era of big data’ for learning and teaching'.
A blog post outlining the issues discussed at the summit is available via: http://bit.ly/1lCBUIB
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
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
A Case Study Protocol For Meta-Research Into Digital Practices In The HumanitiesJeff Brooks
This document presents a case study protocol for conducting meta-research on digital practices in the humanities. The protocol was developed by the Digital Methods and Practices Observatory working group to help researchers adopt this methodology across disciplines and approaches. The document discusses three pilot meta-research studies on digital practices that informed the protocol's development. It also provides several examples of how digital tools are being integrated into various stages of humanities research in uneven ways and highlights how research practices are unpredictable and assembled in response to specific project needs.
Locative Histories: exploring the continued influence of early Locative Media...Conor McGarrigle
Presentation for the Techno Ecologies panel at Media Art Histories 2013 conference Riga. Full paper to follow. More information here http://renew.rixc.lv/sessions/techno-ecologies.php?s=conor-mcgarrigle and conormcgarrigle.com
The document discusses various tools and techniques for working with datasets, including quick methods for analyzing and visualizing data using tools like OpenRefine, Google Earth, and R-Studio. It also covers building toolboxes and approaches for exploring data at different levels, from overviews to zooming in on specific details, as well as techniques for visualizing different data types and attributes using properties like node size, color, and proximity.
Science 2.0 refers to new practices in science that are supported by new tools. These practices involve broad, intense, and global participation in research through crowd-sourcing ideas and open debate. Mash-ups and language technology can play an important role by supporting networked collaboration and awareness through minimal representations of people, activities, topics and relationships. Recent advances in technology and practices provide new means for open, networked, and self-organized co-construction of knowledge in a Science 2.0.
Data Harmonisation for Ethical Collaborative Research:The ResearchSpace ProjectDominic Oldman
This document discusses the history of data harmonization efforts in museums from the 18th century to present day. It notes that early museum collections combined natural and artificial objects without strict categorization. In the 19th century, specialization led to division and silos within museums. Recent digital efforts have struggled with standardization and allowing different perspectives to coexist. The document advocates for a contextual approach to data harmonization using the CIDOC CRM to allow unique collections and viewpoints while also enabling interoperability and new research questions across institutions.
My keynote at the Ontologies Come of Age workshop at the International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn Germany. This workshop was named after a paper I wrote about a decade ago.
Lev Manovich.
How and why study big cultural data.
Presentation at Data Mining and Visualization for the Humanities symposium, NYU, March 19, 2012.
softwarestudies.com
Michael Mahoney discusses the rise of massive data from various sensors. He notes there are many types of sensors that generate large amounts of data, including physical, consumer, health, financial, internet, and astronomical sensors. While there are similarities between sensor applications, there are also differences in funding, customer demands, questions of interest, time sensitivity, and more. Analyzing massive data presents challenges due to its size, variability, and noise. New algorithms and statistical methods are needed to gain insights from these large and complex data sets. Mahoney advocates cross-disciplinary work to address the opportunities and difficulties presented by modern massive data.
This document discusses Europeana, a digital library that provides access to Europe's cultural heritage collections. It describes Europeana's vision of being a single access point to digital content from libraries, archives and museums across Europe. It also discusses linking Europeana data to external datasets using semantic web technologies like SKOS and Linked Open Data to enable new scholarly and eLearning applications by connecting related concepts and making new discoveries.
Describing Everything - Open Web standards and classificationDan Brickley
The document discusses the need for a hybrid approach to classification that combines traditional library classification systems with modern web technologies and standards. It proposes putting classification data on the open web so it can be more widely used and built upon. This will help drive innovation by making the data accessible to developers, designers and content creators.
(DIGITAL) HUMANITIES REVISITED –
Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age; CONFERENCE SUMMARY on the Herrenhäuser Konferenz organized by the VolkswagenStiftung
Similar to Macroscopes and Distant Reading: Implications for Infrastructures to Support Computational Humanities Scholarship (20)
Caring for Digital Collections in the AnthropoceneTrevor Owens
The craft of digital preservation and digital collections care is anchored in the past. It builds off the records, files, and works of those who came before us and those who designed and set up the systems that enable the creation, transmission, and rendering of their work. At the same time, the craft of digital preservation is also the work of a futurist. We must look to the past trends in the ebb and flow of the development of digital media and hedge our bets on how digital technologies of the future will play out. This talk explores key issues for exploring and imagining that future. We start with consideration of some key emerging technologies relevant to digital collections and then zoom out to consider the future of digital collections in the context of technologies of surveillance, precarity of both cultural heritage institutions and cultural heritage workers in the context of neoliberalism, and then explore the broad set of challenges facing the future of collections stemming from the increasing effects of anthropogenic climate change. Drawing on frameworks for maintenance, care, and repair this talk concludes with an opportunity to reflect on and consider how memory and information workers should approach the digital present and future of our institutions and professions.
Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation Lightning TalkTrevor Owens
I’m thrilled and honored to be a finalist for the Dutch Digital Heritage Network Award for Teaching and Communications for my book, The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation. This is particularly significant to me for two reasons. First, I started out on this book directly as a teaching and communications effort and second because the international digital preservation community that DPC supports and encourages has been so vital in helping me develop and refine the ideas in this book. For this talk, I’m going to give a little context of where the book came from, how it was developed, and the overwhelming response I’ve received for it all of which I think make it a good fit for this particular award.
Planning for Digital Preservation in OrganizationsTrevor Owens
This document outlines the key areas of digital preservation that were discussed at a 2019 workshop in Mexico City. The presenter used the Levels of Digital Preservation as an assessment tool to help understand the risks in each area of digital preservation, including storage, integrity, control, metadata, and content.
Make it Last: Principals for Digital Preservation and ConservationTrevor Owens
The document provides an overview of principles for digital preservation and conservation from a guest lecture given by Trevor Owens. It defines digital preservation as working to ensure enduring access to digital content. It then outlines 16 axioms of digital preservation, such as institutions being key enablers of long-term preservation and how digital preservation requires ongoing work and resources. It concludes with six practical steps anyone can take to start improving digital preservation efforts.
Testing Our Assumptions: The Centrality of Design Thinking and Scholarship fo...Trevor Owens
This document outlines an approach for the future of library practice that centers design thinking and scholarship. It argues that libraries are vital infrastructure for developing and disseminating knowledge and must grow and learn through dynamic applied research. The document recommends adopting user-centered design as a guiding framework, holistically mapping library ecosystems, developing a well-defined toolkit for projects, and using an iterative approach like Scrum. It also emphasizes considering values and impacts on the entire system level. Next steps include reframing work as places for experimentation, making design the focus of scholarship, including values in practice, and exploring Scrum for organizing teams.
We Have Interesting Problems: Some Applied Grand Challenges from Digital Libr...Trevor Owens
Libraries, Archives and Museums now have massive digital
holdings. There is tremendous potential for library and
information science, computer science and computer engineering
researchers to partner with cultural heritage institutions and
make our digital cultural record more useful and usable. In
particular, there is a significant need to bridge basic research in
areas such as computer vision, crowdsourcing, natural language
processing, multilingual OCR, and machine learning to make this
work directly usable in the practices of cultural heritage
institutions. In this talk, I discuss a series of exemplar projects,
largely funded through the Institute of Museum and Library
Services National Digital Platform initiative, that illustrate some
key principles for building applied research partnerships with
cultural heritage institutions. Building on Ben Schniderman’s
The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough
Collaborations, I focus specifically on why the public purpose
and missions of cultural heritage institutions are particularly
valuable in establishing new kinds of collaborations that can
simultaneously advance basic research and the ability for people
of the world to engage with their cultural record.
Start Today: Digital Stewardship Communities & CollaborationsTrevor Owens
The increasingly digital records of our communities and our organizations require all of us to become digital stewardship and digital preservation practitioners. The challenge seems daunting but the good news is we don’t have to do it alone. A distributed network of practitioners and learners across the country are increasingly finding ways to learn together and share and pool their resources to tackle these challenges and provide enduring access to our digital heritage. Owens’ talk will provide examples of how archivists are rising to the challenge and practical guidance for both digital preservation beginners and experts.
Scientists’ Hard Drives, Databases, and Blogs: Preservation Intent and Source...Trevor Owens
Carl Sagan’s WordPerfect files, simulations emailed to Edward Lorenz, a database application from the National Library of Medicine, a collection of science blogs, a database of interstellar distances; each of these digital artifacts have been acquired by archives and special collections. Born digital primary sources are no longer a future concern for archivists, librarians, curators and historians. As historians of science turn their attention to the late 20th and early 21st century, they will need to work from these born-digital primary sources. We have already accumulated a significant born digital past and it’s time for work with born digital primary sources to become mainstream. This presentation will give a quick tour of individual born digital artifacts toward two goals. First, I argue for the need for archivists, curators and librarians to reflexively develop approaches to establishing preservation intent for digital content grounded in a dialog with the nature of a given set of digital objects and it’s future research use. Second, for historians, I suggest how trends in computational analysis of information in the digital humanities should be combined with approaches from digital forensics and new media studies to establish historiographic practices for born-digital source criticism. I conclude by suggesting the kinds of technical skills archivists, librarians, curators and historians working with these materials are going to need to develop. Just as historians working with premodern documents require language and paleography skills, historians working with digital artefacts will increasingly need to understand the inscription processes of hard drives, the provenance created by web crawlers, and how to read relational databases of varying vintages.
Platform Thinking: Frameworks for a National Digital Platform State of MindTrevor Owens
Talk presented as a closing keynote to the Biodiversity Heritage Library's National Digital Stewardship Residency program meeting at the National Museum of Natural History. This talk reviews the National Digital Platform framework developed by US IMLS in collaboration with various library, archives and museum stakeholders and presents a series of additional conceptual frameworks on the role of software in society and psychology.
Digital Infrastructures that Embody Library Principles: The IMLS national dig...Trevor Owens
Digital library infrastructures must not simply work. They must also manifest the core principles of libraries and archives. Since 2014, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has engaged with stakeholders from diverse library communities to consider collaborative approaches to building digital library tools and services. The “national digital platform” for libraries, archives, and museums is the framework that resulted from these dialogs. One key feature of the national digital platform (NDP) is the anchoring of core library principles within the development of digital tools and services. This essay explores how NDP-funded projects enact library principles as part of the national framework.
The IMLS National Digital Platform & Your Library: Tools You Can UseTrevor Owens
As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. To this end, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is making substantial investments in developing collaborative and sustainable technical and social digital infrastructure for libraries through the National Digital Platform initiative. In this talk, you will learn about a series of digital tools, services, training opportunities and resources IMLS is funding through the National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The presentation will focus on ongoing projects and efforts that you and your library can get involved in and make direct use of. It will also provide insight into how you could develop competitive proposals for projects that could be funded through this national effort.
Next Steps for IMLS's National Digital PlatformTrevor Owens
This keynote, at the Upper Midwest Digital Collections Conference, provides and update on the National Digital Platform and 20 projects supported to enhance it. The national digital platform is a way of thinking about and approaching the digital capability and capacity of libraries across the US. In this sense, it is the combination of software applications, social and technical infrastructure, and staff expertise that provide library content and services to all users in the US. As libraries increasingly use digital infrastructure to provide access to digital content and resources, there are more and more opportunities for collaboration around the tools and services that they use to meet their users’ needs. It is possible for each library in the country to leverage and benefit from the work of other libraries in shared digital services, systems, and infrastructure.
We need to bridge gaps between disparate pieces of the existing digital infrastructure, for increased efficiencies, cost savings, access, and services. To this end, IMLS is focusing on the national digital platform as an area of priority in the National Leadership Grants to Libraries program and the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian program. We are eager to explore how this way of thinking and approaching infrastructure development can help states make the best use of the funds they receive through the Grants to States program. We’re also eager to work with other foundations and funders to maximize the impact of our federal investment
Next Steps for IMLS's National Digital PlatformTrevor Owens
This document summarizes projects funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) related to developing a National Digital Platform. It describes 7 projects improving open source digital library software tools and communities, 4 projects focused on scaling up shared services, 2 applied research projects related to collections at scale, and 3 projects aimed at improving access for all and inclusion. It provides brief descriptions and links to more information for each of the 20 projects. The overall goal is to expand the digital capability and capacity of libraries across the United States by prioritizing promising digital tools and services.
Digital Preservation's Role in the Future of the Digital HumanitiesTrevor Owens
Slides from an invited presentation I gave to the University of Pittsburgh's iSchool.
"Ensuring long term access to digital information sounds like a technical problem. It seems like digital preservation should be a computer science problem. Far from it. In this lecture Trevor Owens, a digital archivist at the Library of Congress argues that digital preservation is in fact a core problem and issue at the heart of the future of the digital humanities. Bringing together perspectives from the history of technology, new media studies, public history, and archival theory, he suggests the critical role that humanities scholars and practitioners should play in framing and shaping the collection, organization, description, and modes of access to the historically contingent digital material records of contemporary society."
Slides for an invited presentation I gave to the the National Archives and Records Administration’s Online Public Access (OPA) Integrated Product Team in College Park, MD in 2013.
This document discusses a student project to create a mobile game interpreting ruins and a glass house. It provides links to student blogs about the project. It includes screenshots from a prototype and discusses what elements of the project are significant - the student reports, storyboards, and reflections, rather than the app itself. It also discusses how meaning and significance can be found in artifacts and their documentation.
The document discusses Viewshare, a tool that allows users to dynamically interact with and understand digital cultural heritage collections by tapping into the temporal, locative, and categorical data within collections. Viewshare is used by librarians, archivists, curators, and researchers to better understand and expand access to their digital collections. It allows users to import, augment, build, and share visual displays and dynamic facets of collections for embedding and exposing as open data on websites.
ESPP presentation to EU Waste Water Network, 4th June 2024 “EU policies driving nutrient removal and recycling
and the revised UWWTD (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)”
What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
What are greenhouse gasses how they affect the earth and its environment what is the future of the environment and earth how the weather and the climate effects.
Current Ms word generated power point presentation covers major details about the micronuclei test. It's significance and assays to conduct it. It is used to detect the micronuclei formation inside the cells of nearly every multicellular organism. It's formation takes place during chromosomal sepration at metaphase.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
When I was asked to give a companion lecture in support of ‘The Philosophy of Science’ (https://shorturl.at/4pUXz) I decided not to walk through the detail of the many methodologies in order of use. Instead, I chose to employ a long standing, and ongoing, scientific development as an exemplar. And so, I chose the ever evolving story of Thermodynamics as a scientific investigation at its best.
Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
3. DISTANT READING
"Where distance is not an
obstacle, but a specific form of
knowledge: fewer elements,
hence a sharper sense of their
overall interconnection. Shapes,
relations, structures. Forms.
Models."
Moretti, Graphs, Maps and Trees: Abstract Models for Literary
History.
8. THREE CHALLENGES
1.Rights: Can you broadly provide bulk
access to works?
2.Scale: Can your infrastructure deliver bulk
exports? Is the material too large for
researchers to work with in their
environments?
3.Skills: Do your users have the skills to work
with data at the command line?
11. UNPACKING IMPLICATIONS
1.Whenever possible, move toward
providing bulk access to data.
2.Consider deriving intermediary or
transformative data products, like n-
grams
3. If no go on 1 & 2 explore
possibilities for analytic services
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Editor's Notes
As scholars become increasingly interested in approaching digital collections and digital objects as data for computational analysis it becomes critical for libraries, archives and museums to rethink some of their paradigms for providing access to materials. Two related concepts in emergent methodologies in the digital humanities, macroscopes and the notion of distant reading, provide a point of entry for identifying the requirements for digital library platforms to support this kind of scholarship.
Josh Greenberg of the Sloan foundation described the concept of macroscopes thusly, where “Telescopes let you see far, microscopes let you see small, a macroscope lets you see big and complex.” That is, it’s about zooming out to visualize and explore relationships and patterns in aggregates and networks.
Related, literary scholar Franco Morritti has famously coined the term “distant reading” to describe similar kinds of activities. In contrast to close reading, distant reading involves studying trends and patterns in things like graphs, maps and tree diagrams of features of texts. These two neologisms are part of a common trend, a push by scholars to make use of tools to explore and interpret patterns in wholes.
By and large, the web has been great for the item and the object in cultural heritage organizations. In hypermedia, every resource is the first resource; every item’s URL is potentially the front door to everything else. As far as Google’s search algorithms are concerned, the page for each of the individual thousand items in a collection is as important as the page about the collection they form part of. This non-hierarchical and rhizomic nature to the web, and much of digital media more broadly, has been a bit disconcerting to librarians an archivists long committed to the coherence of collections and the importance of the context of fonds.
To this end, the move to interest in macroscopes and distant reading provides a potential shift in approach to interpretation and analysis that could potentially better respect the value that comes from aggregates. That is, the parts in the whole of a particular archive or collection and their relationship to each other. Importantly, this makes it all the more critical that the structure and completeness of any given archive or collection is front and center for analysis. That is, the pattern in any distant reading of an archive is as much a map of relationships in the content as it is a map of the processes by which records were created, appraised, selected, and organized.
In the emerging literature on historians use of digital collections for data analysis a common theme is to try, as quickly as possible, to download data to take it away to use it in their own tools on their own systems. Ian Milligan, who works with web archives, has referred to this as “Looking for the big red button.” To this end, whenever possible, the best first step for systems to support this kind of scholarly use is to provide easy ways for someone to export aggregate data. With this noted, with particularly large sets of data or data which is limited to various kinds of use, it’s likely a good idea to provide smaller sample sets of data.
With this said, it is important to note that data dumps are not the bulk access silver bullet that one might hope for three reasons; rights, scale and the skills necessary to make use of them. In terms of rights, many collections, particularly of modern materials, come with rights restrictions that make it impossible to provide direct downloads of full content. In terms of scale, while it is possible to allow someone to download increasingly large scale sets of data it is still the case that there are aggregates of data that require significant resources to provide access to. Importantly, in many humanities cases this kind of analysis is still possible with scales that are modest in comparison to the requirements that scientists have for working with data sets. Lastly, there is a significant skills gap around the use of working with “raw” data. That is, of the possible field of users of a data set in the humanities there is a rather small community of them who have the necessary chops to work at the command line to iron out issues and process collection and object data into processable and computable information. With that said, there are a range of projects and initiatives ongoing focused on bootstrapping humanities scholars into the required competencies to do this kind of work. To this end, there are two other primary methods for working around these three limitations that I think are promising in a variety of ways.
Sandboxes & Multi-Purpose and Purpose Built Platforms: A tool like the Bookworm, the software that powers the Google Books N-Gram viewer, illustrates the potential for two related approaches to enable scholars with limited command line chops to engage in analysis of or the similar. Set up against the derived set of n-grams, a derivative data product created from the google books corpus which notes the frequency of sequences of words in the corpus of google books, the viewer lets a user search for terms and compare their relative frequency in a corpus over time. In this case, the production of a derivative data set, the n-grams, they have side stepped the rights issues that would have occurred if they had provided raw full text access to the underlying works. To this end, the n-grams can themselves be downloaded and used with other tools. Along with that, the Bookworm platform provides a way for scholars who do not have any command line expertise to make use of the data. There are a range of tools and platforms that I would put in this category, for example this is the kind of thing that the Hathi Trust Research Center is working to support. With this noted, it is important to recognize the limitations of these kinds of purpose built tools. In cases where one does not provide the data product underlying the tool there are clear limits to what scholars can do with the underlying data. Furthermore, the reason that google n-gram works is that considerable work was put into the preparation of the underlying dataset. In contrast, many digital collections are a bit of a mess, so it is likely that for a researcher to do sophisticated computational work with them there would be a need for them to engage in this kind of data cleanup and processing to get materials in a form fit for analysis.
Analysis as a Service and Onsite Research Facilities: Something like the National Software Reference Library, a project of the US National Institutes of Standards and Technology, models a third example of supporting this kind of computational work. The NSRL provides an onsite research environment where researchers can come in to engage in computational analysis of the tens of millions of files from commercial software in the collection. Staff in this research environment can also run algorithms created by researchers remotely and provide them with the outputs and results. In this case, with a collection of materials at an organization with particularly high concerns about limiting access to the corpus creating an onsite research space and setting up staff to run the jobs that researcher around the world create provides a solution that ensures that rights are protected while computational scholarship is enabled. In this case, the significant limitations is the resources required to stand up and staff such a research center and the fact that the process is much less immediate than the more direct ability to either manipulate some platform or interface on the web or to directly download data.
Whenever possible, move toward providing bulk access to data. That means, ideally, exploring ways to offer downloads of arbitrary aggregates of both metadata and digital objects. Given that some of these aggregates could be massive in size, it is likely best to explore ways to queue large requests up and use things like bit torrent as a way to limit the resources they would consume. Provide persistent identifiers for those aggregates to enable dataset citation.
Consider deriving intermediary or transformative data products, like n-grams, in cases where one cannot provide access directly to works and explore ways to create purpose built tools, like the google n-gram viewer, that can be deployed to enable exploratory analysis of intermediary products.
In cases with particularly thorny rights situations, consider establishing in house services whereby researchers can give you their algorithms and you run them against a corpora and provide the outputs back to them.