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eCloud newspapers 13 May 2015, Amsterdam, NL

Erik Duval Dept. Computerwetenschappen, KU Leuven, B http://erikduval.wordpress.com @ErikDuval

http://erikduval.wordpress.com

09h30-09h40: welcome, logistics 09h40-09h45: Europeana Newspapers and eCloud 09h45-10h30: participant introductions 10h30-11h00: aim of eCloud demonstrator, earlier work 11h00-11h15: coffee 11h15-11h30: briefing for break-out groups 11h30-13h00: break-out groups 13h00-14h00: lunch 14h00-15h00: results of break-out groups 15h00-15h30: discussion on common themes 15h30-16h00: conclusion, next steps

participant introductionsparticipants briefly introduce

themselves,

their research and

their interest in eCloud

(a few slides can be shown, but only if they present something that is hard to explain otherwise)

• 09h30-09h40: welcome, logistics • 09h40-09h45: Europeana Newspapers and eCloud • 09h45-10h30: participant introductions • 10h30-11h00: aim of eCloud demonstrator, earlier work • 11h00-11h15: coffee • 11h15-11h30: briefing for break-out groups • 11h30-13h00: break-out groups • 13h00-14h00: lunch • 14h00-15h00: results of break-out groups • 15h00-15h30: discussion on common themes • 15h30-16h00: conclusion, next steps

aim

Development of services and tools that leverage Europeana contentfor use by researchers

aim

What kind of research can a digital humanities researcher dowith this technologythat he cannot (practically) dowithout the technology?

In this paper, we address the following research questions:

1. What are the main problems for digital musicologists whose research focuses on Early Music?

2. How can we address these problems and demonstrate the potential added value of cloud-based tools and services on top of large repositories of content like Europeana for Early Music musicologists?

user centered design

focus on specific community (or smaller: individual researcher…)

We study the development of ideas in texts by philosophers & scientists, famous

Bolzano LeśniewskiWhitehead &

Russell

TarskiFrege

…and less famous

Wolff Kant

1732 1781 1837 1879 1910 1929 1933

[fill in some biologist]

Lotze, Drobisch,

TwardowskiPeano,

Huntington,Veblen

Zermelo,von Neumann

Krug, Watts

Salamucha

problems…

• navigating and identifying relevant content & building corpora;

• lack of user-friendly tools for conducting fine-grained textual research;

• lack of appropriate tools and infrastructure that allow members of research groups to work collaboratively.

tools…

• search tools to find relevant content

• visualization tools (maps, timelines)

• annotation tools

• social awareness and discovery tools

personaAnita is a post-doctoral researcher on Technology-Enhanced Learning in a computer science department of a European university. She is collaborating with colleagues from different European research units, in a Framework 7 EU project. She regularly travels to project meetings, workshops, and conferences throughout the EU. Anita is pretty tech savvy and works in a department that is well equipped with smartphones, laptops, large screens, and even a few multitouch tabletops.

scenarioAnita is assisting her supervisor with the preparation of a new EU proposal. There are some partners that her team regularly collaborates with and they decide to invite three of those partners to join the proposal preparation. They then turn to the multitouch table and use Muse to explore whom else they have worked with, and, more importantly, whom their colleagues have worked with before. Together with her supervisor, she thus discovers a team that focuses on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) in Norway. Anita remembers that she met one of members of that team earlier in the year. Through the visualisation, Anita and her supervisor discover that the Norwegian team has a close collaboration with the team in Lausanne that they had already invited for the new project. They thus decide to ask the Lausanne team about the Norwegian partners first. Moreover, her supervisor will travel to Madrid next week for a conference. With the tabletop visualization, they remember that they had previously worked with two research units in Madrid: Anita’s supervisor sends an email to both of them to set up a meeting to discuss the new project proposal.

another (type of) example

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briefing

personas & scenarios

tool identification & mashup

evaluation sessions

briefing

personas & scenarios

be specific

• “she enters some search terms and finds relevant documents”

• “she enters ‘einstein’ and sees a list of articles on the timeline, including a very early mention in a Swiss paper: she opens the article which mentions that Einstein obtained his PhD from ETHZurich. She’s struck by the fact that the very short article mentions that Einstein is a Jew….”

feel free to suggest New Stuff

if you doubt whether it is possible, then just assume it is

be prepared to report back:

flipchart & powerpoint &

whatever works for you…

?@ErikDuval



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