data-modeling mindsets and the digital humanities

Data-Modeling Mindsetsand the DigitalHumanities

Richard J. UrbanFSU Digital Scholars

November 9, 2015

Agenda• Mindsets• Model development in the

Linked Women Pedagogues Project

Mindsets

Iivari, J., Hirschheim, R., & Klein, H. K. (1998). A Paradigmatic Analysis Contrasting Information Systems Development Approaches and Methodologies. Information Systems Research, 9(2), 164–193. http://doi.org/10.1287/isre.9.2.164

Metadata Mindsets

Knowledge Organization Ontology • Model of “bibliographic universe”

• bibliocentrism

Epistemology Fractured and contested.• Empiricism, Rationalism, Historicism, Pragmatism

(Hjørland)• Operationalism, Referential Theory, Instrumental

Theory, and Systems Theory (Svenonius)• Social epistemology (Shera, Egan; Furner)

Methodology • Design of metadata encoding standards• Specification of rules for description (AACR2/RDA,

etc.)• Development of controlled vocabularies and

classifications• Design of information storage/retrieval systems• Information needs/behaviors study

Ethics • Objectivism/Empiricism (ideal)• Literary warrant vs. cultural warrant

Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC)Most citation formats.

Functional Requirementsfor Bibliographic Records (FRBR)

CIDOC CRMFRBRoo

Interstitial Metadata

Knowledge OrganizationData Models

Scholarly Data Models

(Graban, 2014)

Metadata Mapping Project (MDMP)

• Femisist historiographic methodology that digitally portrays rhetorical activity for which there may not be circulating artifacts. (Graban, 2013)

• The work of MDMP, then, is to create an epistemic network that makes visible browseable and dynamic lists that formally represent the kinds of topical relationships believed to exist among a set of data records at any point in time (what [Graban] terms ontologies) and movable maps.

• Visualizations (what [Graban] terms ec0logies)

MDMP/LWPOntology Model of rhetorical activity?

• Intellectual topographies• People, Organizations, Events• Publications, Manuscripts, textual

components• Concept thesauriModel for feminist historiography?• Recovery process/provenance• Peer contributions and recognition

Epistemology

• Feminism• Historicism • ?

Methodology • Social/epistemic network analysis• Visualization of rhetorical activities• Crowdsourcing• Historiography• Bibliometrics/altmetrics (Historical altmetrics)

Ethics • ?

The data

Graban, 2013

People (FOAF/EAC-CPF)

Organizations (Org Ontology/EAC-CPF)

Concepts/Topics (SKOS)

Locations (GeoNames/SKOS)

Artifacts (Dublin Core/EAD)

From MDMP to LWP

Texts? (TEI? )

Rhetorical activities? (CIDOC CRM?)

People (FOAF/EAC-CPF)

Organizations (Org Ontology/EAC-CPF)

Concepts/Topics (SKOS)

Locations (GeoNames/SKOS)

Artifacts (Dublin Core/EAD)

Affiliations

Rhetorical activities as kinds of Events

citation

People (FOAF/EAC-CPF)

Organizations (Org Ontology/EAC-CPF)

Concepts/Topics (SKOS)

Locations (GeoNames/SKOS)

Artifacts (Dublin Core/EAD)

Annotation Texts? (TEI? )

Description

Definition

Identification

Identification

Feminist Historiography

RecoveryProcess

Other “Scholarly Primitives”

References• Graban, T. S. (2014). Re/Situating the Digital

Archive in John T. McCutcheon’s “Publics,” Then and Now. Peitho, 73.

• Graban, T. S. (2013). From Location(s) to Locatability: Mapping Feminist Recovery and Archival Activity through Metadata. College English, 76(2), 171–193.

• Riley, J., & Becker, D. (2010). Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe. Indiana University Libraries. Retrieved from http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/

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