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Editorial history

31/07/13: CSG, created new page


Purpose of this page

This page is a scratchpad for preparatory work on the proposed MarineLives/Bath Spa/TNA tagging, annotation and linkage project




Useful links to explore


SWiss Digital Humanities: History

http://www.infoclio.ch/fr/node/41754

2013 Summer School

Prof. Susan Schreibman - History and future of DH
Slidecast / Notes

Prof. Elena Pierazzo - Digital Textual Editing
Video / Notes


Questions


-- EDM is used by DM2E

  • What is the European Digital Library?



DM2E


http://dm2e.eu/

DM2E Partners


Consortium

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, DE
European Association for Jewish Culture
ExLibris, DE
Universität Mannheim, DE

- Large-scale data management (including industrial partners)
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, DE
National Technical University of Athens, GR
Net7, IT

  • Participant on Open Scholarly Communities on the Web (http://www.cost-a32.eu/), which is for Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST). OSCW aspires to create a digital infrastructure for collabaortive humanities research (2006-10)

Open Knowledge Foundation, UK
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, DE
University of Bergen, NO

Associated Partners

Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt a.M, DE
Joint Distribution Committee
Brandeis University, US
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG
Ontotext, BG (http://www.ontotext.com/) (HQ=Bulgaria)


DM2E All-WO Meeting, London (KCL), June 2013


http://dm2e.eu/dm2e-all-wp-meeting-in-london/

Workpackage 1

Workpackage 1 Presentation at DM2E Project Meeting 3, London from DM2E

Workpackage 2

Workpackage 2 Presentation at DM2E Project Meeting 3, London from DM2E

Workpackage 4

Workpackage 4 Presentation at DM2E Project Meeting 3, London from DM2E

The meeting also included presentations from representatives from Europeana Cloud and Europeana Creative and resulted in some fruitful conversations that we hope will result in closer collaboration between these projects in the coming months.

  1. AllezCulture – Fight for Europeana’s CEF Funding

Posted on Wednesday, June 5th, 2013 at 8:31 am.

Written by Joris Pekel

The following post was written by the Europeana Steering Group of Europeana Board member volunteers.

Fight for Europeana and Europeana Network and Projects future funding
From 2015 onwards, Europeana’s funding is to come from the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). However, in early February 2013, a massive budget cut for this scheme was proposed (see e.g. http://euobserver.com/news/118998), taking the budget for broadband and digital services from 9 billion euros to just 1 billion.

Europeana and the related projects many of you create and run cost currently 30 million euros per year. We will not get this amount but should fight for as much as we can to continue to develop and deliver real European added value to the citizens of Europe. We are in direct competition with other programmes in health, justice and safer internet, which were also relying on CEF. If we lose the funding, much of the hard work we have all put in will be wasted.

Many of you responded to our recent request to send letters about the cut in the CEF budget to your MEPs, to national contacts in Brussels and to your own government ministers. Europeana is now being asked to make its case for funding under the revised guidelines for CEF, which should be issued at the end of May.

Everyone; partners, projects, network members can help via the #AllezCulture campaign to win the hearts and minds of the politicians and policy makers and get across our messages about the importance of digitised, accessible culture for social, economic and unity reasons.

What can you do now? 

   Please use the leaflet ‘Europeana – the case for funding’ in anyway you can to promote our message. Translate, distribute, publish and blog the document or its messages to your network and contacts,



   Tweet about the messages: Europeana supports economic growth; Europeana connects Europe; Europeana makes Europe’s culture available to everyone using our dedicated hashtag#AllezCulture, and retweet our messages under #AllezCulture.


This week we will launch the #AllezCulture Facebook Group, which will keep you up to date with the campaign and provide more ideas of further actions you can take to support us. And you can use it to keep us up to date with what you have done or by sending an email toAllezCulture@europeana.eu Knowing what you are doing means we can use your efforts to inspire others.

Background & previous activity

At the end of March, the European Commission requested a letter from the European Foundation be sent to Neelie Kroes outlining our proposals for funding under CEF. Read our letter to Neelie Kroes. Madam Kroes then requested a meeting with Europeana.

At the end of February, Bruno Racine also sent a letter of support to the Commission. Read Bruno Racine’s letter.

So far, 31 Europeana Network Members from 17 different European countries have sent 200+ letters to national Members of the European Parliament, national contacts in Brussels and/or national governments.

Know your facts – read this factsheet detailing how Europeana will work under the CEF – this knowledge forms the basis for your arguments for supporting Europeana’s funding bid.

There is a Europeana Steering Group of Europeana Board member volunteers:

Ms Anne Bergman-Tahon, Federation of European Publishers
Mr Bruno Racine, BnF, Chair Europeana Foundation
Mr Daniel Teruggi, INA
Mr Jan Muller, FIAT/IFTA
Ms Kristiina Hormia, LIBER
Mr Nick Poole, Collections Trust, Chair Europeana Network

This Steering Group is responsible for providing the business case for funding within the next 6 weeks and for guiding the #AllezCulture campaign.
Pundit Workshop at the National Library of the Netherlands
Posted on Tuesday, May 28th, 2013 at 9:18 am.

Written by Joris Pekel

On Thursday the 23d of May, the Open Knowledge Foundation organised together with Net7 and the National Library of the Netherlands the first Pundit workshop aimed at digital humanities scholars and librarians. During this day, the idea of Open Humanities research was debated and Pundit was used to annotate the digitised manuscript collection of the National Library.
foto

After a word of welcome by Joris Pekel of the Open Knowledge Foundation he gave an introduction into open humanities research. With the network technology we have and the digitisation efforts of the cultural heritage institutions we have the potential to realise this vision of a world in which all human knowledge is freely available for everyone, a world in which scholarly discourse is unimpeded across borders and across languages.

By openly sharing not only our final papers, but also our annotations, micro-observations, notes etcetera, we allow everybody to take our data and re-use and improve them, benefiting research as a whole.

The Digital Commons and the Republic of Letters from Joris Pekel

After this talk, Ed van der Vlist, curator of medieval manuscripts gave an overview of the various digitised collections of the National Library and what their plans are for the coming years. At the moment, the ‘data services‘ of the National Library are offering a number of open datasets for anybody to re-use without any restrictions. In the coming period more will be added.

Simone Fonda, lead developer of the Pundit annotation tool at Net7, then gave an extensive introduction about the Pundit tool.

Pundit @ Den Haag from simonefonda

After installing the bookmarklet which allows the user to annotate any page on the web, the scholars annotated a page from the medieval manuscript collection. To see their annotations, install the Pundit Bookmarklet, go to this page and activate Pundit by clicking the bookmarklet.

Simone had prepared a couple of exercises which allowed the participants to explore all functionalities of the tool. The feedback they gave is incredibly valuable for further development of the tool and will be implemented into future version of Pundit.

All together this was a useful workshop for both the participants and the DM2E consortium as a whole and helped to further explore the potential of the web of open data and digital tools in humanities research.

With special thanks to the people at the National Library of the Netherlands for all their help to make this a successful day.
Pundit in the final phase of the LODLAM challenge
Posted on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 12:04 pm.

Written by Joris Pekel

We are very happy to announce that Pundit has made it to the final round of the LODLAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums) challenge.

This means the Pundit team will be presenting the tool to semantically annotate text to an international crowd of linked open data professionals in Montréal. During the summit in June, the winner will be picked out of four finalists.

The Pundit tool is being developed by the Italian company Net7 as part of the DM2E project. It enables users to annotate web pages and create structured data. The annotations can be collected in notebooks and shared with others to create collaborative structured knowledge. Annotations span from simple comments to semantic links to the Web of Data (as Freebase.com and Dbpedia.org), to fine granular cross-references and citations.

The video was produced by Net7 and Elena D’Ettole, with the support of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Many thanks for all the support and votes for Pundit.
The DM2E Model v1.0
Posted on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 10:43 am.

Written by Evelyn Dröge

A specialisation of the EDM for handwritten manuscripts

This month, we have finished the first operational version of our DM2E model (v1.0), a specialisation of the EDM for handwritten manuscripts. The ontology has been developed within Work Package 2 with a lot of input from others in the project. Especially results of extensive mapping workshops with our data providers were integrated into the model. Metadata of various formats like TEI, EAD and MARC21 was analysed and used to create new classes and properties that specialise the current EDM.

dm2e_model 

Screenshot from the DM2E model representation on Neologism.


How to get the DM2E model?

You can find the specification of the model…

… as a pdf file and in the owl ontology, which can both be downloaded from the documents section

… as well as an html representation on Neologism via the dm2e schema namespace: http://onto.dm2e.eu/schemas/dm2e/1.0/

For more information, please write to julia.iwanowa (at) ibi.hu-berlin.de or evelyn.droege (at) ibi.hu-berlin.de

We are glad to get your feedback or to hear from your own modelling experiences!
Open Humanities Award Winners Announced
Posted on Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 at 1:51 pm.

Written by Sam Leon

awards-logo

Earlier this year we put out a call to humanities academics and technologists to see if they could come up with innovative ideas for small technology projects that would further humanities research by using open content, open data and/or open source.

We’re very pleased to announce that the winners are Dr Bernhard Haslhofer (University of Vienna) and Dr Robyn Adams (Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, University College London). Both winners will receive financial support to help them undertake the work they proposed and will be blogging about the progress of their project. You can follow their progress via the DM2E blog.
Award 1: Semantic tagging for old maps… and other things
Screen Shot 2013-05-07 at 11.02.15

The first Award goes to Dr Bernhard Haslhofer of Vienna University. His project will involve building on an open source web application he has been working on called Maphub.

Dr Haslhofer told us a little bit about the inspiration for his project: 

   “People love old maps” is a statement that we heard a lot from curators in libraries. This combined with the assumption that many people also have knowledge to share or stories to tell about historical maps, was our motivation to build Maphub.


In essence Maphub is an open source Web application that, first of all, pulls out digitized historical maps from closed environments, adds zooming functionality, and assigns Web URIs so that people can talk about them online. It also supports two main use cases:

(i) georeferencing maps by linking points on the map to Geonames locations; (ii) commenting on maps or map regions by creating annotations. While users are entering their comments, Maphub analyzes the entered text on the fly and suggests so-called semantic tags, which the user accepts or rejects.

Semantic tags appear like “normal” tags on the user interface, but are in fact links to DBpedia resources. In that way, the user links her annotations and therefore also the underlying historical map with resources from two open data sources. Besides consuming open data during the annotation authoring process, Maphub also contributes collected knowledge back as open data by exposing all annotations following the W3C Open Annotation specification. In that way, Maphub supports people in a loop of using and producing open data in the context of historical maps.

Dr Haslhofer looks forward to seeing how collaborations will blossom between these various web annotation systems: 

   We believe that people also love other things on the Web and that Web annotation tools should support semantic tagging as well. Therefore, we will make it available as a plugin for Annotorious. Annotorious is a JavaScript image annotation library that can be used in any Website, and is also compatible with the Open Knowledge’s Foundations’s Annotator.



   Annotorious and Maphub have common origins and the Open Humanities will support us in unifing parallel development streams into a single, reusable annotation tool that works for digitized maps but also for other media. We will also conduct another user study to inform the design of that function for other application contexts.


Award 2: Joined Up Early Modern Diplomacy: Linked Data from the Correspondence of Thomas Bodley
Thomas_Bodley

The second award goes to Dr Robyn Adams of Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, University College London. The project will re-purpose the open resource that Dr Adams has been building with a team of others: the Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley.

The project will use ‘additional’ information that was encoded into the digitisation of early modern letters that took place at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters. In the initial incarnation of the project this data which included biographical and geographical information contained within letters was not used (although it was encoded).

Dr Adams told us a little bit about what she plans on doing with the money from the Awards: 

   With the prize funding from the Open Humanities Awards, we propose to mine the data that was generated but not fully used in the first phase of the project. This data is a rich source of biographical and geographical information, the visualization of which evokes the complex and diverse texture of the late sixteenth-century European diplomatic and military landscape. Bodley’s position in The Hague as the only English representative on the Dutch Council of State put him at the centre of a heterogeneous nexus of correspondents a time long before the Republic of Letters burgeoned in the subsequent century.


The project will interrogate three data fields within the larger data set of Bodley’s diplomatic correspondence in order to generate visualizations; the network of correspondents and recipients, and the people and places mentioned within the letters. These visualizations will be incorporated into the project website, where they will enhance and extend the knowledge derived from the existing corpus of correspondence. The visualizations, which will have scope to be playful while drawn from scrupulous scholarship, will offer an alternative pathway for scholars and the interested public to understand that in this period especially, the political, university and kinship networks were fundamental to advancement and prosperity.

“In mapping the relational activity between data sets,” Dr Adams went on, “I hope to further illuminate and reanimate Bodley’s position within the Elizabethan compass. Furthermore, I hope to demonstrate that fruitful routes of enquiry can result if scholars commit to going the extra mile to encode and record data in their research that may not have immediate relevance to their own studies.”

We offer our heartiest congratulations to the both Dr Haslhofer and Dr Adams both of whom will be presenting their work at the forthcoming Web as Literature conference at the British Library.
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Open Humanities Awards


  • OHA are part of D2M2E Project



Europeana


http://pro.europeana.eu/thoughtlab/enriching-metadata

  • Articles reviews:


Enriching metadata 

   MIMO-DB: MIMO Aggregator BackOffice
   EuropeanaConnect Gazetteer
   EuropeanaConnect Geoparser
   MyStoryPlayer
   Stanbol
   Pundit


See also Europeana Linked Data Project



Geographical analysis


Geonames


http://www.geonames.org/


TEI


TEI Annual Conference: 2013


TEI Conference 2013: online registration opened

Dear TEI-L members,

we are pleased to announce that online registration for the TEI Conference and Members meeting 2013 has now opened. This year’s TEI Conference is hosted at the University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy, with the support of AIUCD (Italian Association for Humanities Computing and Digital Cultures) and will take place from from 2 to 5 October. As usual the Conference is preceded by three days of workshops and tutorials from September 29 to October 2.

This year’s theme is: The Linked TEI: Text Encoding in the Web. The programme includes keynote lectures by Allen Renear (professor and interim Dean at GSLIS) and Marie-Luce Demonet (professor of French Renaissance literature and director of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Val de Loire), parallel sessions of papers, the annual TEI business meeting, a poster session/tools demonstration and slam, and special interest group (SIG) meetings. Details about the programme, as well as infos about accommodation and local attractions are available in the Conference website at http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/.

The rates and the online registration facilities are available at http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/registration/

We hope to meet you all in Rome! Cordially, Fabio Ciotti & Gianfranco Crupi. Local organizers TEI Conference 2013

Final 2013 Conference Programme: http://digilab2.let.uniroma1.it/teiconf2013/program/


TEI Manuscripts Special Interest Group


http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Manuscript/

This SIG explores a range of issues common to editing manuscripts, including:

  • how to handle time based encoding
  • how to record place based encoding
  • how to encode fragments
  • how to record codicology (the substance of the medium, ink stints, etc); Robinson noted that the TEI already has mechanisms to record this, but it needs to be better documented
  • issues of substitutions
  • issues of variation
  • to clarify the role of the critical apparatus tag set in manuscript transcription

Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT)


Dear TEI Community,

I am delighted to announce that the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) has been awarded a multi-million Euro European grant for investigating the creation and publication of digital scholarly editions. The TEI Consortium was involved in and supported this application and I am proud for the TEI to have been included in such an outstanding group of partners.DiXiT is an international network of high-profile institutions from the public and the private sector offering a coordinated training and research programme for early stage researchers and experienced researchers in the multi-disciplinary skills, technologies, theories, and methods of digital scholarly editing.

The programme includes twelve fellowships for early stage researchers (PhD students) for a period of three years, and five fellowships for experienced researchers (Post-Docs) for a period of 12 to 20 months. The positions will be widely advertised starting from the month of October.

DiXiT will also organise six training events at various levels (camps & conventions), open to all DiXiT fellows as well as to other people that may be interested in the topics covered.

The DiXiT network includes the following academic partners:
• University of Cologne (coordinator) – Germany
• University of Borås – Sweden
• Huygens Institute (Huygens ING) – The Netherlands
• King’s College London – UK
• University of Antwerp – Belgium
• University of Graz – Austria
• Trinity College Dublin – Ireland
• École des Haute Études en Sciences Sociales – France
• Università di Roma “La Sapienza” – Italy
• University of Oxford – UK

Private sector partners include software development companies, publishing houses and service providers. Moreover, beside the TEI, DiXiT will also closely collaborate with DARIAH, ESTS, Wikimedia, IDE, national libraries etc.

The first official meeting of the DiXiT network will take place in Rome, a a pre-TEI Memebers’ Meeting event. Shortly after that news about the scholarships will be disseminated widely. In the mean time, spread the voice: we have _12_ fully funded PhD scholarship and _6_ postdocs bursaries to give away, all of them involving various level of digital and philological expertise.

DiXiT is funded under Marie Curie Actions within the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme. It runs from September 2013 until August 2017.

Further details: http://dixit.uni-koeln.de

Best,
Elena

Dr Elena Pierazzo
Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Department in Digital Humanities
King’s College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL

Phone: 0207-848-1949
Fax: 0207-848-2980
elena.pierazzo@kcl.ac.uk
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh


TEI editing


Oxygen


http://www.oxygenxml.com/

<oXygen/> XML Editor 15.0

http://www.tei-c.org/News/#2013-07-01-tei_conference_2013_online_registration_opened



Universities


University of Mannheim: Informatics


LOD 2: Silk - A Link Discovery Framework for the Web of Data



University of Ancona: Informatics

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