Keeping Up to Date on Data Management - UC3 Data Curation WorkshopCarly Strasser
This document provides resources for staying up to date with data management. It lists toolboxes, blogs, and websites that provide information on data management plans and practices. It also recommends attending conferences, webinars, and following listservs and people on Twitter to learn about current issues and innovations in data management. Key organizations mentioned include UC3, IASSIST, CNI, and domain-specific conferences. Non-US resources include the Digital Curation Centre, Australian National Data Center, and Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
Built in the 19th century, rebuilt for the 21stRoderic Page
The document discusses several topics related to digitization of biological data collections:
1) It describes how databases like GenBank rely on both experimentalist and natural history traditions by collecting and comparing natural facts from experiments.
2) Debates around creating GenBank in 1982 illuminated different moral economies regarding collecting/sharing data and attributing credit.
3) Both experimentalism and natural history traditions have shaped new ways of producing knowledge in life sciences through articulating these approaches in databases.
Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities: some thoughts on what, why, and ...James Baker
Slides for a talk I gave at CHASE Digital Training Programme Opening Conference, Open University, 20 February 2015.
Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/a95f4cee472af0d1773f
This document discusses big data requirements and opportunities in the arts and humanities. It notes that there are large datasets available, such as the George W. Bush Presidential Library containing 200 million emails and 4 million photographs. Big data in the humanities includes text sources like book scans, images ranging from paintings to digital images, sound, maps, and complex datasets like 3D archaeological reconstructions. Issues include limited infrastructure, concerns over data provenance and accuracy, and methodological uncertainty. However, big data also provides opportunities to identify new problems, use new types of interactive data to ask different research questions, make non-canonical works more accessible, and create new interfaces through digital arts.
2013 DataCite Summer Meeting - Opening Keynote: A short history of the Higgs ...datacite
2013 DataCite Summer Meeting - Making Research better
DataCite. Co-sponsored by CODATA.
Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 13:00 - Friday, 20 September 2013 at 12:30
Washington, DC. National Academy of Sciences
http://datacite.eventbrite.co.uk/
Outbound Harvesting with Encore as a Library Space-Saving Strategy : The Cas...Christopher Brown
Brown, Christopher C. “Outbound Harvesting with Encore as a Library Space-Saving Strategy : The Case of HathiTrust Docs.” Presentation given at the Innovative Users Group at ALA Midwinter, 7 January 2011, San Diego, CA.
This document provides information about a town meeting hosted by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to discuss their Care for the Future theme. The meeting will include presentations on the theme's aims and large grant opportunities, as well as discussion sessions. The Care for the Future theme explores the relationship between past, present and future through a temporal lens. Background information is also provided on AHRC's strategic themes initiative and funding opportunities related to the Care for the Future theme.
Keeping Up to Date on Data Management - UC3 Data Curation WorkshopCarly Strasser
This document provides resources for staying up to date with data management. It lists toolboxes, blogs, and websites that provide information on data management plans and practices. It also recommends attending conferences, webinars, and following listservs and people on Twitter to learn about current issues and innovations in data management. Key organizations mentioned include UC3, IASSIST, CNI, and domain-specific conferences. Non-US resources include the Digital Curation Centre, Australian National Data Center, and Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
Built in the 19th century, rebuilt for the 21stRoderic Page
The document discusses several topics related to digitization of biological data collections:
1) It describes how databases like GenBank rely on both experimentalist and natural history traditions by collecting and comparing natural facts from experiments.
2) Debates around creating GenBank in 1982 illuminated different moral economies regarding collecting/sharing data and attributing credit.
3) Both experimentalism and natural history traditions have shaped new ways of producing knowledge in life sciences through articulating these approaches in databases.
Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities: some thoughts on what, why, and ...James Baker
Slides for a talk I gave at CHASE Digital Training Programme Opening Conference, Open University, 20 February 2015.
Notes: https://gist.github.com/drjwbaker/a95f4cee472af0d1773f
This document discusses big data requirements and opportunities in the arts and humanities. It notes that there are large datasets available, such as the George W. Bush Presidential Library containing 200 million emails and 4 million photographs. Big data in the humanities includes text sources like book scans, images ranging from paintings to digital images, sound, maps, and complex datasets like 3D archaeological reconstructions. Issues include limited infrastructure, concerns over data provenance and accuracy, and methodological uncertainty. However, big data also provides opportunities to identify new problems, use new types of interactive data to ask different research questions, make non-canonical works more accessible, and create new interfaces through digital arts.
2013 DataCite Summer Meeting - Opening Keynote: A short history of the Higgs ...datacite
2013 DataCite Summer Meeting - Making Research better
DataCite. Co-sponsored by CODATA.
Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 13:00 - Friday, 20 September 2013 at 12:30
Washington, DC. National Academy of Sciences
http://datacite.eventbrite.co.uk/
Outbound Harvesting with Encore as a Library Space-Saving Strategy : The Cas...Christopher Brown
Brown, Christopher C. “Outbound Harvesting with Encore as a Library Space-Saving Strategy : The Case of HathiTrust Docs.” Presentation given at the Innovative Users Group at ALA Midwinter, 7 January 2011, San Diego, CA.
This document provides information about a town meeting hosted by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to discuss their Care for the Future theme. The meeting will include presentations on the theme's aims and large grant opportunities, as well as discussion sessions. The Care for the Future theme explores the relationship between past, present and future through a temporal lens. Background information is also provided on AHRC's strategic themes initiative and funding opportunities related to the Care for the Future theme.
This document summarizes Dr. Abby Day's work as an AHRC Public Sector Placement Fellow with the British Council exploring how belief is translated across cultures. It discusses her belief framework developed through research, work applying this framework to understand transitions in Arab countries after the Arab Spring through ethnographic research and workshops in Egypt and the UK, and potential impacts on networks, academia, and the British Council's practices.
Tim Hitchcock discusses how big data from historical records can be used to analyze the past. He highlights several digital resources and projects that have digitized and connected historical court, geographic, and demographic records from sources like the Old Bailey and London Lives. These projects have developed tools and visualizations to analyze trends in topics like trial lengths, geographic distributions of crimes, and occurrences of terms over time. Connecting these diverse historical data sources allows for new insights and research.
Big data and audio-visual archives present opportunities and challenges for archive development. Bill Thompson, Head of Partnerships at an archive, discusses how the rise of big data requires archives to develop new strategies and technologies to manage larger collections of audio-visual materials and ensure continued access to content. Thompson also notes the importance of partnerships to help archives address these new demands through shared knowledge and resources.
This document outlines the key features and requirements for large grant proposals exploring the relationship between past, present, and future through the AHRC's "Care for the Future" theme. Proposals should be collaborative, ambitious in scale, and have the potential to make significant contributions to interdisciplinary research questions. They must engage partners outside of higher education and have strategies for knowledge exchange, public engagement, and developing early career researchers. Successful proposals will receive between £1-2 million and act as leaders and representatives within the theme.
This document provides the timetable and agenda for a Translating Cultures Development Workshop held at the Museum of London on July 12th 2012. The morning session from 10:30-12:15 will provide background and context on AHRC themes and Translating Cultures through presentations from various speakers. The afternoon session from 13:30-16:00 will explore the Translating Cultures theme through breakout sessions, feedback, and discussions with the Translating Cultures Advisory Group.
This document summarizes Graham Furniss' presentation on cultural translation and debate. The presentation discussed how values and their interpretations are constantly debated through encoding in evaluative processes. It noted that debate and contestation equally surround issues like polio vaccination and women's education in northern Nigeria. The presentation also explored how motivations, hopes and fears are always contested and changing within and between groups in society, and how they take on different implications as they move from personal narratives to various media forms. It briefly discussed how Boko Haram represented an extreme end of ongoing debates about what is permitted or forbidden in Islam and Hausa culture. It also summarized the rise of popular Hausa fiction since 1987 which has been the subject of widespread public debates about
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) provides various funding opportunities for arts and humanities research in the UK, including research grants, fellowships, networking grants, and doctoral training programs. The AHRC aims to promote and support world-class research and postgraduate training, strengthen the impact of research, and raise the profile of arts and humanities research. Eligible projects must define research questions and objectives, specify a research context, and identify appropriate research methods. Applicants must fully address the key features required for consideration.
This document provides guidance for writing successful grant proposals, particularly for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK. It emphasizes understanding the funding context, choosing the right program, and clearly communicating the proposed research in a concise yet informative manner. The proposal should demonstrate significance, methodology, and feasibility within the assessment criteria. Practice-led research proposals require articulating research questions, context, and methods, and showing how creative works relate to cultural issues. Understanding multiple perspectives of funders, reviewers, and panels is key to writing a competitive proposal.
The document provides guidance for writing successful grant applications. It outlines important tips such as reading all instructions and guidance documents, writing a clear and compelling proposal that establishes the significance and impact of the research, and understanding how the application will be assessed. Reviewers will evaluate the quality, importance, people, resources, outputs, dissemination, and impact, so applicants should address these areas and anticipate any questions. It is important to choose the right funding scheme and communicate the research argument succinctly and effectively.
The document provides guidance on writing a successful grant application for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK. It discusses several key areas to focus on, including carefully reading the application guidelines, getting feedback on the proposal, developing realistic costings, clearly outlining the research question and methodology, considering impact and dissemination plans, and ensuring the application is complete and adheres to formatting requirements. The document also reviews the application components, such as the case for support, CV, publications list, technical plan, justification of resources, and pathways to impact. Overall, the document aims to help applicants understand what makes a strong application that will have the best chance of receiving funding.
This document provides an overview of the AHRC Care for the Future theme. It discusses how the theme will explore relationships between past, present and future through concepts like memory, legacy, and progress. It identifies 5 sub-themes that will be examined, including questions of temporality and history, inter-generational issues, trauma and conflict, cultural notions of future, and environmental change. It outlines collaborations with other initiatives and future events like workshops and a major 2015 conference. Large grants of up to £2 million will fund ambitious, transdisciplinary projects building research capabilities.
The document summarizes a report on challenges for early career researchers (ECRs) pursuing academic careers in the arts and humanities. It finds that 92% of ECRs on fixed-term contracts expressed career concerns, compared to 60% on permanent contracts. ECRs felt short-term posts hindered skills development and publishing. While universities said they supported ECRs, ECR perceptions did not match this. The discussion focused on how subject associations and AHRC could help address issues like mentoring and networking to share experiences. Some initiatives provided resources for unemployed PhDs or supported early career historians.
Where do images fit in the era of ‘Big Data’?Farida Vis
This presentation makes an argument for a more central focus on images within social media research. It offers approaches and concrete examples from both 'Big data' and 'small data' perspectives. Presented at the Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities: Big Data Workshop, London, June 25 2013.
This document discusses the growing size of data in fields related to the arts and humanities. It notes that the Library of Congress represents 235 terabytes of data, while future projects like the Square Kilometre Array will generate petabytes and zettabytes of data per second. Cultural heritage institutions also deal with large amounts of data from digitized collections, archives, photographs, manuscripts, and more. While the size of this data poses challenges, it also creates opportunities for new forms of analysis and interpretation that can provide new insights. Big data approaches may be applicable to certain types of humanities data, such as sound archives, but predictive analytics may not always be appropriate.
The document provides information about various science search engines, portals, open access journals, and other science resources available on the web. It lists Scirus, ScientificCommons.org, Science.gov, NIST, NTIS, PLoS, BioMed Central, PubMed Central, and DOAJ as key science search engines and portals. It also mentions databases available through the Federal Government like AGRICOLA, PubMed, PubChem, Genome, OMIM, and NCBI Bookshelf that provide free access to scientific information.
Slides from keynote lecture by Andrew Prescott to the 7th Herrenhausen conference of the Volkswagen Foundation, 'Big Data in a Transdisciplinary Perspective'
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an organization that aims to digitize literature related to biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It provides details on BHL's structure, partners, efforts to digitize over 1.4 million pages of literature through mass scanning facilities, and development of tools to extract taxonomic and other scientific information from the literature. BHL's goal is to narrow the digital divide by providing access to biodiversity literature from over 250 years that is currently difficult to access.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History
The document discusses how digital technologies are transforming arts and humanities research through the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Digital Transformations strategic theme. The theme aims to explore the potential of digital tools, develop flagship digital research projects, and ensure arts and humanities contribute to issues like big data. The theme supports various types of digital research grants and fellowships. It also discusses how digital scholarship is less confined and more experimental, involving various media like images, sound, and visualization. Examples are given of digital projects analyzing political papers, tweets, metaphors, and more to demonstrate the changing nature of research.
Quantifying the impacts of investment in humanities archivesEric Meyer
Talk presented at the 2016 Charleston Conference looking at the impacts of EEBO (Early English Books Online), House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, and the New York Times.
This document summarizes Dr. Abby Day's work as an AHRC Public Sector Placement Fellow with the British Council exploring how belief is translated across cultures. It discusses her belief framework developed through research, work applying this framework to understand transitions in Arab countries after the Arab Spring through ethnographic research and workshops in Egypt and the UK, and potential impacts on networks, academia, and the British Council's practices.
Tim Hitchcock discusses how big data from historical records can be used to analyze the past. He highlights several digital resources and projects that have digitized and connected historical court, geographic, and demographic records from sources like the Old Bailey and London Lives. These projects have developed tools and visualizations to analyze trends in topics like trial lengths, geographic distributions of crimes, and occurrences of terms over time. Connecting these diverse historical data sources allows for new insights and research.
Big data and audio-visual archives present opportunities and challenges for archive development. Bill Thompson, Head of Partnerships at an archive, discusses how the rise of big data requires archives to develop new strategies and technologies to manage larger collections of audio-visual materials and ensure continued access to content. Thompson also notes the importance of partnerships to help archives address these new demands through shared knowledge and resources.
This document outlines the key features and requirements for large grant proposals exploring the relationship between past, present, and future through the AHRC's "Care for the Future" theme. Proposals should be collaborative, ambitious in scale, and have the potential to make significant contributions to interdisciplinary research questions. They must engage partners outside of higher education and have strategies for knowledge exchange, public engagement, and developing early career researchers. Successful proposals will receive between £1-2 million and act as leaders and representatives within the theme.
This document provides the timetable and agenda for a Translating Cultures Development Workshop held at the Museum of London on July 12th 2012. The morning session from 10:30-12:15 will provide background and context on AHRC themes and Translating Cultures through presentations from various speakers. The afternoon session from 13:30-16:00 will explore the Translating Cultures theme through breakout sessions, feedback, and discussions with the Translating Cultures Advisory Group.
This document summarizes Graham Furniss' presentation on cultural translation and debate. The presentation discussed how values and their interpretations are constantly debated through encoding in evaluative processes. It noted that debate and contestation equally surround issues like polio vaccination and women's education in northern Nigeria. The presentation also explored how motivations, hopes and fears are always contested and changing within and between groups in society, and how they take on different implications as they move from personal narratives to various media forms. It briefly discussed how Boko Haram represented an extreme end of ongoing debates about what is permitted or forbidden in Islam and Hausa culture. It also summarized the rise of popular Hausa fiction since 1987 which has been the subject of widespread public debates about
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) provides various funding opportunities for arts and humanities research in the UK, including research grants, fellowships, networking grants, and doctoral training programs. The AHRC aims to promote and support world-class research and postgraduate training, strengthen the impact of research, and raise the profile of arts and humanities research. Eligible projects must define research questions and objectives, specify a research context, and identify appropriate research methods. Applicants must fully address the key features required for consideration.
This document provides guidance for writing successful grant proposals, particularly for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK. It emphasizes understanding the funding context, choosing the right program, and clearly communicating the proposed research in a concise yet informative manner. The proposal should demonstrate significance, methodology, and feasibility within the assessment criteria. Practice-led research proposals require articulating research questions, context, and methods, and showing how creative works relate to cultural issues. Understanding multiple perspectives of funders, reviewers, and panels is key to writing a competitive proposal.
The document provides guidance for writing successful grant applications. It outlines important tips such as reading all instructions and guidance documents, writing a clear and compelling proposal that establishes the significance and impact of the research, and understanding how the application will be assessed. Reviewers will evaluate the quality, importance, people, resources, outputs, dissemination, and impact, so applicants should address these areas and anticipate any questions. It is important to choose the right funding scheme and communicate the research argument succinctly and effectively.
The document provides guidance on writing a successful grant application for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the UK. It discusses several key areas to focus on, including carefully reading the application guidelines, getting feedback on the proposal, developing realistic costings, clearly outlining the research question and methodology, considering impact and dissemination plans, and ensuring the application is complete and adheres to formatting requirements. The document also reviews the application components, such as the case for support, CV, publications list, technical plan, justification of resources, and pathways to impact. Overall, the document aims to help applicants understand what makes a strong application that will have the best chance of receiving funding.
This document provides an overview of the AHRC Care for the Future theme. It discusses how the theme will explore relationships between past, present and future through concepts like memory, legacy, and progress. It identifies 5 sub-themes that will be examined, including questions of temporality and history, inter-generational issues, trauma and conflict, cultural notions of future, and environmental change. It outlines collaborations with other initiatives and future events like workshops and a major 2015 conference. Large grants of up to £2 million will fund ambitious, transdisciplinary projects building research capabilities.
The document summarizes a report on challenges for early career researchers (ECRs) pursuing academic careers in the arts and humanities. It finds that 92% of ECRs on fixed-term contracts expressed career concerns, compared to 60% on permanent contracts. ECRs felt short-term posts hindered skills development and publishing. While universities said they supported ECRs, ECR perceptions did not match this. The discussion focused on how subject associations and AHRC could help address issues like mentoring and networking to share experiences. Some initiatives provided resources for unemployed PhDs or supported early career historians.
Where do images fit in the era of ‘Big Data’?Farida Vis
This presentation makes an argument for a more central focus on images within social media research. It offers approaches and concrete examples from both 'Big data' and 'small data' perspectives. Presented at the Digital Transformations in the Arts and Humanities: Big Data Workshop, London, June 25 2013.
This document discusses the growing size of data in fields related to the arts and humanities. It notes that the Library of Congress represents 235 terabytes of data, while future projects like the Square Kilometre Array will generate petabytes and zettabytes of data per second. Cultural heritage institutions also deal with large amounts of data from digitized collections, archives, photographs, manuscripts, and more. While the size of this data poses challenges, it also creates opportunities for new forms of analysis and interpretation that can provide new insights. Big data approaches may be applicable to certain types of humanities data, such as sound archives, but predictive analytics may not always be appropriate.
The document provides information about various science search engines, portals, open access journals, and other science resources available on the web. It lists Scirus, ScientificCommons.org, Science.gov, NIST, NTIS, PLoS, BioMed Central, PubMed Central, and DOAJ as key science search engines and portals. It also mentions databases available through the Federal Government like AGRICOLA, PubMed, PubChem, Genome, OMIM, and NCBI Bookshelf that provide free access to scientific information.
Slides from keynote lecture by Andrew Prescott to the 7th Herrenhausen conference of the Volkswagen Foundation, 'Big Data in a Transdisciplinary Perspective'
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an organization that aims to digitize literature related to biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It provides details on BHL's structure, partners, efforts to digitize over 1.4 million pages of literature through mass scanning facilities, and development of tools to extract taxonomic and other scientific information from the literature. BHL's goal is to narrow the digital divide by providing access to biodiversity literature from over 250 years that is currently difficult to access.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of LifeMartin Kalfatovic
Presentation at the Biodiversity Heritage Library @ Smithsonian Libraries event during ALA (June 25, 2007) held at the National Museum of Natural History
The document discusses how digital technologies are transforming arts and humanities research through the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Digital Transformations strategic theme. The theme aims to explore the potential of digital tools, develop flagship digital research projects, and ensure arts and humanities contribute to issues like big data. The theme supports various types of digital research grants and fellowships. It also discusses how digital scholarship is less confined and more experimental, involving various media like images, sound, and visualization. Examples are given of digital projects analyzing political papers, tweets, metaphors, and more to demonstrate the changing nature of research.
Quantifying the impacts of investment in humanities archivesEric Meyer
Talk presented at the 2016 Charleston Conference looking at the impacts of EEBO (Early English Books Online), House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, and the New York Times.
Dr. Johannes Keizer gave a presentation at the National Library of China on linked open data for science, culture, and society. He discussed how the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) aims to make the world's knowledge on food and agriculture available to all. Specifically, he described AGRIS, a global public domain database maintained by FAO with over 2.8 million bibliographic records on agricultural science. He advocated for libraries to publish their structured metadata as linked open data using common vocabularies to connect related datasets and information across domains.
ContentMine: Open Data and Social MachinesTheContentMine
Published on Nov 13, 2014 by PMR
Scientific information is often hidden or not published properly. The ContentMine is a Social Machine consisting of semantic software and communities of domain expertise; it aims to liberate all scientific facts from the published literature on a daily basis.
The talk , delivered to the Computational Institute, will be /was followed by a hands-on workshop learning how to use the technology and work as a community.
Leslie Johnston: Big Data at Libraries, Georgetown University Law School Symp...lljohnston
This document discusses the challenges of collecting and preserving large scale digital collections and datasets, known as "Big Data", and making them accessible and usable. It provides examples of big data collections at the Library of Congress, including digitized newspapers, audio/visual content, web archives, tweets, ebooks, and research datasets. Managing these collections at scale requires rethinking infrastructure for storage, processing, discovery, and access. Libraries must also consider new service models and researcher expectations around self-service access, analytical tools, and data analysis. While big data brings new challenges, it also enables new opportunities for research if libraries can address issues of infrastructure, policies, and public services.
This document discusses the concepts of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0. It provides examples of how libraries are adopting Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, and engaging users in more participatory ways. Examples mentioned include libraries that have implemented blogs, podcasts, tagging features for catalogues, and virtual libraries in Second Life. The document also discusses who the main users are of these new technologies, namely younger "millennial" generations who have high usage of social software and expect to access services anytime on any device.
This document summarizes research opportunities and themes in digital scholarship from the AHRC Digital Transformations Theme Leader Fellow. It outlines flagship activities to exemplify the possibilities of digital technologies in arts and humanities research, including fellowships, grants, and collaboration with institutions. It provides examples of digital scholarship projects involving textual analysis, visualization of data, digital archives, and more. It notes that digital scholarship now involves a wide variety of formats beyond text and requires new approaches as it is no longer confined to single disciplines.
Improving the troubled relationship between Scientists and Wikipedia Duncan Hull
This document discusses improving the relationship between scientists and Wikipedia. It notes that Wikipedia often lacks basic biographical information about notable scientists. A Wikipedian in Residence program was established at the Royal Society to address this issue through edit-a-thons and releasing portraits and data under open licenses. This led to improved coverage of Fellows of the Royal Society on Wikipedia. The document advocates for expanding such programs to other scientific organizations to increase representation of scientists on Wikipedia.
Extracting Data from Historical Documents: Crowdsourcing Annotations on Wikis...Gaurav Vaidya
This document discusses extracting data from historical documents through crowdsourcing annotations on Wikisource. It describes a project to digitize the field notebooks of Junius Henderson, a early 20th century curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Volunteers helped transcribe and annotate the notebooks by adding images, text, and metadata templates on Wikisource. This allowed the data within the notebooks to be extracted and linked to other online resources. The project demonstrates how small incremental steps over many years, like initial scanning and transcription efforts, enabled the fully digitized, annotated, and data-linked version of the notebooks.
Scientific information is often hidden or not published properly. The ContentMine is a Social Machine consisting of semantic software and communities of domain expertise; it aims to liberate all scientific facts from the published literature on a daily basis.
The talk , delivered to the Computational Institute, will be /was followed by a hands-on workshop learning how to use the technology and work as a community.
Presentation by R. David Lankes at the 2006 Charleston Conference. Describes how librarianship must evolve to adapt to massive scale computing and data.
Libraries Do Matter: Enhancing Traditional Services with Library 2.0St. Petersburg College
What is library 2.0? Should your library actually 'upgrade' from version 1.0 to 2.0? Is Library 3.0 on the horizon? Sit back and relax while Diana Sachs-Silveira and Chad Mairn answer these questions while unscrambling the hodgepodge of Web 2.0 lingo. Diana and Chad will introduce a variety of Web 2.0 concepts that have evolved into services like MySpace, Wikipedia, Del.ic.ious, Digg, Flickr, RSS, Second Life, Writely, and others and discuss how libraries can play a part in all of this.
Researching Freemasonry in a Time of Coronavirus: Resources and OpportunitiesAndrew Prescott
Slides from a talk by Andrew Prescott for the Open Lectures in Freemasonry, 25 April 2020, describing some of the online resources available for investigating the history of British freemasonry. For more information on the Open Lectures on Freemasonry, go to openlfm.org
The document discusses the relationship between artistic practice and archives. It provides examples of how artistic works have been inspired by and engaged with archive materials in novel ways, such as altering the performativity and visualization of archives. The document also explores how artistic practice can contribute to understanding the impact of new technologies on archives and foster new visions of archives' roles in society and culture. It examines issues around cooperation between archivists and artists and developing interdisciplinary work while respecting different practices.
While digital transformations are often portrayed as rapid and disruptive, the development of technologies like the internet and web were more gradual processes. Google succeeded not just due to its speed and reliability but because it made the web easier to understand by meeting users' expectations shaped by prior experiences with information retrieval tools that relied on structured data. However, a Google-style search is not well-suited for certain digital resources like archives that contain complex, dispersed information in various formats, raising questions about whether textual search strategies can adequately handle very large quantities of unstructured digital objects.
This document discusses several issues related to creating digital editions of texts and manuscripts. It questions whether existing digital editions simply translate traditional print editions to an online format or if they fully utilize the capabilities of digital technologies. It also discusses how analyzing "born digital" materials using distant reading approaches may influence how we view and edit older textual works. Finally, it provides examples of the massive scale of digital archives, like the 200 million emails of the George W. Bush White House.
What Happens When the Internet of Things Meets the Middle Ages?Andrew Prescott
Keynote lecture by Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow, to the second medieval materialities conference, 'Encountering the Material Medieval', University of St Andrews, 19-20 January 2017: https://medievalmaterialities.wordpress.com
This document summarizes Andrew Prescott's presentation on the future of medieval scholarship given at Quadrivium XI. It discusses how digital technologies are disrupting academic publishing and questions what defines an academic book. Prescott notes that the codex form is relatively new and that scholars should not privilege it over other text technologies. The summary explores how medieval texts existed in scrolls, single sheets, and codices, and how the boundaries between print and manuscript were fluid. It concludes by questioning whether modern scholarship faces a dystopian future of limited access to less rich digital content.
This document summarizes and analyzes an email from Sandra Cook at the Department of Education to various recipients forwarding a draft language minority proposal. The email includes the original message and attachments from Randy Hansen regarding the "Final draft of the Language Minority proposal" that was ready to be sent to Sally.
Digital humanities refers to the use of digital methods and tools in humanities fields like history, literature, and theology. It includes approaches from media studies to specialized computing. While early digital humanities focused on methods, this document will emphasize the challenges of humanities domains and explore human behavior and culture, which is complex, contradictory, and rich in layers of meaning. The humanities aims to explore these complexities without reaching definite conclusions.
This document discusses several manuscripts and early printed texts, highlighting how their content varied between copies due to corrections and changes made during the printing and copying process. It questions the thesis that printing led to greater textual fixity, noting many examples where printed texts also showed variations between copies. The implications are that technological changes like printing and digitization may not lead to sudden or complete transformations, but rather long-term development through ongoing adaptations and refinements of the technology.
This document discusses five tales related to the sustainability of digital information on the web. The first tale discusses how little of the early web from the 1990s survives today and the challenges of reconstructing that experience. The second tale discusses how technical problems are often unexpected and can be caused by non-technical issues like government shutdowns. The third tale examines what happens to digital resources when their creators are no longer actively maintaining them. The fourth tale warns about not fully understanding the algorithms or internal workings of tools like Google Ngram. The fifth tale discusses turning setbacks like software upgrades into opportunities for improvement with continued work. All the tales emphasize the need for open data standards and ongoing curation and intervention to help ensure the long-term accessibility
Doing the Digital: How Scholars Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ComputerAndrew Prescott
Slides from keynote presentation to Social Media Knowledge Exchange meeting on Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century, University of Cambridge, 4 June 2015. Examines my changing relationship to scholarly communication, current pressures and drivers, and likely future trends.
This document summarizes several emerging technologies being used in academic libraries in 2015. It describes projects using 3D imaging of historical manuscripts, interactive maps created with conductive ink, musical instruments that tell their own life story through recorded audio, and interactive life history books for elderly residents created with a tangible memories app. It also mentions projects using physical charts to display real-time data, marginalia machines to analyze archival materials, and 3D wearable library cards.
What are the Digital Humanities and what use are they to me?Andrew Prescott
The document discusses the definition and uses of digital humanities. It provides a definition from Willard McCarty from 1996 which states that digital humanities is an interdisciplinary field that applies computing tools to humanities data and uses computing in creating such data. It focuses on how computing assists humanities scholarship and teaching, theoretical problems from computing perspectives, and understanding and mechanizing scholarly processes. Digital humanities is manifested in teaching, research, and service. The document also discusses how digital humanities can be useful for scholars in contributing to the renegotiation of cultural records, and provides many examples of digital humanities projects across various humanities disciplines.
Digital Transformations: keynote talk to Listening Experience Database Sympos...Andrew Prescott
Discussion of AHRC Digital Transformations theme, followed by discussion of nature of digital disruption and change. Examples of transformative projects involving use of sound, as part of symposium organised by the Listening Experience Database: http://led.kmi.open.ac.uk
AHRC Digital Transformations theme: the Story So Far
Prescottbigdata
1. Professor Andrew Prescott, Theme Leader Fellow
AHRC Digital Transformations
Strategic Theme
Big Data: Some Initial Reflections
2. • The Met Office currently generates about 20TB of
data each day
• ‘The problems which confront the meteorologist
today will be faced by the humanities scholar within
ten years’
3. • Large Hadron Collider: 600 million ‘collision events’ per
second
• One million jobs run by servers each day, with over 10
GB of data per second transferred at peak times
• Approx. 20 petabytes of data produced annually
• Over 70 universities involved in processing the data
5. Whole brain imaging of neurone activity in a zebra fish, made using
light sheet microscopy by Misha Ahrens and neuroscientists at the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Each image comprises over 1
terabyte of data.
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KE9mVEimQVU
6. • Some working definitions of big data
• Big data exceeds the capacity of existing
desktop machines and networks: you need
help to deal with it
• Data that is so large that existing methods
of analysis simply don’t work: you have to
change your methodology (probably to
something quantitative)
• Gartner definition: “Big data” is high-
volume, -velocity and –variety information
assets that demand cost-effective,
innovative forms of information processing
for enhanced insight and decision making.
7. Examples of everyday big
data of research value
• Retail data generated by supermarkets
• Online retail data: Amazon
• Transport information: Oyster card
• Hospital data
• Data from utility companies
• Social media
8. Visualisation of languages used in tweets in London in
Summer 2012: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL:
http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2012/londons-twitter-tongues/
12. Letter of Gladstone to
Disraeli, 1878: British
Library, Add. MS. 44457, f.
166
The political and literary
papers of Gladstone
preserved in the British
Library comprise 762
volumes containing
approx. 160,000
documents.
13. George W. Bush Presidential Library:
200 million e-mails
4 million photographs
14. A Thousand Words: Advanced Visualisation in the
Humanities
Texas Advanced Computing Center
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOuJ2RwBTA
15. ‘Big data’ has already
been an issue for
linguists for many years
25. Some Big Data Issues
• Research has historically been hypothesis-
driven; is a more data-driven research
required?
• How valid are predictive and probabilistic
techniques in arts and humanities research?
• Data quality issues: do we lose a sense of the
context and stratigraphy of the data?
• Danger of thinking that data=truth
26. Digital Transformation theme and
Big Data
• Theme seeks to promote new research
methods: using digital tools and materials to
develop completely new type of scholarship
• Additional funding of £4m has been allocated
to work on big data
• Following this workshop, call for big data
projects will be issued
• Smaller projects (up to £100k)
• Larger projects (up to £600k)