1 / 23

Alfalab Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment

Alfalab Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment. Anne Beaulieu Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands anne.beaulieu@vks.knaw.nl. Douwe Zeldenrust Meertens Institute (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl.

crescent
Download Presentation

Alfalab Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Alfalab • Construction and Deconstruction of a • Digital Humanities Experiment Anne Beaulieu Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands anne.beaulieu@vks.knaw.nl Douwe Zeldenrust Meertens Institute (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl Joris van Zundert Huygens Institute (KNAW) The Hague, The Netherlands joris.van.zundert@huygensinstituut.knaw.nl

  2. Introducing Alfalab • Alfalab is being created by Anne Beaulieu • Joris van Zundert • Douwe Zeldenrust • Rob Zeeman • Maarten Hoogerwerf • Charles van den Heuvel • Smiljana Antonijevic • Ruud Bronmans • Dirk Roorda • Leen Breure • Karina van Dalen • Ronald Dekker • Arjen Versloot • Sander Strating • Derk Drukker • Kees Mandemakers • Henk Wals • Paul Wouters • Peter Doorn • Reinier Salverda • Melle de Vries • Hans Bennis • Suzanne van Kaam • Bas Doppen • and a growing number of others cooperating...

  3. Motivation for Alfalab • Our Cultural Commonwealth, The report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. ACLS, 2006 • Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship: Past, Present, Future. A Report on the Workshop 22-24 October, 2008, Turf Valley Resort, Ellicott City, Maryland. March 2009

  4. Motivation for Alfalab • Little uptake of digital tools and 'method' in humanities • Lack of Collaboration • Lack of VRE's and Virtual Laboratories • Lack of critical mass of digitized • Problem of heterogeneity of tools, data and method • Alfalab tries to meet the suggested requirements in a small controlled community setting

  5. What Alfalab wants to be • A collaboration on all levels • Exploration of and experimentation on the 'laboratory metaphor' • Objectives • Success and fail factors • Community building 'how-to' • Exploration of form and function of tools • Work in progress

  6. The naive nativity of an 'alpha-lab'...

  7. Learning in progress • Less portal • Less lab • Focus on community building • Rethinking interfaces and visualization • Rethinking academic publishing and peer review • Reconciling heterogeneity • Organizational model

  8. community involvement networked project leadership shared development effort collaborative vision Collaboration key • tools & interfaces • distributed data • workshops • desimination

  9. Project scope • Phase 1 • Exploration • Planning, motivating & financing phase 2 • Networking (DARIAH, CLARIN, Nines, Bamboo etc.) • Phase 2 • Implementation • Less infrastructure • Focus on networking, organization • Mapping research heuristics on tools and data • 1.4 MEuro • Phase 1: 2009 - 2011

  10. Current state • From portal to distributed networked tools and data • Tools: 2 demonstrators in progress • 'TeksLlab' (TextLab) • 'GisLab' (GeospatialLab) • 3rd demonstrator lab planned • Project on digital publication and peer review • Finding and leveraging synergy effects • Collaborative publications • TekstLab * GisLab

  11. Alfalab • microtoponym pilot Douwe Zeldenrust Meertens Institute (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl Charles van den Heuvel Virtual Knowledge Studio (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands charles.van.den.heuvel@vks.knaw.nl Sander Strating Fryske Akademy (KNAW) Leeuwarden, The Netherlands sstrating@fryske-akademy.nl Arjen Versloot Fryske Akademy (KNAW) Leeuwarden, The Netherlands aversloot@fryske-akademy.n Rob Zeeman Meertens Instituut (KNAW) Amsterdam, The Netherlands rob.zeeman@meertens.knaw.nl Leen Breure University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands leen@cs.uu.nl

  12. Google Earth

  13. Google Earth

  14. Google Earth

  15. Google Earth

  16. Google Earth

  17. Prototype Microtoponym Meertens Instituut

  18. Knowledge Infrastructure Cultural History (KICH)

  19. Closing – Q&A

  20. Alfalab Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities Experiment Joris van Zundert joris.van.zundert@huygensinstituut.knaw.nl Douwe Zeldenrust douwe.zeldenrust@meertens.knaw.nl Anne Beaulieu anne.beaulieu@vks.knaw.nl http://alfalablog.knaw.nl http://earth.google.com http://www.hgnnederland.nl http://www.kich.nl http://www.meertens.knaw.nl http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl http://www.vks.knaw.nl

More Related