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.
Presentation at the conference Ink to Cloud the European Correspondence of Jacob Burckhardt 9-12 April 2015 Il Palazzone Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Cortona IT entitled "Digital Content, VREs (Virtual Research Environments" and Communities of Practice by Dov Winer
Faculty center dh talk 2 s2016 pedagogical provocationsJennifer Dellner
A slideshow to accompany a talk about thinking about the digital humanities as pedagogy and as provocation to think about pedagogy and how we go about thinking about teaching and the aims of learning, the nature of knowledge, what administrators and "the real world" want, and cultural fantasies and expectations about the digital. Some slides are essentially files of links that I needed to access. Enjoy.
Presentation at the conference Ink to Cloud the European Correspondence of Jacob Burckhardt 9-12 April 2015 Il Palazzone Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Cortona IT entitled "Digital Content, VREs (Virtual Research Environments" and Communities of Practice by Dov Winer
Faculty center dh talk 2 s2016 pedagogical provocationsJennifer Dellner
A slideshow to accompany a talk about thinking about the digital humanities as pedagogy and as provocation to think about pedagogy and how we go about thinking about teaching and the aims of learning, the nature of knowledge, what administrators and "the real world" want, and cultural fantasies and expectations about the digital. Some slides are essentially files of links that I needed to access. Enjoy.
A talk delivered by Anne Trefethen at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015
The World of Digital Humanities : Digital Humanities in the WorldEdward Vanhoutte
Keynote lecture on the Cross Country/Faculty Workshop on Digital Humanities: Prospects and Proposals, North-West University Potchefstroomkampus, South-Africa, 13 November 2013
Information Architecture for Cross-channel ExperiencesLuca Rosati
Presentation at "Architecture de l'information - colloque international", Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon.
Abstract at http://archinfo.ens-lyon.fr/resume-l-rosati-168552.kjsp?RH=1333776895746
Biblissima and data modelling - EuropeanaTech 2015 ParisEquipex Biblissima
Présentation dans le cadre de "EuropeanaTech 2015 - Third parallel conference stream Data Modelling" (BnF, February 13 moderated by Emmanuelle Bermès), par Stefanie Gehrke (coordinatrice métadonnées, pool Biblissima) et Matthieu Bonicel (BnF, Coordinateur de l'Observatoire Biblissima)
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)
Where are the Digital Humanities in Israel today?
Sinai Rusinek, Polonsky Fellow, Van Leer Institute Jerusalem
pptx file of the presentation at the
EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture,
Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, 12-13 November 2013
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
Presentations available at: http://2013.minervaisrael.org.il
The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and serv...lisld
Libraries used to be vertically integrated around their collections. Buildings housed them; expertise was devoted to arranging and interpreting them; and services managed them and made them available. In a network environment place, expertise, collections and services come apart in various ways. They influence one another but have their own trajectory in relation to diversifying user behaviors and expections.
A talk delivered by Anne Trefethen at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015
The World of Digital Humanities : Digital Humanities in the WorldEdward Vanhoutte
Keynote lecture on the Cross Country/Faculty Workshop on Digital Humanities: Prospects and Proposals, North-West University Potchefstroomkampus, South-Africa, 13 November 2013
Information Architecture for Cross-channel ExperiencesLuca Rosati
Presentation at "Architecture de l'information - colloque international", Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon.
Abstract at http://archinfo.ens-lyon.fr/resume-l-rosati-168552.kjsp?RH=1333776895746
Biblissima and data modelling - EuropeanaTech 2015 ParisEquipex Biblissima
Présentation dans le cadre de "EuropeanaTech 2015 - Third parallel conference stream Data Modelling" (BnF, February 13 moderated by Emmanuelle Bermès), par Stefanie Gehrke (coordinatrice métadonnées, pool Biblissima) et Matthieu Bonicel (BnF, Coordinateur de l'Observatoire Biblissima)
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)
Where are the Digital Humanities in Israel today?
Sinai Rusinek, Polonsky Fellow, Van Leer Institute Jerusalem
pptx file of the presentation at the
EVA/Minerva Jerusalem International Conference on Digitisation of Culture,
Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, 12-13 November 2013
http://www.digital-heritage.org.il
Presentations available at: http://2013.minervaisrael.org.il
The network reconfigures the library: people and places, collections and serv...lisld
Libraries used to be vertically integrated around their collections. Buildings housed them; expertise was devoted to arranging and interpreting them; and services managed them and made them available. In a network environment place, expertise, collections and services come apart in various ways. They influence one another but have their own trajectory in relation to diversifying user behaviors and expections.
As university libraries everywhere digitize their collections and move their books to off-site storage, the University of Chicago is bucking the trend with the construction of the new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which will house over 3.5 million volumes. University of Chicago library director Judith Nadler reveals the vision, design, and logistics behind the Helmut Jahn–designed, state-of-the-art facility. She is joined by Randal C. Picker, law professor at University of Chicago, who considers the relationship between the physical book and its electronic version from a legal perspective. Together they discuss the library’s embrace of a digital future in which the commitment to the conservation of printed materials remains strong. Tours of Mansueto’s underground, mechanized book retrieval system are ticketed separately.
This presentation by Demmy Verbeke was part of the "Research Data Support Meets Disciplines: Opportunities & Challenges" workshop at LIBER's 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece. For more information, see www.libereurope.eu
Workshop jointly hosted by CARARE and Europeana which took place at the University of Leiden, Faculty of Archaeology on 14 June 2017. The theme of the workshop was Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana.
Digital cultural heritage as humanities data: a labs approachSally Chambers
This presentation was given on 17th April 2020 as part of a #DH Hangout (during the Corona Virus) instigated by Lancaster University Digital Humanities Hub and Co-Organised by the Ghent Centre of Digital Humanities and the Digital Humanities Lab (DH_Lab) associated with NOVA-FCSH of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
In 2006 a group of library and information studies academics and experts from three European universities – Oslo University College in Norway, Tallinn University in Estonia and the University of Parma in Italy - began talks and consultations to develop a Master programme to impart knowledge and skills in digital libraries. The outcome was the formation of the two-year International Master in Digital Library Learning (DILL) programme. After taking in the first batch of 18 students from 16 different countries across the world in 2007, DILL has continued to train different cohorts of varying numbers in the last decade. In this paper, I identify the various stages in DILL’s developmental process following a community of practice framework by (Wenger and Snyder, 2000). Data was drawn primarily from literature including the various DILL websites from the different consortia institutions, combined with a reflection of my own experience of the DILL programme and activities. My analysis of the DILL programme is mainly based on the activities of its first two years, as I was a member of the first batch of DILL students. However, my continuous association with key contacts in the programme also offered useful observations that provided data for this study. While DILL was planned to primarily provide education for the Digital Librarian new professional, specific details of the programme also offer extensive knowledge in other areas including understanding of innovative digital services, interactive digital exhibitions, gamification techniques (such as topic maps), etc. There was also understanding of skills in knowledge management and human resource management, which are still relevant for emerging trends in modern global education and digital information environment. The programme is rich with expert local professors and numerous visiting lecturers who made DILL a unique learning experience.
DILL programme is developing into a virtual community of experts who collaborate from various locations of the world to discuss and share ideas not only on digital library related issues, but also other issues that can enhance the development of members within the community and beyond. DILL provides a useful model for other disciplines where experts seek to collaborate to develop consortia programmes to advance knowledge in their area. The fast developing digital technologies and changing library and information studies environment have resulted in new competencies and skills required of modern digital librarians. As DILL steps into its second decade, the programme may be more effective if its curriculum content is targeted to evenly assess the professional knowledge, generic skills and specific personal competencies of today’s digital librarians.
Research libraries in a European e-science infrastructureLIBER Europe
Which role can research libraries in a European e-science infrastructure?
E-science and digital preservation are crucial parts of the 2009-2012 strategy of the European Research LIbraries. They offer great opportunities for research libraries for getting involved in the research and education environment from the very start of data creation. Digital Preservation should not be done for its own sake but as a way to valorise knowledge (use and re-use). We have to break the walls between all stakeholders in digital preservation (libraries, datacentres, researchers, publishers). Research institutes need librarians with a good understanding of modern research, with an ability to bring the library’s services into the researcher’s environment and integrate data sharing and curation in the researcher’s workflow. We need researchers with good understanding of information and curation matters.
Slide 2 - 66: Shaping innovatin in education with cultural heritage by Fred Truyen, Steven Stegers, Evita Tasiopoulou and Marco Neves
Slides 67 - 152: Multilingual access and machine translation by Andy Neale, Antoine Isaac, Pavel Kats, Alex Raginsky and Sergiu Gordea
Slides 155 - 164: How to implement the FAIR principles in digital culture by Sara Di Giorgio, Saskia Scheltjens and Makx Dekkers, Seamus Ross, Franco Niccolucci and Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra
Slide 166: EuropeanaTech Unconference by Clemens Neudecker
Electronic literature (e lit) in public librariesAlexandr Belov
This presentation investigates the methods and ways to facilitate electronic/digital/experimental literature in physical and digital rooms of public libraries.
Digital Humanities: Role of Librarians and Libraries. The use of digital evidence & methods digital authoring, publishing, digital curation and preservation, digital use and reuse of scholarship.
This ppt is mainly for library professionals and digital humanities cohorts
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3. Why the
Digital
Humanities?
(Spiro 2011;Vandegrift –Varner 2013)
1. Provide wide access to cultural information
2. Enhance teaching and learning
3. Transform scholarly communication
4. Make a public impact
5. Enable manipulation of data
7. R&D in
libraries
(Nowviskie 2013,
Nowviskie 2014)
“When a library can both support basic digital
scholarship needs through distributed services and
create a critical mass of staffing and intellectual energy
in something like a center (however conceived), it has
set the conditions for the advancement of knowledge
itself, through the fulfillment of research desires yet
unknown, un-expressed.”
(Nowviskie 2014)
10. Institutional
context
since November 2011: DHTask Force,Arts Faculty (vice dean of
research, faculty librarian, head of the faculty’s computer
department, research support officer of the faculty, and all
interested researchers)
2014: 3 new academic positions:Tenure track professor in DH
(Arts Faculty), Computer Science for DH (Department of
Computer Science), Human-Media Interaction (Institute for Media
Studies)
2015: Advanced Master in Digital Humanities
11. A library
supporting
DH
White paper “Digital Humanities en/in KU Leuven
bibliotheken“ of the Library Council of the Humanities
and Social Sciences Group
(February 2013)
intention to focus on:
digitisation projects
supporting relevant grant applications
partnering in DH projects, from inception to completion (and
beyond)
providing training in DH tools
playing an expert role in the field of scholarly communication
15. Project example
OCR/NER for
17th-, 18th-
and 19th-C
Dutch books
Funding:
SUpport action Centre for CompEtEnce in Digitisation (www.succeed-project.eu)
Team:
Digitisation services of University Library (Diewer van der Meijden, Mark
Verbrugge, BrunoVandermeulen)
LIBIS (Sam Alloing)
Arts Faculty Library (DemmyVerbeke)
Student workers (Jolien Berckmans, Els Meskens)
Support:
• INL (Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie)
16. KU Leuven
& succeed
goals
End goal:
integration of OCR in digitisation workflow at KU
Leuven
integration of NER in digitisation workflow at KU
Leuven
Specifically:
learn from digitising textual material with a view to OCR
(rather than as a representation of the book as physical
object)
understand OCR possibilities
learn how to enrich textual material with NER
develop workflows, identify infrastructure problems,
etc.
17. KU Leuven
& succeed
corpus
13 books from the pretiosa collection of the Gulden Librije:
- translations from Latin
- monolingual Dutch (so without Latin original)
- books with comparable, simple typefaces (no Gothic)
- books that have not been digitized yet
Augustinus, Stad Gods (1876-8); Augustinus, Belydenis (1741); Boëthius,
Vertroostinge der wysgeerte (1703); Horatius, Over de dichtkunst (1866);
Horatius, Hekeldichten en brieven (1728); Nepos, Leevens van doorlugtige
mannen (1796); Nepos, Leeven der doorluchtige veld-ooversten (1726);
Ovidius, Treur-digten (1814-5); Ovidius, Treur-gesangen (1692); Seneca,
Christelycke Seneca (1705);Tacitus, Vande ghedenkwaerdige geschiedenissen
der Romeinen (1645);Vergilius, Wercken (1737);Vergilius, Aeneis (1662)
18. KU Leuven
& succeed
tools
ABBY Finereader Engine SDK 11 – OCR
User PatternTrainer ofABBY Finereader – train OCR
IMPACT historical lexicon for Dutch, integrated as a FineReader external
dictionary – improve OCR
Aletheia – build ground truth
ocrevalUAtion – compare OCR results
NER tool for Europeana Newspapers – NER
NE AttestationTool – manually correct NER
NERT – build training & test set
19. Conclusion
“This is one of the great opportunity spaces that
the Digital Humanities opens up, giving
archivists, librarians, and curators a chance to
not simply enlarge but completely re-envision
their communities, publics, and missions.”
(Burdick et al. 2012, 48-49)
20. References
@viroviacum
demmy.verbeke@arts.kuleuven.be
Anne Burdick and others, Digital_Humanities (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012)
Christian Clausner, Stefan Pletschacher and ApostolosAntonacopoulos, ‘Efficient OCRTraining Data
Generation with Aletheia’, in Proceedings of the 11th International Association for Pattern Recognition
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William A. Kretzschmar and William Gray Potter, “Library Collaboration with Large Digital Humanities
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Ben Showers, “Does the Library Have a Role to Play in the Digital Humanities?,” 2012
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humanities>
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<http://digitalscholarship.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/dhglca-5.pdf>
MicahVandegrift and StewartVarner, “Evolving in Common: Creating Mutually Supportive Relationships
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