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A Network for Judaica Digital Humanities Dov Winer

Scientific Manager,

Judaica Europeana (EAJC)

EVA/Minerva 2013

The 10th Jerusalem International Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage

To seek the integration of contents, communities of practice,

and tools/infrastructures

The Jewish Studies research community as a potential

community of practice

Jewish Digitised Contents with a common data model

Digital Humanities: basic scholarship activities

Availability of Digital Scholarship tools and infrastructures

Challenge: integration into a Virtual Research Environment

(VRE)

Outline

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies

Jewish Digitised Content

Judaica Europeana Partners

~5,000,000 +

digital objects

Jewish Digitised Content

Jewish Digitised Content

Jewish Digitised Content

Common Data Model for

Content Description

Common Data Model

Outline

Linked Data: structured

data on the Web

David Woood

Marsha Zeidman

Luke Ruth

with

Michael Hausenblas

Manning Publications

MEAP 2013

Who? What? When? Where?

Controlled vocabularies: hubs of

Jewish Knowledge in the

Structured Web

Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT

The goals of the project

Linking and Populating the

Digital Humanities are to

create and maintain data

integration tools tailored to

digital humanities collections in

order to build a machine-

readable web of facts about

covered domains.

Jewish encyclopedias: CONTEXT

Encyclopedia Judaica

Encyclopedia of Russian Jewry

http://www.rujen.ru/

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/

Rav Zeev Vagner

Josh Kopelman

http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/Search_Europeana_Collections_with_Judaic_categories.html

Digital Humanities

The scholarship work cycle

From S.Gradmann and J.C. Meister, Digital document and interpretation: re-thinking “text” and scholarship in electronic settings .

Poiesis & Praxis, V5 N2 (2008)

Scholarly Primitives Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities

researchers have in common, and how might our

tools reflect this?

John Unsworth Humanities Computing: formal methods, experimental practice

King’s College, London, May 13, 2000

Discovering Annotating

Comparing Referring

Sampling Illustrating

Representing

Unsworth primitive Bamboo theme of scholarly

practice OCLC Scholarly Information Activity

Discovery Gathering / Foraging

Searching (direct searching, chaining, browsing, probing,

accessing)

Sampling

Synthesizing / Filtering Comparing

Collecting (gathering, organizing)

Referring

Contextualizing

Searching (chaining, browsing, probing)

Collecting (organizing)

Cross-cutting (monitoring)

Illustrating

Representing

Comparing

Conceptualizing,

Refining and Critiquing Reading (scanning, assessing, rereading)

Cross-cutting (note taking, translating)

Writing (assembling)

Collaborating (consulting)

Representing Documenting methods Writing (disseminating)

Cross-cutting (translating)

Discovering Referring

Representing Managing data

Searching (accessing)

Collecting (organizing)

Collaborating (coordinating, consulting)

Annotating Annotating /

documenting Writing (assembling)

Cross-cutting (note taking)

Illustrating

Representing Modelling / visualizing Cross-cutting (translating)

Writing (assembling)

Representing

Overlapping teaching and research Collaborating (coordinating)

Cross-cutting (translating)

Representing Sharing / dissemination

/ publishing Writing (disseminating)

Suggested parenthetically Funding No analogue

Common thread Collaborating

Writing (co-authoring)

Collaborating (coordinating, networking, consulting)

Referring

Citation, credit, peer-review Reading (assessing)

Writing (dissemination)

Collaborating (consulting)

OCLC: Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919

Project Bamboo Scholarly Practice Report https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/pbamboo/Project+Bamboo+Scholarly+Practice+Report

Scholarly primitives: Building institutional

infrastructure for humanities e-Science

Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges

King’s College London, Centre for e-Research

Future Generation Computer Systems 29 (2013) 654-661

Scholarly Information Practices in the Online

Environment

Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, Carrie M. Pirmannn

2009 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

OCLC Online Computer Library Center 2009 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2009/2009-02.pdf?urlm=162919

Scholarly Primitives

Tools and Infrastructure

Prof. Stefan Gradmann

Prof. Christian Bizer

Scholarly services

Document Mapping;

Concordance; Collocation/Cloud;

Frequency; Morphological

Analysis; Syntactic Analysis;

Named Entity Identification;

Proxied SEASR Analytics

VRE

Virtual Research Environment

Community+Content+

Tools/Infrastructure

Outline

From JISC's VRE Programme – supporting collaborative research

Christopher Brown - JISC Digital Infrastructure Team

http://www.slideshare.net/chriscb/jisc-vreresearch-tools-presentation?from_search=2

From: Guus van den Brekel Central Medical Library, UMCG

Virtual Research Networks: towards Research 2.0 http://www.slideshare.net/digicmb/virtual-research-networks-towards-research-20?from_search=1

VRE

Virtual Research Environment

Examples

VRE

Virtual Research Environment

some off the shelf systems

www.judaica-europeana.eu

Thank you for your attention!

Dov Winer Judaica Europeana Scientific Manager

European Association for Jewish Culture

dov.winer@gmail.com

Presentation available at:

http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/docs/vre.pdf