Presentation at the EVA Florence 2014 Conference "Feeding the Digital Humanities: the DM2E and Judaica Europeana Projects" by Dov Winer

1. FEEDING THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: THE DM2E AND JUDAICA
EUROPEANA PROJECTS
Dov Winer
Scientific Manager,
Judaica Europeana (EAJC)
and MAKASH Advancing ICT Applications
Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts
EVA 2014 Florence

2.  There are tangible benefits for humanities scholarship from the
integration of contents, communities of practice, and
tools/infrastructures.
 Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
 Jewish Digitised Contents with a common data model
 The Jewish Studies research community as a potential
community of practice
 Availability of Digital Scholarship tools and infrastructures
 Challenge: integration into a Virtual Research Environment
(VRE)
Outline
http://www.slideshare.net/dovw/eva-fllorence-2014

3. Digital Humanities

4. 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)

6. Scholarly Primitives
Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities
researchers have in common, and how might our
tools reflect this?
John Unsworth
Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice
King’s College, London, May 13, 2000
Discovering Annotating
Comparing Referring
Sampling Illustrating
Representing

7. 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
Writing (assembling)
Cross-cutting (note taking)
Illustrating
Representing
Modelling / visualizing Cross-cutting (translating)
Writing (assembling)
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 Report
https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/pbamboo/Project+Bamboo+Scholarly+Practice+Report

9. 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 2009
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919
Scholarly Primitives

10. Jewish Digitised Content

11. Judaica Europeana Partners

12. ~5,000,000 +
digital objects

13. Jewish Digitised Content

14. Jewish Digitised Content

15. Jewish Digitised Content

16. Jewish Studies

17. Jewish Studies

18. Jewish Studies

19. Jewish Studies

20. Jewish Studies

21. Common Data Model for
Content Description

22. Common Data Model

23. Outline

25. Linked Data: structured
data on the Web
David Woood
Marsha Zeidman
Luke Ruth
with
Michael Hausenblas
Manning Publications
MEAP 2013

26. The essence of RDF: the “triple”
Source: “The thirty minute guide to RDF and Linked Data”, by Ian Davis and Tom Heath

27. Who? What? When? Where?
Controlled vocabularies: hubs of
Jewish Knowledge in the
Structured Web

28. 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.

29. Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry
http://www.rujen.ru/
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
Rav Zeev Vagner
Josh Kopelman

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

31. Tools and Infrastructure

32. Prof. Stefan Gradmann
Prof. Christian Bizer

37. Scholarly services
Document Mapping;
Concordance; Collocation/Cloud;
Frequency; Morphological
Analysis; Syntactic Analysis;
Named Entity Identification;
Proxied SEASR Analytics

38. VRE
Virtual Research Environment
Community+Content+
Tools/Infrastructure

39. 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

42. From: Guus van den Brekel Central Medical Library, UMCG
Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0
http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/virtual-research-networks-towards-research-20?from_search=1

43. VRE
Virtual Research Environment
Examples

49. www.judaica-europeana.eu
Thank you for your attention!
Dov Winer
Judaica Europeana Scientific Manager
European Association for Jewish Culture
And
MAKASH Advancing ICT Applications in Education, Culture and Science
dov.winer@gmail.com
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