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2019 |
From Research Articles to Knowledge Graphs: Methods for ontology-driven knowledge base creation from text (Presentation) Pertsas, Vayianos; Constantopoulos, Panos Tutorial presented at The Web Conference WWW2019, San Francisco, 13-17 May , 2019. @misc{Pertsas2019, title = {From Research Articles to Knowledge Graphs: Methods for ontology-driven knowledge base creation from text}, author = {Vayianos Pertsas and Panos Constantopoulos}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-03-13}, abstract = {Understanding and extracting knowledge contained in text and encoding it as linked data for the WEB is a highly complex task that poses several challenges, requiring expertise from different fields such as conceptual modeling, natural language processing and web technologies including web mining, linked data generation and publishing, etc. When it comes to the scholarly domain, the transformation of human readable research articles into machine comprehensible knowledge bases is considered of high importance and necessity today due to the explosion of scientific publications in every major discipline, that makes it increasingly difficult for experts to maintain an overview of their domain or relate ideas from different domains. This situation could be significantly alleviated by knowledge bases capable of supporting queries such as: find all papers that address a given problem; how was the problem solved; which methods are employed by whom in addressing particular tasks; etc. that currently cannot be addressed by commonly used search engines such as Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar. This tutorial addresses the above challenge by introducing the participants to methods required in order to model knowledge regarding a given domain, extract information from available texts using advanced machine learning techniques, associate it with other information mined from the web in order to infer new knowledge and republish everything as linked open data on the Web. To this end, we will use a specific use case – that of the scholarly domain, and will show how to model research processes, extract them from research articles associate them with contextual information from article metadata and other linked repositories and create knowledge bases available as linked data. Our aim is to show how methodologies from different computer science fields, namely natural language processing, machine learning and conceptual modeling, can be combined with Web technologies in a single meaningful workflow.}, howpublished = {Tutorial presented at The Web Conference WWW2019, San Francisco, 13-17 May}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } Understanding and extracting knowledge contained in text and encoding it as linked data for the WEB is a highly complex task that poses several challenges, requiring expertise from different fields such as conceptual modeling, natural language processing and web technologies including web mining, linked data generation and publishing, etc. When it comes to the scholarly domain, the transformation of human readable research articles into machine comprehensible knowledge bases is considered of high importance and necessity today due to the explosion of scientific publications in every major discipline, that makes it increasingly difficult for experts to maintain an overview of their domain or relate ideas from different domains. This situation could be significantly alleviated by knowledge bases capable of supporting queries such as: find all papers that address a given problem; how was the problem solved; which methods are employed by whom in addressing particular tasks; etc. that currently cannot be addressed by commonly used search engines such as Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar. This tutorial addresses the above challenge by introducing the participants to methods required in order to model knowledge regarding a given domain, extract information from available texts using advanced machine learning techniques, associate it with other information mined from the web in order to infer new knowledge and republish everything as linked open data on the Web. To this end, we will use a specific use case – that of the scholarly domain, and will show how to model research processes, extract them from research articles associate them with contextual information from article metadata and other linked repositories and create knowledge bases available as linked data. Our aim is to show how methodologies from different computer science fields, namely natural language processing, machine learning and conceptual modeling, can be combined with Web technologies in a single meaningful workflow. |
Angelaki, Georgia; Badzmierowska, Karolina; Brown, David; Chiquet, Vera; Colla, Joris; Finlay-McAlester, Judith; Grabowska, Klaudia; Hannesschläger, Vanessa; Harrower, Natalie; Howat-Maxted, Freja; Ilvanidou, Maria; Kordyzon, Wojciech; Król, Magdalena; Losada, Gómez; Antonio, Gabriel; Maryl, Maciej; Reinsone, Sanita; Suslova, Natalia; Sweetnam, Mark; Śliwowski, Kamil; Werla, Marcin 2019, ISBN: 978-83-66076-49-5. @book{Angelaki2019, title = {How to Facilitate Cooperation between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions. Guidelines}, author = {Georgia Angelaki and Karolina Badzmierowska and David Brown and Vera Chiquet and Joris Colla and Judith Finlay-McAlester and Klaudia Grabowska and Vanessa Hannesschläger and Natalie Harrower and Freja Howat-Maxted and Maria Ilvanidou and Wojciech Kordyzon and Magdalena Król and Gómez Losada and Gabriel Antonio and Maciej Maryl and Sanita Reinsone and Natalia Suslova and Mark Sweetnam and Kamil Śliwowski and Marcin Werla}, url = {https://zenodo.org/record/2587481}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.2587481}, isbn = {978-83-66076-49-5}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-03-10}, abstract = {The overall objective of this report is to support collaboration between humanities researchers (literary and cultural studies, history, arts) on the one hand, and cultural heritage institutions on the other, by raising awareness about the possibilities for reusing heritage resources in academic settings and increasing the visibility of online heritage collections. This publication aims to provide both cultural heritage institutions and researchers with know-how, examples of good practice which will enable and strengthen collaboration between both sides, and enable a greater circulation and reuse of heritage resources within the academic field. This document was prepared during a hands-on workshop for representatives of the European academic community and heritage professionals who are working to share their collections online in order to promote digital methods and the academic reuse of heritage content. We engaged humanities researchers who expressed an interest in exploring digitised cultural resources, and heritage professionals who create internal institutional policies for providing access and sharing resources online. The workshop took place at the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland) on 19–20 June 2018. Invited experts included Natalie Harrower (Digital Repository of Ireland), Mark Sweetnam (Trinity College Dublin), David Brown (Trinity College Dublin), and Marcin Werla (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center). Twelve participants from various European countries were recruited through an open call for contributors (they are listed as co-authors of this document). The workshop participants explored the main problems associated with heritage reuse in the context of their expertise and later translated those discussions into this document through a ‘book-sprint,’ which was facilitated by Kamil Śliwowski. The workshop and the preparation of the guidelines were funded by a DARIAH Theme 2017 grant, which was awarded for the project ‘Facilitating Cooperation Between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions,’ jointly proposed by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, and Creative Commons Polska.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } The overall objective of this report is to support collaboration between humanities researchers (literary and cultural studies, history, arts) on the one hand, and cultural heritage institutions on the other, by raising awareness about the possibilities for reusing heritage resources in academic settings and increasing the visibility of online heritage collections. This publication aims to provide both cultural heritage institutions and researchers with know-how, examples of good practice which will enable and strengthen collaboration between both sides, and enable a greater circulation and reuse of heritage resources within the academic field. This document was prepared during a hands-on workshop for representatives of the European academic community and heritage professionals who are working to share their collections online in order to promote digital methods and the academic reuse of heritage content. We engaged humanities researchers who expressed an interest in exploring digitised cultural resources, and heritage professionals who create internal institutional policies for providing access and sharing resources online. The workshop took place at the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland) on 19–20 June 2018. Invited experts included Natalie Harrower (Digital Repository of Ireland), Mark Sweetnam (Trinity College Dublin), David Brown (Trinity College Dublin), and Marcin Werla (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center). Twelve participants from various European countries were recruited through an open call for contributors (they are listed as co-authors of this document). The workshop participants explored the main problems associated with heritage reuse in the context of their expertise and later translated those discussions into this document through a ‘book-sprint,’ which was facilitated by Kamil Śliwowski. The workshop and the preparation of the guidelines were funded by a DARIAH Theme 2017 grant, which was awarded for the project ‘Facilitating Cooperation Between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions,’ jointly proposed by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, and Creative Commons Polska. |
A world of immersive experiences (Journal Article) Benardou, Agiatis; Konstantelos, Leonidas History Scotland, Volume: 19 (2), Pages: 8-9, 2019. (BibTeX) @article{Benardou2019, title = {A world of immersive experiences}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Leonidas Konstantelos}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-03-00}, journal = {History Scotland}, volume = {19}, number = {2}, pages = {8-9}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } |
2018 |
Ontology-Driven Extraction of Research Processes (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Pertsas, Vayianos; Constantopoulos, Panos; Androutsopoulos, Ion Vrandečić, Denny; Bontcheva, Kalina; Suárez-Figueroa, Mari Carmen; Presutti, Valentina; Celino, Irene; Sabou, Marta; Kaffee, Lucie-Aimée; Simperl, Elena (Ed.): The Semantic Web – ISWC 2018. 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey, CA, USA, October 8–12, 2018, Proceedings, Volume: 11136 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science Pages: 162-178, Springer, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-030-00670-9. @inproceedings{Pertsas2018b, title = {Ontology-Driven Extraction of Research Processes}, author = {Vayianos Pertsas and Panos Constantopoulos and Ion Androutsopoulos}, editor = {Denny Vrandečić and Kalina Bontcheva and Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and Valentina Presutti and Irene Celino and Marta Sabou and Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Elena Simperl}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-00671-6_10}, isbn = {978-3-030-00670-9}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-09-18}, booktitle = {The Semantic Web – ISWC 2018. 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey, CA, USA, October 8–12, 2018, Proceedings}, volume = {11136}, pages = {162-178}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, abstract = {We address the automatic extraction from publications of two key concepts for representing research processes: the concept of research activity and the sequence relation between successive activities. These representations are driven by the Scholarly Ontology, specifically conceived for documenting research processes. Unlike usual named entity recognition and relation extrac- tion tasks, we are facing textual descriptions of activities of widely variable length, while pairs of successive activities often span multiple sentences. We developed and experimented with several sliding window classifiers using Logistic Regression, SVMs, and Random Forests, as well as a two-stage pipeline classifier. Our classifiers employ task-specific features, as well as word, part-of-speech and dependency embeddings, engineered to exploit distinctive traits of research publications written in English. The extracted activities and sequences are associated with other relevant information from publication metadata and stored as RDF triples in a knowledge base. Evaluation on datasets from three disciplines, Digital Humanities, Bioinformatics, and Medicine, shows very promising performance.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } We address the automatic extraction from publications of two key concepts for representing research processes: the concept of research activity and the sequence relation between successive activities. These representations are driven by the Scholarly Ontology, specifically conceived for documenting research processes. Unlike usual named entity recognition and relation extrac- tion tasks, we are facing textual descriptions of activities of widely variable length, while pairs of successive activities often span multiple sentences. We developed and experimented with several sliding window classifiers using Logistic Regression, SVMs, and Random Forests, as well as a two-stage pipeline classifier. Our classifiers employ task-specific features, as well as word, part-of-speech and dependency embeddings, engineered to exploit distinctive traits of research publications written in English. The extracted activities and sequences are associated with other relevant information from publication metadata and stored as RDF triples in a knowledge base. Evaluation on datasets from three disciplines, Digital Humanities, Bioinformatics, and Medicine, shows very promising performance. |
Ontology-Driven Information Extraction from Research Publications (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Pertsas, Vayianos; Constantopoulos, Panos Méndez, Eva; Crestani, Fabio; Ribeiro, Cristina; David, Gabriel; Lopes, João Correia (Ed.): Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2018., Volume: 11057 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science Pages: 241-253, Springer, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-030-00065-3. @inproceedings{Pertsas2018, title = {Ontology-Driven Information Extraction from Research Publications}, author = {Vayianos Pertsas and Panos Constantopoulos}, editor = {Eva Méndez and Fabio Crestani and Cristina Ribeiro and Gabriel David and João Correia Lopes}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_21}, isbn = {978-3-030-00065-3}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-09-05}, booktitle = {Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2018.}, volume = {11057}, pages = {241-253}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, abstract = {Extraction of information from a research article, association with other sources and inference of new knowledge is a challenging task that has not yet been entirely addressed. We present Research Spotlight, a system that leverages existing information from DBpedia, retrieves articles from repositories, extracts and interrelates various kinds of named and non-named entities by exploiting article metadata, the structure of text as well as syntactic, lexical and semantic constraints, and populates a knowledge base in the form of RDF triples. An ontology designed to represent scholarly practices is driving the whole process. The system is evaluated through two experiments that measure the overall accuracy in terms of token- and entity- based precision, recall and F1 scores, as well as entity boundary detection, with promising results.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Extraction of information from a research article, association with other sources and inference of new knowledge is a challenging task that has not yet been entirely addressed. We present Research Spotlight, a system that leverages existing information from DBpedia, retrieves articles from repositories, extracts and interrelates various kinds of named and non-named entities by exploiting article metadata, the structure of text as well as syntactic, lexical and semantic constraints, and populates a knowledge base in the form of RDF triples. An ontology designed to represent scholarly practices is driving the whole process. The system is evaluated through two experiments that measure the overall accuracy in terms of token- and entity- based precision, recall and F1 scores, as well as entity boundary detection, with promising results. |
Archaeological Knowledge Production and Global Communities: Boundaries and Structure of the Field (Journal Article) Laužikas, Rimvydas; Dallas, Costis; Thomas, Suzie; Kelpšienė, Ingrida; Huvila, Isto; Luengo, Pedro; Nobre, Helena; Toumpouri, Marina; Vaitkevičius, Vykintas Open Archaeology, Volume: 4 (1), Pages: 350–364, 2018, ISSN: 2300-6560. @article{Laužikas2018, title = {Archaeological Knowledge Production and Global Communities: Boundaries and Structure of the Field}, author = {Rimvydas Laužikas and Costis Dallas and Suzie Thomas and Ingrida Kelpšienė and Isto Huvila and Pedro Luengo and Helena Nobre and Marina Toumpouri and Vykintas Vaitkevičius}, doi = {10.1515/opar-2018-0022}, issn = {2300-6560}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-09-01}, journal = {Open Archaeology}, volume = {4}, number = {1}, pages = {350–364}, abstract = {Archaeology and material cultural heritage enjoys a particular status as a form of heritage that, capturing the public imagination, has become the locus for the expression and negotiation of regional, national, and intra-national cultural identities. One important question is: why and how do contemporary people engage with archaeological heritage objects, artefacts, information or knowledge outside the realm of an professional, academically-based archaeology? This question is investigated here from the perspective of theoretical considerations based on Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere theory, which helps to describe the connections between the centre and peripheries of professional archaeology as sign structures. The centre may be defined according to prevalent scientific paradigms, while periphery in the space of creolisation in which, through interactions with other culturally more distant sign structures, archaeology-related nonprofessional communities emerge. On the basis of these considerations, we use collocation analysis on representative English language corpora to outline the structure of the field of archaeology-related nonprofessional communities, identify salient creolised peripheral spaces and archaeology-related practices, and develop a framework for further investigation of archaeological knowledge production and reuse in the context of global archaeology.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Archaeology and material cultural heritage enjoys a particular status as a form of heritage that, capturing the public imagination, has become the locus for the expression and negotiation of regional, national, and intra-national cultural identities. One important question is: why and how do contemporary people engage with archaeological heritage objects, artefacts, information or knowledge outside the realm of an professional, academically-based archaeology? This question is investigated here from the perspective of theoretical considerations based on Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere theory, which helps to describe the connections between the centre and peripheries of professional archaeology as sign structures. The centre may be defined according to prevalent scientific paradigms, while periphery in the space of creolisation in which, through interactions with other culturally more distant sign structures, archaeology-related nonprofessional communities emerge. On the basis of these considerations, we use collocation analysis on representative English language corpora to outline the structure of the field of archaeology-related nonprofessional communities, identify salient creolised peripheral spaces and archaeology-related practices, and develop a framework for further investigation of archaeological knowledge production and reuse in the context of global archaeology. |
Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Book) Benardou, Agiatis; Champion, Erik; Dallas, Costis; Hughes, Lorna (Ed.) Routledge, 2018, ISBN: 9781472447128. @book{Benardou2018, title = {Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities}, editor = {Agiatis Benardou and Erik Champion and Costis Dallas and Lorna M. Hughes}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Heritage-Infrastructures-in-Digital-Humanities/Benardou-Champion-Dallas-Hughes/p/book/9780367880415}, isbn = {9781472447128}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-00-00}, publisher = {Routledge}, series = {Digital research in the arts and humanities}, abstract = {What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings, both in terms of new tools and archives, and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings, both in terms of new tools and archives, and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public. |
Introduction: a critique of digital practices and research infrastructures (Book Chapter) Benardou, Agiatis; Champion, Erik; Dallas, Costis; Hughes, Lorna Benardou, Agiatis; Champion, Erik; Dallas, Costis; Hughes, Lorna (Ed.): Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities, Routledge, 2018, ISBN: 9781472447128. @inbook{Benardou2018, title = {Introduction: a critique of digital practices and research infrastructures}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Erik Champion and Costis Dallas and Lorna M. Hughes}, editor = {Agiatis Benardou and Erik Champion and Costis Dallas and Lorna M. Hughes}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Heritage-Infrastructures-in-Digital-Humanities/Benardou-Champion-Dallas-Hughes/p/book/9780367880415}, isbn = {9781472447128}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-00-00}, booktitle = {Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities}, publisher = {Routledge}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } |
Saving the Centenary’s digital heritage: recommendations for digital sustainability of First World War community commemoration activities (Technical Report) Benardou, Agiatis; Hughes, Lorna; Konstantelos, Leonidas 2018. @techreport{Benardou2018c, title = {Saving the Centenary’s digital heritage: recommendations for digital sustainability of First World War community commemoration activities}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Lorna M. Hughes and Leonidas Konstantelos }, url = {http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/190714/1/190714.pdf}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-00-00}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {techreport} } |
2017 |
Scholarly Ontology: modelling scholarly practices. (Journal Article) Constantopoulos, Panos; Pertsas, Vagianos International Journal on Digital Libraries, Volume: 18 (3), Pages: 173–190, 2017, ISSN: 1432-5012. @article{Constantopoulos2016b, title = {Scholarly Ontology: modelling scholarly practices.}, author = {Panos Constantopoulos and Vagianos Pertsas}, doi = {10.1007/s00799-016-0169-3}, issn = {1432-5012}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-09-01}, journal = {International Journal on Digital Libraries}, volume = {18}, number = {3}, pages = {173–190}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, abstract = {In this paper we present the Scholarly Ontology (SO), an ontology for modelling scholarly practices, inspired by business process modelling and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. The SO is based on empirical research and earlier models and is designed so as to incorporate related works through a modular structure. The SO is an elaboration of the domain-independent core part of the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology addressing the scholarly ecosystem of Digital Humanities. It thus provides a basis for developing domain-specific scholarly work ontologies springing from a common root. We define the basic concepts of the model and their semantic relations through four complementary perspectives on scholarly work: activity, procedure, resource and agency. As a use case we present a modelling example and argue on the purpose of use of the model through the presentation of indicative SPRQL and SQWRL queries that highlight the benefits of its serialization in RDFS. The SO includes an explicit treatment of intentionality and its interplay with functionality, captured by different parts of the model. We discuss the role of types as the semantic bridge between those two parts and explore several patterns that can be exploited in designing reusable access structures and conformance rules. Related taxonomies and ontologies and their possible reuse within the framework of SO are reviewed.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } In this paper we present the Scholarly Ontology (SO), an ontology for modelling scholarly practices, inspired by business process modelling and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory. The SO is based on empirical research and earlier models and is designed so as to incorporate related works through a modular structure. The SO is an elaboration of the domain-independent core part of the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology addressing the scholarly ecosystem of Digital Humanities. It thus provides a basis for developing domain-specific scholarly work ontologies springing from a common root. We define the basic concepts of the model and their semantic relations through four complementary perspectives on scholarly work: activity, procedure, resource and agency. As a use case we present a modelling example and argue on the purpose of use of the model through the presentation of indicative SPRQL and SQWRL queries that highlight the benefits of its serialization in RDFS. The SO includes an explicit treatment of intentionality and its interplay with functionality, captured by different parts of the model. We discuss the role of types as the semantic bridge between those two parts and explore several patterns that can be exploited in designing reusable access structures and conformance rules. Related taxonomies and ontologies and their possible reuse within the framework of SO are reviewed. |
DiMPO - a DARIAH infrastructure survey on digital practices and needs of European scholarship (Presentation) Dallas, Costis; Clivaz, Claire; and Chatzidiakou, Nephelie; Hadalin, Jurij; Gonzalez-Bianco, Elena; Immenhauser, Beat; Maryl, Maciej; Schneider, Gerlinde; Scholger, Walter; Tasovac, Toma; Vosyliute, Ingrida Presentation at the 6th AIUCD Annual Conference, Rome: Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale. , 2017. @misc{Dallas2017, title = {DiMPO - a DARIAH infrastructure survey on digital practices and needs of European scholarship}, author = {Costis Dallas and Claire Clivaz and and Nephelie Chatzidiakou and Jurij Hadalin and Elena Gonzalez-Bianco and Beat Immenhauser and Maciej Maryl and Gerlinde Schneider and Walter Scholger and Toma Tasovac and Ingrida Vosyliute}, url = {https://www.conftool.net/aiucd2017/index.php?page=browseSessions&print=head&form_session=2}, year = {2017}, date = {2017-01-25}, abstract = {In 2015, the Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO) Working Group of DARIAH-EU conducted a European survey on scholarly digital practices and needs, which was translated into ten languages and gathered 2’177 responses from humanities researchers residing in than 20 European countries. A project website is in preparation: http://observatory.dariah.eu (opening in January 2017). The summary of the main results is to be launched at the end of 2016 in a highlights report, presently being translated into the diverse languages of the team (French, German, Greek, Polish, Serbian, Spanish and perhaps more). The survey, the first of its kind in Europe, is a perfect case of multiculturalism and multilingualism, as well as transcultural and transnational collaboration and communication, in full alignment with the 2016 topic of the EADH day. In the next edition - scheduled for 2017 - we envisage the incorporation of questions specific to certain regions or countries so as to address the diversity of different cultural contexts. Our presentation will also underline the main results of the survey with the aim of encouraging debate on the current state of digital practice in the humanities across Europe, and to get vital feedback for the preparation of the next survey. The survey questionnaire consists of twenty-one questions designed to be relevant to researchers from different European countries and humanities disciplines. The main focus is on of specific research activities, methods and tools used by the researchers. After filtering and normalizing the dataset, the results were statistically analyzed using descriptive statistics, although simple tests of two-way association were also performed, to assess the relationship of particular responses to the respondents’ country of residence, discipline, academic status and other relevant factors. In addition to the consolidated European results, six national detailed profiles have been produced, namely for Austria, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia and Switzerland. The findings suggest that the use of digital resources, methods, services and tools is widespread among European Humanities researchers. Used across the scholarly work lifecycle from data collection to publication and dissemination. Results add to our understanding of how users of digital resources, methods, services and tools conduct their research, and what they perceive as important for their work. This is important to ensure appropriate priorities for digital infrastructures, as well as activities and strategies for digital inception, which will shape future initiatives regarding the diverse communities of researchers in the arts and humanities. Ultimately, the analysis of digital practices can provide original data and information to strengthen our understanding of how humanists work, and of Humanities proper. Stanford University defines the humanities “as the study of how people process and document the human experience. Since humans have been able, we have used philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language to understand and record our world”. Understanding the needs of humanists, the main purpose of the DiMPO European survey, is a sine qua non condition to ensure that the fundamental purpose of the arts and humanities continues to be served in the digital era.}, howpublished = {Presentation at the 6th AIUCD Annual Conference, Rome: Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } In 2015, the Digital Methods and Practices Observatory (DiMPO) Working Group of DARIAH-EU conducted a European survey on scholarly digital practices and needs, which was translated into ten languages and gathered 2’177 responses from humanities researchers residing in than 20 European countries. A project website is in preparation: http://observatory.dariah.eu (opening in January 2017). The summary of the main results is to be launched at the end of 2016 in a highlights report, presently being translated into the diverse languages of the team (French, German, Greek, Polish, Serbian, Spanish and perhaps more). The survey, the first of its kind in Europe, is a perfect case of multiculturalism and multilingualism, as well as transcultural and transnational collaboration and communication, in full alignment with the 2016 topic of the EADH day. In the next edition - scheduled for 2017 - we envisage the incorporation of questions specific to certain regions or countries so as to address the diversity of different cultural contexts. Our presentation will also underline the main results of the survey with the aim of encouraging debate on the current state of digital practice in the humanities across Europe, and to get vital feedback for the preparation of the next survey. The survey questionnaire consists of twenty-one questions designed to be relevant to researchers from different European countries and humanities disciplines. The main focus is on of specific research activities, methods and tools used by the researchers. After filtering and normalizing the dataset, the results were statistically analyzed using descriptive statistics, although simple tests of two-way association were also performed, to assess the relationship of particular responses to the respondents’ country of residence, discipline, academic status and other relevant factors. In addition to the consolidated European results, six national detailed profiles have been produced, namely for Austria, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia and Switzerland. The findings suggest that the use of digital resources, methods, services and tools is widespread among European Humanities researchers. Used across the scholarly work lifecycle from data collection to publication and dissemination. Results add to our understanding of how users of digital resources, methods, services and tools conduct their research, and what they perceive as important for their work. This is important to ensure appropriate priorities for digital infrastructures, as well as activities and strategies for digital inception, which will shape future initiatives regarding the diverse communities of researchers in the arts and humanities. Ultimately, the analysis of digital practices can provide original data and information to strengthen our understanding of how humanists work, and of Humanities proper. Stanford University defines the humanities “as the study of how people process and document the human experience. Since humans have been able, we have used philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language to understand and record our world”. Understanding the needs of humanists, the main purpose of the DiMPO European survey, is a sine qua non condition to ensure that the fundamental purpose of the arts and humanities continues to be served in the digital era. |
2016 |
Digital Methods in the Humanities: Understanding and Describing their Use across the Disciplines (Book Chapter) Constantopoulos, Panos; Hughes, Lorna; Dallas, Costis Schreibman, Susan; Siemens, Ray; Unsworth, John (Ed.): A New Companion to Digital Humanities, Chapter 11, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016, ISBN: 9781118680599. @inbook{Constantopoulos2016, title = {Digital Methods in the Humanities: Understanding and Describing their Use across the Disciplines}, author = {Panos Constantopoulos and Lorna Hughes and Costis Dallas }, editor = {Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens and John Unsworth}, doi = {doi: 10.1002/9781118680605.ch11 }, isbn = {9781118680599}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-11-25}, booktitle = {A New Companion to Digital Humanities}, publisher = {John Wiley & Sons, Ltd}, chapter = {11}, abstract = {This chapter considers the impact and reach of digital methods in the humanities. Digital methods are a core element of what has been called the “methodological commons”: the intellectual, disciplinary, and methodological framework that underlies the conceptualization and understanding of digital humanities. The term “method” is used to refer to the computer-based (also called information and communications technology, or ICT) techniques for the creation, analysis, communication, and dissemination of digital research. This chapter revisits the theory of computer-based methods as a core construct (or “scholarly primitive”) of the digital humanities. It reviews two significant collaborative research support initiatives to investigate the use of ICT methods in the humanities, and explores the interdependencies between digital methods and the content and computer-based tools they are used with across these disciplines. The chapter also discusses recent initiatives to formalize the expression of ICT methods in the humanities, exploring how an emerging ontology of digital methods might contribute to wider adoption and understanding of digital humanities.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } This chapter considers the impact and reach of digital methods in the humanities. Digital methods are a core element of what has been called the “methodological commons”: the intellectual, disciplinary, and methodological framework that underlies the conceptualization and understanding of digital humanities. The term “method” is used to refer to the computer-based (also called information and communications technology, or ICT) techniques for the creation, analysis, communication, and dissemination of digital research. This chapter revisits the theory of computer-based methods as a core construct (or “scholarly primitive”) of the digital humanities. It reviews two significant collaborative research support initiatives to investigate the use of ICT methods in the humanities, and explores the interdependencies between digital methods and the content and computer-based tools they are used with across these disciplines. The chapter also discusses recent initiatives to formalize the expression of ICT methods in the humanities, exploring how an emerging ontology of digital methods might contribute to wider adoption and understanding of digital humanities. |
MORe : A micro-service oriented aggregator (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Gavrilis, Dimitris; Nomikos, Vagelis; Kravvaritis, Konstantinos; Angelis, Stavros; Papatheodorou, Christos; Constantopoulos, Panos Volume: 672 of the series Communications in Computer and Information Science Springer International Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-49157-8. @inproceedings{Gavrilis2016, title = {MORe : A micro-service oriented aggregator}, author = {Dimitris Gavrilis and Vagelis Nomikos and Konstantinos Kravvaritis and Stavros Angelis and Christos Papatheodorou and Panos Constantopoulos }, url = {http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319491561}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-49157-8}, isbn = {978-3-319-49157-8}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-11-22}, issuetitle = {Metadata and Semantics Research 10th International Conference, Proceedings}, volume = {672}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science}, abstract = {Metadata aggregation is a task increasingly encountered in many projects involving data repositories. The small number of specialized software for this task indicates that in most cases customized software is used to perform aggregation, which in turn relates to the highly complex tasks and architectures involved. In this paper, the metadata and object repository aggregator (MORe) is presented, which has been effectively used in numerous projects and provides an easy and flexible way of aggregating metadata from multiple sources and in multiple formats. Its flexible and scalable architecture exploits cloud technologies and allows storing content into different storage systems, defining workflows dynamically and extending the system with external services. One of the most important aspects of MORe is its curation/enrichment services which allow curation managers to automatically apply and execute enrichment plans employing enrichment micro-services in order to aggregated data.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Metadata aggregation is a task increasingly encountered in many projects involving data repositories. The small number of specialized software for this task indicates that in most cases customized software is used to perform aggregation, which in turn relates to the highly complex tasks and architectures involved. In this paper, the metadata and object repository aggregator (MORe) is presented, which has been effectively used in numerous projects and provides an easy and flexible way of aggregating metadata from multiple sources and in multiple formats. Its flexible and scalable architecture exploits cloud technologies and allows storing content into different storage systems, defining workflows dynamically and extending the system with external services. One of the most important aspects of MORe is its curation/enrichment services which allow curation managers to automatically apply and execute enrichment plans employing enrichment micro-services in order to aggregated data. |
Do you remember the first time?: Case Studies on digital content reuse in the context of Europeana Cloud (Presentation) Benardou, Agiatis; Garnett, Vicky; Papaki, Eliza Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Congress , 2016. @misc{Benardou2016, title = {Do you remember the first time?: Case Studies on digital content reuse in the context of Europeana Cloud}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Vicky Garnett and Eliza Papaki}, url = {https://www.hrionline.ac.uk/dhc/2016/paper/84}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-09-01}, abstract = {This poster presents work on documenting user needs in the Humanities and Social Sciences as illustrated through Case Studies in the context of the Europeana Cloud ‘Unlocking Europe’s Research via the Cloud’ project. Conducted as part of a wider methodological effort including desk research, expert fora and a web survey, methodology and findings of actual use of innovative digital tools and services will be visually represented. This work will form the basis of the Europeana Research Case Studies which will seek to gather and process an evidence-based record of the information practices, needs and scholarly methods in the respective communities.}, howpublished = {Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Congress}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } This poster presents work on documenting user needs in the Humanities and Social Sciences as illustrated through Case Studies in the context of the Europeana Cloud ‘Unlocking Europe’s Research via the Cloud’ project. Conducted as part of a wider methodological effort including desk research, expert fora and a web survey, methodology and findings of actual use of innovative digital tools and services will be visually represented. This work will form the basis of the Europeana Research Case Studies which will seek to gather and process an evidence-based record of the information practices, needs and scholarly methods in the respective communities. |
Integrating data for archaeology (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Gavrilis, Dimitris; Fihn, Johan; Sebastian,; Olsson, Olof; Afiontzi, Eleni; Felicetti, Achille; Niccolucci, Franco 22nd Annual Meeting of EAA , Pages: 339-340, Saulius Jokuzys Publishing-Printing House, 2016. @inproceedings{Gavrilis2016c, title = {Integrating data for archaeology}, author = {Dimitris Gavrilis and Johan Fihn and Sebastian and Olof Olsson and Eleni Afiontzi and Achille Felicetti and Franco Niccolucci}, url = {http://eaavilnius2016.lt/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Book-Abstract-A4_08-23_net.pdf}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-07-30}, booktitle = {22nd Annual Meeting of EAA }, pages = {339-340}, publisher = {Saulius Jokuzys Publishing-Printing House}, abstract = {In the past years, infrastructure projects in the Archaeology domain have focused on data aggregation in order to bring to the end users the vast amount of information gathered from various organizations and stakeholders. The typical processes found in a data aggregation infrastructure include: ingestion, normalization, transformation and validation processes that mainly focus on the homogenization and cleaning of heterogenous data. A portal is usually employed to present this information to the end users and is met with limited success due to the vast information contained. In order to increase the quality of services that are provided to end users, the European funded project Ariadne (http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/) aims at integrating this data by modelling the underlying domain and providing the technical framework for automatic integration of heterogeneous resources. The heart of the infrastructure lies in the underlying domain model: Ariadne Catalog Data Model (ACDM), a DCAT derived model which models a large number of entities such as Agents, Language resources, datasets, collections, reports, services, databases, etc. With the help of a of micro-service oriented architecture and a set of powerful enrichment micro-services all aggregated data are transformed into XML and RDF, annotated over subject, space and time with the help of AAT, Geonames and Perio.do thesauri (thus establishing a common reference) and interlinked with each other based on their structural or logical relationiships. The data integration services can mine for links among resources, link them together and against language resources such as vocabularies. Complex records can be split into their individual components, represented, enriched and stored separately while maintaining their identity using semantic linking. Each integrated resource is assigned a URI and published to: a) Virtuoso RDF Store in RDF which provides a SPARQL interface b) to Elastic Search in JSON which provides a powerful indexing mechanism that can help present and associate resources accurately in real-time. This approach can provide developers and creative industries with the means to create innovative applications and mine information from the RDF store. End users ranging from simple visitors to domain researchers can access this data through the infrastructure’s portal which is capable of hiding the complexity of this plethora of data, filter the results using a plethora of filters and present connected resources in a way that can help guide the user instead of confusing him/her. The technical infrastructure has been developed using various programming languages such as Java, PHP, Javascript, it is distributed spanning multiple virtual machines and brings together different established technologies and components. Both the technical infrastructure and the portal will be presented and demonstrated. }, howpublished = {In 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists: Conference Abstracts}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } In the past years, infrastructure projects in the Archaeology domain have focused on data aggregation in order to bring to the end users the vast amount of information gathered from various organizations and stakeholders. The typical processes found in a data aggregation infrastructure include: ingestion, normalization, transformation and validation processes that mainly focus on the homogenization and cleaning of heterogenous data. A portal is usually employed to present this information to the end users and is met with limited success due to the vast information contained. In order to increase the quality of services that are provided to end users, the European funded project Ariadne (http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/) aims at integrating this data by modelling the underlying domain and providing the technical framework for automatic integration of heterogeneous resources. The heart of the infrastructure lies in the underlying domain model: Ariadne Catalog Data Model (ACDM), a DCAT derived model which models a large number of entities such as Agents, Language resources, datasets, collections, reports, services, databases, etc. With the help of a of micro-service oriented architecture and a set of powerful enrichment micro-services all aggregated data are transformed into XML and RDF, annotated over subject, space and time with the help of AAT, Geonames and Perio.do thesauri (thus establishing a common reference) and interlinked with each other based on their structural or logical relationiships. The data integration services can mine for links among resources, link them together and against language resources such as vocabularies. Complex records can be split into their individual components, represented, enriched and stored separately while maintaining their identity using semantic linking. Each integrated resource is assigned a URI and published to: a) Virtuoso RDF Store in RDF which provides a SPARQL interface b) to Elastic Search in JSON which provides a powerful indexing mechanism that can help present and associate resources accurately in real-time. This approach can provide developers and creative industries with the means to create innovative applications and mine information from the RDF store. End users ranging from simple visitors to domain researchers can access this data through the infrastructure’s portal which is capable of hiding the complexity of this plethora of data, filter the results using a plethora of filters and present connected resources in a way that can help guide the user instead of confusing him/her. The technical infrastructure has been developed using various programming languages such as Java, PHP, Javascript, it is distributed spanning multiple virtual machines and brings together different established technologies and components. Both the technical infrastructure and the portal will be presented and demonstrated. |
dariahTeach: online teaching beyond MOOCs (Presentation) Schreibman, Susan; Benardou, Agiatis; Clivaz, Claire; Durco, Matej; Huang, Marianne; Papaki, Eliza; Scagliola, Stef; Tasovac, Toma; Wissik, Tanja Paper presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference , 2016. @misc{Schreibman2016, title = {dariahTeach: online teaching beyond MOOCs}, author = {Susan Schreibman and Agiatis Benardou and Claire Clivaz and Matej Durco and Marianne Huang and Eliza Papaki and Stef Scagliola and Toma Tasovac and Tanja Wissik}, url = {http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/292}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-07-11}, abstract = {Over the past few years innovation in the online teaching landscape had centred around MOOCs. The rhetoric around MOOCs has moved from an open platform providing free access to high-quality educational resources for millions around the world, to a for-profit model working with businesses to train prospective employees for today’s jobs (Manjoo, Selingo) #dariahTeach is adopting a different model in the production, dissemination, and promotion of high-quality, freely-available educational resources in DH for third-level. This paper will present the results of preliminary research carried out through a user study, a workshop on open educational resources, module, and platform design.}, howpublished = {Paper presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } Over the past few years innovation in the online teaching landscape had centred around MOOCs. The rhetoric around MOOCs has moved from an open platform providing free access to high-quality educational resources for millions around the world, to a for-profit model working with businesses to train prospective employees for today’s jobs (Manjoo, Selingo) #dariahTeach is adopting a different model in the production, dissemination, and promotion of high-quality, freely-available educational resources in DH for third-level. This paper will present the results of preliminary research carried out through a user study, a workshop on open educational resources, module, and platform design. |
Playing With Cultural Heritage Through Digital Gaming: The New Narrative of the ARK4 Project (Presentation) Benardou, Agiatis; Angeletaki, Alexandra; Chatzidiakou, Nephelie; Papaki, Eliza Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference , 2016. @misc{Benardou2016, title = {Playing With Cultural Heritage Through Digital Gaming: The New Narrative of the ARK4 Project}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Alexandra Angeletaki and Nephelie Chatzidiakou and Eliza Papaki }, url = {http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/184}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-07-11}, abstract = {ARK4 aimed at investigating new paths of disseminating archival content using technology in order to create an interactive dialogue with the general public (Galani 2003, Tonta 2008), create engagement with collections and support learning (Prensky 2005). The project started with a pilot study, through a series of educational workshops already established by the institutions involved and a digital game to supplement the workshop design in which specific interactive digital platforms were explored by students. In its new phase, ARK4 will develop an interactive web platform incorporating all different types of digital gaming produced and also new content drawn from digital collections provided by the partners and Europeana repository. In this poster we illustrate the impact of digital technology gaming in the field of the contemporary museum and cultural heritage practice using empirical evidence collected from educational workshops held by the project ARK4. This is a project that is initiated by the NTNU University library in Trondheim, in collaboration with the Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C. in Athens, Greece and financed by the National Library of Oslo, Norway and NTNU.}, howpublished = {Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } ARK4 aimed at investigating new paths of disseminating archival content using technology in order to create an interactive dialogue with the general public (Galani 2003, Tonta 2008), create engagement with collections and support learning (Prensky 2005). The project started with a pilot study, through a series of educational workshops already established by the institutions involved and a digital game to supplement the workshop design in which specific interactive digital platforms were explored by students. In its new phase, ARK4 will develop an interactive web platform incorporating all different types of digital gaming produced and also new content drawn from digital collections provided by the partners and Europeana repository. In this poster we illustrate the impact of digital technology gaming in the field of the contemporary museum and cultural heritage practice using empirical evidence collected from educational workshops held by the project ARK4. This is a project that is initiated by the NTNU University library in Trondheim, in collaboration with the Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C. in Athens, Greece and financed by the National Library of Oslo, Norway and NTNU. |
Curating Community: Building a Communications Strategy For The European Association For Digital Humanities (Presentation) Papaki, Eliza; O’Sullivan, James; Rojas, Antonio Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference , 2016. @misc{Papaki2016, title = {Curating Community: Building a Communications Strategy For The European Association For Digital Humanities}, author = {Eliza Papaki and James O’Sullivan and Antonio Rojas}, url = {http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/279}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-07-11}, abstract = {This poster will seek to illustrate the enhanced communications presence of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) since 2014, and measure the impact of its action in building a community of geographically-dispersed members. It will outline the strategies undertaken by the EADH in furthering its communications initiative, for which a number of Communications Fellows have been activated on the organisation’s communications policy in an effort to promote the work of digital scholars across the European region. Accounts of this activity will be further contextualised by theoretical discussion on the evolution of social media and Web-based communications across academia.}, howpublished = {Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } This poster will seek to illustrate the enhanced communications presence of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) since 2014, and measure the impact of its action in building a community of geographically-dispersed members. It will outline the strategies undertaken by the EADH in furthering its communications initiative, for which a number of Communications Fellows have been activated on the organisation’s communications policy in an effort to promote the work of digital scholars across the European region. Accounts of this activity will be further contextualised by theoretical discussion on the evolution of social media and Web-based communications across academia. |
Reflecting On And Refracting User Needs Through Case Studies In The Light of Europeana Research (Presentation) Benardou, Agiatis; Dunning, Alastair; Ekman, Stefan; Garnett, Vicky; Jordan, Caspar; Lace, Ilze; Papaki, Eliza Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference , 2016. @misc{Benardou2016, title = {Reflecting On And Refracting User Needs Through Case Studies In The Light of Europeana Research}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Alastair Dunning and Stefan Ekman and Vicky Garnett and Caspar Jordan and Ilze Lace and Eliza Papaki }, url = {http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/329}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-07-11}, abstract = {This poster presents work on documenting user needs in the Humanities and Social Sciences as illustrated through Case Studies in the context of the Europeana Cloud ‘Unlocking Europe’s Research via the Cloud’ project. Conducted as part of a wider methodological effort including desk research, expert fora and a web survey, methodology and findings of actual use of innovative digital tools and services will be visually represented. This work will form the basis of the Europeana Research Case Studies which will seek to gather and process an evidence-based record of the information practices, needs and scholarly methods in the respective communities.}, howpublished = {Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } This poster presents work on documenting user needs in the Humanities and Social Sciences as illustrated through Case Studies in the context of the Europeana Cloud ‘Unlocking Europe’s Research via the Cloud’ project. Conducted as part of a wider methodological effort including desk research, expert fora and a web survey, methodology and findings of actual use of innovative digital tools and services will be visually represented. This work will form the basis of the Europeana Research Case Studies which will seek to gather and process an evidence-based record of the information practices, needs and scholarly methods in the respective communities. |
Scholarly Research Activities and Digital Tools: When NeMO met FLOSS (Presentation) Benardou, Agiatis; Charles, Valentine; Chatzidiakou, Nephelie; Constantopoulos, Panos; Dallas, Costis; Sáez, Ana Isabel González; Gordea, Sergiu; Hughes, Lorna; Karavellas, Themistoklis; Marcus, Gregory; Papachristopoulos, Leonidas; Pertsas, Vayianos Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference , 2016. @misc{Benardou2016d, title = {Scholarly Research Activities and Digital Tools: When NeMO met FLOSS}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Valentine Charles and Nephelie Chatzidiakou and Panos Constantopoulos and Costis Dallas and Ana Isabel González Sáez and Sergiu Gordea and Lorna M. Hughes and Themistoklis Karavellas and Gregory Marcus and Leonidas Papachristopoulos and Vayianos Pertsas }, url = {http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/180}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-07-11}, booktitle = {Digital Humanities 2016}, abstract = {While there has been a significant investment in the development of digital tools that can be used in the humanities, information about their use is frequently located in disciplinary silos, with little transfer of knowledge about the features of specific tools that make them valuable for research across the humanities. This poster shows the collaboration between two initiatives, the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO) and the EuropeanaTech FLOSS Inventory Task Force. The aim was to carry out research in order to align the FLOSS Inventory against the Activity Types in NeMO, the Ontology of Digital Methods for the Humanities developed by the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), IMIS-ATHENA R.C with the ESF Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH). The FLOSS Inventory is an effort undertaken by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and EuropeanaTech to raise awareness of, share access to, and improve the overall status of Open Source software available for cultural heritage developers internationally. The Inventory contains over 200 well-documented, active and relevant OS tools and is actively updated and maintained. NeMO provides a conceptual framework for representing scholarly practice in the Humanities. This is the main output of NeDiMAH, a Network that ran from 2011- 15 and brought into collaboration 16 countries to document the practice of Digital Humanities across Europe in a series of Methodological Working Groups. Building on earlier expertise in digital taxonomies for the digital humanities, NeDiMAH facilitated a research project carried out by DCU, building upon earlier work on scholarly activity modeling in projects including DARIAH, EHRI and Europeana Cloud. NeMO is a formal ontology which enables the representation and codification of scholarly work by providing a controlled vocabulary of interrelated concepts. NeMO offers a flexible tagging system through a taxonomy of Activity Types, structured in five hierarchies that correspond roughly to scholarly primitives (Unsworth, 2000), and incorporates existing taxonomies and related work such as TadiRAH, Oxford ICT, and DH Commons. The research teams working on FLOSS and NeMO collaborated to map each tool in the FLOSS inventory against NeMO Activity Types. According to the structure established by NeMO, scholarly research practices are divided into five core Activity Types within a scholarly research lifecycle: acquiring, communicating, conceiving, processing and seeking, which encompass narrower terms accounting for further detail and specialization. This study allows the integration of the information about tools gathered by FLOSS into a uniform conceptual framework for expressing knowledge about scholarly work. By doing so, it also validates the ability of the NeMO ontology to act as a sound framework for the conceptual representation of digital tools and services in one important area of the humanities. This mapping enables the categorisation of available tools according to the function they serve, and could permit researchers in the Humanities - even those without a technical background - to consult an authoritative list of tools covering their needs according to the type of activity they wish to undertake. Availability and the role that each tool can play in the research practice may increase its overall use by the community. The representation of the FLOSS Inventory using NeMO adds value to digital research, and the visualization of categorization ratios it provides facilitates an important debate about software development trends, probing the question whether development is weighted towards software tools that address researchers’ needs, a major topic of research in Research Infrastructures across Europe and beyond.}, howpublished = {Poster presented at the 2016 Digital Humanities Conference}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } While there has been a significant investment in the development of digital tools that can be used in the humanities, information about their use is frequently located in disciplinary silos, with little transfer of knowledge about the features of specific tools that make them valuable for research across the humanities. This poster shows the collaboration between two initiatives, the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO) and the EuropeanaTech FLOSS Inventory Task Force. The aim was to carry out research in order to align the FLOSS Inventory against the Activity Types in NeMO, the Ontology of Digital Methods for the Humanities developed by the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), IMIS-ATHENA R.C with the ESF Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH). The FLOSS Inventory is an effort undertaken by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and EuropeanaTech to raise awareness of, share access to, and improve the overall status of Open Source software available for cultural heritage developers internationally. The Inventory contains over 200 well-documented, active and relevant OS tools and is actively updated and maintained. NeMO provides a conceptual framework for representing scholarly practice in the Humanities. This is the main output of NeDiMAH, a Network that ran from 2011- 15 and brought into collaboration 16 countries to document the practice of Digital Humanities across Europe in a series of Methodological Working Groups. Building on earlier expertise in digital taxonomies for the digital humanities, NeDiMAH facilitated a research project carried out by DCU, building upon earlier work on scholarly activity modeling in projects including DARIAH, EHRI and Europeana Cloud. NeMO is a formal ontology which enables the representation and codification of scholarly work by providing a controlled vocabulary of interrelated concepts. NeMO offers a flexible tagging system through a taxonomy of Activity Types, structured in five hierarchies that correspond roughly to scholarly primitives (Unsworth, 2000), and incorporates existing taxonomies and related work such as TadiRAH, Oxford ICT, and DH Commons. The research teams working on FLOSS and NeMO collaborated to map each tool in the FLOSS inventory against NeMO Activity Types. According to the structure established by NeMO, scholarly research practices are divided into five core Activity Types within a scholarly research lifecycle: acquiring, communicating, conceiving, processing and seeking, which encompass narrower terms accounting for further detail and specialization. This study allows the integration of the information about tools gathered by FLOSS into a uniform conceptual framework for expressing knowledge about scholarly work. By doing so, it also validates the ability of the NeMO ontology to act as a sound framework for the conceptual representation of digital tools and services in one important area of the humanities. This mapping enables the categorisation of available tools according to the function they serve, and could permit researchers in the Humanities - even those without a technical background - to consult an authoritative list of tools covering their needs according to the type of activity they wish to undertake. Availability and the role that each tool can play in the research practice may increase its overall use by the community. The representation of the FLOSS Inventory using NeMO adds value to digital research, and the visualization of categorization ratios it provides facilitates an important debate about software development trends, probing the question whether development is weighted towards software tools that address researchers’ needs, a major topic of research in Research Infrastructures across Europe and beyond. |
