Post on 20-Jan-2017
Facilitating digital research in the humanities:
from local services to European infrastructures(and back again…)
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Sally Chambers, DARIAH-BE Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities
Who am I?
• (Digital) Librarian (Humanist)• BA Literature with Psychology, MA Cultural Studies, Postgraduate
Certificate: Information Services Management• 2005 – 2011: Worked for The European Library, at the National
Library of the Netherlands• 2011 – 2015: Worked for DARIAH-EU at the Göttingen Centre for
Digital Humanities, Germany• February 2015 - : Digital Humanities Research Coordinator at the
Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities and Coordinator for DARIAH-VL/BE
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Humanities (GhentCDH): an interdisciplinary centre facilitating digitally-enabled research in the arts, humanities and social sciences at Ghent University and beyond …
Areas of focus: •Research support and coordination•Digital Research Infrastructure•Training and education
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Ghent UniversityFaculty of Arts andPhilosophy
9 departments:
•Languages & cultures•Linguistics•Literary Studies•Philosophy & moral sciences•Translation, Interpreting & Communication
•Archaeology•Art, music & theatre studies•Comparative science of cultures•History
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Research Support and Coordination
•Central contact point for digital humanities at Ghent University, e.g. advice and guidance, community engagement•Advice and guidance: project proposals with a digital humanities focus, digital project management
www.ghentcdh.ugent.be
DH Advice and guidanceWhich tools to use for analysis?•Analysis of different emotional terms related to military decorations during First World War (PhD Student, History)•Basic text analysis on a corpus of around a 1000 popular songs, e.g. identify songs that are similar (Researcher, History)
Who to contact?•Is there someone with Drupal expertise? (Literary Studies, Post Doc)
Is there a supercomputer I can use?•I am working on some rather large data and having processing problems on my laptop. (Social Science, Post Doc)
Digital Research Infrastructure
•Toward Virtual Research Environment Service Infrastructure (VRE-SI)•Based on the needs of existing research projects with a digital focus•Re-defining existing research infrastructures (e.g. library, IT service) for digital scholarship•Funded within the framework of DARIAH, the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/content/dariah-vl_vre.si
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•Identify existing research projects within the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy with a ‘digital focus’
•What infrastructural needs do these projects have?
•Selection of ‘pilot projects’ for ‘integration’ into the Virtual Research Environment Service Infrastructure
•How can such infrastructural needs be sustainably supported?
Developing the Virtual Research EnvironmentService Infrastructure (VRE-SI)
Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams
www.dbbe.ugent.be
Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe (1710-1920)
www.wechanged.ugent.be
Transnational Intellectual Collaboration TIC-Collaborative
www.tic.ugent.be
A Virtual Research Environment for the study of 19th and early 20th century international organisations and congresses
Database of Southern Dutch Dialects
www.wvd.ugent.be
What is DARIAH?
What is DARIAH?
DARIAH Mission: DARIAH aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the humanities and arts…
…DARIAH would like to offer a portfolio of services that directly benefit researchers in their everyday work…
A quick history of DARIAH
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• 2006: DARIAH included in the ESFRI Roadmap
• 2008 – 2011: Preparatory Phase project, Preparing DARIAH
• 2011 – 2013: ‘Transition Phase’, establishing the DARIAH-ERIC, integrating national activities
• 2014+: DARIAH-ERIC
DARIAH-EU High-level launch
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15 Founding Members + …
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Founding Members
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Founding Members
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Serbia
Slovenia
Candidate countries
Lithuania
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland
… plus Poland and Portugal
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Switzerland in DARIAH…..
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DARIAH in France
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DARIAH in the European Landscape
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European Research Infrastructures: ESFRI
Updated ESFRI Roadmap 2016
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ESFRI Humanities and Social Science Research Infrastructures
•CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure •DARIAH: Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts & Humanities•SHARE: Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe•ESS: European Social Survey•CESSDA: Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives
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Map of Pan-European Research Infrastructures
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European Science Foundation
http://www.esf.org/hosting-experts/scientific-review-groups/humanities-hum/strategic-activities/research-infrastructures-in-the-humanities.html
Who is DARIAH for?
Who is DARIAH for?
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A wide variety of research communities across the arts and humanities
For researchers, by researchers…
Digital Literary Studies
Digital Medieval Studies
Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual Scholarship
Digital Methods
Services for researchers
• Research projects within the humanities with a ‘digital focus’
• Fixed-term funded projects, e.g. national or European funding
• Project outcomes as building blocks for sustainable digital services
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Towards sustainable digital services
Network of Contributions
Network of Services
Scholarly events
Open access repositoryAcademic blogging
Network of Services
Multilingual training materials
Scholarly Methods Ontology
Summer Schools
Network of Services
Persistent Identification
AAI Infrastructure
Collaboration Tools
DARIAH in France
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DARIAH in France
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www.huma-num.fr/services-et-outils
DARIAH in France
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Towards DARIAH in Belgium
DARIAH in Belgium
• Belgium is a DARIAH-ERIC Founding Member: BELSPO: National Representative: Chris De Loof
• 3 Consortia-DARIAH–Vlaanderen (DARIAH-VL)-DARIAH–Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (DARIAH-FWB)-DARIAH– Federal Scientific Institutions (DARIAH-FED)
• National Coordinating Institution 2016: Ghent University, Ghent, Centre for Digital Humanities led by Christophe Verbruggen
• Day-to-day coordination: Sally Chambers
Belgian contributions to DARIAH-EU
Belgian contributions to DARIAH-EU
Trismegistos, Ancient History
www.trismegistos.org
Belgian contributions to DARIAH-EUSamuel Beckett: Digital Manuscripts
www.beckettarchive.org
Belgian contributions to DARIAH-EU
DIGITHEMIS: Digital Justice Historical Information System
www.digithemis.be
Belgian contributions to DARIAH-EURamses – an annotated corpus of Late Eqyption texts
www.egypto.ulg.ac.be/Ramses.htm
Belgian contributions to DARIAH-EUPerelman Digital Archive
http://gral.ulb.ac.be/archives-chaim-perelman
European Holocaust ResearchInfrastructure (EHRI)www.ehri-project.eu
Integrated Platform for the European Research Infrastructure on Cultural Heritage
www.iperionch.eu
Belgian contributions to DARIAH-EU
Transnational Intellectual CollaborationTIC-Belgium www.tic.ugent.be
Modernising digital access to collections www.maddlain.iminds.be
Belgian contributions to DARIAH-EU
Services for researchers
Virtual Research Environment Service Infrastructure (VRE-SI)
www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/content/dariah-vl_vre.si
VRE-SI offering a sustainable portfolio of services enabling digital scholarship in the arts and humanities in Flanders,
Belgium and beyond
Virtual Research Environment Service Infrastructure (VRE-SI) – Current status
VRE-SI Services
Web-based collaborative data management environment: NodeGoat
•Set-up NodeGoat campus licence•Expert and outreach workshops, training materials -> increase use of NodeGoat in Ghent•NodeGoat user group -> Ghent -> DARIAH-BE and beyond…•Evaluation and development
•Sustainable service delivery•Improved user-friendliness
•Streamline the software developments -> towards feature requests in via Github•Towards an (open source) NodeGoat community
http://nodegoat.net
VRE-SI Services
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VRE-SI Services
Digital Text Analysis Platform
•Based on the Islandora platform: collaborative management and discovery of digital assets•Expertise built up in TIC-Collaborative -_ move towards a generic text analysis platform for use with a wide-range of projects•Developments: improve / automate ingestion functionality, improve clustered display of books, development of an annotation management system•Involvement in Islandora community
http://islandora.ca
VRE-SI ServicesManuscript Desk
•Built on Transcribe Bentham toolkit (MediaWiki)•Upload digitised manuscripts for transcription (TEI-compatiable)•First version released November 2015•Evaluation with bachelor students, will be used for masters’ dissertation in 2016•Evaluation in Ghent for Paleography courses•New features: XML export, additional editor functionality, integration of PyStyl (stylometric analysis)•Infrastructure: improve manageability of software, documentation and code in GitHub, link to single sign-on
VRE-SI Services
Manuscript Desk
https://manuscriptdesk.uantwerpen.be
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Humanities (GhentCDH): an interdisciplinary centre facilitating digitally-enabled research in the arts, humanities and social sciences at Ghent University and beyond …
Areas of focus: •Research support and coordination•Digital Research Infrastructure•Training and education
www.flw.ugent.be/bibliotheek/librarylab
•Parallel training programme in the use of the digital research tools and methods offered by the Virtual Research Environment Service Infrastructure•Additional need for support for the development of research data management plans•Led by the LibraryLab @ the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Library
Digital humanities research training
www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/content/topic-modelling-workshop
GhentCDH & LibraryLab
Digital Humanities Training
www.ghentcdh.ugent.be
Digital Humanities @ Ghent University
A digital humanities team of experts (researchers, developers, data specialists, project managers / coordinators)
•Offering a sustainable portfolio of services by re-defining and extending existing services (library, IT, DH centre) for the needs of digital scholarship
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sally.chambers@ugent.bebe.dariah.eu | @DARIAHbe
Merci!
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