Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, 2009Schoepflin/Rieger December 4, Scholarly Workbench for the Humanities: an Open Access Infrastructure of the Max Planck Society Urs Schoepflin Simone Rieger Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Paris, December 4, 2009

Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, 2009 Current Situation of Cultural Heritage on the Internet lack of cultural heritage content –lack of quality –lack of cultural techniques –lack of background data lack of infrastructure –lack of interfaces –lack of instruments for analysis and publication of scholarly metadata –lack of interoperability –lack of transparency uncertain future of the Web –lack of longevity, stability and longterm archiving infrastructures

Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, “seed collections” seed collections in several disciplines and thematic fields documents high resolution images of historical and cultural source documents and artefacts 240 videosequences of scientific source material 57,500 full-text page transcriptions in several languages network of ca. 150 knowledge weavers from more than 20 countries worldwide Scholarly Workbench: Infrastructure for the Humanities

Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, 2009 Cultural Heritage on the Internet: New Research Possibilities research across disciplines, time periods, cultures and languages hyperlinks between data create new meaningful data multiple usage of primary sources and scholarly data types of primary sources define and form cross-disciplinary standards contextualization and scholary work create added value

Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, 2009 digitization of primary sources in adequate quality development of tools and workflows for analysis and presentation of primary sources e.g. online image manipulation for research questions open access to sources and tools Scholarly Workbench: Access and Quality

Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, 2009 Scholarly Workbench: Hyperlinks between Primary Sources and Research Tools

Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, 2009 Scholarly Workbench: Annotations creation and publication of annotations and commentaries directly related to specific items from scientific collections

Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, 2009 online publication of primary sources and scholarly metadata immediate verification of scholarly interpretation Cultural Heritage on the Internet: New Forms of Dissemination

Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, 2009 “Creation of Virtual Knowledge Spaces”

Urs Schoepflin & Simone Rieger, Max Planck Institute for the Histoy of Science, 2009 “Our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the information is not made widely and readily available to society. New possibilities of knowledge dissemination not only through the classical form but also and increasingly through the open access paradigm via the Internet have to be supported. We define open access as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been approved by the scientific community.” Max Planck Society, “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in Science and Culture”, 2003 Strengthening the Open Access Policy

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