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The Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) and Research Needs in the Digital Humanities

The Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) and Research Needs in the Digital Humanities. Ray Siemens CRC Humanities Computing siemens@uvic.ca. 2005 UVic Canarie Advanced Research Networks Day. 25 November 2005. TAPoR & TAPoR@UVic.

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The Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) and Research Needs in the Digital Humanities

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  1. The Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) and Research Needs in the Digital Humanities Ray Siemens CRC Humanities Computing siemens@uvic.ca 2005 UVic Canarie Advanced Research Networks Day 25 November 2005

  2. TAPoR & TAPoR@UVic • The Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) is a collaboration of research units at six Canadian universities, to build a centralized gateway to representative electronic texts and text analysis tools. They include: • University of New Brunswick (in the Electronic Text Centre & Computer Science) • Université de Montréal (in Law) • University of Toronto (in English & Information Studies) • McMaster University (in the Humanities Computing Centre) • University of Alberta (in the Arts Computing Area) • University of Victoria (in the Humanities Computing and Media Centre, across the faculty of Humanities, and with collaboration with the Library) • TAPoR@UVic has operated with the HCMC (Peter Liddell, Director) and focussed on the creation and analysis of texts in varied electronic media • encouraging standardized digitisation of Humanities research resources, • provoking new (inter)disciplinary research and research questions by interrelating large databases with new search and retrieval tools, and • supporting and reflecting research into human-computer interface and interaction issues.

  3. Next Phase of Research Development • Involves the development of large, varied-media datasets toward application in high-performance computing. • These group into clusters, consisting of • textbase-oriented activities • multimedia database activities • GIS-related activities • A common ground is found in the way in which they will require a deeper understanding of issues related to large-scale interrelation issues and the application to them of practices associated with high-performance computing.

  4. Textbase • Internet Shakespeare Editions (Michael Best) • Canada Century Research Infrastructure (Peter Baskerville) • Imperialism on the Ground (John Lutz and Patrick Dunae) • Renaissance English Knowledgebase (Ray Siemens) • Cowichan Dictionary (Tom Hukari)

  5. Multimedia Database • Le mariage sous l'Ancien régime (Claire Carlin) • Pedagogical Exploration and Analysis of a French Learning Object Repository (Catherine Caws) • Infant Speech Acquisition Project (John Esling) • Katakana Database Project (Joe Kess)

  6. GIS • Representations of London in the 16th- and 17th- Centuries (Janelle Jenstad) • McClure House: Cataloging and Display of Heritage Architectural Archives (Martin Segger, Chris Petter) • And • Le mariage sous l'Ancien régime (Carlin) • Imperialism on the Ground (Lutz, Dunae)

  7. Common Research Direction • All projects involve the creation of large, complex datasets developed to standards appropriate to • the disciplinary traditions out of which each emerge • formats that will allow them to take their place in larger corpora • in forms suitable for the application of high-performance computing techniques. • While we have developed an understanding of the ways in which humanities data in textual form can be represented, organized, and grouped for small-scale dissemination and analysis, our understanding of the ways in which such materials integrate at large-scale levels is still emerging. • Addressing issues and concerns • inherent in representing materials that document human experience: varied forms and types, developed across many years and in varied media (paper, clay, canvas, stone, &c.), defying easy categorization and description • relating to the digital formats used to store the electronic incarnations of those materials • governing the ways in data in varied and disparate forms can see integration via common representative strategies (also emerging) and algorithmic facilitation (i.e. tool development).

  8. Reflection in Curriculum • Extant courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in History, Linguistics, English, and other disciplines • A new BA curriculum specifically in the Digital Humanities is in the late stages of planning

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