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Digital content, VREs

(Virtual Research Environments)

and Communities of Practice

Dov WinerMAKASH – Advancing ICT Applications in

Education, Culture and Science

Judaica Europeana Partners

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* YIVO: The Power of Persuasion, Jewish Posters from Prewar Poland 1900-1939http://www.yivoinstitute.org/exhibits/posterfr.htm

~ millions of

digital objects

Mosaica Semantically Enhanced, Multifaceted, Collaborative

Access to Cultural Heritage

Athena

Judaica Europeana

Linked Heritage

DM2E Digital Manuscripts to Europeana

JudaicaLink

There are tangible benefits for humanities scholarship from the integration of

contents, communities of practice, and tools/infrastructures.

Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities

Common Data Model / Who, What, When, Where

Tools and Infrastructure

VRE Virtual Research Environment

Communities of Practice

Outline

Digital Humanities






The scholarship work cycle

From S.Gradmann and J.C. Meister, Digital document and interpretation: re-thinking “text” and scholarship in electronic settings .

Poiesis & Praxis, V5 N2 (2008)

Scholarly PrimitivesScholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities

researchers have in common, and how might our

tools reflect this?

John UnsworthHumanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice

King’s College, London, May 13, 2000

Discovering Annotating

Comparing Referring

Sampling Illustrating

Representing

Unsworth primitive Bamboo theme of scholarly

practice

OCLC Scholarly Information Activity

Discovery Gathering / Foraging Searching (direct searching, chaining, browsing, probing,

accessing)

Sampling Synthesizing / Filtering Comparing Collecting (gathering, organizing)

Referring Contextualizing Searching (chaining, browsing, probing)

Collecting (organizing)

Cross-cutting (monitoring)

Illustrating

Representing

Comparing

Conceptualizing,

Refining and Critiquing

Reading (scanning, assessing, rereading)

Cross-cutting (note taking, translating)

Writing (assembling)

Collaborating (consulting)

Representing Documenting methods Writing (disseminating)

Cross-cutting (translating)

Discovering Referring

Representing

Managing data Searching (accessing)

Collecting (organizing)

Collaborating (coordinating, consulting)

Annotating Annotating /

documenting


Cross-cutting (note taking)

Illustrating

Representing

Modelling / visualizing Cross-cutting (translating)


Representing Overlapping teaching and research Collaborating (coordinating)

Cross-cutting (translating)

Representing Sharing / dissemination

/ publishing

Writing (disseminating)

Suggested parenthetically Funding No analogue

Common thread Collaborating Writing (co-authoring)

Collaborating (coordinating, networking, consulting)

Referring Citation, credit, peer-review Reading (assessing)

Writing (dissemination)

Collaborating (consulting)

OCLC: Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919

Project Bamboo Scholarly Practice Reporthttps://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/pbamboo/Project+Bamboo+Scholarly+Practice+Report

Scholarly primitives: Building institutional

infrastructure for humanities e-Science

Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges

King’s College London, Centre for e-Research

Future Generation Computer Systems 29 (2013) 654-661

Scholarly Information Practices in the Online

Environment

Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, Carrie M. Pirmannn

2009 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center 2009http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919

Scholarly Primitives

Common Data Model for

Content Description






Common Data Model

Outline

Linked Data: structured

data on the Web

David Woood

Marsha Zeidman

Luke Ruth

with

Michael Hausenblas

Manning Publications

MEAP 2013

The essence of RDF: the “triple”

Source: “The thirty minute guide to RDF and Linked Data”, by Ian Davis and Tom Heath

Who? What? When? Where?

Controlled vocabularies: hubs of

Jewish Knowledge in the

Structured Web

Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT

The goals of the project

Linking and Populating the

Digital Humanities are to

create and maintain data

integration tools tailored to

digital humanities collections in

order to build a machine-

readable web of facts about

covered domains.

Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT

Encyclopedia Judaica

Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry

http://www.rujen.ru/

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/

Rav Zeev Vagner

Josh Kopelman

http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_with_Judaic_categories.html

Prof. Stefan Gradmann

Prof. Christian Bizer

Scholarly services

Document Mapping;

Concordance; Collocation/Cloud;

Frequency; Morphological

Analysis; Syntactic Analysis;

Named Entity Identification;

Proxied SEASR Analytics

VRE

Virtual Research Environment

Community+Content+

Tools/Infrastructure

Outline

From JISC's VRE Programme – supporting collaborative research

Christopher Brown - JISC Digital Infrastructure Team

http://www.slideshare.net/chriscb/jisc-vreresearch-tools-presentation?from_search=2

From: Guus van den Brekel Central Medical Library, UMCG

Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/virtual-research-networks-towards-research-20?from_search=1

http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/virtual-research-networks-towards-research-20?from_search=1

Communities

of Practice

Constructionist approach

Open system

input output

environment

environment

a viable system is that able to elaborate the inputs so as to build itself

and create value for the environment (outputs)

Distinction between Structural Elements

and Dynamic Core

Structural elementsInfrastructure

Technology

Management

Structure

Dynamic CoreHigh agreement on well defined goals

Congruency between participants and system’s

goals / benefit from the system operation

Good relations among participants

Uri Meri, Coping with crisis in organizations, communities and business,Tel aviv, Cherikower 1999

Thank you for your attention!

Dov WinerThe Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

[email protected]

Mapping the Republic of Letters (Stanford)

http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/publications.html

Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17th-

century Dutch Republic

http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/

Linked Jazz

http://www.linkedjazz.org/52ndStreet/

RelFinder

http://www.visualdataweb.org/relfinder.php

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