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Libraries as hubs? The role of libraries in building DH, 10th November 2022

Libraries as next generation data infrastructures: conceptualising ‘Collections as Data’ and ‘Data Spaces’

Sally Chambers, KBR, Royal Library of Belgium,

Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities and DARIAH-EU

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Collections as Data: “Always Already Computational”

Padilla, Thomas, Allen, Laurie, Frost, Hannah, Potvin, Sarah, Russey Roke, Elizabeth, & Varner, Stewart. (2019, May 22). Final Report --- Always Already Computational: Collections as Data (Version 1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3152935

Always Already Computational: Collections as Data final report and project deliverables: https://osf.io/mx6uk/wiki/home/

… and “Part to Whole”

https://collectionsasdata.github.io/part2whole/

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Newspapers as Data

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National Library of Scotland: Data Foundry

https://data.nls.uk

Ames, S. (2021) “Transparency, Provenance and Collections as Data: The National Library of Scotland’s Data Foundry.” LIBER Quarterly 31 (1): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10371.

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Digital Library of the Caribbean as Data

https://dataverse.fiu.edu/dataverse/dloc-as-data

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Collections as Data @ KBR, Royal Library of Belgium

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Europeana Research Community Café - Collections as Data

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https://glamlabs.io/books/

Chapter: Rethinking Collections as Data: https://glamlabs.pubpub.org/pub/urhm68yr/release/1

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Collections as Data Methodology

Candela, G., Sáez, M. D., Escobar Esteban, Mp., & Marco-Such, M. (2020). Reusing digital collections from GLAM institutions. Journal of Information Science: https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551520950246 & http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/109460

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Computational access to digital collections

International GLAM Labs Community: Computational Access to Digital Collections https://glamlabs.io/computational-access-to-digital-collections/

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Towards a Collections as Data Checklist

This approach provides an easy to apply method to encourage small and medium-size organisations to publish their digital collections as Collections as data.

With special thanks to Gustavo Candela (Alicante, Spain) and Nele Gabriëls (Leuven, Belgium)

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Methods for Data Extraction

Vooruit, 24 November, 1944 - 1950

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Methods for Data Sharing: Next Cloud

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Towards the ‘DATA-KBR-BE’ platform

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Towards the ‘DATA-KBR-BE’ platform

  • Sustainably publish curated cultural heritage datasets
    • Facilitating and documenting the dataset building process (also: KBR Virtual Lab)
    • Research Data Management (FAIR) Best Practices
  • Data Formats => Checklist # 6
    • For the ‘objects’ in the dataset (e.g. ALTO.xml; METS.xml, TIFF, .jpg, .pdf)
    • For the dataset itself (e.g. RO-Crate?)
  • Data Licensing (ideally not public domain only) => Checklist # 1
  • Data Citation (easily citable) => Checklist # 2
  • Publication: Webpage? Searchable? Repository? Versioning? => Checklist # 4
  • Data sharing: KBR Data Send + Researcher’s cloud-based system (e.g. GhentCDH NextCloud)

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Cultural Heritage Data is Humanities Research Data

Tasovac, T., Chambers, S. and Tóth-Czifra, E. (2020) Cultural Heritage Data from a Humanities Research Perspective: A DARIAH Position Paper. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02961317

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DARIAH ‘Collections as Data’ ?

https://colreg.de.dariah.eu/colreg/?lang=en

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CLARIN ‘Collection as Data’?

https://www.clarin.eu/resource-families

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Towards a CENL Dialogue Forum: Libraries as Data Infrastructure?

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Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu

3 Guiding Principles:

  • Contextualisation
  • Curation
  • Community

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European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and Libraries

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Towards a European Data Space for Cultural Heritage

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“5 things I know about Data Spaces …”

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The bold new world of data spaces …

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Are there Data Engines in Data Spaces?

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Humanities

Research Data Providers

Landing

zone

Replica 1

Replica 2

Humanities

Research

Datasets

Analyse

Sustain (WP6)

VSC

Tier 1

Data

VSC

Tier 1

Compute

VSC

Tier 1

Cloud

BrENIAC

CLARIAH-VL

Expert Users & CLARIAH-VL

Developers

Beginner & Intermediate

Humanities Researchers

Aggregate

Data-driven research in the arts and humanities

humanities data

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Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data?

Conference themes:

  • Sustainable data curation workflows for corpus building

  • Experimental Data Spaces for Cultural Heritage

  • Advancing digital methods for the analysis of cultural heritage

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Libraries as hubs? The role of libraries in building DH, 10th November 2022

Thanks for listening!

Sally Chambers

sally.chambers@kbr.be