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Alfalab Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment. Anne Beaulieu Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands anne.beaulieu@vks.knaw.nl. Douwe Zeldenrust Meertens Institute (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl.
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Alfalab • Construction and Deconstruction of a • Digital Humanities Experiment Anne Beaulieu Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands anne.beaulieu@vks.knaw.nl Douwe Zeldenrust Meertens Institute (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl Joris van Zundert Huygens Institute (KNAW) The Hague, The Netherlands joris.van.zundert@huygensinstituut.knaw.nl
Introducing Alfalab • Alfalab is being created by Anne Beaulieu • Joris van Zundert • Douwe Zeldenrust • Rob Zeeman • Maarten Hoogerwerf • Charles van den Heuvel • Smiljana Antonijevic • Ruud Bronmans • Dirk Roorda • Leen Breure • Karina van Dalen • Ronald Dekker • Arjen Versloot • Sander Strating • Derk Drukker • Kees Mandemakers • Henk Wals • Paul Wouters • Peter Doorn • Reinier Salverda • Melle de Vries • Hans Bennis • Suzanne van Kaam • Bas Doppen • and a growing number of others cooperating...
Motivation for Alfalab • Our Cultural Commonwealth, The report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. ACLS, 2006 • Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship: Past, Present, Future. A Report on the Workshop 22-24 October, 2008, Turf Valley Resort, Ellicott City, Maryland. March 2009
Motivation for Alfalab • Little uptake of digital tools and 'method' in humanities • Lack of Collaboration • Lack of VRE's and Virtual Laboratories • Lack of critical mass of digitized • Problem of heterogeneity of tools, data and method • Alfalab tries to meet the suggested requirements in a small controlled community setting
What Alfalab wants to be • A collaboration on all levels • Exploration of and experimentation on the 'laboratory metaphor' • Objectives • Success and fail factors • Community building 'how-to' • Exploration of form and function of tools • Work in progress
Learning in progress • Less portal • Less lab • Focus on community building • Rethinking interfaces and visualization • Rethinking academic publishing and peer review • Reconciling heterogeneity • Organizational model
community involvement networked project leadership shared development effort collaborative vision Collaboration key • tools & interfaces • distributed data • workshops • desimination
Project scope • Phase 1 • Exploration • Planning, motivating & financing phase 2 • Networking (DARIAH, CLARIN, Nines, Bamboo etc.) • Phase 2 • Implementation • Less infrastructure • Focus on networking, organization • Mapping research heuristics on tools and data • 1.4 MEuro • Phase 1: 2009 - 2011
Current state • From portal to distributed networked tools and data • Tools: 2 demonstrators in progress • 'TeksLlab' (TextLab) • 'GisLab' (GeospatialLab) • 3rd demonstrator lab planned • Project on digital publication and peer review • Finding and leveraging synergy effects • Collaborative publications • TekstLab * GisLab
Alfalab • microtoponym pilot Douwe Zeldenrust Meertens Institute (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl Charles van den Heuvel Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands charles.van.den.heuvel@vks.knaw.nl Sander Strating Fryske Akademy (KNAW) Leeuwarden, The Netherlands sstrating@fryske-akademy.nl Arjen Versloot Fryske Akademy (KNAW) Leeuwarden, The Netherlands aversloot@fryske-akademy.n Rob Zeeman Meertens Instituut (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands rob.zeeman@meertens.knaw.nl Leen Breure University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands leen@cs.uu.nl
Alfalab Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment Joris van Zundert joris.van.zundert@huygensinstituut.knaw.nl Douwe Zeldenrust douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl Anne Beaulieu anne.beaulieu@vks.knaw.nl http://alfalablog.knaw.nl http://earth.google.com http://www.hgnnederland.nl http://www.kich.nl http://www.meertens.knaw.nl http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl http://www.vks.knaw.nl