mapping digital humanities projects. a pilot of a dh project registry for the netherlands
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Mapping Digital Humanities projects
A pilot of a DH project registry for The Netherlands
Stef Scagliola, Barbara Safradin, Almila Akdag, Hendrik Smeer, Linda Reijnhoudt, Sally Wyatt, Andrea Scharnhorst
e-Humanities group Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Credit to Erasmus Studio Rotterdam, UvA, University of Cologne, DANS-KNAW
A growth model for Digital Humanities as thought experiment – Wyatt/Scharnhorst - eHumanities group June 4
DH in the Netherlands
2004-2014, 9Mio+2.8Mio
2015-2018, 12,6Mio
Digital Humanities as a new field and as a virtual community
Funding, university faculties, projects, start-upsFunding, university faculties, projects, start-ups
Methods, textbooks, courses, chairsMethods, textbooks, courses, chairs
Self-organized, autonomous academiaNorms, values, behavior, institutions
What are legitimate questions and answers?Who is recognized for valuable contributions?What are the appropriate places to talk and
publish?What are the most visible institutions?
Self-organized, autonomous academiaNorms, values, behavior, institutions
What are legitimate questions and answers?Who is recognized for valuable contributions?What are the appropriate places to talk and
publish?What are the most visible institutions?
FundingCoursesCentresStudents
PhD’s….
Input Process Output
Mailing listsTwitter
SubscriptionsConference participation
….
PublicationsCitationsImpact……
Different traces, not all at hand.
Different attempts to collect informationand to study the growth of DH.
Problem of defining the boundaries.
EINS 1st PLENARY
DH in WorldCat (ArticleFirst)Digital libraries
Science, ComputerScience, ontologies
Many different humanities fieldsProminently language &Literary studies
What is Digital Humanities?
Akdag, et al., EINS Conf
Digital Humanities as a new field and as a virtual community
Funding, university faculties, projects, start-upsFunding, university faculties, projects, start-ups
Methods, textbooks, courses, chairsMethods, textbooks, courses, chairs
Self-organized, autonomous academiaNorms, values, behavior, institutions
What are legitimate questions and answers?Who is recognized for valuable contributions?What are the appropriate places to talk and
publish?What are the most visible institutions?
Self-organized, autonomous academiaNorms, values, behavior, institutions
What are legitimate questions and answers?Who is recognized for valuable contributions?What are the appropriate places to talk and
publish?What are the most visible institutions?
Funding
CoursesCentresStudents
PhD’s….
Input Process Output
Mailing listsTwitter
SubscriptionsConference participation
….
PublicationsCitationsImpact……
Different traces, not all at hand.Problem of defining the boundaries.
Need for Macroscopes:-As community service (for students, newcomers)
-As observatory for science policy
Forming a community – providing information servicesDH course registry – Stef Scagliola
Emerged from a local (Dutch) initiative – DARIAH community drivenhttps://dh-registry.de.dariah.eu/ 160 courses/tagged,
Where can I study? What do teach others?
Forming a community – providing information servicesDH project registry – a pilot
Pilot for a proposal to CLARIAH, temporarily hosted by CEDAR (eHumanities)http://www.dh-projectregistry.org/projects BETA
Demo- Sort by name- Sort by start date- No search function yet, but a lot of fields at display already - Tagging with TaDiRAH – partly
Trajectory to the Pilot I- Stef/Barbara – identified projects, contacted researchers,
Google Form, Spreadsheet, 95 projects- Queries in NARCIS – www.narcis.nl
- All projects for staff with an expertise combination of CS+H 320projects
- ‘eHumanities’, ‘computational hum..’, ‘digital hum…’ +manual ~30 projects
- Selected 152 projects for exporting information from NARCIS, use as much as possible Persistent identifiers!
- Added remaining projects from ‘Barbara’s list’ – 211 projectsin the pilot database
Trajectory to the Pilot II
• Building a database scheme (Hendrik+)
• Mapping to NOD/NARCIS
• Start of cleaning/tagging (Barbara)
• Moving to webserver• First demo interface
• Project Baseline Statistics and Visualization (Almila)
Kijkje achter de schermen Visual analytics
Kijkje achter de schermen
Visual analytics
1995 2004Meertens KNAW
2015 2019 Leiden University, LUCAS
Future ideas: add funding
Visual analytics
Future ideas: -Roles of institutions -Temporal evolution
Could - Should
• Harvest more projects (NARCIS, NWO, CORDIS, DiD, …) Seed+Expand, LOD
• Tagging projects according to TaDiRAH
• Search interfaces (visual enhanced)
• Funding-project-study
• Curate the projects in the pilot – entity disambiguation
• Find a permanent home • Organize update• Organize curation
Feedback http://dh-projectregistry.org/projects
Name/Institution/mail address
Why do we need a DH project registry (Benelux, EU, …)?
What do you think could be the function of such a registry?
If so, what information you would like to be able to search for?
Would you like to be able to curate your own project information?
Why do we need a DH project registry (Benelux, EU, …)?- useful for a field in the making;- Project information is too much scattered
What do you think could be the function of such a registry?- inform about past present projects to avoid redundancy- find experts and possible collaborators - get inspired- information source for students- support science policy about future funding
If so, what information you would like to be able to search for?- project names, categories, persons, institutions, time, funding institutions
Would you like to be able to curate your own project information?- yes, but I would prefer to have as much information as possible prefilled for me
Discussion
References and acknowledgements
We would like to thank EINS – Network of Excellence in Internet Science for supporting the setting up of the pilot and NARCIS-DANS-KNAW for providing input.
- Melissa Terras started a data collection 2011, Infographic Digital Humanities see her blog http://melissaterras.blogspot.nl/2011/11/stats-and-digital-humanities.html
- Leydesdorff, L., Akdag Salah, A.A.: Maps on the basis of the arts & humanities citation index: The journals Leonardo and Art journal versus digital humanities as a topic. Journal of the American Society for information Science and Technology 61(4) (2010)
- Wyatt, S., Leydesdorff, L.: e-humanities or digital humanities: Is that the question? In: Digital Humanities Workshop. (2013)
- Wyatt, S., Millen, D., eds.: Meaning and Perspectives in the Digital Humanities. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014) https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/files/894428/white_paper_web_1_.pdf
- Koopman, R., Wang, S., Scharnhorst, A., Englebienne, G.: Ariadne's thread: Interactive navigation in a world of networked information. In: CHI'15 Extended Abstracts. (2015) http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04358
- Akdag Salah, A., Scharnhorst, A., & Wyatt, S. (2015). Analysing an academic field through the lenses of Internet Science : Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community. In Conference: 2nd International Conference on Internet Science Brussels, May 27-29, 2015, At Brussels, Volume: http://internetscienceconference.eu.