1. Research & Development
Department (RDD)
New tasks, new roles: Libraries in the tension between Digital Humanities, Research Data, and Research Infrastructures Dr. Stefan Schmunk | Jasná, 3rd April 2017
@DARIAHde
@StefanSchmunk

2. Overview – Agenda Introduction
Digital Humanities: DARIAH-DE and TextGrid
Research Data in the Arts and Humanities
Digital Scholarly Editions as new tasks for Research Libraries
Conclusion
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3. The Research & Development Department
Largest library R&D in Germany
2016: 30 FTE, abound 14 third-party funded projects
> 80% third-party funding
Funded in 2002
mission: develop new infrastructure services for research

4. Applied digital enabled research in the Arts and Humanities
Digital Humanities – an interdisciplinary approach
Digital Humanities =
Applied digital enabled research
in the Arts and Humanities
Arts and Humanities
& Social Science
Computer Science
Libraries & Archives – Information Science
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5. Continous operation after 2019 funded by about 15 m euros
funding:
Continous operation after 2019
funded by
about 15 m euros
consortium of 17 partners: universities, research institutions, computing centres, libraries, Academy of Sciences and Humanities, SME, NGO
funding: (integration in DARIAH-DE)
funded by
about 8 m euros
consortium of 10 partners: universities, research institutions, computing centre, library, Academy of Sciences and Humanities, SME
Role of SUB:
Coordination and Management of the whole consortium
Research in the field of research data and digital methods
Consulting of researchers and projects
Developing of Tool and Service: e.g. Repository-Solution, temporal and spatial visualization tool
Hosting of an developer environment: Wikis, Code Repositories, Coding-Tools as JENKINS, GreenHopper etc.
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6. Technical Infrastructure
… supports digitally-enabled research and teaching in the arts and humanities
Teaching
Research
Research Data
Technical Infrastructure
… supports the creation of digital editions in the humanities and cultural studies
Tools for text enrichment and annotation
Repository for long term preservation
Training and education
 Research driven and conceptualized as an architecture of participation
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7. DARIAH-DE – four main tasks
Teaching (support, training)
Research (DH & Information Science)
Workshops on methods, expert colloquia, Summer Schools
DH methods and practices
Coordination of national and international curricular developments
Use Cases: Annotation, Big Data
Tools and services
Bibliography Doing Digital Humanities
Research Data (research data
collections, research data management)
Technical Infrastructure (development and provision of infrastructural services)
Best practices for metadata, standardised exchange of data, ontologies
collaborative research environments, virtual machines, monitoring, authentication and authorization infrastructure etc.
Development of generic search, collection and schema registry
Development of a tool based federation architecture for research data
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8. Research Data – Arts and Humanities
Definition Research Data
“By research data in the Arts and Humanities is meant all those sources and outputs that are based on a research question, collected either by scholars, libraries, archives or any other institution, which may be described, evaluated and/or generated and stored in machine-readable form for analyzing, archiving purposes, citability, and for further processing.”
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9. Research Data – Arts and Humanities
Metadata, bibliographical data, finding aids
Digital and/or digitized data and/or digital representation of analog data
Digital objects (tool generated data)
Full text, transcripts
Enriched full text
Images, movies, music & notes
Authority files, controlled vocabularies, ontologies
...
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10. Example: Epigraphical Database
Research Data Collection – epidat
Data: inscriptions of more than 130 Jewish cemeteries in Germany and the Netherlands ( )
Contains: Digitized Data, transcripts,
maps, photographs, and
archival sources
Methods: Visual Analytics,
Named-Entity-Recognition,
Temporal-Spatial Visualization
Source:
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11. Example: Epigraphical Database
Scholarly Edition – synoptical view of inscriptions
Symbols
Photography
Burial site
Further information about Epidat:
Thomas Kollatz
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12. Epidat: Data-Visualisation
DARIAH-DE Geo-Browser
Visualisation of data, sets, and collection
Temporal-Spatial-Contextualisation
Open Source tool as a service for the community
Source:
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13. What is the situation for the Digital Humanities?
Research data are representations of observations, objects, or other entities used as evidence of phenomena for the purposes of research or scholarship” C.L. Borgman (2015). Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World.
New challenges in the Humanities dealing with
Research data concerning:
Discovering data
Access to data
Extended search strategies for data
Using data tools (and generating data)
Linking articles with data  enhanced publications
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14. Tool-oriented approach ... Building a Data Federation Architecture
No Silos
Interoperability!
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15. Repositories for the Arts and Humanities
Archive,
store,
preserve,
but also:
explore,
find,
analyze and
visualize
DARIAH-DE Repository
TextGrid Repository
Integrating existing tools
Analyze and visualize
Data e.g. Voyant Tools
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16. Digital Scholarly Edition Theodor Fontane‘s Notebooks
period: s
67 notebooks
leaves each
< pages
Theodor Fontane ( )
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17. Exemplary Workflow – New Taks and challenges for Research Libraries
MATERIAL
VIRTUAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
USAGE
TEXTGRID LABORATORY
TEXTGRID
REPOSITORY
XML-Editor
Dictionaries
Object Hierarchy
Plugins
Export to SADE (existdb, Lucene, Batik, DigiLib, …)
FONTANE-NOTEBOOK-PORTAL
(Digital Edition powered by SADE)
Material Appraisal
Philological Edition
Text Constitution
Critical Apparatus Editorial Comments
Register
Report and Guidelines etc.
Information Science
Preparation of the Digital Publication (visualization) Data aggregation etc.
Editorial Principles and Transcription Practices
TEXTGRID REPOSITORY
(Long term preservation of research data)
Publication (Persistent Identifier, Metadata Validiation)
Metadata Schema
TEI as XSD
XML/TEI- Encoding
Relations
e.g. DTA, GND, …
PRINT EDITION
via XML-Print
with Walter-deGruyter Publishing House
Transcriptions
Conversion
Digitized Material
Metadata
Digital Objects
Ingest
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18. The wave Growth of Information – User requirements – e. g. :
Science 2.0, collaborative
networks, social media
Diversity of media types and formats

19. New Tasks for Libraries: Data, Infrastructures, and Digital Humanities
Documentation of research data for replication and detection of fraud
Sharing and publication of research data: „old“ data for new research
Building up research infrastructures for scientist
Keep digital data usable despite changes in technology, organisations, background knowledge, ...
Supporting researchers during the project phase (embedded data managers)
Research Object
Research Data observational data, audio, video, interviews, statistical data, ...
Publication
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20. Consequences for Libraries
Scientific Information is more than a journal article or a book
Libraries should open their catalogues to any kind of information
The catalogue of the future is NOT ONLY a window to the library‘s holding, but
A portal in a net of trusted providers of scientific content
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21. „Vision 2030“ for Libraries
Libraries will be ...
Data provider
Information centers (advise and consult scientist)
Scientific software houses
Training facilities
Experts for enhanced publications
Hoster of research infrastructures
Research institutions in the field of information science
Networked information facilities (open interfaces)
...
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22. Libraries should ride the wave …
It is not only a challenge …
… it is an opportunity
Libraries should ride the wave …
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23. Thank you for your attention! Dr. Stefan Schmunk
@DARIAHde
@StefanSchmunk
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24. Links and references DARIAH-DE Homepage http://de.dariah.eu
DARIAH-EU Homepage
DARIAH-DE Repository
DARIAH Working Papers
DARIAH-DE Research Data Services
Collection Registry
Schema Registry
Generic Search
DHd-Blog
DHd-Channel
TextGrid Homepage
Download TextGridLab
TextGrid Repository
technical Documentation
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