A Network for Judaica Digital Humanities Dov Winer
Scientific Manager,
Judaica Europeana (EAJC)
EVA/Minerva 2013
The 10th Jerusalem International Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
To seek the integration of contents, communities of practice,
and tools/infrastructures
The Jewish Studies research community as a potential
community of practice
Jewish Digitised Contents with a common data model
Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities
Availability of Digital Scholarship tools and infrastructures
Challenge: integration into a Virtual Research Environment
(VRE)
Outline
Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies
Jewish Digitised Content
Judaica Europeana Partners
~5,000,000 +
digital objects
Jewish Digitised Content
Jewish Digitised Content
Jewish Digitised Content
Common Data Model for
Content Description
Common Data Model
Outline
Linked Data: structured
data on the Web
David Woood
Marsha Zeidman
Luke Ruth
with
Michael Hausenblas
Manning Publications
MEAP 2013
Who? What? When? Where?
Controlled vocabularies: hubs of
Jewish Knowledge in the
Structured Web
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.
Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT
Encyclopedia Judaica
Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry
http://www.rujen.ru/
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
Rav Zeev Vagner
Josh Kopelman
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_with_Judaic_categories.html
Digital Humanities
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)
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
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
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
Tools and Infrastructure
Prof. Stefan Gradmann
Prof. Christian Bizer
Scholarly services
Document Mapping;
Concordance; Collocation/Cloud;
Frequency; Morphological
Analysis; Syntactic Analysis;
Named Entity Identification;
Proxied SEASR Analytics
VRE
Virtual Research Environment
Community+Content+
Tools/Infrastructure
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
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
VRE
Virtual Research Environment
Examples
VRE
Virtual Research Environment
some off the shelf systems
www.judaica-europeana.eu
Thank you for your attention!
Dov Winer Judaica Europeana Scientific Manager
European Association for Jewish Culture
Presentation available at:
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/docs/vre.pdf
