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TEXTvre: embedding a VRE in an institutional context Mark Hedges, Tobias Blanke Centre for e-Research, Kings College London, UK ISGC 2010, Taipei, Taiwan 10 th March 2010 A message for our funders Funded by JISC (Joint Information

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TEXTvre: embedding a VRE in an institutional context

Mark Hedges, Tobias Blanke Centre for e-Research, King’s College London, UK

ISGC 2010, Taipei, Taiwan – 10th March 2010

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A message for our funders

  • Funded by JISC (Joint Information

Systems Committee)

  • Part of their VRE (Virtual Research

Environment) programme

  • Runs for 2 years 1st April 2009 – 31st

March 2011

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Starting Point

Collaborative environment for textual scholarship, using German Grid infrastructure Research practices (to be) supported by institutional infrastructure

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Institutional Background

  • Research context

– Digital Humanities – Textual scholarship, online editions, TEI XML – Collaborations between scholars and technology experts (and other institutions)

  • Infrastructural context:

– Institutional repositories – Preservation environment – Research management (REF/CRIS)

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Integration and embedding

  • These contexts are quite separate
  • Integrate with institutional infrastructure
  • Embed within the day-to-day work

practices of the researchers

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Institutional infrastructure

Researcher work area, UI, tools, services Data curation and preservation Institutional repositories TextGrid middleware

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Researcher practice

  • Scholars do their own thing, so ...
  • Explore current and potential research

practices and use of tools

– Semi-structured interviews – Tool walk-through (what could they do?)

  • Integrate tools to support and enhance

these practices (current and potential)

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Research Partners

  • Early English Laws

– Heterogeneous sources – Distributed researchers

  • Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania

– Established editing tradition – Material sources

  • Gascon Rolls

– Records editing tradition – Entity analysis

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New Horizons ...

  • GATE

– Information Extraction – Text mining – Annotation

  • OCRopodium

– OCR (Optical Character Recognition) – Text extraction from digitised images – Editing integration

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GATE

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OCRopodium

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More institutional integration

archivists scholars repository

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To summarise

  • Dispersed scholars working on diverse

(digital) humanities projects

  • Develop a VRE that is embedded in the

day-to-day research activities of scholars

  • Integrate VRE with institutional

infrastructure(s): repositories, preservation, archives/library

  • Provide integrated framework for dealing

with (text-based) historical and archival material

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Contacts

http://textvre.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/ mark.hedges@kcl.ac.uk tobias.blanke@kcl.ac.uk