That’s Capital: Funding, Resources and Influence | Introduction to Digital Humanities. The Link to My Prezi: One of the biggest issues facing the Digital Humanities field today is how to gather the resources needed to execute the ideas of the scholars and designers working in the field. This is not limited to financial resources, though those are important. Digital Humanists also need to gather time, people and social capital.
Two of our readings this week- the second chapter of “Our Cultural Commonwealth” and “Innkeepers in a Roach Motel” by Dorothea Salo- deal with these issues. “Our Cultural Commonwealth” does so in a more general way- talking about issues that affect many types of Digital Humanities projects. “Inn Keepers in a Roach Motel” deals more specifically with institutional repositories. Six Challenges: “Our Cultural Commonwealth” points out six challenges facing the Digital Humanities. “Inn Keeper at a Roach Motel”: Institutional Repositories 1. Moving Forward: Innkeeper at the Roach Motel. Show full item record Author(s) Salo, Dorothea Citation Salo, Dorothea. "Innkeeper at the Roach Motel.
" Library Trends 57:2 (Fall 2008). Date Dec 11, 2007 Subject(s) institutional repositories; open access Abstract Library-run institutional repositories face a crossroads: adapt or die. Permanent link Export Export to RefWorks Part of General Library Collection. Library collaboration with large digital humanities projects. The sustainability of digital humanities research projects is a pressing issue for humanities computing. Currently, even well-established large digital projects like the Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) are at future risk because funding and other resources are contingent on grant funding or faculty status of the director, neither of which will necessarily be available to maintain the project over time.
The mission of the university library, however, includes archiving and dissemination, now increasingly of digital materials as well as traditional paper. Collaboration with the university library is the only realistic option for long-term sustainability of digital humanities projects in the current environment. Unlike paper collections, which only require secure storage, digital projects also require the means of adaptation to new electronic media and operating environments.
. © The Author 2010. Thinking about Infrastructure. Anatomy of the national archive. Towards the Digital Library - Inside the British Library In the mid-1990s the British Library has undergone a most fundamental and transfiguring upheaval in the quarter century since its establishment under act of Parliament in 1972. It has also moved home, packing up 12 million of its books and periodicals, 39 million patents, two million maps and over a million sound recordings, and transporting them in 5,600 van trips from Bloomsbury and elsewhere to the Euston Road. Those seeking a gory postmortem of the protracted period of construction on the St Pancras site, or of the problematic process of fitting out and taking occupation of the new building, will need to turn elsewhere than Alan Day's latest book, Inside the British Library, the follow-up to his two earlier studies, The British Library: A Guide to its Structure, Publications, Collections and Services and The New British Library.
His real focus is not the construction but the operation of the new British Library. Metadata Interoperability: A Study of Methodology. Metadata Interoperability: A Study of Methodology Lois Mai Chan, Ph.DProfessor, School of Library and Information Science University of Kentucky U.S.A. loischan@uky.edu ABSTRACT: The rapid growth of Internet resources and digital collections and libraries is accompanied by a proliferation of metadata schemas. Each metadata schema has been designed based on the requirements of the particular user community, intended users, type of materials, subject domain, the depth of description, etc. Problems arise when building large digital libraries or repositories with metadata records prepared according to diverse schemas. Most users do not and should not have to know or understand the underlying structure of the digital collection; but in reality, they are experiencing difficulties in resource discovery and access. Introduction Recent decades have witnessed a proliferation of metadata schemas for description of digital resources.
Definition of Interoperability Uniform Standard Derivation <? Metadata Principles and Practicalities. I. Introduction The rapid changes in the means of information access occasioned by the emergence of the World Wide Web have spawned an upheaval in the means of describing and managing information resources. Metadata is a primary tool in this work, and an important link in the value chain of knowledge economies. Yet there is much confusion about how metadata should be integrated into information systems. How is it to be created or extended? Who will manage it? How can it be used and exchanged? The authors hope to make explicit the strong foundations of agreement shared by two prominent metadata Initiatives: the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Learning Object Metadata (LOM) Working Group.
The ideas in this paper are divided into two categories. II. A. Children think nothing of mixing cowboy themes and pirate themes and undersea exploration themes. Namespaces and metadata modularity B. C. D. III. A. B. C. Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology Part I: Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level. Abstract The rapid growth of Internet resources and digital collections has been accompanied by a proliferation of metadata schemas, each of which has been designed based on the requirements of particular user communities, intended users, types of materials, subject domains, project needs, etc. Problems arise when building large digital libraries or repositories with metadata records that were prepared according to diverse schemas.
This article (published in two parts) contains an analysis of the methods that have been used to achieve or improve interoperability among metadata schemas and applications, for the purposes of facilitating conversion and exchange of metadata and enabling cross-domain metadata harvesting and federated searches. From a methodological point of view, implementing interoperability may be considered at different levels of operation: schema level, record level, and repository level. 1. 2. 2.1 Metadata Schema 2.2 Interoperability 3. Figure 1. 4. 4.1 Derivation. Ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/lomi/images/5/52/D4.7-prolearn.pdf. Www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub145/pub145.pdf. Data visualization and digital humanities research. Book Review: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward Tufte.
Book Review: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward Tufte Standard · Posted by qvdesign on April 13, 2012 · 2 Comments So here we have it; a book review of one of the two Qlikview recommended ‘must reads’ (the other being Stephen Few’s ‘Information Dashboard Design’ which I’ll cover at a later date), many of you will have already heard of the work of Edward Tufte so this review is perhaps aimed more at those new to Qlikview, Chart Design and Data Visualisation – although there is a crucial point for existing readers of this book at the end. First things first; who’s this book aimed at and suitable for? In short it should be read by anyone who has even a passing interest in Data Visualisation, this isn’t simply due to the ‘high level’ nature of the book but also the fact that it’s written in a very accessible style – very much unlike the more traditional ‘how to’ text books a la Mr Few’s.
I do have to take a slight issue with some of the things he says however. Matt. Digital visualization as a scholarly activity. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies.