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Integrating Digital Humanities Into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE: An Exploration of Requirements Joanne Paterson osf.io/pkvtu Today going to talk about SHARE, ways to use, integrating DH scholarship, emerging themes and initial thoughts. What is SHARE? Schema agnostic approach to aggregate diverse metadata. Community open source initiative. Scholars are doing various things, how can we bring all that together so we can see their body of work and things that are related? ARL initiative started in 2013. Aggregates metadata. Looks at research cycle and various outputs of research. To aggregate metadata, they put out a call to ask someone to help them build this, answered by Center for Open Science. (OSF - looks at research workflow, allows you to collaborate with others and share easily). OSF free and open project support, can work privately or publicly. SHARE - harvested datasets from wherever they're open, metadata about scholarly research - scholar's portal, figshare...

Access 2018 Conference User Experience (UX) at McGill: Case Studies in Applied User Research Ekaterina Grguric User experience is primary role, also supports website and service design. Serves as consultant within library as well as with others doing user research in context of specific services, also trains on best research practices. UX as concept and methods are not new at McGill, because UX shares a toolkit with assessment, communications, etc. UX as operational and UX as project based. Notion of ongoing service improvement. Doesn't seek REB/IRB for most projects so can quickly set up usability. (REB doesn't inherently make something ethical, remember.) Toolbox model of UX - sum of many methods. Can ease, simplify, clarify, build consensus around an approach. Provide a check for assumptions we may or may not be aware of. Bringing UX doesn't have to be expensive. Not listed to before/after a project lifecycle, UX methodologies can be brought in at many stages. Trad...

Discovery, Collaboration, and Dissemination: Lessons Learned and Plans for the Future Digital Humanities Summer Institute William R. Bowen Iter: Gateway to Middle Ages and the Renaissance . Just passed 20th anniversary, looking forward to 25th. Iter Bibliography, Community, and Press. Iter's mandate is online, Iter meaning a journey or path in Latin, not-for-profit, advancement of learning in study and teaching of Middle Ages and Renaissance through the development and distribution of online resources. Created 1995, incorporated 1997 as a nonprofit partnership. Academic society partners (CSRS, ISAS, MAA, MOISA, RSA, SCSC); projects (DHSI, ETCL, INKE, IRCPS), research centers (ACMRS, CRRS), faculty of information studies (Toronto), U of Toronto Libraries. Marriage of expertise in subject area with info studies and new technologies. Iter planning. Many planning exercises, collaboratories. Inital Steps, Following a Larger Vision: A Feature oriented Pilot Proposal (APril 2009). D...

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Workshop #2 Documenting Born Digital Creative and Scholarly Works for Access and Preservation Day 2 a.m. What can you walk away with in a week? What resources do you have to complete your vision (funding, skills, people, knowledge)? Where can you go for further help? What needs to be done for your project to count towards your academic output (RTP)? How do you document what you've done so it counts Barnett's Memory Machines .  Medieval Popular Culture - first time someone collected what the simple folk do, local catechisms, death records, reviving what was happening at ground level in continental Europe. Collecting current ephemera will be valuable to someone.  Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition by   Dziekan - online and physical exhibitions. Looks at teh notion of liveness. All digital objects are digital, but not all digital are virtual. Liveness/Virtuality has 3 characteristics: participatory, interactive, exp...

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Workshop #2 Documenting Born Digital Creative and Scholarly Works for Access and Preservation Afternoon Day 1 Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature: Pathfinders In 90s, understood physical/material thing and ephemeral thing. Thought that digital is immaterial. Not good thinking. In 2002 W riting Machines  notion of digital work not being immaterial. Now we understand digital material has material component, bits rot, etc. Reading: Christyann See 3 types of preservation: emulation, migration, collection. She prefers emulation because is more elegant (she's an artist) - last thing a gallery want to do is show wires and plugs, that's the aesthetic of a traditional gallery. Having computers in a gallery space is counterproductive. Emulation makes sense for those who don't want to show the muck to the public, the bits and pieces that make things work. She doesnt like migration. Really hates collection which is not an e...

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Workshop #2 Documenting Born Digital Creative and Scholarly Works for Access and Preservation Morning Day 1 By Dene Grigar and Nicholas Schiller Syllabus In STEAM - virtual game platform, can put your game up and sell it (Apple store for games), game sits ephemeral on site, do not own it physically. Beyond Eyes Game Tags you would use: third person/God view , game, multimedia, interactive, juvenile, non-violent, indiegames [independent developers], visual novel, visual storytelling, blindness, memory, No one path, how do you represent that in documentation? Walkthroughs try to do that. Limited There's no practical limit to describing things (used to be 3, as many as you could fit on a catalog card). Translation studies: translators betray the text no matter what they do kakamoron - a bad, stupid thing (doesn't capture the stupidity and the badness in the English translation. We are translating for a future audience we don't ...

Building, Analyzing, and Mapping Building the ArtTechne Database: New Directions in Digital Art History - Marieke Hendriksen ARTECHNE: Technique in the Arts, 1500-1950. What is technique in the arts? Concept of technique (technik) Google NGrams to track rise of term in relation to another term Aim - database - digitized searchable historical texts; linked open data to link to images and soundbites and dbs of chemical analysis of artworks; search and visualization tools; integrate orphan databases; serves broad community. Ex) database for pigments and paints on server on Planck Institute in Berlin, dead project, eventually will disappear.  Chhosing a data warehousing approach - Drupal (open, fast, multilingual); chose XML as format, bc W3C recommended and free; data warehousing approach; GettyIDs ARTECHNE ontology - enter texts, divide into records (chapter, paragraph, or recipe, persons/authors, translators, etc). Most sources now geographically indexed, timeline functio...

People Documenting Online Lives This is Just to Say I have the in Your : Modernist Memes in an Era of Public Apology by Shawna Ross (Texas A&M) Humanities Commons - the paper is available there. Trigger warning - evocation of people who are known abusers, racists, harassers--not what they've done, but their apologies and what they sound like. William Carlos William "This is Just To Say" was meme-ed on Twitter, blew up in Nov 2017. Proliferation of mashups. Why did this one blow up? Why not his "So Much Depends" which is fewer characters? Why is the shortest story #babyshoes meme mashup with the plums is more popular than #babyshoes alone? Why the surge? Poem's accessibility. Lack of meter and rhyme scheme makes it easy to understand and replicate. Compulsive overeating subject is attractive. Desired consumables - happened between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Wheelbarrow is less seductive than plums. Also people can finally use line breaks in Twitt...

Making Choices About Your Data Digital Humanities Summer Institute #DHSI18 Day 3 (Afternoon) Paige Morgan and Yvonne Lam Article "Against Cleaning" Committing to giving certain answers when you are cleaning data. How do I make this material discoverable and allow it to intersect more clearly with discoveries being made in this field. You may feel like you need to tune your data so it gives specific answers. But the more you do is not to get project to spit out answers for people, but give answers that help people rethink.  What is the info I wan to surface for people, how do I get my data to surface that? [Much more concern for how *others* are going to use data here with the digital humanists that in my experience with social science, where we collect our data to answer our questions, then fin. Kudos to DH folks!] Expansion without growth - scalability Who is your audience? Who is relying on your workflow or the decisions you made that you can't explain? T...

UC DLFx 2018: Keynote by Don Norman Broad experience. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." ~ originally from Nobel Prizewinner, book published in the 1940s. Imposible - no matter what we invent it never turns out the way we want  it to. Easy to predict future, hard part is getting it right. What he does know about libraries. Rainbow's End , The Name of the Rose. Engelbart's Groundbreaking demonstration of what you can do. Read all sorts of reports, asked lists. Nothing he can tell us we haven't already heard, thought, or do. He should say what he does and how he works and what it is as a designer and what he needs. Design is a way of thinking, of approaching problems. Trying t teach this to all - democratizing design. Don't need to send in experts to tell you your needs and build something to solve needs, and convince you this is what you need. This is standard. Instead, show you how we learn and let you do it yourself with mentoring and ...

Launching the Digital Lifecycle Program at UCB Lynne Grigsby  (Head Library IT) and Eric Mitchell, AUL/DCS Major strategic initiative through Library's strategic planning process. Last year and a half, developing current digitization strategy. Digital Lifecycle Program Mission and Goals To convert and publish on a massive scale the UCB collections. (To digitize content and shepherd all digitally converted assets of the library through their lifecycle to service the mission of the library. Goal 1: Create and manage digitized assets Goal 2: Have a formal, ongoing, and sustainable digitization program that focuses on the entire digital lifecycle Goal 3: Provide effective access and widespread dissemination of content How do you effect this change from ad hoc project based digitization to high throughput. Convert: - Respect and identify multiple digitization streams and make sure they don't conflict (wax cylinder digitization, vendor sourced 2D material digitization, ...

UC DLFx 2018 Demystifying Data Curation -  Vessela Ensberg (UCD),  Emily Lin (UCM),  Ho Jung Yoo (UCSD),  Amy Never (UCB) Purpose of data curation: FAIR data principles--Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. Qualities of data that make them valuable. Findable: DOI; Accessible: online, fixity-checked, backed-up---these are called Bit Curation (we depend on technology). Interoperability: file formats still active, can be open and read Reusability: metadata to put data in context for researchers to decide whether or not they can use it. This is curation for long term use. Curation for long term use: When: pre-ingest or post-ingest-- How: in depth (documentation happens down to each variable) or limited in scope. Tension between time, quality, and return on investment 4 models/case studies on how they approached curation in their experience, what skills are necessary, and what difficulty there is in providing those services. Case 1 Emily ...