Archives for the Month of January 2009 on Bibliographic/Metadata Services
Project Bamboo Workshop: Day 2
Project Bamboo Workshop: Day 2 Notes
Fredric Gey, PI, Contexts and Relationships: Ireland and Irish Studies project
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project
Digital Humanities Projects:
James Chandler, Debjani Ganguly, Anthony Cascardi, Neil Fraistat
J. Chandler: humanities center. CHCI. institute of advanced studies model.
Neil Fraistat: Director of MITH, Univ. of Maryland.
CenterNet
Debjani Ganguly: Humanities Research Center. Consortium for Research and Information Outreach (CRIO). Digital humanities hub, with research projects, support, collaboration
Interdisciplinary rubrics: visual culture, museums and collections, and cultural and linguistic mapping. Ethnographic film making.
Digital Humanities 2009 conference in June 2009 at UMD.
"Survey of digital humanities centers in the U.S." Diane Zorich. May 19, 2008
ISSUES:
- tension between scholars and builders
- labs virtual or physical (or both)
- need to articulate constraints of project bamboo
- how to pull existing laboratories from many institutions together
Tim Babbitt, Claire Stewart, John Unsworth
T. Babbitt: JSTOR's role in Bamboo Consortium.
Level the playing field -- expand to secondary schools; work with Irish Collection, Aluka; and broaden access to community colleges, etc.
Support web 2.0 features -- save and share user annotations, contributed content through library special collections
Stacy Kowalszyk (Indiana University Libraries): use share authentication services for automatic access, incl'ing highest quality objects.
Bamboo can help libraries -- enhance our collections, such as automatically get links for articles, images, digital editions to bib records, etc.; notification services, such as being notified when new material has been added
Negotiate with content owners for research rights, develop new language for license agreements. Bamboo can create discssion forums, best practices, community ties
J. Unsworth (Univ. of Illinois School of Library Science): TEI used widely but inconsistently. Why do mark-up? To get subset of books, go beyond keyword searching. Structural mark-up is also needed; they are meaningful units of analysis. It can be important ot know diference between the main text of a work and the paratext (table of contents, preface, running headers, etc). At a word level, tagging of proper names, etc., is necessary. In MONK community, debate about interoperability. Programmers debate usefulness of mark-up. [see Julia Flanders's response].
Bamboo can reduce the accidental via standards. Reduce needless divergence.
Rick Peterson, Alex Wade, Greg Jackson
contributions bamboo could make. limited, reasonable, not overly restrictive.
Important:
Project Bamboo could be central locale for housing tools necessary for digital humanities projects, along with links to and descriptions of projects with which they are associated. See: Bamboo Activity Demonstrations
Project Bamboo Workshop -- Day 1
Notes from Project Bamboo Workshop: Day 1
Project Bamboo seeks to advance the humanities through the development of shared digital technologies. It works toward a shared services model, where any faculty member, scholar, or researcher can use and reuse content, resources, and applications no matter where they reside, what their particular field of interest is, or what support may be available to them.
TOOLS AND CONTENT GROUP:
select content -- deliver tools -- create new content
23 members on charter
8 demonstrators: wiki page
standards, specs, models
UC Berkeley: context finder. take any text and find contextual info.
text and context demo. Irish lit. Name tagging. link-outs to other sites, picked by scholars? librarians? that were deemed appropiate and useful. Not all names linked. Those not linked can be linked by individual users. http://metadata.berkeley.edu/demos/
Emma Goldman biography: http://ecai.org/imls2006/ Georeferencing and time screen.
Thought Ark, Purdue Univ. Captures things you do as a scholar, create metadata for info you are working with. Project manager: Sorin A. Matei. http://www.thoughtark.com/thoughtark/public/
educational ecosystem. Built on plug-in. You can clone Thought Ark (not same as Digg).
Mark Olsen. docs.google.com. Compare passages. "Shingles of Ngrams". Develop algorithms. Run one database against another:Model
Demonstrator which does an automated scan of a digital text and executes a comparison against other texts, with an emphasis on finding common substrings within or between the texts: PAIR Demonstrator
See also machine learning/data-mining project at ARTFL in Chicago: PhiloMine
NYX: Nicen your XML. (Dr. Kent Hooper). Infrastucture Creation: XML and XSLT, return HTML. Consumer Creation: applet, Flash/Flex, SEASR, Silverlight.
TEI -- XSLT -- HTML
TEI Bibliography Formatter: TEI header, output options APA,MLA, PDF, etc.
Education Working Group:
broaden text and literacy
interpret: critique and create
collaborate
assess/advocate
Fall 2008 MLA meeting: a peer-reviewed journal online should count as much as a peer-reviewed article appearing in print; department chairs need to offer external and internal reviewers detailed instructions on how to evaluate what they see; general consensus is also that organizations such as the MLA or such as Bamboo might want to find ways to bring the review process into the open and use the affordances of networking technologies to create a profession-wide, peer to peer, network for active and public evaluation.
Demonstrators List
Profile page of faculty: http://vivo.cornell.edu/
Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR): http://seasr.org/
- Uses RDF. semantic-driven environment for SOA interoperability, provides community hub and access to heterogeneous data and computational systems.
modular. Zotero front-end. Text-transformation, google maps, etc.
- Has means to share beta version with colleagues before going live.
- Plug-in to Firefox.
- Zotero manages the collection.
- Citation analysis uses the JUNG network.
- Zotero exports to Fedora.
- Send your entire collection to MONK for processing.
- Fedora components. Repository search and browse. Upload to repository.
- Entity extraction with OpenNLP. Locations viewed on Google Map. Dates viewed on Simile timeline.
- NEMA: Executes a SEASR flow for each run: loads audio data, extracts features for every 10 secs.
MONK: executes flow for each analysis requested.
DISCUS: on-demand usa of analytics extraction.
MONK project Wiki. http://monkproject.org
Bamboo Implementation:
- Phase 1, 3-year time frame.
- Implementation: 2010-2012.
- Partnerships: SEASR, Zotero, Sakai, Kuali; ARL, TEI; CNI, DNF
Straw Man Consortial Model
Weaknesses:
- prioritizing issues;
- partners carry the development burden;
- if the thing you want isn't made, you might become disengaged;
lacks mechanisms for dealing with diversity.
Success depends on engagement of members: explore, plan, build
e-framework for education and research
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Bamboo...
- will NOT be a standards organization.
- will build as little as possible, but rather reuse what's already in existence.
- will enable connections, but not be "the" one-stop collaborative site.
- facilitates services, not necessarily provides services
e.g. Bamboo members could provide storage for another that lacks storage.
December 2008 Statistics
Here are our Dec. 2008 statistics:
December 2008 Statistics (MS Excel)
December 2008 OCLC Statistics (MS Excel)