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Open data in thearts and humanities

Jonathan [email protected] / @jwyg

Open Knowledge Foundationhttp://www.okfn.org / @okfn

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What?Why?How?

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What?

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'open data'?

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'data' :

any information published instructured, machine readable form

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For example?

Biographical dataLibrary/archive catalogue dataJournal index dataEncyclopedia dataDictionary/thesaurus dataGeospatial/temporal dataData on correspondence… and so on

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'open' :

free for anyone to reuse for anypurpose without restriction(see opendefinition.org)

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From legal uncertainty...

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… to legal clarity.

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Why?

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How might open data be of valuein arts and humanities disciplines?

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What do we mean byarts and humanities?

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No single common thread(only 'family resemblances')

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How can digital technologies aidresearch in the arts and humanities?

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Researchers are clever,computers are stupid

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Digital tools enable us to dosome things better...

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… but many things will be doneas they were before.

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What kinds of things couldnew digital tools help us to do better?

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Enabling large scale collaboration

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Mapping research/researchers

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For example:

What works have been publishedabout Giambattista Basile?

What was published on Schopenhauerin English between 1900-1950?

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Bibliographica:'Wordpress for bibliographies'

folktales.ed.ac.ukanamorphosis.kuleuven.be

novalis.hu-berlin.decriticallegalstudies.org/biblio

… and so on

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Mapping citations / influence

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Who read X?Who wrote about X?Who had a copy of a work by X?Who read someone who read X?Who borrowed a book by X?Who attended lectures on X?

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Historical data:

Library lending dataOld lecture listsExhibition cataloguesConcert programmesExtracting data from nachlässe

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Computer assisted analysis(text mining, contextualisation, ...)

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For example:

Uses of the word 'democracy' inBoston from 1800-1900?

Which 19th century writers allude toEdward Young in relation to debatesabout authorship and originality?(And where do they mention him?)

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For example:

When does Shakepeare first use theword 'football'?

Where does Nietzsche allude to anyof Emerson's essays?

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Scholarship that was previouslypossible but very laborious

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Representing complex informationin more intuitive ways

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For example:

Graphing relations/citations(e.g. who wrote to who?)

Information on maps/timelines(e.g. reception history of Faust)

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And so on ...

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Opening up data enables peopleto do interesting things with it

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Two metaphors:

Infrastructure(pipes, electricity, ...)

Raw material(soil...)

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How?

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1. Use and promote open licenses

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For example:

CC-BYCC-BY-SACC0OdbLPDDL… and so on

(see opendefinition.org/licenses)

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2. Make open datasets easy to find

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E.g. register open data on ckan.net

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3. Encourage others to open up

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4. Listen to what researchers want

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5. Tell people about your ideas

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Join our open-humanitiesmailing list:

http://bit.ly/open-humanitieshttp://lists.okfn.org

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Image creditsPierre Vivant's Traffic Light Tree by William WarbyThe Green Light by Ted PercivalPlumbing bits by cmurtaughCompost 06/08/2007 by suavehouse113Get excited and make things by Matt Jones

These slides are available under a Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike License. While most imagesare available under an open license (see above) some are used for illustrative purposes and rights may bereserved by their creators.


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