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Designing a national “Virtual Laboratory” for the humanities

Designing a national “Virtual Laboratory” for the humanities. The Australian HuNI project. Toby Burrows. NeCTAR Project. National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources Australian government funding programme (part of SuperScience initiative): A$47 million (2010-2013) Programmes:

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Designing a national “Virtual Laboratory” for the humanities

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  1. Designing a national “Virtual Laboratory” for the humanities The Australian HuNI project Toby Burrows

  2. NeCTAR Project • National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources • Australian government funding programme (part of SuperScience initiative): A$47 million (2010-2013) • Programmes: • Virtual Laboratories (5) • Research Cloud (4) • eResearch Tools (15) • National Servers (2) www.nectar.org.au

  3. Virtual Laboratories (Stage 1) • The Genomics Virtual Laboratory (GVL) (lead: University of Queensland) • Climate and Weather Science Laboratory (lead: Bureau of Meteorology) • The Characterisation Virtual Laboratory: Research Environments for Exploring Inner Space (lead: Monash University) • The All-Sky Virtual Observatory (lead: Astronomy Australia Ltd) • Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI): Unlocking and Uniting Australia's Cultural Data (lead: Deakin University)

  4. Virtual Laboratories:What are they? NeCTAR criteria HuNI responses Multiple institutions (13 partners) All humanities disciplines Cultural datasets pooled as Linked Data Existing tools adapted to work with Linked Data Linked Data + tools Collaborative tools • Cross-institutional • Cross-disciplinary • Integration of existing data • Integration of existing tools • Data-centred workflows • Collaboration

  5. HuNI: Cultural datasets • Australian Dictionary of Biography • AustLit (Australian literature) • AusStage (performing arts) • Design and Art Australia Online • Cinema and Audiences Research Project • AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous Languages Database • AIATSIS Mura catalogue (Australian indigenous materials) • bonza: National Cinema and Television Database • Australian Media History Database • Circus Oz Living Archive Video Collection • Australian Film Institute Research Collection • Dictionary of Sydney • Trove (National Library of Australia) ? • Vocabularies: • PeopleAustralia (National Library of Australia) • Gazetteer of Australia (Geoscience Australia) • Object Name Thesaurus (Powerhouse Museum)

  6. HuNI: Tools • OHRM (University of Melbourne): modelling entity relationships and publishing information about collections into aggregated frameworks • LORE (University of Queensland): annotation, federated searching, visualisation, aggregation and sharing of compound digital objects • Heurist and FieldHelper (University of Sydney): aggregating data, modelling entity relationships and publishing collections of data to the Web (including maps and timelines) • MaVRec (RMIT University): building virtual collections • EoPAS (PARADISEC – Sydney and Melbourne): annotating audio and video files • OCCAMS (Australian National University): annotation, analysis and management of online cultural collections • AusStage (Flinders University of South Australia): visualisation and mapping • VIVO (Cornell University): Linked Data storage, management and publishing

  7. HuNI timeline • May 2012: Contract signed • June 2012: Project Manager appointed • Oct. 2012: Linked Data Server, APIs for initial group of datasets – DAAO, ADB, OHRM databases, Dictionary of Sydney, AIATSIS AUSTLang • Apr. 2013: Initial tools – search and browse, authentication, annotation, compound object publishing, virtual collections • Nov. 2013: APIs for second group of datasets, Semantic Mediation and Mapping Service, remaining tools • Dec. 2013: Completion! And handover...

  8. Key HuNI personnel Prof. Deb Verhoeven (Deakin University): Community Lead Dr Toby Burrows (UWA): Information Architect & Community Liaison Coordinator Alex Hawker (VeRSI): Project Manager Conal Tuohy (VeRSI): Technical Coordinator Ingrid Mason (Intersect): Information Services Coordinator Communications Officer – to be appointed “HuNI as a scholarly collaboration system” (Steven Hayes, University of Sydney)

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