Post on 17-Jul-2015
Digital content, VREs
(Virtual Research Environments)
and Communities of Practice
Dov WinerMAKASH – Advancing ICT Applications in
Education, Culture and Science
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* YIVO: The Power of Persuasion, Jewish Posters from Prewar Poland 1900-1939http://www.yivoinstitute.org/exhibits/posterfr.htm
~ millions of
digital objects
Mosaica Semantically Enhanced, Multifaceted, Collaborative
Access to Cultural Heritage
Athena
Judaica Europeana
Linked Heritage
DM2E Digital Manuscripts to Europeana
JudaicaLink
There are tangible benefits for humanities scholarship from the integration of
contents, communities of practice, and tools/infrastructures.
Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
Common Data Model / Who, What, When, Where
Tools and Infrastructure
VRE Virtual Research Environment
Communities of Practice
Outline
Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
Common Data Model / Who, What, When, Where
Tools and Infrastructure
VRE Virtual Research Environment
Communities of Practice
The scholarship work cycle
From S.Gradmann and J.C. Meister, Digital document and interpretation: re-thinking “text” and scholarship in electronic settings .
Poiesis & Praxis, V5 N2 (2008)
Scholarly PrimitivesScholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities
researchers have in common, and how might our
tools reflect this?
John UnsworthHumanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice
King’s College, London, May 13, 2000
Discovering Annotating
Comparing Referring
Sampling Illustrating
Representing
Unsworth primitive Bamboo theme of scholarly
practice
OCLC Scholarly Information Activity
Discovery Gathering / Foraging Searching (direct searching, chaining, browsing, probing,
accessing)
Sampling Synthesizing / Filtering Comparing Collecting (gathering, organizing)
Referring Contextualizing Searching (chaining, browsing, probing)
Collecting (organizing)
Cross-cutting (monitoring)
Illustrating
Representing
Comparing
Conceptualizing,
Refining and Critiquing
Reading (scanning, assessing, rereading)
Cross-cutting (note taking, translating)
Writing (assembling)
Collaborating (consulting)
Representing Documenting methods Writing (disseminating)
Cross-cutting (translating)
Discovering Referring
Representing
Managing data Searching (accessing)
Collecting (organizing)
Collaborating (coordinating, consulting)
Annotating Annotating /
documenting
Writing (assembling)
Cross-cutting (note taking)
Illustrating
Representing
Modelling / visualizing Cross-cutting (translating)
Writing (assembling)
Representing Overlapping teaching and research Collaborating (coordinating)
Cross-cutting (translating)
Representing Sharing / dissemination
/ publishing
Writing (disseminating)
Suggested parenthetically Funding No analogue
Common thread Collaborating Writing (co-authoring)
Collaborating (coordinating, networking, consulting)
Referring Citation, credit, peer-review Reading (assessing)
Writing (dissemination)
Collaborating (consulting)
OCLC: Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919
Project Bamboo Scholarly Practice Reporthttps://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/pbamboo/Project+Bamboo+Scholarly+Practice+Report
Scholarly primitives: Building institutional
infrastructure for humanities e-Science
Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges
King’s College London, Centre for e-Research
Future Generation Computer Systems 29 (2013) 654-661
Scholarly Information Practices in the Online
Environment
Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, Carrie M. Pirmannn
2009 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
OCLC Online Computer Library Center 2009http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919
Scholarly Primitives
Common Data Model for
Content Description
Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
Common Data Model / Who, What, When, Where
Tools and Infrastructure
VRE Virtual Research Environment
Communities of Practice
Linked Data: structured
data on the Web
David Woood
Marsha Zeidman
Luke Ruth
with
Michael Hausenblas
Manning Publications
MEAP 2013
The essence of RDF: the “triple”
Source: “The thirty minute guide to RDF and Linked Data”, by Ian Davis and Tom Heath
Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
The goals of the project
Linking and Populating the
Digital Humanities are to
create and maintain data
integration tools tailored to
digital humanities collections in
order to build a machine-
readable web of facts about
covered domains.
Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry
http://www.rujen.ru/
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
Rav Zeev Vagner
Josh Kopelman
Tools and Infrastructure
Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
Common Data Model / Who, What, When, Where
Tools and Infrastructure
VRE Virtual Research Environment
Communities of Practice
Scholarly services
Document Mapping;
Concordance; Collocation/Cloud;
Frequency; Morphological
Analysis; Syntactic Analysis;
Named Entity Identification;
Proxied SEASR Analytics
Outline
From JISC's VRE Programme – supporting collaborative research
Christopher Brown - JISC Digital Infrastructure Team
http://www.slideshare.net/chriscb/jisc-vreresearch-tools-presentation?from_search=2
From: Guus van den Brekel Central Medical Library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/virtual-research-networks-towards-research-20?from_search=1
Open system
input output
environment
environment
a viable system is that able to elaborate the inputs so as to build itself
and create value for the environment (outputs)
Distinction between Structural Elements
and Dynamic Core
Structural elementsInfrastructure
Technology
Management
Structure
Dynamic CoreHigh agreement on well defined goals
Congruency between participants and system’s
goals / benefit from the system operation
Good relations among participants
Uri Meri, Coping with crisis in organizations, communities and business,Tel aviv, Cherikower 1999
Mapping the Republic of Letters (Stanford)
http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/publications.html
Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17th-
century Dutch Republic
http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/
Linked Jazz
http://www.linkedjazz.org/52ndStreet/
RelFinder
http://www.visualdataweb.org/relfinder.php