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The Humanities in a Global e-Infrastructure A Shopping-List

The Humanities in a Global e-Infrastructure A Shopping-List. Gregory Crane, Perseus Project, Tufts Brian Fuchs, Internet Centre, Imperial College Dolores Iorizzo, Internet Centre, Imperial College. Why e-infrastructure?. Data-driven Science Global not regional models

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The Humanities in a Global e-Infrastructure A Shopping-List

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  1. The Humanities in a Global e-InfrastructureA Shopping-List Gregory Crane, Perseus Project, Tufts Brian Fuchs, Internet Centre, Imperial College Dolores Iorizzo, Internet Centre, Imperial College

  2. Why e-infrastructure? • Data-driven Science • Global not regional models • Interactive and Intelligent Digital Libraries • Collaboration in Arts, Humanities and Sciences • Pre-Enlightenment Europe - Mash-up technologies • Epistemic Networks

  3. Why services? • Synergy • Build super-corpora • Economy of scale • Leverage existing services • Possibilities of scale • Analyze a document against the entire corpus of 19 c. newspapers in English

  4. Global Grid Efforts in the Humanities • Cyberinfrastructure ACLS/NSF • DELOS • DARIAH • DRIVER • D-GRID (Text Grid) • OAI-ORE

  5. The Big Picture • Leverage power of global grid networks in the science for the Humanities - EGEE • Interrogation of large digital resources • Metadata standards that work across the sciences, arts and humanities • Semantic interoperability • Web 2.0 (3.0) and GRID • Web Services

  6. Services for the Humanities • Catalogue services • Named entity services • Customisation services • User-contribution services

  7. Catalogue ServicesSo far ... • FRBR • Document-granularity in collections, allowing us to .... • identify and organize all editions, translations, commentaries, indices, and other documents related to a single text.

  8. Catalogue Services Document chunk Related Documents

  9. Catalogue Services: What we need... • Intra-document citation • Ability to cite text-chunks • Citation management • Understand standard citation schemes • E.g. Bekker and Stephanus • Version analysis • Compare versions of an historical text over its lifespan • e.g. Lucretius • Canonical text service • Provide a benchmark text for each author

  10. Named Entity Services Automatically Extracted Named Entities Intra-document chunk

  11. Named Entity Services--Data Sources • Language models • Does “est” = “he is” or “he eats”? • Language models should give probabilities. • Print gazetteers • Historical gazetteers • Dictionaries • Digitized: the Perseus LSJ • Digital: Wordnet • Training sets for machine learning... • Documents with labelled features.

  12. Customization / Personalisation Personal Vocabulary Profile

  13. Customization--Data sources • Personal profiles • How often have I accessed features XYZ? • What importance do I assign features XYZ? • Voting / Recommendation • readers who looked up words X, Y, and Z, also were interested in words M, N. and O.

  14. Structured User Contributions • Resolution • Is this Berlin, New Hampshire or Berlin, DE? • Correction • “est” means “is” here, not “eat” • Annotation and Labelling • This paragraph discusses gravity.

  15. Research Assessment: Classicists rewarded for digital projects • A community of tenured faculty • Chris Blackwell, Furman • Gregory Crane, Tufts • Helma Dik, Chicago • Bruce Robertson , Mount Allison • Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Missouri • Charlotte Roueché, King’s College • Ross Scaife, Kentucky • Mark Schiefsky - Harvard • Neel Smith, Holy Cross

  16. A Humanities e-infrastructure:the benefits • Cross-semination in IR, authority services, personalization • Basis for web 2.0 applications • Better, more participatory interfaces for students • Open academic and educational markets to wider audiences • Link Cultural Heritage material to science, industry and tourism.

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