Digital resources and tools and their use
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"Since tools are now available that make it possible for users to exploit electronic data in a variety of ways, straightforward digitatisation that makes data available quickly is preferable to a critical edition which is never finished, even if less scholarly value is added." (Ore, 2009, p. 113)
The research will focus on two main fields:
- Creation of an index of tools for all stages of the production of digital editions and/or resources about digital history, and applied linguistics. Survey the community for existing tools and publication frameworks.
- Evaluate accessibility and usability. Identify users and the methodologies applied in the use of Digital Humanities resources.
Investigation of Digital Humanities resources and tools.
It could take into account:
- Digital editions
- Digital libraries
- Methods and tools for the corpus annotation of historical and contemporary written texts
- Text Analysis
- Annotations
- Study, assessment, evaluation, theorization of the integration and possible enhancement of tools in digital editions
Who is using DH tools and resources, and for what purpose?
- Are they being used by students, academics, and researchers? In teaching?
- Where are users encountering these tools?
- In what ways have they been used?
- Assess and evaluate scale of use and utility of the various DH applications and methods, through:
- interviews
- users' papers, scholarly articles, etc.
- quantitative research; big data, statistical and network analysis. (Retrieval data: XML-related languages, relational database, python, r)
How can tools and resources be best utilised?
Pilot projects for students and researchers:
RAOP - Rhetorical Annotation Ontology Project
- which comprises multiple levels of annotations, text-analysis and text representation.
- it will allow students and researchers to map rhetorical aspects of written and oral texts.
- An ontology, based on W3C Linked data and Semantic Web, will be a powerful model to represent the complexity of hierarchical and non-hierarchical structures such as a rhetorical system.
- http://bakulf.github.io/raop/
Possible collaborators include :
- TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) - Oxford University Computing Services
- Digital Humanities centres such as UCL, DigiLab - University of Rome 'La Sapienza', University of Cologne, and University of Grenoble.
- DIXIT - Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network
Many thanks for your attention.