libraries, research infrastructures and the digital humanities: are we ready for the challenge?

Libraries, research infrastructures and the digital humanities: are

we ready for the challenge?

Sally Chambers

www.twitter.com/schambers3www.slideshare.net/schambers3

Libraries, research infrastructures and the digital humanities: are we redy for

the challenge?

Context...

A librarian ...

... working for a...

... in a...

Identity crisis?

or chance of a lifetime?

… are you ready for the challenge?

www.njlibraries.org/vid.mpeg

What are the humanities?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities

Wikipedia: ‘ancient and modern languages, literature, history, philosophy, religion, visual and performing arts’

What are the humanities?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities

Wikipedia: ‘the humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include history, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, law and linguistics’

What are the humanities?

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

Kings College: ‘to study the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities scholarship and, in collaboration with local, national and international research partners across the disciplines, to design and build applications which implement these possibilities, in particular those which produce online research publications’

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

www.ucl.ac.uk/dh-blog/2012/01/20/infographic-quantifying-digital-humanities/

UCL: ‘Digital Humanities research and teaching takes place at the intersection of digital technologies and humanities…’

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

www.gcdh.de/en/

GCDH: ‘Digital Humanities (DH) is an area of research, teaching, and development concerned with the intersection of computing and the various disciplines of the Humanities.’

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

www.dariah.eu

DARIAH-EU: ‘digitally-enabled research across the humanities and arts’

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

http://www.allc.org/publications/llc-journal-digital-scholarship-humanities

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist/

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

http://dh2013.unl.edu/

Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 1 Nov 2012Workshop proposal deadline: 15 Feb 2013

What are the (D)igital (H)umanities?

http://thatcamp.org/

Are their (digital) humanities in eScience?

What is infrastructure?

What is research infrastructure?

• Pan European Data Network for the European research and education community

http://thatcamp.org/

What is research infrastructure?

• secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community

www.eduroam.org

Data as research infrastructure?

Libraries as research infrastructure?

www.europeana-libraries.eu

The Web as research infrastructure?

Research infrastructures in Europe and beyond

http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=esfri

Humanities and Social Sciences Research Infrastructures

DARIAH on the ESFRI Roadmap

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH)

Countries participating in DARIAH

• Austria• Croatia• Denmark• France (Host Country)• Germany (Coordinator)• Greece• Ireland• The Netherlands (Coordinator)• Slovenia• Serbia

DARIAH Coordinating Institutions

Austria: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften andUniversity of ViennaCroatia: Institut Ruđer BoškovićDenmark: Århus UniversityFrance: Le Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueGermany: Niedersächsische Staats- und UniversitätsbibliothekGöttingenGreece: Academy of Athens - Research Centre for the Study ofModern Greek HistoryIreland: Trinity College DublinThe Netherlands: Data Archiving Networked ServicesSerbia: Center for Digital Humanities, BelgradeSlovenia: Institute of Contemporary History

Establishing a European Organisation

• DARIAH is being established as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC)

DARIAH-EU as an ‘Integrating Activity’

DARIAH-AT

DARIAH-HR

DARIAH-DK

DARIAH-FR

DARIAH-DE

DARIAH-GR

DARIAH-IE

DARIAH-NLDARIAH-SI

DARIAH-RS

Greater than the sum of the parts…

DARIAH Virtual Competency Centres (VCCs)

• To establish a shared technology platform for Arts and Humanities research

• To expose and share researcher's knowledge, methodologies and expertise

• To facilitate the exposure and sharing of scholarly content

• To interface with key influencers in and for the Arts and Humanities

DARIAH Virtual Competency Centres (VCCs)

• To establish a shared technology platform for Arts and Humanities research

• To expose and share researcher's knowledge, methodologies and expertise

• To facilitate the exposure and sharing of scholarly content

• To interface with key influencers in and for the Arts and Humanities

Isidore

www.rechercheisidore.fr

www.rechercheisidore.fr/sparql/www.rechercheisidore.fr/api/

Humanities and Social Sciences portal

www.openedition.org

Web publishing platform

www.revues.org

Academic blogs

http://hypotheses.org/

Humanities and social sciences events

http://calenda.org/

TextGrid

www.textgrid.de/en

Visualisation

http://dev2.dariah.eu/e4d

Digital Archaeology

Viewing platform of the Domus Severiana on the Palatine in Rome as in its construction phase in Flavian time (about 80 CE). Visualisation of the visual axis of the Domus Severiana over the city of Rome – German Archaeological Institute

http://dighumlab.dk/

DIGHUMLAB

http://netarkivet.dk/in-english/

http://www.netlab.dk

Web archive research

http://www.larm-archive.org/about-larm/

Sound and image tools

www.narcis.nl

NARCIS: Gateway to scholarly information in The Netherlands

Enhanced publications: ‘an Enhanced Publication is a new form of communication in science, where researchers make publications available online in conjunction with other material’

Enhanced publications: a doctoral thesis

www.narcis.nl

Enhanced publications: archaeological research

www.narcis.nl

Slovenian Digital Humanities portal

www.sidih.si

Low engagement from libraries…

http://liber.library.uu.nl/index.php/lq/article/view/8028/8387

Lossau: ‘Research libraries’ engagement with RIs (research infrastructures has been low’. (p134)

What is the role for libraries?

http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/23/does-the-library-have-a-role-to-play-in-the-digital-humanities/

Ben Showers: ‘exploring the evolving role of the library supporting researchers’

What is the role for libraries?

http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/23/does-the-library-have-a-role-to-play-in-the-digital-humanities/

Ben Showers: potential roles for libraries in the Digital Humanities:• Managing Data• As ‘Embedded Librarians’• Digitisation and Curation• Digital Preservation• Discovery and Dissemination

What is the role for libraries?

http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/02/23/does-the-library-have-a-role-to-play-in-the-digital-humanities/

Ben Showers: ‘a researcher-centric approach needs to be adopted’

What is the role for libraries?

http://miriamposner.com/blog/?p=1274

Miriam Posner:• The complexity of

collaborating with faculty• peculiar dynamics of this

kind of relationship• the project will suffer if

the relationship isn’t truly equitable

Alternative Academics #alt-ac

http://nowviskie.org/2011/a-skunk-in-the-library/

Nowviskie: librarians as ‘ handmaidens of scholarship, people with a calling – with a vocation to serve?’ or as ‘alternative academics?’ … ‘in true partnership with the digital humanities…’

Support or collaboration?

https://twitter.com/schambers3/status/248805681237458945

Lossau: ‘The success of the library is not when the librarians clap, but when the researchers do’

A DH and the library bibliography

http://miriamposner.com/blog/?page_id=1033

What do humanities researchers want?

1. Make it easy to use2. Make it easy to cite3. Put it in their workflow4. Provide clarity on objects and

processes5. Build a community6. Provide research support7. Make the information easily

reusable8. Offer ways to visualise

collections9. Think about linked data10. Provide a critical mass of contentEuropeana Libraries newsletter, July 2011

http://tinyurl.com/8rje85k

Understanding researcher needs

http://www.dariah.eu/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=477&Itemid=200

Understanding researcher needs

www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf

Understanding researcher needsBenardou, Agiatis; Constantopoulos, Panos; Dallas, Costis; Gavrilis, Dimitris,

A Conceptual Model for Scholarly Research Activity: https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/14945

Who to collaborate with?

Affiliated projects• EHRI, CENDARI, NeDiMAH

Sibling initiatives• BAMBOO, CLARIN, TEI

Cultural heritage initiatives• Europeana, DC-Net

Technological initiatives• EGI, EUDAT

Larger circle initiatives• APA, GRDI2020, OpenAIRE

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI)

www.ehri-project.eu

Colloborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI)

www.cendari.eu

Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH)

www.nedimah.eu

Themes:• Space and time• Visualisation• Linked data &

ontologies• Digital Data• Large-scale text• Scholarly digital editions

Project Bamboo

www.projectbamboo.org

OpenAIRE: Open Access Infrastructure for Europe

www.openaire.eu

Towards Europeana for Researchers

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Europeana ‘research’ Cloud will be developing tools, services and undertaking dissemination that establish closer links with research communities

Europeana for research use

1. To provide access, via Europeana, to 2.4m new metadata records and 5m research–focused digital items from across European universities, libraries, data centres and publishers.

2. To develop a digital platform, named Europeana Research, to discover and use European research content

3. Via this cloud, provide tools and services for researchers that permit innovative research that exploits digitised content in Europeana.

Assessing Researcher Needs in the Cloud and Ensuring Community Engagement

Agiatis Benardou (DCU – Athena RC), Costis Dallas (DCU – Athena RC),

Sally Chambers (DARIAH-EU)

To identify and define the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities that will be supported via the Europeana Cloud To identify and define the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities that will be supported via the Europeana Cloud

To develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

To develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

To improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in the Europeana Cloud

To improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in the Europeana Cloud

To actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishing user requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud To actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishing user requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud

Partnership

ATHENA Research Center (Athena RC) - WP Leader Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) Trinity College Dublin (TCD) National Library of Wales (NLW)

University of Gothenburg (UGOT)

LIBER – Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) The University Of Edinburgh (UEDIN) Consortium Of European Research Libraries (CERL) Europeana Foundation (EF)

DARIAH Virtual Competency Centres (VCCs)

• To establish a shared technology platform for Arts and Humanities research

• To expose and share researcher's knowledge, methodologies and expertise

• To facilitate the exposure and sharing of scholarly content

• To interface with key influencers in and for the Arts and Humanities

Emerging technologies?

Niels Brügger 2012

http://www.netlab.dk

The Web as a research resource

Niels Brügger ( 2012, forthcoming): ‘the tiresome task of finding documents in archives and libraries is now made possible with a mouse click overshadows that the very medium for this activity – the web, online as well as archived – is in itself a valuable and valid source to contemporary history’

Nano publications?

www.nanopub.org

‘A nanopublication is the smallest unit ofpublishable information: an assertion aboutanything that can be uniquely identified and

attibuted to its author. Individualnanopublications can be cited by others and

monitored for their impact on the community.’

www.nanopub.org

www.nanopub.org

Blanke, TobiasGerman

Evil in Philosophy

Humanities Nano Publication?

Get involved!

http://dh2013.unl.edu/

Paper/Poster/Panel deadline: 1 Nov 2012Workshop proposal deadline: 15 Feb 2013

Joining forces!

http://elag2013.org/

2nd DARIAH-EU General VCC meetingVienna, Austria, 28-30 November 2012

http://tinyurl.com/8mrjo6r

Digital Transformations Moot, 19 November 2012

www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Pages/Digital-Transformations-Moot.aspx

‘Moot’ is and old English word for a meeting of people where important matters are discussed. … to hack, to make, to break

Libraries: participating node in the scholarly research infrastructure

Karen Calhoun: ‘catalogue 2.0’ is not a catalogue at all, but a participating node (a repository) in a loosely connected, network-level scholarly research infrastructure’

(Van de Sompel et al. 2004) www.dlib.org/dlib/september04/vandesompel/09vandesompel.html

Sally Chambers: ‘libraries are a participating node in a loosely connected, network-level scholarly research infrastructure’ ??

Working together

Are you ready for the challenge?

www.njlibraries.org

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