Launch
Seminar
BærUt! Bærekraftige Digitale Vitenskapelig Utgaver
Sustainable Digital Scholarly Editions
Digital Scholarship Center
February 1, 2024
10:00 to 14:15
Annika Rockenberger
Program
Victuals
We will serve hot and cold beverages & nibbles.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 10.00 - 10.30 | Welcome & Presentation of the Hub and Nodes |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Organisation of the Hub: Roles and Tasks |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Events and Projects for 2024 |
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Lunch (bring your own) |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | Walk & Talk - Expectations: Why join the network? How do I contribute? |
| 13.00 - 13.00 | Participants report back from Walk & Talk |
| 13.30 - 14.00 | Planning the seminar in April |
| 14.00 - 14.15 | Wrap-Up |
Background
IT for Research at the
University of Oslo
The Strategic Coordination Group for IT in Research (SK-ITF) coordinates and recommends measures within IT in research at the university and reports to the Research Committee.
Source: https://www-int.usit.uio.no/om/it-dir/strategi/masterplan/sk/sk-itf/
Hub/Nodes
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Funded by UiO's Strategic Coordination Group for IT in Research as a Hub/Node network
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Hub/Node organisation as a measure of implementing UiO's research infrastructure masterplan
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Researchers, research support units, and central IT
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Competitive, university-wide application process, dominated by STEM fields
Key information
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Lead Annika Rockenberger (50%), specialist in textual scholarship and digital research methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UB
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Digital Scholarship Center at the University Library, supplies support staff & locations for workshops, training events, seminars, conferences
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Research Assistant(s) (50%)
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Budget: 2.68 mio. kroner
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Project duration: 2024–2026
Partners
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University of Oslo, mainly:
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Faculty of Humanities,
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Faculty of Theology,
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Museum of Cultural History,
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Museum of University History and History of Science
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University Library
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IT Department
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Oslo Metropolitan University
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Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
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Munch Museum
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Open for anyone, targeted towards researchers, software engineers and cultural heritage specialists
Why Do We Need BærUt?
Point of departure
Problem statement
Solution proposal
Humanities Data:
Multi-disciplinary, Multilingual,
Semi-structured,
Costly and Crucial
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Humanities data is often text or text-like phenomena & often in semi-structured formats
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There are standards for markup, coding, metadata, but they are not widely known and discipline-specific
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A lot of resources are invested in creating DSEs
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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
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In Norway, there are no national or international solutions for long-term archiving of DSE data, systems and user interfaces, for data accessibility, for operation of systems
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Cannot guarantee access to and reuse of humanities data after project end
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Valuable and precious data in outdated, unusable or legacy systems with no one to host, maintain and further develop
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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
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Expertise in long-term preservation, accessibility, and curation of cultural heritage material
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Strong focus on data management and FAIR & CARE principles
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Longer-term strategy
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Permanent hires
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System admins, developers and digital research methods experts
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Researchers with humanities domain expertise
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Digital Scholarship Center
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Physical meeting place
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Methods partners, training and teaching
Structure
Hub and Nodes
Hub
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Data modeling
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Systems and architecture
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DSE foundational skills
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Feasibility study
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Mapping DSEs in Norway
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Preparing NFR Infrastructure application
Encoding: Relational and Graph Databases
Material Philology
Automatic Transcription
User
Interface
HumIT
Encoding:
XML
IT Dept.
Organisation
of the Hub
Roles and Tasks
Ambassadors
- Bring BærUt! into the Depts.
- Distribute communications
- Advertise the network to fellow researchers at their Depts.
- Assist with distributing the survey
- Inform the network about relevant developments at their Depts.
- Should be on-site
- Well connected at their Depts.
- Allocate 1-2hrs per month
Node Facilitators
- Domain experts for a specific node
- Contribute to resources to the node
- Hosting network meetings and skill-sharing sessions
- Suggest activities, invitations to guest speakers, etc.
- Relay wishes from the node to the Hub/coordinator
- Editorial Board for the blog?
- Monthly check-in meeting w/ coordinators
- 5-10hrs per month for hosting, activities, resource gathering, etc.
Network Members
- Anyone!
- You want to learn something? Join!
- You want to share something? Join!
- You want to teach something? Join!
- You want a sparring partner for a project? Join!
- You want to get feedback from peers? Join!
- You want to meet people who love dead languages and computers? Join?
- You want people to use your scholarly editions? Join!
- You need to do more productive procrastination? Join!
- You are unsure whether this is for you? Join!
We're here for you!
Hub
Task Group
Surveying DSEs at UiO and in Norway
- Annika Rockenberger (UB)
- Johanne Emilie Christensen (UB)
- Federico Aurora (UB)
- Andrea Dale Wefring (HumIT)
- Anders Nøklestad (HumIT)
- Kristian Salcedo (UB)
Scientific Board
Surveying DSEs at UiO and in Norway
- Hugo Lundhaug (UiO/TF)
- Jens Erlend Braarvig (UiO/IKOS/Filologisk Institutt)
- Ellen Wiger (NB)
- Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig (Uni Aarhus/Grundtvig Center)
- Martina Scholger (Uni Graz/ZIM)
- Gioele Barabucci (Uni Cologne/CCeH)
Task Group
Feasibility Study
- Members from
UB,
HumIT,
IT Department
Activities
Competance og Knowledge
Course offer
- Hands-on workshops
- XML
- X-technologies
- TEI, MEI
- relational databases
- graph databases
- automatic text recognition
- data modeling
- archiving
- minimal editing
- 5 Research seminars
- 2 Conferences
Events Spring Term 2024
11 March: Network Meeting
8-9 April: "404 not found" Approaches to Sustainable Editions
21 May: Shut Up & Survey
28 May: Shut Up & Survey
10 June: Automatic Text Recognition of Astrid Lindgren's Short Hand Manuscripts w/Raphaela Heil
11 June: Workshop w/Raphaela Heil
Conferences 2025 & 2026
2.5 day conference in April 2025
2.5 day "project end" conference in late November 2026
Studies
- Surveying digital scholarly editions (DSEs) in Norway
- Feasibility study for the establishment of a DSE infrastructure at the University Library together with HumIT and IT Department
2025/26
- Whitepaper "Recommendations for the Long-Term Archiving, Accessing, and Maintenance of Digital Scholarly Editions Created in Norwegian Academic and Cultural Heritage Institutions"
- Preparation of NRC-infrastructure application (2026)
Network
- UiO-network for researchers, developers and research support around DSEs
- linking relevant national, Nordic and international research networks around DSEs
- interdisciplinary, philological-technical, multilingual
Walk & Talk
Expectations
Why join the network?
How do I contribute?
Walk & Talk
Method (GROW)
Walk & Talk
Results
404 - Not Found
Approaches to Digital Editions
https://www.ub.uio.no/english/libraries/dsc/berut/
events/seminars/404-not-found-seminar.html
Contact
baerut-admin@ub.uio.no
BærUt! Launch Seminar Presentation
By Annika Rockenberger
BærUt! Launch Seminar Presentation
Presentation of BærUt! Sustainable digital scientific editions. Skills hub and network at the University of Oslo, 2024-2026. Content authored by Annika Rockenberger & Johanne Emilie Christensen. Design: Sofie Gilbert. CC-BY 4.0
