Research Practices Infrastructures

Interfaces

Research Practices Infrastructures

Interfaces

Paul WoutersPaul Wouters

OutlineOutline

• The relevance of humanities

• e-Research != data science

• Interfaces as important as infrastructures

• What about 2.0?

• The relevance of humanities

• e-Research != data science

• Interfaces as important as infrastructures

• What about 2.0?

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VKS has dual mission studying practices and supporting exploration

VKS has dual mission studying practices and supporting exploration

changing practices, telling stories, building toolschanging practices, telling stories, building toolseSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

Building collaboratories in social history

VKS & International Institute for Social History

Exploring women’s studies

VKS & Women’ Studies, University of Utrecht

Alfa-labVKS & Royal

Netherlands Academy Arts & Sciences

Building collaboratories in social history

VKS & International Institute for Social History

Exploring women’s studies

VKS & Women’ Studies, University of Utrecht

Alfa-labVKS & Royal

Netherlands Academy Arts & Sciences

examples of workexamples of work

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HumanitiesHumanities“Meaning concerns interpretation of data,

evidence, and texts. Value ranges over the entire field of cultural, aesthetic, social, and scientific investments. Significance, implicating both the former two, raises questions of representation, in the sense of accounting for (explanation) and of capturing, in the sense both of offering a faithful rendition (description) and of making broad claims (generalization).”

“Meaning concerns interpretation of data, evidence, and texts. Value ranges over the entire field of cultural, aesthetic, social, and scientific investments. Significance, implicating both the former two, raises questions of representation, in the sense of accounting for (explanation) and of capturing, in the sense both of offering a faithful rendition (description) and of making broad claims (generalization).”

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Double claimDouble claim

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7th eConcertation eInfrastructures04/19/23

Data theoriesData theories

• Given out there• Building block• Standard for

hypothesis testing

• Given out there• Building block• Standard for

hypothesis testing

• Constructed• Result• Theory-laden

• Constructed• Result• Theory-laden

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4 perspectives on ICT4 perspectives on ICT

• Conservative: ICT as neutral container

• Pragmatic: ICT as tool

• Critical: ICT as technology of control

• Radical: ICT as metaphor

• Conservative: ICT as neutral container

• Pragmatic: ICT as tool

• Critical: ICT as technology of control

• Radical: ICT as metaphor

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Crombie’s stylesCrombie’s styles

• Deductive

• Experimental

• Hypotheses and analogies

• Taxonomy

• Probabilistic - statistical

• Evolutionary (“historic” or “genetic”)

• Deductive

• Experimental

• Hypotheses and analogies

• Taxonomy

• Probabilistic - statistical

• Evolutionary (“historic” or “genetic”)eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

Some modes of e-researchSome modes of e-research• From data scarcity to data floods and cloud computing: new methods

in data analysis and representation

• Beyond data science: the radical promise of computational modelling

• Visual culture: how do we visualize not only data but also knowledge and interests ("Can you see what I know?")?

• Telling stories in New media: new formats of communication, publication and representation

• Social neuroscience: coupling brains and the social dimension

• From data scarcity to data floods and cloud computing: new methods in data analysis and representation

• Beyond data science: the radical promise of computational modelling

• Visual culture: how do we visualize not only data but also knowledge and interests ("Can you see what I know?")?

• Telling stories in New media: new formats of communication, publication and representation

• Social neuroscience: coupling brains and the social dimension

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InterfacingInterfacing

• Interfaces between disciplines

• Interfaces between infrastructures and practices

• Interfaces as representation researcher

• Interfaces between disciplines

• Interfaces between infrastructures and practices

• Interfaces as representation researcher

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AlfalabAlfalab

• http://www.slideshare.net/douwez/ieee-oxford-presentatie-alfalab-2008

• http://alfalablog.huygensinstituut.nl/

• from tools to communities

• http://www.slideshare.net/douwez/ieee-oxford-presentatie-alfalab-2008

• http://alfalablog.huygensinstituut.nl/

• from tools to communities

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7th eConcertation eInfrastructures04/19/23

Flickr and other 2.0Flickr and other 2.0• implicit technology focus

• synergy in practices– VKS collab

• institutions and infrastructures– Flickr: commercial cultural heritage?

• method as institution– Flickr: invisible use

• implicit technology focus

• synergy in practices– VKS collab

• institutions and infrastructures– Flickr: commercial cultural heritage?

• method as institution– Flickr: invisible use

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