Digital research resources:inter-linking & integration

Fine Rolls of Henry III: WorkshopFine Rolls of Henry III: WorkshopKingKing’’s College London, 2 July 2007s College London, 2 July 2007

Arianna Ciula & Harold ShortCentre for Computing in the Humanities

King’s College London

Digital resources

• First generation– Single scholar (+ programmer)– ‘boutique’ projects

• Second generation– Collaborative– Multi-disciplinary / inter-disciplinary– Multiple technologies– New methodologies– Large scale– On-line publication

Third Generation Digital Resources

• Self-documenting• Inter-linked & Inter-operable• Inter-active / manipulable (tools)• Annotation (individual / group / public)• Re-configurable (elements & types)• Virtual (and ephemeral?)• Active (via Intelligent Agents)• eScience & Access Grids

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S 165 Cenwulf, king of Mercia (811): BL Cotton Charter viii. 3, from Rochester

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• The ASChart pilot projecthttp://www.aschart.kcl.ac.uk

What is it?

Texts

Charters

DiplomaticIndexes

General Project information

Feedback

DB

PASE

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XML TEI P4 mark-up of chartersTEI header Text

IDArchiveDescription of source content

invocationproemdispositive wordboundcursedating clausepromulgation placewitness list names in general

name of donatorname of beneficiary

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• The ASChart pilot projecthttp://www.aschart.kcl.ac.uk

Sawyer number IDLinks to PASE

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TEI header Text

ID

ArchiveDescription of source

content

invocationproemdispositive worboundcursedating clausepromulgation placewitness list names in general

name of donatorname of beneficiary

locations

PASEPASE

PASE

PASE

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PASE

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• The ASChart pilot projecthttp://www.aschart.kcl.ac.uk

Archive Description

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TEI header Text

ID

ArchiveDescription of source

content

BibliographyImagesManuscriptDescription

invocationproemdispositive wordboundcursedating clausepromulgation placewitness list names in general

name of donatorname of beneficiary

locations

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PASE

eSaw

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TEI header Text

ID

ArchiveDescription of source

content

BibliographyImagesManuscriptDescription

invocationproemdispositive wordboundcursedating clausepromulgation placewitness list names in general

name of donatorname of beneficiary

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PASE

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LangScape

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IDManuscriptsBibliographyDescription

ODDCEI?

ODDCEI?

ODDCEI?

bounds

ODDCEI?

PASE

Common / universal reference

• Entity identification

• Persons

– Authority tables within projects

– Authority sites/institutions/publications

– Collaborative prosopography (e.g. ESF workshop, Uppsala)

• Institutions

– Special category of ‘person’?

• Places

– Pleiades Project for the ancient world

• Events

– Multiple levels

Text mining

• NCSE text mining

– Waterloo indices

– NCSE concept map

– NCSE authority tables

– interlinking of approaches

• Purposes

– tools for editors

– navigation aids for readers

– tools for readers

e-Science for the Humanities

• e-Science

– ‘Grid’ technologies

– Significant data storage capacity (and computational power)

– Significant bandwidth

– Significant interactivity

• Grid types

– ‘Access’ : virtual meetings; interactive performances

– ‘Data’ : very large repositories - archives / digital libraries

– ‘Computational’ : NB multi-media resources; 3D visualisation

Contact Details

Harold ShortCentre for Computing in the Humanities

King’s College London

harold.short@kcl.ac.uk

www.cch.kcl.ac.uk