Research Practices Infrastructures Interfaces Paul Wouters

Outline The relevance of humanities e-Research != data science Interfaces as important as infrastructures What about 2.0? The relevance of humanities e-Research != data science Interfaces as important as infrastructures What about 2.0? eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

VKS has dual mission studying practices and supporting exploration changing practices, telling stories, building tools eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

Building collaboratories in social history VKS & International Institute for Social History Exploring women’s studies VKS & Women’ Studies, University of Utrecht Alfa-lab VKS & Royal Netherlands Academy Arts & Sciences Building collaboratories in social history VKS & International Institute for Social History Exploring women’s studies VKS & Women’ Studies, University of Utrecht Alfa-lab VKS & Royal Netherlands Academy Arts & Sciences examples of work eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

Humanities “Meaning concerns interpretation of data, evidence, and texts. Value ranges over the entire field of cultural, aesthetic, social, and scientific investments. Significance, implicating both the former two, raises questions of representation, in the sense of accounting for (explanation) and of capturing, in the sense both of offering a faithful rendition (description) and of making broad claims (generalization).” eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

Double claim eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

7th eConcertation eInfrastructures3/3/2016

Data theories Given out there Building block Standard for hypothesis testing Given out there Building block Standard for hypothesis testing Constructed Result Theory-laden eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

4 perspectives on ICT Conservative: ICT as neutral container Pragmatic: ICT as tool Critical: ICT as technology of control Radical: ICT as metaphor eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

Crombie’s styles Deductive Experimental Hypotheses and analogies Taxonomy Probabilistic - statistical Evolutionary (“historic” or “genetic”) Deductive Experimental Hypotheses and analogies Taxonomy Probabilistic - statistical Evolutionary (“historic” or “genetic”) eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

Some modes of e-research From data scarcity to data floods and cloud computing: new methods in data analysis and representation Beyond data science: the radical promise of computational modelling Visual culture: how do we visualize not only data but also knowledge and interests ("Can you see what I know?")? Telling stories in New media: new formats of communication, publication and representation Social neuroscience: coupling brains and the social dimension From data scarcity to data floods and cloud computing: new methods in data analysis and representation Beyond data science: the radical promise of computational modelling Visual culture: how do we visualize not only data but also knowledge and interests ("Can you see what I know?")? Telling stories in New media: new formats of communication, publication and representation Social neuroscience: coupling brains and the social dimension eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

Interfacing Interfaces between disciplines Interfaces between infrastructures and practices Interfaces as representation researcher Interfaces between disciplines Interfaces between infrastructures and practices Interfaces as representation researcher eSI Users & Web 2.01/18/10

Alfalab oxford-presentatie-alfalab-2008http:// oxford-presentatie-alfalab from tools to communities oxford-presentatie-alfalab-2008http:// oxford-presentatie-alfalab from tools to communities 1/18/10eSI Users & Web 2.0

7th eConcertation eInfrastructures3/3/2016

Flickr and other 2.0 implicit technology focus synergy in practices –VKS collab institutions and infrastructures –Flickr: commercial cultural heritage? method as institution –Flickr: invisible use implicit technology focus synergy in practices –VKS collab institutions and infrastructures –Flickr: commercial cultural heritage? method as institution –Flickr: invisible use 1/18/10eSI Users & Web 2.0