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Sustainable Digital Scholarly Editions

Bakgrunn

IT i forskning ved Universitetet i Oslo

Hub/nodenettverk

  • Funded by UiO's Strategic Coordination Group for IT in Research as a Hub/Node network

  • Hub/Node organisation as a measure of implementing UiO's research infrastructure masterplan

  • Researchers, research support units, and central IT

  • Competitive, university-wide application process, dominated by STEM fields

Nøkkelinformasjon

  • PI Annika Rockenberger (50%), specialist in textual scholarship and digital research methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Digital Scholarship Center at the University Library, supplies support staff & locations for workshops, training events, seminars, conferences

  • Koordinator (50%)

  • Budsjett: 2.68 mio. kroner

  • Prosjekttid: 2024–2026

Partnere

  • University of Oslo, mainly:

    • Faculty of Humanities,

    • Faculty of Theology,

    • Museum of Cultural History,

    • Museum of University History

    • University Library

    • IT Department

  • Oslo Metropolitan University,
    Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

  • Munch Museum

  • Open for anyone, targeted towards researchers and research support staff & software engineers at UiO

Innhold

Utgangspunkt
Problemstilling
Løsningsforslag

Humanities Data: Multi-disciplinary, Multilingual,
Semi-structured, Costly and Crucial

  • Humanities data is often text and often in semi-structured formats

  • There are standards for markup, coding, metadata, but they are not widely known and discipline-specific

  • A lot of resources are invested in creating DSEs

  • They are aimed to be used widely across academic, cultural heritage, educational and cultural institutions and society at large

Problem:
Retention and Sharing of Skills & Knowledge,
Technical & Philological Maintenance of DSEs

  • In Norway, no national or international solutions for long-term archiving of DSE data, systems and user interfaces, for data accessibility, for operation of systems

  • Cannot guarantee access to and reuse of humanities data after project end

  • Valuable and precious data in outdated, unusable or legacy systems with no one to host, maintain and further develop

  • At UiO, non-Norwegian/Scandinavian materials will not be systematically indexed, archived, or kept accessible by large cultural heritage institutions like National Libary or National Archives

Transdisciplinarity as a Solution

  • Transfer & development of skills and knowledge between projects, disciplines, Departments and academic and cultural heritage organisations
     
  • Transfer & development of skills between project-based, departmental, and central IT and developer groups

University Library as a
Key Player

  • Expertise in long-term preservation, accessibility, curation of cultural heritage material

  • Strong focus on data management and FAIR & CARE principles

  • Longer-term strategy

  • Permanent hires

  • System admins, developers and digital research methods experts

  • Digital Scholarship Center

  • Physical meeting place

  • Methods partners, training and teaching

Struktur

Hub og nodene

Hub

  • Data modeling

  • Systems and architecture

  • DSE foundational skills

  • Feasibility study

  • Mapping DSEs in Norway

  • Preparing NFR Infrastructure application

Material Philology

Automatic Transcription

Encoding: XML

Encoding: Relational and Graph Databases

User Interface

Aktiviteter

Kompetanse og Kunnskap

Kurstilbud

  • Hands-on workshops
    • XML
    • X-technologies
    • TEI, MEI
    • relational databases
    • graph databases
    • automatic text recognition
    • data modeling
    • archiving
    • minimal editing
  • 5 Forskningsseminarer
  • 2 Konferanser

Rapporter + Søknader

  • Kartlegging av digitale vitenskapelige utgaver (DVUer) i Norge
     
  • Rapport "Recommendations for the Long-Term Archiving, Accessing, and Maintenance of Digital Scholarly Editions Created in Norwegian Academic and Cultural Heritage Institutions"
     
  • Gjennomførbarhetsstudie for etablering og drift av en infrastruktur for DVUer ved universitetsbiblioteket
     
  • Forberedelse av en NFR-infrastruktursøknad (2026)

Nettverk

  • UiO-nettverk for forskere, utviklere og forskningsstøtte rundt DVUer
     
  • sammenkobling av relevante nasjonale, nordiske og internasjonale forskernettverk rundt DVUer
     
  • tverrfaglig, filologisk-teknisk, flerspråklig

Kontakt

 ✉️ annika.rockenberger@ub.uio.no