This document introduces DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana), which aims to:
1. Provide digitized manuscript content to Europeana from various European institutions.
2. Build tools to aggregate this data and make it reusable and connected.
3. Develop tools to reuse Europeana's Linked Open Data in humanities research.
It discusses the linked data and scholarly primitives frameworks, and announces hands-on demonstrations of the Pundit annotation tool and a case study using DM2E tools to annotate Wittgenstein's works.
Converting One-Way Pedagogy to OneNote pedagogyUCLan TELT
This document discusses how OneNote can be used for pedagogy and assessment by allowing flexible teaching styles through organizing content, collaborating and sharing digitally. It provides quotes from students on benefits like having content in one place and easier collaboration. Examples are given of using OneNote for an escape room activity to test students' understanding in an engaging way. The benefits of escape rooms for assessment are outlined as testing students informally, engaging collaborative work, and allowing teachers to identify weaknesses.
The document discusses a project called "Multidisciplinary Flipped Learning with ICT" that took place from 2015-2017 in Poland and was funded by the European Commission; it introduces the flipped learning team from Adam Mickiewicz Junior High School no 30 in Łódź, Poland that participated in the project; and it briefly outlines some of the international projects the school and teachers have previously been involved in.
Konferences “Radošums. Radošs bibliotekārs radošā bibliotēkā” programmaBibliotēku portāls
This document provides the program for a two-day international conference called "Creative Librarian in Creative Library" that is being held in Latvia. Day one will take place at Latvia University and the Microsoft Innovation Centre, and will include welcome speeches, presentations on creative industries in Latvia and Norway, and a panel discussion on creativity in public libraries. Day two will be held at Riga Central Library and include a presentation on creativity at Riga Central Library and a workshop on generating ideas using the SCAMPER technique led by a project team member from Poland. The goal is to share experiences and best practices around creativity in libraries.
In-Service Course Graz 2014: VOICES - Integrated competences for European Te...heiko.vogl
This blended learning course consists of three parts. The first one will be an introductory approach to the main issues of the course; the participants will be required to log in the course area, filling in their profile, and analyse selected readings and prepare their essays before the face to face sessions. The second part of the course consists of 6 days face2face sessions with lectures, workshops, seminars, group work, cultural activities, school visits and international projects planning. Once completed, teachers - organised in international groups- will carry out a project in their own schools; these projects will be shared, analysed, described and written, including visual evidences. A selection of them will be edited in e-book format and uploaded to the webpage of European Teachers.
Application requirements
Understanding contexts of inter cultural collaboration - ver2cMavic Pineda
The document discusses contexts of intercultural collaboration through technology. It provides background on De La Salle University in the Philippines, including that it was established in 1911 and has 10 campuses in the Philippines and 7 outside the main island. The document also discusses theories that support collaboration, such as connectivism and communities of practice. It suggests that designing collaboration tools without borders can help overcome challenges like language barriers and cultural misunderstandings.
Humanists and Linked Data (Steffen Hennicke – Humboldt Universität) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
This document outlines the schedule for a 9-day forum on best practices for participation and e-participation. The forum includes presentations on tools for e-participation, workshops on engaging youth, and discussions on experiences with e-democracy. Participants will work in groups to develop recommendations and participate in a creative workshop to prepare a final theater performance to increase visibility of the project and encourage youth participation. The schedule details activities each day including discussions, debates, creative activities, and presentations to exchange knowledge and ideas around e-participation and civic engagement.
This document provides information about seminars being held from April to May 2010 in L'Aquila, Italy on using technology to enhance English language teaching. It lists the dates, times, titles and brief descriptions of four seminars that will discuss using Web 2.0 tools, wikis, and language corpora in the classroom to develop students' communication skills and explore new ways of integrating technology into English language instruction. Teachers are asked to confirm their participation in the seminars by email or fax.
Converting One-Way Pedagogy to OneNote pedagogyUCLan TELT
This document discusses how OneNote can be used for pedagogy and assessment by allowing flexible teaching styles through organizing content, collaborating and sharing digitally. It provides quotes from students on benefits like having content in one place and easier collaboration. Examples are given of using OneNote for an escape room activity to test students' understanding in an engaging way. The benefits of escape rooms for assessment are outlined as testing students informally, engaging collaborative work, and allowing teachers to identify weaknesses.
The document discusses a project called "Multidisciplinary Flipped Learning with ICT" that took place from 2015-2017 in Poland and was funded by the European Commission; it introduces the flipped learning team from Adam Mickiewicz Junior High School no 30 in Łódź, Poland that participated in the project; and it briefly outlines some of the international projects the school and teachers have previously been involved in.
Konferences “Radošums. Radošs bibliotekārs radošā bibliotēkā” programmaBibliotēku portāls
This document provides the program for a two-day international conference called "Creative Librarian in Creative Library" that is being held in Latvia. Day one will take place at Latvia University and the Microsoft Innovation Centre, and will include welcome speeches, presentations on creative industries in Latvia and Norway, and a panel discussion on creativity in public libraries. Day two will be held at Riga Central Library and include a presentation on creativity at Riga Central Library and a workshop on generating ideas using the SCAMPER technique led by a project team member from Poland. The goal is to share experiences and best practices around creativity in libraries.
In-Service Course Graz 2014: VOICES - Integrated competences for European Te...heiko.vogl
This blended learning course consists of three parts. The first one will be an introductory approach to the main issues of the course; the participants will be required to log in the course area, filling in their profile, and analyse selected readings and prepare their essays before the face to face sessions. The second part of the course consists of 6 days face2face sessions with lectures, workshops, seminars, group work, cultural activities, school visits and international projects planning. Once completed, teachers - organised in international groups- will carry out a project in their own schools; these projects will be shared, analysed, described and written, including visual evidences. A selection of them will be edited in e-book format and uploaded to the webpage of European Teachers.
Application requirements
Understanding contexts of inter cultural collaboration - ver2cMavic Pineda
The document discusses contexts of intercultural collaboration through technology. It provides background on De La Salle University in the Philippines, including that it was established in 1911 and has 10 campuses in the Philippines and 7 outside the main island. The document also discusses theories that support collaboration, such as connectivism and communities of practice. It suggests that designing collaboration tools without borders can help overcome challenges like language barriers and cultural misunderstandings.
Humanists and Linked Data (Steffen Hennicke – Humboldt Universität) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
This document outlines the schedule for a 9-day forum on best practices for participation and e-participation. The forum includes presentations on tools for e-participation, workshops on engaging youth, and discussions on experiences with e-democracy. Participants will work in groups to develop recommendations and participate in a creative workshop to prepare a final theater performance to increase visibility of the project and encourage youth participation. The schedule details activities each day including discussions, debates, creative activities, and presentations to exchange knowledge and ideas around e-participation and civic engagement.
This document provides information about seminars being held from April to May 2010 in L'Aquila, Italy on using technology to enhance English language teaching. It lists the dates, times, titles and brief descriptions of four seminars that will discuss using Web 2.0 tools, wikis, and language corpora in the classroom to develop students' communication skills and explore new ways of integrating technology into English language instruction. Teachers are asked to confirm their participation in the seminars by email or fax.
The document discusses sharing learning resources across contexts. It outlines a workshop on discovering "travel well" content. "Travel well" resources are those that can be reused by teachers in different countries. The workshop will cover what makes resources travel well and how they can be easily found and shared. Social tagging is presented as a way to help discover resources across language boundaries by creating links between similar content and users in different countries. The future vision is that novel discovery methods relying on social tagging could lead to better recommender systems and cross-language search of learning resources.
The opportunistic librarian (DH2014, Lausanne)Demmy Verbeke
The opportunistic librarian: A Leuven confession discusses the role of libraries in supporting digital humanities. It provides examples of how KU Leuven University Library supports digital humanities through projects involving digitization, text analysis, and more. The library aims to focus on digitization projects, grant support, collaborating in digital humanities projects, training, and its role in scholarly communication. This allows the library to reinvent its mission and better support research through new opportunities in digital humanities.
The document provides an update on the eQnet project, which aims to collect and validate online educational resources according to "Travel Well" criteria. It outlines the consortium members and timeline for the project. The project will collect 350 resources per partner according to the Travel Well criteria over three years. It will also validate the criteria and conduct quality assurance procedures. The document discusses progress made so far, including the initial resource collection, setting up a teacher network, and disseminating information about the project.
Atlanta presentation coil_rc_vm_hw_numberedwindleh
This document outlines a collaborative course between the European Humanities University in Belarus and SUNY Ulster in the US. The course focused on media and included an introductory unit on media 1.0 vs 2.0, a unit on the graphic novel Persepolis, and a final creative project. Instructors from both universities worked together to design the course content and assignments. Students provided feedback saying they appreciated learning about different cultures and political systems through the course and collaborative project.
Getting Started with Institutional Repositories and Open AccessAbby Clobridge
This document provides an overview and agenda for a conference on institutional repositories and open access. It discusses the history and purpose of institutional repositories and open access, including key definitions, events, and documents. It outlines the typical content in repositories and different repository systems. It also addresses stakeholders, challenges, and guiding principles for developing repository programs.
Epistemic Encounters: Interdisciplinary collaboration in developing virtual r...Smiljana Antonijevic
This document summarizes an interdisciplinary collaboration to develop virtual research environments (VREs). It discusses three projects: 1) Alfalab, which brought together linguists, historians, and IT experts to digitize texts, 2) the Text Lab, which developed tools for named entity recognition and transcription annotation, and 3) Digitizing Words of Power, a bottom-up project between historians, ethnologists, and IT experts. It notes challenges in connecting different epistemic cultures and methods. Fieldwork highlighted the need for open source, interoperable, and sustainable tools built around user practices rather than generic solutions. Future work should be driven by research questions and educate scholars in digital approaches while
Iolanda Pensa discusses the important role scholars can play in contributing to Wikipedia. Scholars can directly edit and improve Wikipedia articles related to their expertise, especially regarding content about Africa which is currently limited. They can also indirectly contribute by encouraging students to write and translate articles, working with academic journals to publish Wikipedia-related content, and sharing content under open licenses. Pensa draws on her experience with projects like WikiAfrica and Wikipedia Primary School that aim to increase and improve African content on Wikipedia. Scholars' contributions are valuable for making specialized knowledge more accessible and supporting further research.
The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and the OLnet initiative for supporting OER design. It provides an overview of OER and principles of open design. The OLnet tools aim to make the design of OERs more explicit, shareable, and collaborative. Workshop participants used CompendiumLD software to visually represent and redesign the pedagogical design of a Spanish OER to make it more collaborative. The goal is to build capacity for OER reuse through representation, discussion, and refinement of design issues.
Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional educational arrangement by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom and moves activities into the classroom, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework.
The workshop will familiarize teachers with the flipped model and will focus on ways to use diverse media to flip classroom and strengthen active, collaborative and personalized learning experiences according to students’ needs.
Presentation at the workshop "Using Media to Flip your Classroom" in the etwinning European Conference 2016 in Athens
DM2E Content (Doron Goldfarb – ONB Austrian National Library) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
This document discusses the development of flexible personal learning environments using netbook computers to enhance learning in fieldwork spaces. It provides examples of how personal learning environments can extend learning beyond the classroom by allowing students to access resources, tools, and other learners anywhere and anytime through their mobile devices. The document advocates for a student-centered pedagogical approach where students have control over their own learning and can actively participate in educational activities both inside and outside of the classroom.
The document summarizes information about the MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop. It provides details about the workshop location in Barcelona, tasks being presented, history and organization of MediaEval workshops, and thank yous to sponsors and organizers. Participants are welcomed and encouraged to present their work, discuss solutions, and plan future collaborations. Information is also provided about technical retreats, poster sessions, surveys, papers, and proposing new tasks for 2015.
What does the future of design for online learning look like? Emerging techno...George Veletsianos
These are the slides of an invited talk I gave at ICEM 2012. The session was described as follows: What will we observe if we take a long pause and examine the practice of online education today? What do emerging technologies, openness, Massive Open Online Courses, and digital scholarship tell us about the future that we are creating for learners, faculty members, and learning institutions? And what does entrepreneurial activity worldwide surrounding online education mean for the future of education and design? In this talk, I will discuss a number of emerging practices relating to online learning and online participation in a rapidly changing world and explain their implications for design practice. Emerging practices (e.g., open courses, researchers who blog, students who use social media to self-organize) can shape our teaching/learning practice and teaching/learning practice can shape these innovations. By examining, critiquing, and understanding these practices we will be able to understand potential futures for online learning and be better informed on how we can design effective and engaging online learning experiences. This talk will draw from my experiences and research on online learning, openness, and digital scholarship, and will present recent evidence detailing how researchers, learners, educators are creating, sharing, and negotiating knowledge and education online.
Developing a WERA International Research Network on Didactics - Learning and ...Brian Hudson
Introduction given to a workshop on developing a WERA International Research Network on Didactics - Learning and Teaching at the Scottish Education Research Association (SERA) conference in Edinburgh earlier today.
Designing and testing visual representations of draft essays for Higher Educa...Denise Whitelock
This presentation reports the findings of an empirical investigation which set out to test a set of rainbow exercises. The rainbow diagrams are pictorial representations of formal graphs that are derived automatically from student essays. They were designed to allow students to discover how key concepts in a well written essay are connected together. The students would then be able to compare a rainbow diagram of their own essay with a good essay and make changes to it before submission to their tutor. A trial was undertaken with academics, teaching and learning staff, doctoral students at The Open University of Catalonia and the Open University UK, before implementation into the web application known as OpenEssayist.
Reasoning with Reasoning, Semantic technologies for research in the humanities and social sciences (STRiX) Göteborg, 24 November 2014 Kristin Dill, Austrian National Library (ONB) Gerold Tschumpel, Steffen Hennicke, Christian Morbidoni, Klaus Thoden, Alois Pichler
The document discusses sharing learning resources across contexts. It outlines a workshop on discovering "travel well" content. "Travel well" resources are those that can be reused by teachers in different countries. The workshop will cover what makes resources travel well and how they can be easily found and shared. Social tagging is presented as a way to help discover resources across language boundaries by creating links between similar content and users in different countries. The future vision is that novel discovery methods relying on social tagging could lead to better recommender systems and cross-language search of learning resources.
The opportunistic librarian (DH2014, Lausanne)Demmy Verbeke
The opportunistic librarian: A Leuven confession discusses the role of libraries in supporting digital humanities. It provides examples of how KU Leuven University Library supports digital humanities through projects involving digitization, text analysis, and more. The library aims to focus on digitization projects, grant support, collaborating in digital humanities projects, training, and its role in scholarly communication. This allows the library to reinvent its mission and better support research through new opportunities in digital humanities.
The document provides an update on the eQnet project, which aims to collect and validate online educational resources according to "Travel Well" criteria. It outlines the consortium members and timeline for the project. The project will collect 350 resources per partner according to the Travel Well criteria over three years. It will also validate the criteria and conduct quality assurance procedures. The document discusses progress made so far, including the initial resource collection, setting up a teacher network, and disseminating information about the project.
Atlanta presentation coil_rc_vm_hw_numberedwindleh
This document outlines a collaborative course between the European Humanities University in Belarus and SUNY Ulster in the US. The course focused on media and included an introductory unit on media 1.0 vs 2.0, a unit on the graphic novel Persepolis, and a final creative project. Instructors from both universities worked together to design the course content and assignments. Students provided feedback saying they appreciated learning about different cultures and political systems through the course and collaborative project.
Getting Started with Institutional Repositories and Open AccessAbby Clobridge
This document provides an overview and agenda for a conference on institutional repositories and open access. It discusses the history and purpose of institutional repositories and open access, including key definitions, events, and documents. It outlines the typical content in repositories and different repository systems. It also addresses stakeholders, challenges, and guiding principles for developing repository programs.
Epistemic Encounters: Interdisciplinary collaboration in developing virtual r...Smiljana Antonijevic
This document summarizes an interdisciplinary collaboration to develop virtual research environments (VREs). It discusses three projects: 1) Alfalab, which brought together linguists, historians, and IT experts to digitize texts, 2) the Text Lab, which developed tools for named entity recognition and transcription annotation, and 3) Digitizing Words of Power, a bottom-up project between historians, ethnologists, and IT experts. It notes challenges in connecting different epistemic cultures and methods. Fieldwork highlighted the need for open source, interoperable, and sustainable tools built around user practices rather than generic solutions. Future work should be driven by research questions and educate scholars in digital approaches while
Iolanda Pensa discusses the important role scholars can play in contributing to Wikipedia. Scholars can directly edit and improve Wikipedia articles related to their expertise, especially regarding content about Africa which is currently limited. They can also indirectly contribute by encouraging students to write and translate articles, working with academic journals to publish Wikipedia-related content, and sharing content under open licenses. Pensa draws on her experience with projects like WikiAfrica and Wikipedia Primary School that aim to increase and improve African content on Wikipedia. Scholars' contributions are valuable for making specialized knowledge more accessible and supporting further research.
The document discusses open educational resources (OER) and the OLnet initiative for supporting OER design. It provides an overview of OER and principles of open design. The OLnet tools aim to make the design of OERs more explicit, shareable, and collaborative. Workshop participants used CompendiumLD software to visually represent and redesign the pedagogical design of a Spanish OER to make it more collaborative. The goal is to build capacity for OER reuse through representation, discussion, and refinement of design issues.
Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional educational arrangement by delivering instructional content, often online, outside of the classroom and moves activities into the classroom, including those that may have traditionally been considered homework.
The workshop will familiarize teachers with the flipped model and will focus on ways to use diverse media to flip classroom and strengthen active, collaborative and personalized learning experiences according to students’ needs.
Presentation at the workshop "Using Media to Flip your Classroom" in the etwinning European Conference 2016 in Athens
DM2E Content (Doron Goldfarb – ONB Austrian National Library) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
This document discusses the development of flexible personal learning environments using netbook computers to enhance learning in fieldwork spaces. It provides examples of how personal learning environments can extend learning beyond the classroom by allowing students to access resources, tools, and other learners anywhere and anytime through their mobile devices. The document advocates for a student-centered pedagogical approach where students have control over their own learning and can actively participate in educational activities both inside and outside of the classroom.
The document summarizes information about the MediaEval 2014 Multimedia Benchmark Workshop. It provides details about the workshop location in Barcelona, tasks being presented, history and organization of MediaEval workshops, and thank yous to sponsors and organizers. Participants are welcomed and encouraged to present their work, discuss solutions, and plan future collaborations. Information is also provided about technical retreats, poster sessions, surveys, papers, and proposing new tasks for 2015.
What does the future of design for online learning look like? Emerging techno...George Veletsianos
These are the slides of an invited talk I gave at ICEM 2012. The session was described as follows: What will we observe if we take a long pause and examine the practice of online education today? What do emerging technologies, openness, Massive Open Online Courses, and digital scholarship tell us about the future that we are creating for learners, faculty members, and learning institutions? And what does entrepreneurial activity worldwide surrounding online education mean for the future of education and design? In this talk, I will discuss a number of emerging practices relating to online learning and online participation in a rapidly changing world and explain their implications for design practice. Emerging practices (e.g., open courses, researchers who blog, students who use social media to self-organize) can shape our teaching/learning practice and teaching/learning practice can shape these innovations. By examining, critiquing, and understanding these practices we will be able to understand potential futures for online learning and be better informed on how we can design effective and engaging online learning experiences. This talk will draw from my experiences and research on online learning, openness, and digital scholarship, and will present recent evidence detailing how researchers, learners, educators are creating, sharing, and negotiating knowledge and education online.
Developing a WERA International Research Network on Didactics - Learning and ...Brian Hudson
Introduction given to a workshop on developing a WERA International Research Network on Didactics - Learning and Teaching at the Scottish Education Research Association (SERA) conference in Edinburgh earlier today.
Designing and testing visual representations of draft essays for Higher Educa...Denise Whitelock
This presentation reports the findings of an empirical investigation which set out to test a set of rainbow exercises. The rainbow diagrams are pictorial representations of formal graphs that are derived automatically from student essays. They were designed to allow students to discover how key concepts in a well written essay are connected together. The students would then be able to compare a rainbow diagram of their own essay with a good essay and make changes to it before submission to their tutor. A trial was undertaken with academics, teaching and learning staff, doctoral students at The Open University of Catalonia and the Open University UK, before implementation into the web application known as OpenEssayist.
Reasoning with Reasoning, Semantic technologies for research in the humanities and social sciences (STRiX) Göteborg, 24 November 2014 Kristin Dill, Austrian National Library (ONB) Gerold Tschumpel, Steffen Hennicke, Christian Morbidoni, Klaus Thoden, Alois Pichler
The document summarizes the tasks and results of Work Package 1 (WP1) of the DM2E project. Key points include:
- WP1 involved collecting metadata formats and requirements, testing interfaces for mapping and linking content, and setting up test scenarios for the prototype platform.
- Final content integration took longer than expected due to complex data modeling, issues mapping content, and Europeana's policy changes. Not all promised content was delivered.
- User testing found that interfaces were useful for basic tasks but complex work was done "under the hood". Guidelines were created to represent metadata and define annotatable content.
- While not all content goals were met, over 19 million pages were delivered, with
DM2E Community building (Lieke Ploeger – Open Knowledge) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
Open Humanities Awards DM2E track: finderapp WITTfind (Maximilian Hadersbeck – LMU University of Munich) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
Open Humanities Awards Open track: SEA CHANGE (Rainer Simon – AIT Austrian Institute of Technology) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
DM2E Linked Data for Digital Scholars (with talks by Christian Morbidoni – Università Politecnica delle Marche / Net7, Steffen Hennicke – Humboldt Universität and Alessio Piccioli – Net7)
DM2E Interoperability infrastructure (Kai Eckert – University of Mannheim) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
Open Humanities Awards Open track: Early Modern European Peace Treaties Online (Michael Piotrowski – IEG Leibniz Institute of European History) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
Europeana and the relevance of the DM2E results (Antoine Isaac – Europeana) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
Keynote : Beyond DM2E: towards sustainable digital services for humanities research communities in Europe? (Sally Chambers – DARIAH-EU, Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities) at Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event (11 December 2014, Navacchio, Italy)
Welcome and short introduction to DM2E (Violeta Trkulja – Humboldt University) - Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event
Susanne Müller, EUROCORR project: Burckhardtsource - Presentation given at DM2E event 'Putting Linked Library Data to Work: the DM2E Showcase' (18 Nov 2014, ONB, Vienna)
1. The DM2E project aggregates metadata and content about digitized manuscripts from several European libraries and archives.
2. It develops an interoperability infrastructure using the Europeana Data Model and a DM2E extension to integrate heterogeneous metadata into a linked open data cloud.
3. The project also builds digital humanities applications like Pundit to showcase the usefulness of linked open data for research.
Marko Knepper, University Library Frankfurt am Main: From Library Data to Linked Open Data - Presentation given at DM2E event 'Putting Linked Library Data to Work: the DM2E Showcase' (18 Nov 2014, ONB, Vienna)
The document discusses a project called DM2E that is researching scholarly practices in the humanities and building digital humanities tools. It focuses on the Scholarly Domain Model (SDM) that DM2E is using to model the entities and relationships of the digital scholarship domain. The SDM identifies areas, primitives, activities, and operations of scholarly work. It also describes the Pundit suite of tools for annotating, linking, comparing, and visualizing scholarly sources that were developed based on the SDM.
Bernhard Haslhofer, AIT / Open Knowledge Austria and Lieke Ploeger, Open Knowledge: The value of open data and the OpenGLAM network - Presentation given at DM2E event 'Putting Linked Library Data to Work: the DM2E Showcase' (18 Nov 2014, ONB, Vienna)
The document discusses an evaluation of metadata usage and distribution in a linked data environment. It analyzes datasets from different institutions that mapped manuscript metadata to the Europeana Data Model (EDM) and a DM2E model. The evaluation aims to discover similarities and differences between datasets from different mapping institutions. It finds variations in usage of classes, properties, ontologies, and structural metrics like predicate-object-equality-ratio. The conclusion is that linked data quality assurance is important and people have a strong influence on metadata mapping.
1. @DM2Europeana
Introduction to DM2E (Digitised
Manuscripts to Europeana)
Sam Leon
(Open Knowledge Foundation)
Eva Minerva 2012
2. Lower the barriers for humanities
scholars to re-use digital heritage
in their teaching and research
Eva Minerva 2012
3. Division of labour
1. Provide data and digital content to
Europeana with a focus on digitised
manuscripts
2. Build tools for the aggregation of this data
and content so that it can be re-used and
connected
3. Develop tools for the re-use of Europeana
Linked Data in humanities research contexts
Eva Minerva 2012
4. Content providers
• European Association for Jewish Culture (Judaica)
• Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (ECHO)
• Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Google)
• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Kalliope)
• University of Bergen (Wittgenstein)
• CNRS ITEM (Nietzsche)
• National Library of Israel (Judaica)
• Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie (German Text Archive)
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Polytechnisches Journal)
Eva Minerva 2012
7. Linked Data & RDF
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
– Conceptualizes information as web-resources identified by a URI
– Models information as statements about resources in the form of
triples (subject – predicate – object)
– RDF makes meaningful connections between resources very easy
Eva Minerva 2012
8. Linked Open Data
• Allow teachers, students and researchers to
explore the connections others make
between works, authors and collections
• Lower the barrier to entry for others to build
the tools that will define 21st century
scholarship
Eva Minerva 2012
10. Beyond infrastructure
“Research infrastructure is not research just as roads are not
economic activity. We tend to forget when confronted by large
infrastructure projects that they are not an end in themselves.
[...] Infrastructure projects can become ends in themselves by
developing into an industry that promotes continued
investment. To sustain infrastructure there develops a class of
people whose jobs are tied to infrastructure investment.”
Rockwell, 2010
Eva Minerva 2012
11. also wrote
authored by
refers to held by
a theory of language
Eva Minerva 2012
12. Scholarly primitives
• "Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers
have in common, and how might our tools reflect this?” – John
Unsworth, 2000
• Unsworth’s scholarly primitives:
– discovering
– annotating
– comparing
– referring
– sampling
– illustrating
– representing
• Professor Stefan Gradmann co-authoring a paper with the DM2E
Digital Humanities Advisory Board developing this set of primitives
to further model the scholarly domain
Eva Minerva 2012
15. Pundit Demo
Hands-on Pundit demo 15:45-17:00 in the
Auditorium with Christian Morbidonni (Net7)
Eva Minerva 2012
16. Wittgenstein Case Study
10 scholars from the University
of Bergen using DM2E tools to
annotate and curate
Wittgenstein’s Brown Book
Feedback in to further
development of the
platform
Eva Minerva 2012
17. Useful Links
• http://dm2e.eu
• http://thepund.it
• Follow @DM2Europeana
• Get in touch email sam.leon@okfn.org
Eva Minerva 2012
Editor's Notes
Introduction Project Manager at the Open Knowledge FoundationTwitter @DM2EuropeanaTwitter @OKFNAn NGO founded in 2004 to promote information sharing especially between government’s and their citizens but also working with GLAMs to promote accessAlongside my colleagues here from JudaiciaEuropeana, the National Library of Israel, JudaicaEuropeana and the Staatsbibliotek in Berlin we are part of a three-year EC project called DM2E* So DM2E - like many technology projects, it's an acronym - unpacked = Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana - a fitting project for the annual conference on digitisation* But it is important to recognise the DM2E is not a digitisation project per se, while it has a multitude of content partners providing digitised manuscripts the focus of DM2E is the provision of tools to enable re-use of this material in scholarly environments* As was very forcefully remarked during yesterday’s Museum Track the true advantage of the digital is that it promotes access, a sentiment to which I wholly concur, not only as a representative of the DM2E project but also as representative of the Open Knowledge Foundation an organisation founded to promote digital access be it to government data or cultural resources.* But DM2E is about taking the digital access movement beyond just making things digital and making things available online - DM2E aims at making digital heritage available in a form and in tandem the tools that will actually enable re-use of that digital content
In a nut-shell
In what follows I will look at the three main areas of work that currently going on in DM2ERoughly speaking these break up as follows
First to content provision. We are proud to have such a distinguished set of CH institutions providing openly licensed data and content all of which will eventually be integrated in to Europeana.Among them are institutions present here the National Library of Israel, Thorsten from the Staatsbibliotek in Berlin
For those who don’t know Europeana is the closest thing we have to a European digital libraryThere are over 20 million records of objects thereAround 2000 data and content providersVast dataset – metadata more reliable and richer than other existing aggregation portals Internet ArchiveIt has the potential to make our European cultural heritage more discoverable and better connected
* Digital, online is not enough – we need to address the technical challenge – we need the data to be available in the right form so that it can be re-used but we need the tools that are capable of re-using it.Tim Berners Lee founder of the world wide web recognised this – it is not just about making data available online, but making it availible online in a form that maximises the potential for re-useWithout going into too much detail this involves two primary things – idnentifying things in your dataset with URIs and linking them to other collections – the best way to achieve this is through storing your data as Linked Open Data
* The fantastic news is that the smart people at Europeana have acknowledged this and are currently ptomotyping a Linked Data version of their portalDM2E is part of the next generation of Europeana projects that utilize this exciting technologyMore specifically they use a serialisation of Linked Data called RDF that conceptualises information as web resources indetified by a URI and stores information as statements called triplesTalk through example of Mona LisaWhy is RDF important, why is it important for DM2E which aims to lower the barriers to the re-use of cultural heritage material in the humanities?It is important for two main reasons:It facilitates the linking that Tim Berners Lee characterised as the 5-star, the top-grade, of Linked Open Data as it wereSecondly, RDF is very expressive, it approximates to a human language, and it allows you to capture the thought processes of those interacting with digital heritageScholarly methods and interactions with texts and images can be captured in RDFA scholars annotation of a given piece of text can be captured in RDF linking that very section of text, to a concept and perhaps another web resourceBefore I go into that in more detail, I would like to point out one further thing about the work being done as part of DM2E
It is open all metadata submitted as part of DM2E conforms to the Data Exchange AgreementWhy is this important?2 reasons… read slideThink about the release of open data by the London Mayor – hundreds of navigation appsWe want the energy that goes into developing the tools for interacting with music and film into apps like Spotfy and Netlfix to go into the development of tools for use within research – opening data up is one way to do this
Having spoken now about the content provision to DM2E and the need to aggregate this as Linked Open Data I want to look at what I identified as the third and final part of the work being undertaken as part of DM2E – the building of tools for schoalrly communities for the re-use of Linked Open DataThe primary goal being to enableresearchers to do what they’ve done for milleniaand do things they’venever done before
Fundamental to this is the idea that we’re not as part of DM2E just trying to build infrastructure, we’re actually trying to build something that will directly lead to an improvement to research and is not just technology as an end in itselfWe want to understand the existing methods of scholars and support and enrich them in close consultation with themOn the screen is a quote often referred to by Professor Stefan Gradmann the Project Coordinator of DM2E and goes to the heart of what we are doing…
In the spirit of this, let me take an example close to my heartAs an MA student I was an avid reader and admirer of the work of Ludwig WittgensteinWhat are the kinds of things I might have said in my thesis or a paper I was preparing for publication?In the course of my work on this given section of text I’ve done a number of things I’ve compared, I’ve referred to work and authors, and the likelihood is that I’ve also annotated
Capturing these different kinds of activity is something that researchers within the Digital Humaniteis have been working on for some timeIn many ways this work begins with John Unsowrth’s seminal paper called schoalrlyprimtivesThere he listed the key primitives that most scholarly methods have in common in an attempt to improve tools that were being made for scholarsVery much in this line Professor Stefan Gradmann and the DM2E Advisory Board are preparing a paper for publication in 2013 that will elaborate on Unsworth’s work for to enumerate these activities and further model the scholarly domain is the first step to going beyond infrastructure or technology for the sake of technology as these primtives will be be the basisBut you’ll be pleased to hearthat the DM2E team has not simply modeled the scholarly domain it has made the ifrrst steps to building the tools that respond to these primitives utilising the expressivity of RDF triples to capture scholarly work
The tool is Pundit developed by the brilliant team at Net7 led by my colleague Christian MorbidonniIn a nut-shell, Pundit is an open-source semantic annotation tool that can be used in your browserMore importantly Pundit is the tool through which I could capture the thought processes I outlined in my Wittgenstein illustration in the form of RDF annotationsMore than this Pundit is the tool that would enable me to share the annotations that I created on a given workYou might think that this was not so exceptional in my case?But what if, these tools were adopted by the wider scholarly community think about the richness of the links that would be created between web resourcesThis tapestry of annotations and web resources could become the lifeblood of scholarly debate, allowing the student or researcher to survey the connections made between all previous works, with easy access to all the resources required at little to no cost allowing them in turn to build on this knowledge.A process that has of course been going on for many centuries in the humanities, but one that can be enriched tremedously and made easier by Linked Open Data tools like Pundit.
But what of the things scholars haven’t been doing for years, surely we want to innovate and find the technologies that will take us beyond the methodologies of yesterdayWhat is exciting is that we already see the Pundit team making steps in this directionEdgeMaps is a visualisation engine and when combined with Linked Data annotations made in Pundit you can generate some startling graphsPerhaps you want to visualise assertions of inluence made by various authors – with a wide enough group, you could generate interesting and unexpected results perhaps being able to identify clusters or connections between authors that would have been impossible or at least very difficult to discover using conventional reading methologies alone in a human life time
I will leave the disucssion of Pundit there…
As a way of wrapping up I’ll hint at one of the most exciting next steps in the DM2E projectReport at Digital Humanities 2013