DM2E 4th Digital Humanities Advisory Board Meeting, 3 April 2014 - Report on the 2nd Project Review Meeting (13 March 2014), Vivien Petras (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

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Report on the 2nd Project Review Meeting (13 March 2014)
Vivien Petras (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
3 April 2014

2. Outline
1. Overall Goals & Structure
2. Approaches & Achievements
3. Deliverables & Milestones
4. Outlook
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Overall Goals & Structure

4. About DM2E
• DM2E: Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana
• CIP-ICT-PSP.2011.2.1 - Aggregating content in
Europeana
• Duration: 1st February 2012 - 31st January 2015 (36
months)
• Effort: 427 PM
• Total cost: €2.62m
• Website: http://dm2e.eu/
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5. Who is involved?
• Technological Partners
– ExLibris (Aleph, MARC sources management, Primo)
– Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (ECHO)
– Net7 S.r.l. (Muruca/Pundit)
– National Technical University of Athens (MINT)
– Universität Mannheim (LoD2, D2R, SILK)
• Content Providers (Beneficiaries)
– European Association for Jewish Culture (Judaica)
– Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (ECHO)
– Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ABO/Google Books)
– Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Kalliope)
– University of Bergen (Wittgenstein Archive/Source)
– CNRS ITEM (Nietzsche Source, associated)
– National Library of Israel (Judaica, associated)
– Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Deutsches
Textarchiv, associated)
– Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Polytechnisches Journal)
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6. Who is involved?
• Digital Humanities
– Stefan Gradmann (KU Leuven) – Chair
– Tobias Blanke (King's College, London)
– Sally Chambers (The European Library / DARIAH-D)
– Gerhard Lauer (Göttingen University)
– Alois Pichler (UIB)
– Jürgen Renn (MPIWG)
– Laurent Romary (UBER)
– Susan Schreibman (Trinity College Dublin)
– Claire Warwick (University College, London)
• Community Building
– Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)
• Coordination, Management & Information Science
– Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (UBER)
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7. Who is involved?
• Associated Content Partners
– Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (UBFFM)
– Brandeis University, Library and Technology Services
– Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI)
– The National Library of the Netherlands (KB)
– Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS)
– The European Correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt (ECORR Project)
– in negotiations with: UB Mannheim, AHDig, CENDARI, MarineLives
• Europeana Network
– Europeana & Europeana Research
– Europeana Cloud
– Europeana Inside
– Europeana Creative
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8. Project Motivation
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Heterogeneous object data
in independent resources
Aggregation & linking for
scholarly activities

9. Outcomes of DM2E
1. Digital Data Aggregation
– Substantial enrichment of Europeana with contextualised
metadata of prominent digitised manuscripts
2. Interoperability Infrastructure
– Provision of a flexible, scalable and configurable open source
production environment for data migration and enrichment with
EDM / DM2E as target format
3. Digital Humanities Applications
– Provision of specialised Digital Humanities applications that can
showcase the usefulness of DM2E / Europeana data for this
specific community
4. Community Building
– To foster a community of content holders, Digital Humanists, IT
specialists, open data evangelists and other users around
Europeana
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10. Work Package Structure
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WP1
Content
WP2
Interoperability
Infrastructure
WP3
Digital Humanities
Requirements and Related
Engineering
WP4
Community and
Dissemination
WP5
Project Lead and
Coordination
Digital Humanities
Advisory Board
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11. DM2E Architecture
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WP 1
WP 2
WP 3
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Approaches & Results

13. DM2E Content
• Digitised manuscripts (including transcripts)
• Various domains:
– Philosophy (Wittgenstein, Nietzsche etc.)
– Jewish Culture (EAJC, JDC, Brandeis, NLI contacts)
– History of Technology (Dingler Journal)
– Educational History (Georg-Eckert Institute)
– Historical German Texts (Deutsches Textarchiv)
– Hebrew and Medieval Manuscripts (UBFFM)
9 datasets, 7 providers integrated (>17.5 mio. pages)
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14. DM2E Model
• Europeana Data Model (EDM) application profile for
describing digitised manuscripts
• Adds DM2E perspective about a dataset
• Iterative development process
• Available as a stable release (v1.1)
• Mapping guidelines
• Wiki with provider mappings
• Collaboration with DCMI
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onto.dm2e.eu
wiki.dm2e.eu

15. Interoperability Infrastructure
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MARC
TEI
Linked Data Service
Metadata
DM2E
Contextualisation
ID generation
Link generation
Augmentation
Annotation
Semantic linking
WP 2
OmNom
WP 3
Pundit
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16. OmNom (& MINT & SILK)
• Stable version since November 2013
• Graphical user interfaces (GUIs)
• Fast command-line tool
• MINT & SILK integrated
• Collaborative software development &
management via 15 github repositories
• User documentation (walkthrough,
screencast, manuals)
• Developer documentation
• Tested in collaboration with WP1
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omnom.dm2e.eu
context.dm2e.eu
dm2e.eu/open-workflows/
wiki.dm2e.eu
github.com/DM2E

17. Access & Search
• Linked Data API
• OAI-PMH repository to export data in oai_dc, DM2E or EDM
(also used for data ingestion by Europeana)
• ExLibris Primo interface
• Solr instance as demonstrative application (open source)
 Additional access points for users
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18. Scholarly Research Platform Pundit
• Scholars create, search, explore,
share, visualise annotations
• Semantically structured
augmentation
• Interface improved
• New features
• Stable release
• Available on github
• API for DM2E linked data
• Used & tested in 2 pilots with
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19. Pilots and Documentation for Pundit
• Pilots: Wittgensteinsource, Burckhardtsource
• Learning Materials for users:
– Videos & screencasts
– Tutorials (en, de, it, no)
• Developer documentation
• Demonstrative applications for
developers
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wiki.dm2e.eu

20. Researching the Scholarly Workflow
• Scholarly Domain Model:
– Presented at DH 2013
– Submitted for journal publication
– Extended with scholarly activities
– Narrative interviews, training and
surveys for evidence
• Digital Humanities Advisory Board
Influence the development of Pundit
Anticipate and trigger future developments and
community activities beyond DM2E
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21. Community Building and Dissemination
Target audiences:
• Content providers
• Digital Humanities developers
• Digital Humanities scholars
• Aggregators & open data community
Channels & Tools:
• DM2E website
• Blog, Twitter, Slideshare, newsletters, mailing lists
• Documentation of project outcomes (DM2E Wiki)
• Publications & presentations
• Workshops & hackdays (for developers & scholars)
• OpenGLAM community
• Open Humanities Awards
• Exchange with Europeana & Europeana projects
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Deliverables & Milestones

23. Deliverables
• All deliverables due in year 2 have been delivered.
– D1.2 Final Integration Report (M24)
• MS1 Final Integration report Draft (M18)
– D2.2 Intermediate Version of the Interoperability Infrastructure
(M18)
• First Operational Version 1.0 – DM2E Model (M15)
– D2.3 Final Version of the Interoperability Infrastructure (M24)
– D3.3 E-Learning Courses Published (M24)
• MS3 Intermediary Research Report (M24)
– D4.3 Documentation Package (M24)
– D5.2 First Annual Report to the Commission (M13)
– D5.3 Pre-financing Request (M13)
– D5.4 Interim Report on the third 6-months period (M19)
– D5.5 Second Annual Report to the Commission (M25)
• Deliverables have also been published on EuropeanaPro.
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Outlook

25. DM2E at the End of Year 2
• Content and partner acquisition progressing
• Large scale data ingestion achieved
• DM2E data model stable
• Mappings ready & shared
• Interoperability infrastructure stable
• Search & access interfaces
• Scholarly research platform stable
• Scholarly Domain Model further specialized
• 2 pilot scholarly communities
• DM2E community established
• Open Humanities Awards & hackdays established
• Extended documentation & learning activities for different
audiences
• Fruitful and extended collaboration between all WPs
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26. Outlook: DM2E in Year 3
• More content & providers
• Complete model & mapping documentation
• Improve contextualisation (advanced linking methods)
• Evaluation of contextualisation quality
• Maintenance release of the interoperability infrastructure
(performance & stability)
• Data export & ingestion to Europeana
• Improve core components and build new features for scholarly
research platform
• Evaluation and further research on DH Scholarly Primitives
• More experiments & exchange with DH scholars in new domain
• Continue to build awareness & dissemination
• Update & extend documentation
• Ensure sustainability of data, documentation & software components
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