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.

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.

scholarly journals Webbs on the Web: libraries, digital humanities and collaboration

2015 ◽  
Vol 64 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 118-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Fay ◽  
Julianne Nyhan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
London School ◽  
User Testing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Library Development ◽  
The Web

Purpose – This paper aims to make a contribution to the ongoing debates about the nature, value and potential of closer collaboration between digital humanities (DH) and the library sector by identifying and contextualising the types of new knowledge that were created through such a collaboration on the London School of Economics’s Webbs on the Web project. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative approach comprising a literature review, a case study of Webbs on the Web, a summary and analysis of the results of user testing and a critical analysis of the collaboration itself. Findings – A deeper understanding of the complementary skills of library professionals and DH researchers and how they may best be utilised in digital library development will lead, ceteris paribus, to richer and more fit-for-purpose digital scholarly resources. This is exemplified by Webbs on the Web, where the unique but complementary perspectives that such groups brought to user testing enhanced the usability of the resource for a wide range of audiences. Furthermore, the kinds of collaborations that characterised this project reflect broader changes in academic communities and digital library development, and a host of mutually beneficial outcomes can be pursued as a result of such changes. Originality/value – We demonstrate the benefits that can flow from breaking down boundaries and hierarchies between the academic library professional and DH researcher. We advance the current literature by providing concrete examples of practice; much of the current literature tends to be more abstract in nature.

scholarly journals LODE: Linking digital humanities content to the web of data

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Sztyler ◽  
Jakob Huber ◽  
Jan Noessner ◽  
Jaimie Murdock ◽  
Colin Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Web Of Data ◽  
The Web

scholarly journals Digital Humanities on the Semantic Web: Accessing Historical and Musical Linked Data

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (11) ◽  
pp. 144-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Meroño-Peñuela
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Knowledge Representation ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Linked Data ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Technological Gap ◽  
Scholarly Practice ◽  
Major Transformation ◽  
Art And Language ◽  
The Web

AbstractKey fields in the humanities, such as history, art and language, are central to a major transformation that is changing scholarly practice in these fields: the so-called Digital Humanities (DH). A fundamental question in DH is how humanities datasets can be represented digitally, in such a way that machines can process them, understand their meaning, facilitate their inquiry, and exchange them on the Web. In this paper, we survey current efforts within the Semantic Web and Linked Data, a family of Webcompatible knowledge representation formalisms and standards, to represent DH objects in quantitative history and symbolic music. We also argue that the technological gap between the Semantic Web and Linked Data, and DH data owners is currently too wide for effective access and consumption of these semantically enabled humanities data. To this end, we propose grlc, a thin middleware that leverages currently existing queries on the Web (expressed in, e.g., SPARQL) to transparently build standard Web APIs that facilitate access to any Linked Data.

scholarly journals Grant Narrative - Integrating digital humanities into the web of scholarship with SHARE: An exploration of requirements

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Hudson-Vitale ◽  
Judy Ruttenberg ◽  
Jeffrey Robert Spies ◽  
Richard P. Johnson ◽  
Joanne Paterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Formal Integration ◽  
Web Publishing ◽  
The Web

This project will develop a plan to optimize the SHARE aggregator and data set for digital humanities in consultation with scholars, institutions, and centers. Given the dispersed nature of modern scholarship, a digital humanities project may produce more than one book or article manuscript, each published on a different publisher’s website, any number of pre-prints on institutional repositories or pre-print servers, data sets and code books on Dryad or Figshare, and text mining or cleaning scripts on github. With many digital humanities projects based in academic departments, such project components may be housed semi-permanently in web-publishing platforms like Omeka without formal integration with library discovery systems or other services to link them to similar projects. As part of a growing open infrastructure movement, the SHARE platform links scholarly activity across the research lifecycle and makes it available as enhanced, free, open metadata. The project team will administer a survey, conduct focus groups, and engage with the humanities community to detail requirements and prototype applications for digital scholarship curation, discovery, and aggregation using SHARE.

scholarly journals The Value of Plurality in ‘The Network with a Thousand Entrances’

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Siemens ◽  
Alyssa Arbuckle ◽  
Lindsey Seatter ◽  
Randa El Khatib ◽  
Tracey El Hajj
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Modeling Practices ◽  
The Web ◽  
Web Annotation

This contribution reflects on the value of plurality in the ‘network with a thousand entrances’ suggested by McCarty ( http://goo.gl/H3HAfs ), and others, in association with approaching time-honoured annotative and commentary practices of much-engaged texts. The question is how this approach aligns with tensions, today, surrounding the multiplicity of endeavour associated with modeling practices of annotation by practitioners of the digital humanities. Our work, hence, surveys annotative practice across its reflection in contemporary praxis, from the MIT annotation studio whitepaper ( http://goo.gl/8NBdnf ) through the work of the Open Annotation Collaboration ( http://www.openannotation.org ), and manifest in multiple tools facilitating annotation across the web up to and including widespread application in social knowledge creation suites like Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web annotation )

Webscapes: An academic vision for Digital Humanities Projects on the web

Book 2 0 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Bernard Robin ◽  
Sara McNeil
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
University Of Houston ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

An overarching goal of the Instructional Technology Programme at the University of Houston has been to help students in our graduate courses learn technology skills by involving them in web-based ‘Digital Humanities Projects’ with local non-profit organizations. In this article, we discuss the benefits and challenges associated with the collaborative design, development and evaluation of real-world projects with community stakeholders serving as clients. Over the past decade, we have developed and used Webscapes, a theoretical model that serves as the framework for the creation of these projects. We define Webscapes as information landscapes, delivered over the web, which include a rich variety of content; challenging, cognitive explorations; intuitive navigation structures; and user-oriented interfaces. We describe the characteristics of the model and include reflections from students and community partners about accomplishments and challenges they faced. We also provide examples and discussion of Webscape projects, several of which have been completed, two that are ongoing and one that is in the early stage of development.

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