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THETA Create, connect, consume - innovating today for tomorrow. How will (digital) humanities researchers in the future use cultural data? Connected topics Context Current Future Transition Context (Digital) humanities

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THETA

Create, connect, consume - innovating today for tomorrow.

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How will (digital) humanities researchers in the future use cultural data?

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Connected topics

  • Context
  • Current
  • Future
  • Transition
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Context

  • (Digital) humanities research
  • Cultural data
  • GLAM data
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(Digital) Humanities Research

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Cultural Data

humanities, arts, social science, science

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Cultural collections on nodes

Intersect: A History of Aboriginal Sydney, CSU Regional Archives, Cultural Collections UNEW, FAIMS Repository, Hidden Testimony: musical experience and memory of Jewish Holocaust survivors, HCS VLab Corpora (PARADISEC, AusTalk, AVOZES, Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian Corpus), Multicultural Research Library, Stage

  • n Screen, Sydney Playground

Research, Talking Ngan’gi, UNE Archives & Heritage Centre. eRSA: AusStage. QCIF: Historical coastlines (community perspectives) : manuscript and images archive, Anthropology Museum Digital Storage, Solomons Islands History, Marxan Software archive, HCS Vlab Corpora (AusNC). VicNode: AURIN, History of Adoption: Stories of Australian Adoption, Twitter.

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RDS: Culture & Communities

  • Statistical data, manuscripts, documents,

artefacts and audio-visual recordings

  • Diverse array of repositories … many of

which are unconnected National Data Collection

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RDS: Culture & Communities

  • Enable researchers to assemble, combine

and analyse data sets at a scale not previously possible, to produce holistic answers to complex questions… Strategic Roadmap 2011

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GLAM Data

galleries, libraries, archives, museums

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Cultural collections in Australia

  • National GLAM collections
  • State and territory GLAM collections
  • University GLAM collections
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Nexus

  • Significant proportion of cultural data is

in the public sector in cultural heritage institutions

  • Research community resides mostly in

the research sector and their scholarly

  • utputs often end up in cultural heritage

collections

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Current

  • (Digital) humanities research
  • Use of cultural data
  • Cultural data types
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State of play

  • Analysis methods: qual/quantitative
  • Old and new research practices
  • New skills are needed for new practices,

e.g. using tools or working in teams

  • Data and technology intensive
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Current (digital) humanities research

  • new methods
  • new scholarly practices
  • new peer communities
  • new patterns (data)
  • new demand for content = data
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New data requirements

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Discovery & access tools

Catalogue, finding aid & data service

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New access requirements

to bulk cultural (GLAM) data

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New methods

Computation, high resolution, bulk data

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New ways of looking

Close and distant reading...

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In common

Kenderdine Manovich Sherratt Whitelaw

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GLAM data

researcher relationship with cultural institution

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Bulk data

computation + arrangement + distance

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Kenderdine

Immersion and embodiment

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Kenderdine

Museum Victoria Europeana Hong Kong Maritime Museum Dunhuang Academy

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Manovich

Broad view and pattern analysis

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Manovich

ArtStor Whitehouse.gov Instagram

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Sherratt

Opening up the archive

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Sherratt

National Library of Australia National Archives of Australia Flickr

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Whitelaw

Generous interfaces

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Whitelaw

National Archives of Australia National Gallery of Australia Manly Library (Sydney, NSW)

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DH2015

Current data use in digital humanities

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WWI Project. R Warren et al.

“The Muninn Project is a multi-disciplinary, multi-national, academic research project investigating millions of records pertaining to the First World War in archives around the world.”

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Transversal Narratives. B Miller et al.

“This combined method for cross-document coreference allows for the emergence of narratives that go beyond the boundaries of

  • ne interview. Using a test corpus of 511

World Trade Center Task Force Interviews with first responders, this technique reveals the stories of some who did not survive. "

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Mapping the Dutch Cultural

  • Industry. C van den Heuvel et al.

“The project started with the integration of three complementary, but heterogeneous (meta)datasets.” Biographical (art history) reference works Players in the cultural industry Artists and scholars

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Digital Paleography. D Stutzmann et al.

“Medieval scripts are a challenge to historical analysis, as for describing and representing the graphical evidence, analyzing and clustering letter forms and their features through Computer Vision and analyzing historical phenomena.”

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Genetic Criticism. D Van Hulle et al.

“research focus is the study of modern manuscripts and writing processes, especially comparative genetic criticism, digital scholarly editing and the analysis of manuscripts by authors such as Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Charles Darwin, Willem Elsschot.”

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Digital Duhuang. X Wang et al.

“...create high-quality digital reconstructions of the mural paintings and related art and texts associated with the several hundred Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China, a uniquely important cultural crossroads on the ancient Silk Route in the Gobi Desert.”

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Cultural data types

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Data Types

What sort of data supports humanities research?

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Future

  • (Digital) humanities research
  • Use of cultural data
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Inextricably tied to the capacity and future

  • f cultural collecting
  • bridging and dovetailing between

research & collection infrastructures

  • research & collecting practices change

(data and technology intensive)

Future humanities research is..

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Future humanities research

Reliance

  • soft and hard infrastructure RDM
  • data is digital, available & collected
  • data seeking & citing (literacy) skills
  • tool know-how & skills
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Let’s dream a little..

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(Near) future cultural data use

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Imagine..

Farah 3 virtual labs 60 hours visualisation visualisation expert travel posters

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Imagine..

Carrie digital repository digitisation & OCR

  • ntology expert

fictional works

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Imagine..

Tom publishing platform software output project manager multimedia

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Imagine..

Colin & Mick text encoding big data HPC expert newspapers

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Transition

  • Keep up with the changes
  • Rethink how research support is provided
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We know

  • Humanities research is changing and

increasingly data and tech intensive.

  • What & where cultural data is and how

humanities researchers are using it.

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We know

  • Undigitised data (cultural material) is like

“dark matter” (Maltby).

  • Format shifting cultural heritage material

to digital is a challenge to overcome.

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We don’t know

  • Where the gaps in data and technology

support are.

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We can do

  • Talk to humanities researchers about

what cultural material they would like access to (as data).

  • Assist humanities researchers in

preparing a case for digitisation, even better help manage and fund that!

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Take action to build capacity

  • Learn about and instruct on using APIs

and mashing or mixing data

  • Provide resources, training and support
  • r guidance around, e.g. data analysis,

data management, data visualisation.

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Boom Tish! Thank You :)

ingrid.mason@intersect.org.au ingrid.mason@ands.org.au @1n9r1d