Bibliotecas Digitais para as Humanidades: novos desafios e oportunidades

Este artigo apresenta uma revisão preliminar da literatura sobre digital humanities (DH), entendida como uma área que abrange as humanidades, as ciências de computação e as ciências da informação e da documentação. É uma área de investigação que agrega várias categorias institucionais, nomeadamente, universidades e organizações de profissionais. As atuais linhas de investigação procuram dar visibilidade à informação disponibilizada e reutilizá-la, alargando o âmbito de utilização pelas comunidades académicas e escolares. Os projetos desenvolvidos são documentados e constituem a base do desenvolvimento da área de digital humanities, incluindo um conjunto de boas práticas para futuros trabalhos. No entanto, ainda há um longo caminho a percorrer: por um lado, há que convencer os céticos de que a adoção de digital humanities não vai desvirtuar a investigação nas humanidades e que o computador é uma ferramenta adequada à investigação neste domínio; por outro lado, é necessário moderar os mais entusiastas que encaram da área de digital humanities como a solução para resolver todos os problemas, incluindo o financiamento dos projetos de humanidades. Os desafios concretos que a área de digital humanities enfrenta atualmente prendem-se sobretudo com a revisão do direito de autor, a preservação digital e a metodologia a seguir

Sustainable Futures for OA Books:The Open Book Collective

This article explains the need for and describes the work of the Open Book Collective (OBC). The OBC is a major output of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project. The collective will bring together diverse small-to-medium open access (OA) publishers, open publishing service providers, libraries, and other research institutions to create a new, mutually supportive, and interdependent community space and platform designed to sustain the future of OA book publishing. The OBC is founded upon equitable, community-led governance and helping publishers move beyond book processing charges (BPCs). Central to the functioning of the OBC is an online platform that will make it easier for libraries and other potential subscribers to compare, evaluate, and subscribe to different OA publishers and open service providers via membership packages. The OBC supports small-to-medium OA publishers by way of the COPIM philosophy of “scaling small.” This allows publishers and other members to operate sustainably and collaboratively while retaining their diverse and singular editorial missions, rather than operating from philosophies centered on economic growth, competition, and monopoly

Mapping an ancient historian in a digital age: the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Image Archive (HESTIA)

HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) employs the latest digital technology to develop an innovative methodology to the study of spatial data in Herodotus' Histories. Using a digital text of Herodotus, freely available from the Perseus on-line library, to capture all the place-names mentioned in the narrative, we construct a database to house that information and represent it in a series of mapping applications, such as GIS, GoogleEarth and GoogleMap Timeline. As a collaboration of academics from the disciplines of Classics, Geography, and Archaeological Computing, HESTIA has the twin aim of investigating the ways geography is represented in the Histories and of bringing Herodotus' world into people's homes

OPERAS: bringing the long tail of Social Sciences and Humanities into Open Science

Presentation at the 13. Munin Conference, Tromso, November 29, 2018. The talk  presents OPERAS, a comprehensive infrastructure aimed at providing a pan-European infrastructure to rethink and reshape publishing, discovery and dissemination addressing the specificity and the critical issues of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). OPERAS' aim is to meet the specific needs of SSH scholars in an open environment, taking care of all the steps of the scholarly communication cycle. OPERAS' unique approach is to unite researchers, libraries and publishers in a common effort, in order to take back control over scholarly communication. Not merging nor replacing, but nurturing existing realities, OPERAS provides innovative services to bring SSH into Open Science. OPERAS is designed to elaborate effective and scalable long-term strategies for the future development of the digital infrastructure and community building needed to innovate scholarly communication in the SSH. OPERAS' pervading idea of science as communication holds an immense potential for an inspiring model of Open Science with direct societal impact, based on continuous communication.</p

TextGrid – Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities

The TextGrid research group, a consortium of 10 research institutions in Germany, is developing a virtual research environment for researchers in the arts and humanities that provides services and tools for the analysis of text data and supports the curation of research data by means of grid technology. The TextGrid virtual research environment consists of two main components: the TextGrid Laboratory (TextGridLab), which serves as the entry point to the virtual research environment, and the TextGrid Repository (TextGridRep), which is a long-term humanities data archive ensuring sustainability, interoperability and long-term access to research data. To support all stages of the research lifecycle, preserve and maintain research data, and ensure its long-term usefulness, existing research practices must be supported. Therefore the TextGridLab provides common functionalities in a sustainable environment to intensify re-use of data, tools, and services, and the TextGridRep enables researchers to publish and share their data in a way that supports long-term availability and re-usability

COPIM – Revenue Models for Open Access Monographs 2020

A report by the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs project (COPIM) analysing the open access economic models in use today in scholarly publishing. The report examines academic monograph publishing in the context of today’s challenging monograph publishing environment: from Covid-19 and budget cuts, to print sales, funder mandates, and research evaluation. Launched in 2019, and funded by Arcadia and Research England, the COPIM project is an international partnership of researchers, universities, librarians, open access (OA) book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is fostering community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable OA book publishing to flourish. This project report builds on a decade of studies written by OA advocates and consultants around the world, and updates their research to describe the environment and economics of OA publishing in 2020. The report will eventually become one component of a practical ‘toolkit’ that COPIM will produce on how presses might transition to sustainably publishing OA monographs

European Arctic Initiatives Compendium

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A Peer Reviewed Newspaper About Research Refusal

This publication presents the outcome of an online workshop (organized by Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University; Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University; and transmediale festival, Berlin) with the participation of nine different groups located at different geographical locations, some inside and some outside the academy. Each group was selected on the basis of an open call and has taken part in a shared mailing list, creating a common list of references, and discussing strategies of refusal, and how these might relate to practices of research and its infrastructures: what might be refused, and in what ways; how might academic autonomy be preserved in the context of capitalist tech development, especially perhaps in the present context of online delivery and the need for alternatives to corporate platforms (e.g. Zoom, Teams, Skype, and the like); and how to refuse research itself, in its instrumental form? Following the workshop, each group has been asked to produce a section of this newspaper that in different ways represents the group’s abstractions on the subject. The design has been developed by Open Source Publishing, a collective renowned for a practice that questions the influence and affordance of digital tools in graphic design, and who works exclusively with free and open source software. The intention behind this publication has, in this way, been to explore the expanded possibilities of acting, sharing, and making, differently - beyond the normative production of research and its dissemination. Importantly, it has also been a means to allow emerging researchers to present their ideas to the wider community of the transmediale festival in an accessible form. The newspaper will be distributed at the festival’s various physical events in Berlin in the coming weeks, and is available for download here and over on the Digital Aesthetics Research Center website . You can also find extended versions of the participants research in APRJA , an open-access research journal that addresses digital culture