co-funded by the European Union

DM2E and Scholarly Activites

Putting Linked Library Data to Work

Vienna, 18 November 2014 Kristin Dill, Austrian National Library (ONB)

Outline

1. DM2E and Digital Humanities

2. Scholarly Domain Model

3. Scholarly Activities and Pundit

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Outline

1. DM2E and Digital Humanities

2. Scholarly Domain Model

3. Scholarly Activities and Pundit

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1. DM2E + DH: WP3

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1. DM2E + DH: WP3 Goal

DM2E is researching the scholarly practices in the humanities as well building tools that respond to the needs of scholars.

- http://dm2e.eu/digital-humanities/

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1. DM2E + DH: WP3 Tasks

Work Package 3

• Demonstrate added value of EDM

• Provide open source annotation tools

• Encourage learning and community uptake

• Identify functional primitives of the Digital Humanities

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1. DM2E + DH: WP3 Tasks

Work Package 3

• Demonstrate added value of EDM

• Provide open source annotation tools

• Encourage learning and community uptake

• Identify functional primitives of the Digital Humanities

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Outline

1. DM2E and Digital Humanities

2. Scholarly Domain Model

3. Scholarly Activities and Pundit

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2. SDM As Research Focus

“A research focus in DM2E is modelling of the scholarly domain, closely related to the user requirements gathering exercises that underpin the development of the DM2E Digital Humanities tools.”

- http://dm2e.eu/digital-humanities/

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2. SDM: What is it?

“The SDM is conceived as an explicit but not definite set of the entities and relations of the domain of digital scholarship in the humanities. We believe that modelling is the goal, not the model.”

- Gradmann et al, t.b.p.; cf. Thaller 2013

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2. SDM: Why?

● Going beyond infrastructure ● Building bridges between infrastructure and scholarly

practices ● Informing the work on digital tools for humanities

scholars - Addressing gaps in digital workflows - Where new/additional tools would be helpful - Recognising patterns in the behaviour of the

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2. SDM: Methodology

• Literature review – Unsworth 2000 – Palmer et al 2009 – Bamboo 2010

• Observing practices of digital scholarship – expert interviews – experiments using the Linked Data environment

• Digital Humanities Advisory Board

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2. SDM: DHAB http://dm2e.eu/dhab/

• Dirk Wintergrün

• Tobias Blanke

• Sally Chambers

• Alastair Dunning

• Stefan Gradmann

• Gerhard Lauer

• Alois Pichler

• Jürgen Renn

• Laurent Romary

• Felix Sasaki

• Susan Schreibman

• Claire Warwick Putting Linked Library Data to Work 18.11.2014

2. SDM: Layers of Abstraction

Types of

Areas Primitives Activities Operations abstract concrete

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2. SDM: Areas

Areas • Input • Output • Research • Documentation • Social Context

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2. SDM: Primitives

Scholarly Primitives (John Unsworth, 2000): I'm using the term "primitives" in a self-consciously analogical way, to refer to some basic functions common to scholarly activity across disciplines, over time, and independent of theoretical orientation. These "self-understood" functions form the basis for higher-level scholarly projects, arguments, statements, interpretations--in terms of our original, mathematical/philosophical analogy,

axioms.

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2. SDM: Primitives

Unsworth’s (2000) Primitives • Discovering • Annotating • Comparing • Referring • Sampling • Illustrating • Representing

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2. SDM: Primitives

SDM Primitives • Exploration • Interpretative Modelling • Aggregation • Augmentation • Externalisation

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2. SDM: Activites

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(direct) searching comparing illustrating

discovering or foraging synthesizing / filtering sharing

browsing sampling publishing

probing organizing notetaking

disseminating collecting assessing

chaining gathering assembling

monitoring referring / linking translating

reading annotating writing

conceptualizing, refining,

critiquing

selecting contextualizing

2. SDM: Activites

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(direct) searching comparing illustrating

discovering or foraging synthesizing / filtering sharing

browsing sampling publishing

probing organizing notetaking

disseminating collecting assessing

chaining gathering assembling

monitoring referring / linking translating

reading annotating writing

conceptualizing, refining,

critiquing

selecting contextualizing

2. SDM: Types of Operations

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• Activities viewed through the lens of a specific domain or task

• how people perform activities, in what order or combination and how tools and data are used

• patterns in the behaviour of the scholars

Outline

1. DM2E and Digital Humanities

2. Scholarly Domain Model

3. Scholarly Activities and Pundit

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3. Scholarly Activities: Pundit family of tools

• https://thepund.it/

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3. Scholarly Activities: Web Page Augmentation

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document

type

has date

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3. Scholarly Activities: Pundit

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http://www.wittgensteinsource.org/

3. Scholarly Activities: Pundit

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3. Scholarly Activites and Pundit

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• annotating

– notetaking

• referring/linking

• sharing

• comparing

• translating

• contextualisation

3. Scholarly Activities: Ask the Pundit

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3. Scholarly Activities: Ask

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• aggregation/gathering

• selection

• exploration

• direct searching

• discovering/foraging

• browsing

• collaboration

3. Scholarly Activities: Ask Faceted Browser

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3. Scholarly Activities: The faceted browser

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• searching

• discovering

• browsing

• visualisation

• re-aggregation

3. Pundit: Visualisation using EdgeMaps

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3. Scholarly Activities: Not addressed

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• coordinating or consulting

• crediting

• peer-review

• documentation

• sharing

• publishing

• disseminating

• conceptualizing/refining/critiquing

3. SDM Knowledge Representation

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Thank You!