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