Talk for the Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies workshop, at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015. Presented 24 July 2015 in St Anne's College, Oxford.
4. SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
(EPSRC) under grant number EPJ017728/1 and comprises the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Edinburgh. See sociam.org
5. “Yet
Wikipedia
and
its
stated
ambi7on
to
“compile
the
sum
of
all
human
knowledge”
are
in
trouble.
The
volunteer
workforce
that
built
the
project’s
flagship,
the
English-‐language
Wikipedia—and
must
defend
it
against
vandalism,
hoaxes,
and
manipula7on—
has
shrunk
by
more
than
a
third
since
2007
and
is
s7ll
shrinking…
The
main
source
of
those
problems
is
not
mysterious.
The
loose
collec7ve
running
the
site
today,
es7mated
to
be
90
percent
male,
operates
a
crushing
bureaucracy
with
an
oTen
abrasive
atmosphere
that
deters
newcomers
who
might
increase
par7cipa7on
in
Wikipedia
and
broaden
its
coverage…”
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/
11. Community
SoTware
Supercomputer
Digital
Music
Collec7ons
Student-‐sourced
ground
truth
Community
SoTware
Linked
Data
Repositories
Supercomputer
23,000 hours of
recorded music
Music Information
Retrieval Community
SALAMI
14. By Ségolène Tarte, David De Roure
and Pip Willcox
Working out the Plot
The Role of Stories in
Social Machines
15. STORYTELLING AS A STETHOSCOPE
FOR SOCIAL MACHINES
1. Sociality through storytelling potential
and realization
2. Sustainability through reactivity and
interactivity
3. Emergence through collaborative
authorship and mixed authority
Zooniverse
is
a
highly
storified
Social
Machine
Facebook
doesn’t
allow
for
improvisa7on
Wikipedia
assigns
authority
rights
rigidly
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/ora:8033
Ségolène Tarte, David De Roure and Pip Willcox, (2014). Working out the plot: the role of stories in social machines
16. Tarte, S. Willcox, P., Glaser, H. and De Roure, D. 2015. Archetypal Narratives in Social
Machines: Approaching Sociality through Prosopography. ACM Web Science 2015.
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Social Machines
Metadata
Story of the
First Folio
Social
Machines Annotation
https://www.academia.edu/12103878
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Early modern theatre:a social machine
http://www.princeton.edu/~danson/Lit131/HANDBOOK/Swan.htm
JohannesdeWitt’ssketchoftheSwanTheatre
25. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Early modern theatre:co-creation
http://shakespeare.berkeley.edu/index.php?option=com_g2bridgeview=galleryItemid=256g2_itemId=16938
WilliamKempe,Kempsninedaiesvvonder
PerformedinadauncefromLondontoNorwich…
London:1600.
26. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
1905
✤ Gladwyn Turbutt, Magdalen College!
Photo:BodleianLibraries,1905;
digitized2012
http://ww1photos.com/Rolls/Harrow/Turbutt_G_M_R_Lt_2nd_Oxford_Bucks_Light_Infantry_Harrow_Roll_Of_Honour_Vol_1.jpg
27. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
1905
✤ Madan, Gibson and Turbutt, The Original
Bodleian Copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare
(The Turbutt Shakespeare), Oxford: 1905 !
✤ Bibliographical Society lecture!
✤ Review in The Times!
✤ The Athenæum (25 February 1905)
BodleianLibraryRecords,c.1258-1261.Photo:PipWillcox
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1905
✤ An anonymous offer of £3,000
AmherstCollegeMagazine,Fall2007
https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/magazine/issues/2007_fall/shakespeare!
Bodleian Library Records, c.1259—1262
Photo:PipWillcox
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✤ Not everyone supported the appeal
“Dear Mr Librarian,!
!
“[…] My finances do not permit of my offering any contribution, but it may amuse your
eminence to read why I should not offer anything if I could. […]!
!
“Secondly, having due regard to the cost of existing in this present wicked world, it is
quite absurd that any copy of any book should command such a price. Only the man-
eating money-maniacs of America could have started such an inept fashion. […] By all
means let them have EVERYTHING that can be bought for money – the Pope’s tiara and
the King’s crown and a majority in the House of Commons – and a free passage across the
Styx. And let them have the Shakespeare, if the present possessor’s sentiment and
conscience allows him to let them have it. The only cure for covetousness is satiety – and
the Styx. […]”
“man-eating money maniacs”
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✤ The “out of office”!
1905:a meticulous archive
Photo:PipWillcox
Bodleian Library Records, c.1259—1262
31.
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http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
23April 2013:Shakespeare’s 449th birthday
Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
23April 2014:Shakespeare’s 450th birthday
✤ Further generous donations!
✤ Serial publication of searchable full texts of the First Folio (in beta)!
✤ Use and reuse: Creative Commons Attribution Only!
✤ Collaboration: IT Services consultation!
✤ Oxford e-Research Centre!
✤ Open source software!
✤ Scholarly social machine...!
http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
33. Bodleian Libraries
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Social Machines
SM1: co-authoring
SM2: performance
SM3: prompt books
SM4: publication
SM5: copyright
SM6: reception
SM7: deacquisition
SM8: enquiry desk
SM9: scholarship
SM10: the press
SM11: campaign
SM12: campaign #2
SM13: publication #2
SM14: transcribe, edit
SM15: publication #3
SM16: use reuse
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Social Machines
SM17
https://www.academia.edu/12103878/
_Coniunction_with_the_participation_of_Society
_Citizens_Scale_and_Scholarly_Social_Machines
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/
citizens-scale-scholarly-social-machines
SM18
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Social Machines
A computationally-enabled sense-making network of
expertise, data, software, models and narratives
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The crowd is us.We are the citizens.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc.165, f.217r!
http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/w303ir
Curate, co-operate, co-create
Enjoy
38. Thanks to J.Stephen Downie, Andrew Honey, Emma Smith,
Richard O’Bierne, Ségolène Tarte, Elizabeth Williamson; IAS at
UWA; Sprint for Shakespeare and Bodleian First Folio supporters;
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JISC, EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC.
david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk
@dder
pip.willcox@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@pipwillcox
digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/citizens-scale-scholarly-social-machines