DocuSky, A Personal Digital Humanities Platform for Scholars

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 564-580
Author(s):  
Hsieh-Chang Tu ◽  
Jieh Hsiang ◽  
I-Mei Hung ◽  
Chijui Hu
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Searchable Database ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Open Platform ◽  
The Web

AbstractDocuSky is a personal digital humanities platform for humanities scholars, which aims to become a platform on which a scholar can satisfy all her digital needs with no direct IT assistance. To this end, DocuSky provides tools for a scholar to download material from the Web and prepare (annotating, building metadata) her material, a one-click function to build a full-text searchable database, and tools for analysis and visualization. DocuSky advocates the separation of digital content and tools. Being an open platform, it encourages IT developers to build tools to suit scholars’ needs, and it has already incorporated several popular Web resources and external tools into its environment. Interoperability is ensured through the format DocuXML. In addition to describing the design principles of DocuSky, we will show its main features, together with several important tools and examples. DocuSky was originally developed for Sinological studies. We are enriching it to work in other languages.

Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale ◽  
Judy Ruttenberg ◽  
Matthew Harp ◽  
Rick Johnson ◽  
Joanne Paterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
The Web

Ciência da Informação e Humanidades Digitais

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO CARLOS PALETTA
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

This work aims to presents partial results on the research project conducted at the Observatory of the Labor Market in Information and Documentation, School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo on Information Science and Digital Humanities. Discusses Digital Humanities and informational literacy. Highlights the evolution of the Web, the digital library and its connections with Digital Humanities. Reflects on the challenges of the Digital Humanities transdisciplinarity and its connections with the Information Science. This is an exploratory study, mainly due to the current and emergence of the theme and the incipient bibliography existing both in Brazil and abroad.Keywords: Digital Humanities; Information Science; Transcisciplinrity; Information Literacy; Web of Data; Digital Age.

DIGITAL CONTENT OF PERIODICALS IN THE ELECTRONIC CATALOGUE OF THE CENTRAL SCIENCE LIBRARY OF THE NAS OF BELARUS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. P. Komenda
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Bibliographic Records

The publication deals with the initial stages of inclusion into the electronic catalogue of bibliographic records of electronic periodicals from eLIBRARY.RU platform and electronic serials which have been subscribed by the Central Science Library of the NAS of Belarus. The activities on addition of full text documents and tables of contents of periodicals into bibliographic records have been considered.

scholarly journals Ontologies and Technologies for Integrating and Accessing Digital Cultural Heritage: Lithuanian Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 66-82
Author(s):  
Regina Varnienė-Janssen ◽  
Albertas Šermokas
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Core Ontology ◽  
Cidoc Crm ◽  
Vilnius University ◽  
The Web

 Web technologies are the key for the implementing and ensuring the full range of user needs in the digital age. On the other hand, the issue of unified representation of digital content from diverse memory institutions in order to ensure semantic integrity still remains a matter of urgency. Semantic interoperability of information and data is essential in an integrated system. In this paper, we analyze and describe an ontology-based metadata interoperability approach and how this approach could be applied for memory institution data from diverse sources which do not support ontologies. In particular, we describe the use of the CIDOC CRM ontology as a mediating schema within Lithuania’s Information System of the Virtual Electronic Heritage (hereinafter ”VEPIS”) The paper introduces the role of the CIDOC CRM based Thesaurus of Personal Names, Geographical Names and Historical Chronology (hereinafter “BAVIC”), which operates as a core ontology within VEPIS by allowing to understand things and relationships between things as well as identify the time and space of things. The paper also focuses on trust of the cultural information on the Web. Users make trust judgments based on provenance that may or may not be explicitly offered to them. In particular, we describe how provenance is managed within digital preservation and access processes within VEPIS and define whether this management meets the W3C Provenance Incubator Group’s Requirements for Provenance on the Web. The paper is based on the results of the research initiated in 2018–2019 at the Faculty of Communication and the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University by authors of this paper.

Introducing the Data Quality Vocabulary (DQV)

Semantic Web ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Riccardo Albertoni ◽  
Antoine Isaac
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Metadata Model ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The Data Quality Vocabulary (DQV) provides a metadata model for expressing data quality. DQV was developed by the Data on the Web Best Practice (DWBP) Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) between 2013 and 2017. This paper aims at providing a deeper understanding of DQV. It introduces its key design principles, components, and the main discussion points that have been raised in the process of designing it. The paper compares DQV with previous quality documentation vocabularies and demonstrates the early uptake of DQV by collecting tools, papers, projects that have exploited and extended DQV.

Task design and assignment of full-text generation on mass Chinese historical archives in digital humanities

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-286
Author(s):  
Jihong Liang ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Xiaojing Li
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Task Design ◽  
Text Generation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Effective Design

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the task design and assignment of full-text generation on mass Chinese historical archives (CHAs) by crowdsourcing, with special attention paid to how to best divide full-text generation tasks into smaller ones assigned to crowdsourced volunteers and to improve the digitization of mass CHAs and the data-oriented processing of the digital humanities.Design/methodology/approachThis paper starts from the complexities of character recognition of mass CHAs, takes Sheng Xuanhuai archives crowdsourcing project of Shanghai Library as a case study, and makes use of the theories of archival science, including diplomatics of Chinese archival documents, and the historical approach of Chinese archival traditions as the theoretical basis and analysis methods. The results are generated through the comprehensive research.FindingsThis paper points out that volunteer tasks of full-text generation include transcription, punctuation, proofreading, metadata description, segmentation, and attribute annotation in digital humanities and provides a metadata element set for volunteers to use in creating or revising metadata descriptions and also provides an attribute tag set. The two sets can be used across the humanities to construct overall observations about texts and the archives of which they are a part. Along these lines, this paper presents significant insights for application in outlining the principles, methods, activities, and procedures of crowdsourced full-text generation for mass CHAs.Originality/valueThis study is the first to explore and identify the effective design and allocation of tasks for crowdsourced volunteers completing full-text generation on CHAs in digital humanities.

Context Modelling Approaches for Mobile Systems

2011 ◽  
pp. 364-378
Author(s):  
Danilo Avola
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Mobile Systems ◽  
Suitable Model ◽  
Context Modeling ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Context Modelling ◽  
Context Data ◽  
Complex Activities ◽  
The Web

The actual mobile technology and the increasing need to obtain rich multimedia content about each and every aspect of the human life are changing the approach of the users to the World Wide Web. Indeed, the pervasive use of mobile devices and the heterogeneity of the provided services and information make the accessibility and usability of the Web resources a hard assignment. In particular two main tasks have been identified as focal issues, the first one regards the choose of a suitable model to express the complex activities of the Web (context modeling approaches), and the second one regards the translation of the different schemas, representing these Web activities, in a more suitable, manageable and standardizing schema. In this chapter we will present the problems related to the modeling of context data, and we will describe the actual and future approaches of Context Modeling according to the mobile devices world.

Art through the ages online: an evaluative webliography of art and art history timelines

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Heidi N. Abbey
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Western World ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Art Educators ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
The Web

Art and art history resources on the Web abound. Yet the process of identifying scholarly art information online is typically inefficient, leading many researchers to abandon Internet sources for traditional printed reference works. Locating websites that focus specifically on art and art history timelines can be an even greater challenge: these resources simply have not been available on the Web in any large number or degree of comprehensiveness. In recent years, however, new Web-based art timelines have been published, most notably by art educators, museums and other non-profit organizations. This evaluative webliography of selected art and art history timelines not only highlights the variety of resources that are currently available, but also illustrates that the majority of these Web resources focus upon the art of the Western world.

Social Entrepreneurs and Social Enterprise

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-212 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Web

‘Internet Review’ provides critical commentary on entrepreneurship, small business and innovation information on the Web. This issue's article looks at the increasing interest in the ‘rise of the social entrepreneur’ (Leadbeater, 1997, http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogue/socialentrepreneur_page70.aspx ) and the Web resources available for researchers and practitioners.

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