PARTHENOS Webinar: Boost Your eHumanities and eHeritage Research with Research Infrastructures
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The document provides details about a webinar hosted by Darja Fišer and Ulrike Wuttke focusing on enhancing eHumanities and eHeritage research through research infrastructures. It outlines the agenda, goals, and potential of citizen science in the context of cultural heritage and emphasizes the need for developing research questions that incorporate digital tools and collaborative approaches. Additionally, it discusses various projects and resources related to digital humanities and encourages engagement between researchers and the public.
PARTHENOS Webinar: Boost Your eHumanities and eHeritage Research with Research Infrastructures
- 2. PARTHENOS eHumanities and eHeritage Webinar Series Boost your eHumanities and eHeritage Research with Research Infrastructures Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana) & Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam) Date and Time: 24.04.2028, 13:00 - 14:00 CEST Moderation: Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam) Join the conversation on Twitter: #PARTHENOSWebinar @Parthenos_EU Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Graphic: Otto, the Open Access Otter CC-BY 4.0, Katja Diederichs
- 3. Some Housekeeping… • As a participant you will be muted and not be seen throughout the webinar. • For questions and remarks please use the chat. For questions, please use the word question. • Your questions are going to be answered by the trainers during / after the presentation. • If you have sound problems, please test your technical settings. You have to click on the speaker symbol on top to to be able to hear (it has to be green). • Help us improve: Follow up e-mail with a link to a short feedback survey. Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 4. Some words about PARTHENOS… • PARTHENOS stands for: Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage eResearch Networking, Optimization and Synergies • PARTHENOS is a Horizon 2020 project with the aim to strengthen the cohesion of Heritage related E-research • Running time: 1 May 2015 - 30 April 2019 • PARTHENOS has 16 partners from 9 European countries • PARTHENOS Coordinator: PIN Scrl (Italy) • The PARTHENOS webinar series is a cross PARTHENOS training effort Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 5. Which country are you participating from? Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cartography OpenStreetMap, licensed as CC BY-SA (copyright page).
- 6. Boost your eHumanities and eHeritage research with Research Infrastructures Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Trainers Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany)
- 7. Boost your eHumanities and eHeritage research with Research Infrastructures Darja Fišer & Ulrike Wuttke Unless otherwise stated this presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 8. What we will do in this webinar: ● highlight advantages of developing research questions in an „infrastructural way“ ● exemplify aspects of finding, working, and contributing data to Research Infrastructures (RIs) and using Virtual Research Environments (VREs) and tools ● present Citizen Science approaches for Humanities and Heritage research
- 9. Poll: What is for you the first step in a research project? How do you start a project?
- 10. What is developing research questions in humanities? ● Gesta Danorum ○ written in about 1200 in High Latin by Danish historian Saxo ○ describes in 16 books the period of time from King Dan to Canute VI of Denmark ○ traditionally divided into 2 parts: B1-9 Norse mythology & B10-16 describing Christianity Research question: “Is it B9 or B10 that represents the transition from the heathen to the Christian period in the Gesta Danorum?” Source: Clavs Povlsen https://www.clarin.eu/showcase/gesta-danorum
- 11. • frequency per thousand of Christian elements for B8 is significantly lower compared to B9&10 (0.25, 2.0, and 2.0) • the change in terms of Christian language usage lies between B8&9 Source: Clavs Povlsen https://www.clarin.eu/showcase/gesta-danorum • frequent use of elements from the Christian register of words indicates that the topic described has to do with Christianity in this case the transition from heathen to the Christian period in the Gesta Danorum What is developing research questions in humanities?
- 12. Finding, working, and contributing data to RIs CLARIN Resource Families www.clarin.eu/resource-families ● parliamentary corpora ● newspaper corpora ● parallel corpora ● CMC corpora ● L2 learner corpora
- 13. Federated Content Search https://spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/fcs/2.0/aggregator/ Finding, working, and contributing data to RIs
- 14. Virtual Language Observatory https://vlo.clarin.eu/ Finding, working, and contributing data to RIs
- 15. Using VREs and tools CLARIN Language Switchboard https://switchboard.clarin.eu ● digitized by Slovenian National University Library ● about Bosnia ● written in German 15
- 16. Where to find/store data/tools/expertise/training: Source: Slide from Stefan Schmunk, & Steven Krauwer. (2018, March). Slides from "e-Humanities and e-Heritage Research Infrastructures: Beyond tools" (PARTHENOS eHumanities and eHeritage Webinar, Thursday, 22.02.2018, 11:00 – 12:00 A.M. CET). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1203335,
- 17. The Cultural Heritage Data Reuse Charter ● scenario: Researcher wants to use digital cultural heritage assets (=data) hosted by CHIs/datacentres/infrastructures for research ● at the moment, this is mostly far from easy to achieve ● users wish to re-use and share data = straightforward conditions of re-use Picture from slides by Laurent Romary ‘Access to Cultural Heritage Data: A Challenge for Digital Humanities’, 09.04.2018, https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/academic-and-research-libraries/conferences/laurent_romary_data_reuse_charter.pdf
- 18. The Cultural Heritage Data Reuse Charter ● aim: Opening up Cultural Heritage data where possible and improve the interplay between scientific research and CHIs ● prerequisite: a non-restrictive, easy to understand and applicable general framework that provides incentives and best practices to all stakeholders about access, use, and reuse ● the Cultural Heritage Data Reuse Charter as a common online environment is currently under development with several supra-national infrastructures and projects involved (including CLARIN, DARIAH, PARTHENOS etc.) Picture: ‘1413 Charter WillemVI aanleg Kostverloren HH Rijnland CHRT-0025.jpg’ Licence: Public Domain, source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Category:Charters?uselang=de#/media/File:1413_Charter_WillemVI_aanleg_Kostverloren_HH_Rijnland_CHRT-0025.jpg
- 19. The Cultural Heritage Data Reuse Charter: Vision ● go to the Charter mission statement ● read more in the PARTHENOS Training Suite about Managing Cultural Heritage Assets and the Cultural Heritage Reuse Charter Picture from slides by Laurent Romary ‘Access to Cultural Heritage Data: A Challenge for Digital Humanities’, 09.04.2018, https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/academic-and-research-libraries/conferences/laurent_romary_data_reuse_charter.pdf
- 20. Talk of Europe (2014-2015) Source: http://www.talkofeurope.eu/2014/01/about/ ● Erasmus University Rotterdam, University Amsterdam, DANS, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision ● goal: facilitate richer research of the European Parliament by turning the EP proceedings into Linked Open Data and organizing creative camps to spark collaborative development on the new database • Linked Open Data • semantic: Give me politicians who held a speech on 23 March 2011. • linked: Give me politicians from the Committee on Foreign Affairs who held a speech on 23 March 2011. • open: Give me politicians from the Committee on Foreign Affairs who held a speech on the topic of human rights 23 March 2011.
- 21. A Digital Database of Manuscripts and Intercultural Dialogue in Post-Conquest England ● this Europeana Research Grant project draws on Europeana data to take a new approach to the status of French writing following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 ● aim: create and analyse an EDM-compliant digital database of all 958 manuscripts containing French literature from medieval England “Digitisation of medieval manuscripts has been so important to medievalists in general. There are still many reasons to work with a manuscript in person, but among other benefits, the digitisation of medieval manuscripts allows us to visually compare manuscripts from different collections, to see new details on manuscripts and to access manuscripts remotely. The kind of project I’m working on now, which involves checking linguistic data of a large number of manuscripts, wouldn’t be feasible without digitised manuscript collections.” Krista Murchison (Leiden University) https://pro.europeana.eu/post/medieval-manuscript-databases-krista-murchison-europeana-research-grants-winner Sources: https://pro.europeana.eu/post/these-are-the-winners-of-the-europeana-research-grants-programme-2017, https://pro.europeana.eu/ post/medieval-manuscript-databases-krista-murchison-europeana-research-grants-winner British Library, Additional MS 35283, fol. 75v, CC0.
- 22. The JANES Project 2014-2017 Source: http://nl.ijs.si/janes/english/ ● University of Ljubljana, Jožef Stefan Institute ● goal: facilitate research of communication practices in social media by compiling a corpus of Slovenian UGC and developing tools and resources for processing Slovenian UGC • Results • Richly annotated corpora: user metadata (type, sex, region), text metadata (date, language, standardness level, sentiment), linguistic annotation (normalization, PoS-tagging, lemmatization) • Manually annotated corpora: for training tools (normalization, tagging, parsing), for linguistic analysis (abbreviation strategies, comma placement, code-switching, dialects, politicians)
- 23. Venice Time Machine ● aim: capture 1,000 years of records of the Republic of Venice in dynamic digital form ● machine-learning technologies will enable the researchers to search and cross- reference the information ● for automated text recognition it cooperates with H2020 READ-Transcribus ● challenge: organize transparent processes linking historical records and computer-based visualizations ● first outcomes: development of the Rialto from AD 950 ● many possibilities for e.g. language research, personal networks, economic history, medical history etc. ● Vision: link to similar time machines in Europe’s historic centres of culture and commerce (e.g. Amsterdam, Paris etc.) Sources: https://www.nature.com/news/the-time-machine-reconstructing-ancient-venice-s-social-networks-1.22147 https://vtm.epfl.ch/page-109337.html 3D reconstruction of Rialto neighborhood in 1500 ab. based on the documents of Venetian archives, © DHLAB / EPFL, AMstudio, Venice
- 24. Citizen Science Bürgerwissenschaft Sciences Participatives Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wien/Archiv/2015#/media/File:20140415_TFM_Edit-a-thon_Wien_0301.jpg CC BY-SA 3.0 at
- 25. Galaxy Zoo: The most successful Citizen Science project ever (so far…) Screenshot of: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/
- 26. What is Citizen Science? “Citizen Science refers to the general public engagement in scientific research activities when citizens actively contribute to science either with their intellectual effort or surrounding knowledge or with their tools and resources.” Source: Serrano Sanz et al. 2014, p. 8. Source: https://twitter.com/OHBM/status/971793038543671296 Open Innovation Strategy for Austria 2016
- 27. ● “Digital Transformation” (Web 2.0, new technologies, new philosophy of sharing) provides huge potential for Citizen Science ● many successful Citizen Science projects take place in the digital world (VREs) ● digital solutions mobilize individual and collective engagement for co-creation ● new forms of scientific communication play a huge role Citizen Science and the Digital Transformation
- 28. Source: Bonn et al. 2016, p. 17. Source: Serrano Sanz et al. 2014, p. 9. Models of Citizen Engagement in Science
- 29. Citizen Science examples from eHumanities and eHeritage Heinrich Schliemann, the German pioneer of archeology who discovered Troy, was a businessman, he never studied archeology Pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann#/media/File:Heinrich_Schliemann_(HeidICON_28763)_(cropped).jpg CC BY-SA 4.0, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann#/media/File:MaskeAgamemnon.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0
- 30. Letters of 1916 ● aim: create a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the Easter Rising (Ireland) ● participants transcribe (edit and tag) letters and also add letters to the collection ● huge public engagement factor, educational aspects ● data collection, analysis Screenshot of: http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie/
- 31. ARTigo: Informatics and (digital) art history ● aim: develop a semantic search engine for digitised works of art ● several games to promote art recognition: citizen scientists describe the content of artwork with keywords > collect a wide range of keywords in order to enhance search functionality and answer complex research questions ● gamification (serious games) Screenshot of: http://www.artigo.org/ tabooTaggingGame.html;jsessionid=AC62C9A64E97191E89CA1F07AAF56 B28.www2
- 32. Citizen Science @ Libraries ● as part of regional studies e.g. contribution to regional bibliographies, adding to Wikipedia articles, transcription of digitised materials on Wikisource ● get general access to tools and general research support ● georeferencing of maps (Virtuelles Kartenforum 2.0), SLUB Dresden ● contributions to collective research of history (German Example: History of Cycling) Source examples: https://www.slub-dresden.de/en/open-science/citizen-science/
- 33. Potentials and Challenges of Citizen Science Potentials ● opening of the scientific process and greater research diversity: create scientific knowledge outside institutionalized science with “unusual suspects” ● develop new research questions and topics: societal relevance (real problems, concrete answers) and broader public engagement/understanding ● wider dissemination of research results to the public (science communication) ● Create large data sets & solve work intensive tasks Challenges ● lack of resources (time, money, spaces, infrastructure) ● lack of fair sharing and compensation models for crowdwork ● data protection / Intellectual Property Right (IPR) Always keep in mind the two perspectives: ● Researchers ask themselves: What do I gain by working with volunteers? ● Volunteers ask themselves: What do I gain by working with scientists?
- 34. Citizen Science and Research Infrastructures https://twitter.com/OPERASEU/status/976769535922630662
- 35. Poll: What can Research Infrastructures do for Citizen Science?
- 36. Take Home Messages ● check if data and tools that you could use are already available ● start with a pilot to test your approach and then go big ● think and develop your research with Open Science in mind from the start (Open Data, Open Access, documentation) ● Citizen Science projects have a high potential to prove the value of the humanities to the society: Get creative and don’t be afraid ● For a Citizen Science project you need to think everything through from the beginning: Citizen Science is not an afterthought ● acknowledge need for upskilling of researchers and citizen scientists (new scientific methods, new topics, e.g. legal aspects, data quality) ● digital citizen science projects need to ensure that applications are suited to the project and that data collection and data use conform to data protection laws (but do not reinvent the wheel) Collaborate! Get technical expertise/support from experts/RIs!
- 37. Bibliography & Reading suggestions #citizenscience: ● Bonn et al. Green Paper Citizen Science Strategy 2020 for Germany. Berlin, 2016. ● Ten Principles of Citizen Science from the European Citizen Science Association, 2015 ● Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World - A vision for Europe, European Commission Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, 2016 ● Open Innovation Strategy for Austria, BMWFW, Vienna, 2016 ● Pettibone and Vohland, Citizen Science for all: A Guide for Citizen Science Practitioners, 2016 ● Schreibman 2018, Lecture “From Archives to Activism: Why Public Engagement is Essential for the Future of the Humanities” (Slides) ● Heigl, Florian, Dörler, Daniel, Bartar, Pamela, Brodschneider, Robert, Cieslinski, Marika, Ernst, Marlene, … Ziegler, David. (2018, February 1). Qualitätskriterien für Citizen Science Projekte auf Österreich forscht (Version 1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1161922 ● Bowser and Shanley, New Visions in Citizen Science, 2013, chapter Citizen Archivists. ● Serrano Sanz et al. White Paper on Citizen Science for Europe. Socientize Consortium, 2014
- 38. Some Citizen Science Networks & Associations ● www.buergerschaffenwissen.de (Germany) ● www.citizen-science.at (Austria) ● www.science-et-cite.ch/de/citizen-science (Switzerland) ● www.citizenscienceassociation.org (U.S.) ● https://ecsa.citizen-science.net (Europe) ● https://www.citizenscience.org.au/who-we-are/ (Australia) ● https://www.facebook.com/CitSciAsia (Asia) ● http://citizenscience.org/ (global) ● http://citsci.org (Colorado State University)
- 39. Questions & Answers Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (Picture CC0 https://pixabay.com/photo-2999583/)
- 40. Announcements Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. • New PARTHENOS Training Suite module around Developing research Questions is being developed by PARTHENOS (led by Darja) • Have a look at the PARTHENOS YouTube Channel: all videos so far produced by PARTHENOS and PARTHENOS Training • PARTHENOS Webinar Workshop at the European Summer University in Digital Humanities 2018 (ESU), Leipzig (apply until 1st of May 2018, scholarships available): How Research Infrastructures empower eHumanities and eHeritage Research(ers)
- 41. Questions & Answers Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (Picture CC0 https://pixabay.com/photo-2999583/)
- 42. Thank you for joining us! Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (Picture: CCO https://pixabay.com/photo-1889007/) ü Please help us improving the PARTHENOS Webinar Series and fill out the short Feedback Survey that we’ll sent you in a follow-up e-mail.
- 43. PARTHENOS eHumanities and eHeritage Webinar Series Join the conversation on Twitter: #PARTHENOSWebinar @Parthenos_EU Unless otherwise stated this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Graphic: Otto, the Open Access Otter CC-BY 4.0, Katja Diederichs Moderation and Contact: Dr Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam) [email protected] Twitter: @UWuttke www.parthenos- project.eu www.fh-potsdam.de