Dariah Advisory Board June 2009 Peter
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Towards a new research infrastructure for the arts and
humanities
Peter DoornDirector, Data Archiving and Networked Services
The Hague, June 30th, 2009
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What do humanities scholars have to do with digital research infrastructures?
Traditional image of the humanities scholar:
a loner in his study
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Ideas about the future may be false...
How Rand Corporation envisioned the future (2004) home computer in 1954
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The innovative scholar
Today’s scholars
Bookwheel, from Agostino Ramelli's "Le diverse et artifiose machine," 1588
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From humanities computing to e-Humanities
Roots go back to the 1960s:
text analysis, e.g. bible studiesquantitative social and economic historylinguisticsarchaeology
e-Humanities as analogy of e-Science:
‘science increasingly done through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet, using very large data collections, large-scale computing resources and high performance visualisation.’
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CLIWOC (Climate of the World Oceans)
Collaboration of historians and meteorologists
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Journal entry, 26-29 September 1758
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Shipping Routes 1750-1850
Courtesy of CLIWOC project, KNMI
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Wind direction and speed
Courtesy of CLIWOC project, KNMI
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Archaeology
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Data collection in the field
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Databases of finds
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Photos, GIS, sherds
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Electronic Depot Netherlands Archaeology (EDNA)
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Archaeological Data Service (UK)
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Digital Research data in the arts and humanities
Digital materials collected for research purposes, e.g.:
History: digitized archival sources such as population registers, shipping journals, historical censuses, judicial verdicts, medieval manuscripts
Archaeology: excavation data - field reports, databases of finds, photos of objects, digital maps of sites, drawings of shards
Linguistics: speech data, text corpora, video
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What does data look like?
Multitude of data types: data bases, spreadsheets, texts, audio, video, still images
Multitude of formats: since 1960s! From home-grown applications (legacy data) via standard software to open standards
Data is often coded or “enriched”: cannot be understood or used without ample documentation
Often: difficult to use without specific software
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Research Infrastructures (R.I.)
R.I. in general: permanent and physical
R.I. for the natural sciences: ice breakers for polar research, satellites, telescopes, particle accelerators, laboratories
R.I. for the humanities?• Cultural heritage in all forms is the main source of humanities
research• Libraries and archives are the traditional “laboratories” for the
humanities
In the digital age, essential for innovative humanities research is:
Access to digitised heritage data (data bases, text corpora, speech, image collections, etc.)
Tools to process this information
The most important new research infrastructure for the humanities is therefore a digital one
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ESFRI Roadmap
ESFRI = European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
First Roadmap launched in autumn 2006, update in 2008
About 30 proposals for large scale research facilities
Six proposals are in area of social sciences and humanities
DARIAH covers all arts and humanities
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Preparation Project: Overview of the Work Packages
1. Project management
2. Dissemination
3. Strategic work
4. Financial work
5. Governance and logistical work
6. Legal work
7. Technical reference architecture
8. Technical: Conceptual modelling
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DARIAH preparation project partners
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Aspiring Partners
Italy
Spain
Austria
Switzerland
Other prospective partners in:
Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway,
Serbia, FYROM
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Strategic, financial, organisational and legal objectives
Strategic:To determine the strategic vision, goals, objectives and policies for
DARIAH, ensuring they are based upon and will meet stakeholder requirements, clearly identified business drivers, and identified benefits for European research
Financial:To define a sustainable business model for DARIAH that allows for the
provision of long-term services to the European research community in the humanities, while ensuring adaptability to new user needs and new technological developments
Logistical:To deliver a business plan that describes the organisational set-up and the
management structure, the role of the institutions and persons involved (stakeholders, staff, experts, partners, expansion with new partners)
Legal:To determine the rights and obligations of different types of DARIAH
partners and allowing for the inclusion of new partners; draft licence agreements, products and services contracts;
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Technical and conceptual objectives
Architectural: To draft the technical reference architecture of DARIAH, consisting of draft engineering plans, as well as demonstrators for key enabling technologies.
Conceptual: Develop foundation of a coherent, interlinked, and collaboratively maintained virtual infrastructure of digital resources in the partner institutes. Model and evaluate the research processes in selected digital humanities disciplines.
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Relations to other projects and networks
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Preparing DARIAH: time schedule
2008 2009
May 2007Deadline Capacities call
ESFRI projectsQ3 2008
Agreement EC funding
Q4 2008Start “Preparing DARIAH”
20102007
October 2006Publication ESFRI
Roadmap December 2006
Publication relevant FP7 call
Q1 2010 DARIAH
conferenceQ1 2011
Start construction DARIAH
Financial Commitment?