What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in the Library? tl;dr – Libraries and digital humanities have the same goals. Stop asking if the library has a role, or what it is, and start getting involved in digital projects that are already happening. Advocate for new expanded roles and responsibilities to be able to do this. Comprehending the Digital Humanities – from Elijah Meeks at Stanford. Introduction – On Kirschenbaum In the spring of 2011, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Professor of English at the University of Maryland, published a piece for the Association of Departments of English titled “What Is Digital Humanities and What’s it Doing in English Departments?” Aside from the complications of defining what is/are/is-not digital humanities, it is in this publicly visible, collaborative, online network and infrastructure that the Library should begin to see itself. What You Do with a Million Books, Screwmaneutically Speaking: The Library as Place – On Ramsay It’s not a matter of replacing one with the other, as any librarian will tell you.
Linked Data Basics for Techies - OpenOrg Intended Audience This is intended to be a crash course for a techie/programmer who needs to learn the basics ASAP. It is not intended as an introduction for managers or policy makers (I suggest looking at Tim Berners-Lee's TED talks if you want the executive summary). It's primarily aimed at people who're tasked with creating RDF and don't have time to faff around. Please Feedback-- especially if something doesn't make sense!!!! If you are new to RDF/Linked Data then you can help me! I put a fair bit of effort into writing this, but I am too familar with the field! If you are learning for the first time and something in this guide isn't explained very well, please drop me a line so I can improve it. cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk Warning Some things in this guide are deliberately over-simplified. Alternatives If you don't like my way of explaining things, then there's other introductions out there; (suggest more!) Structure Tree data: (JSON, XML.) Graph data: (RDF). Merging RDF & Triples For example: Example a
Welcome to TClouds IRMOS - Home .: Venus-C :. Building a highly-scalable and flexible Cloud infrastructure VENUS-C is a project funded under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme drawing its strength from a joint co-operation between computing service providers and scientific user communities to develop, test and deploy a large, Cloud computing infrastructure for science and SMEs in Europe. Experts "The great success of Generalized Worker Role in VENUS-C has emphasized to me that building a library of customizable Roles or Appliances is a powerful cloud programming model". "It was particularly revealing to see so many different applications being in need of cloud services, yet with rather diverse characteristics and diverse requirements". "I have improved my knowledge about commercial and academic cloud activities and interoperability topics, and increased my understanding of industrial cloud applications". VENUS-C Value Proposition On Air
3rd Usage Area Workshop: Future Internet Initiative Date: 28 and 29 June 2011 Venue: Hotel Husa President Park, Brussels, Belgium Co-organised by the EX-FI Support Action, the CONCORD Support Action and the European Commission Invitation Following the successful 2nd Future Internet Usage Areas workshop in Brussels last year, the EX-FI project, the CONCORD project, the EFIA Industry group and European Commission now would like to invite you to the 3rd Usage Areas workshop. Themes to be addressed: The themes and open questions to be addressed during the Workshop include: (1) In light of the use cases already underway , what additional use cases and scenarios do you consider to be appropriate and representative for large-scale experimentation in close association with the Future Internet PPP and how could this be achieved? Workshop Format: Expected Results: Agenda and presentations List of Participants Registration is closed. Correspondence: All correspondence regarding this event should be sent to: 3rd-UA-workshop(at)future-internet.eu
Open Definition Projekt GRAMMIS Projektbeschreibung, Projektziele Nutzerbestimmung, Adressaten Theoretischer Rahmen Methodik, Datengrundlage Aktivitäten Kooperation Internet-Service des Projekts Publikationen Projektbeschreibung, Projektziele Das Projekt hat zum Ziel, ein umfassendes multimediales elektronisch vernetztes Informationssystem zur deutschen Grammatik bereitzustellen, auf das weltweit über das Internet zugegriffen werden kann. Das System soll der Erschließung wichtiger Ergebnisse der Arbeiten der Abteilung Grammatik des IDS für die breite Öffentlichkeit dienen. Das bisher erarbeitete GRAMMIS enthält vier inhaltliche Komponenten. Das Kernstück des Systems ist die Systematische Grammatik In dieser Komponente wird versucht, ein hierarchisch strukturiertes Gesamtbild der Grammatik der deutschen Gegenwartssprache zu entwerfen. Aus syntaktischer Sicht werden Ausdruckseinheiten jeder Komplexitätsstufe beschrieben. Weitere Komponenten von GRAMMIS sind: Nutzerbestimmung, Adressaten Theoretischer Rahmen Aktivitäten
LREC Conferences What IT leaders say about big data Data is the lifeblood of an organisation but its flow needs to be managed effectively. The challenge for IT chiefs is that data volumes are getting bigger with the explosion in the use of unstructured data and social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, holding valuable data organisations want to effectively exploit. The desire to sweat information assets for possible competitive advantage is being fuelled by the tough economic climate, but many IT leaders are struggling over how to extract value and empower business users in the face of a big data skills deficit and concerns over the governance, privacy and security of data. Where to use big data Many of the IT leaders at the event were at the exploratory stage of using big data technologies, but can see its potential. Peter Elliott, head of architecture and design at Vocalink, was an example. "We want to look at how we exploit transactional data and create a centre of excellence around the business," he said. Customer engagement
CC license version 4.0: Helping meet the needs of open data publishers and users Over the last few months, Creative Commons has been working on the next version of its license suite, version 4.0. The goals of version 4.0 are wide-ranging, but the overall objective is clear: update the licenses so they are considerably more robust, yet easy to understand and use, for both existing communities and new types of users. A key community that version 4.0 aims to serve better are public sector agencies releasing data. Sui generis database rights One area of particular interest to European data publishers and users will be the shift in how CC licenses handle sui generis database rights. Here’s an example. In 3.0 (International), a user extracts some public transport data in the database in a way that doesn’t implicate copyright. Strengthen reputation and integrity Another change queued up for 4.0 is the strengthening of particular provisions so that the CC licenses can be more easily used by institutions such as public sector bodies releasing open data. Updated attribution