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Social Networks and Networked Data: A View from the Humanities Toby Burrows

Social Networks and Networked Data: A View from the Humanities Toby Burrows. Activities. Collaborative Grant Programs Symposia International conferences Co-sponsored events Postgraduate/ECR Digital agenda. ARC Network for Early European Research (NEER).

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Social Networks and Networked Data: A View from the Humanities Toby Burrows

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  1. Social Networks and Networked Data: A View from the Humanities Toby Burrows

  2. Activities • Collaborative Grant Programs • Symposia • International conferences • Co-sponsored events • Postgraduate/ECR • Digital agenda ARC Network for Early European Research (NEER) • Scope: Australian research into the culture and history of Europe between the 5th and early 19th centuries • Funded by Australian Research Council Networks Programme (2004-2010) • Enhance the scale and focus of research • Encourage more inter-disciplinary approaches • Facilitate collaborative & innovative approaches • Programmes for Australian participants • Collaborative grant programmes: Research Clusters • Symposia, conferences, events • Publications

  3. Participants & Partners • 350+ individual researchers • Australian universities and industry partners • Universities: Melbourne, Queensland, Sydney, UWA • State Library of New South Wales • State Library of Victoria • Australians Studying Abroad • Western Australian Museum • University of Western Australia Press • Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group • St George’s Cathedral • Woodside Valley Foundation • International linkages: CARMEN (EU), CARA (US)

  4. Postgraduate and Early Career Programme Postgraduate and Advanced Training Seminars (PATS) Funding to attend conferences and seminars E-consult scheme Internships & work placements – Brepols (Belgium) Personal Web spaces

  5. Digital Initiatives • Communication • Web site, e-mail lists • Collaborative working tools and workspaces: Confluence • Shared resources • Commercial databases: ProQuest (EEBO), Brepols (5 databases) • Skills and training: Brepols internships • Electronic publication: Parergon / Project Muse • Research repository: PioNEER • Heritage collections: Europa Inventa

  6. NEER Confluence • Collaborative software • Commercial Wiki product (Atlassian) • Hosted at University of W.A. • Communication, discussion, annotation, collaborative writing • News and blogs • Personal spaces & group spaces • Searchable • Security and access controls • Web-based • Plug-ins

  7. PioNEER • NEER’s digital repository of research outputs • Representative and retrospective • Not just “publications” – other types of outputs and data • DigiTool software • Hosted by UWA Library • Available from September 2009 • Links to institutional repositories • Self-archiving + central deposit

  8. Europa Inventa (“Europe discovered”) • A discovery service for Early European items in Australian collections: manuscripts, artworks, historic objects in museums, galleries, libraries • Initial focus is on unique items and those with specific associations – about 1,700 items so far • Link from descriptive catalogue records to digitized images held on the servers of the holding institutions (rather than storing copies of images centrally) Rubens, Self-portrait (National Gallery of Australia)

  9. Where are the data? Defining “data” in the humanities Primary sources and secondary sources Publications: what data does PioNEER contain? Metadata: what data does Europa Inventa contain? Social media: what data does Confluence contain? Dosso Dossi, Lucrezia Borgia (?) (National Gallery of Victoria)

  10. Humanities data archives • Quantitative and qualitative humanities data, e.g. HCCDA • DANS and UKDA (History Data Service) • Digital library services, e.g. ECHO – are they data archives? • Text collections, e.g. TextGrid – are they data archives? Tiepolo, The Banquet of Cleopatra (National Gallery of Victoria)

  11. Modelling humanities data I • Data sources: texts, objects, secondary works (digital libraries, collections etc.) • Publications: analysis of the results • What scholars do in-between: annotate, extract, link, categorize, describe, represent, etc. • John Unsworth’s “Scholarly Primitives” • Project Bamboo’s modelling

  12. Modelling humanities data II Data: annotations, representations, links and so on, connected with identified entities Entities can include concepts, persons, creative works, places, events, objects Linked Data RDF Triple Store + annotation, visualization, analysis, links to sources and objects Automating the extraction of entities and links (e.g., text mining) – Perseus

  13. Further information NEER Web site www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au Confluence confluence.arts.uwa.edu.au ASSDA www.assda.edu.au Toby Burrows toby.burrows@uwa.edu.au

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