Why We Need Open Science Communication Experts

Im Kontext von Open Science entstehen neue Anforderungen und Erwartungen an die Wissenschaftscommunities, was Kommunikation und Disseminierung von Forschungsergebnissen betrifft. Mit der steigenden Bedeutung von Mikro-Blogging, Social Media und anderen interaktiven Web 2.0 Anwendungen in der Kommunikation mit Zielgruppen außerhalb des akademischen Umfeldes steigt der Druck auf WissenschaftlerInnen vermehrt Marketing-orientierte Kommunikationsstrategien und Inhalte anzuwenden. In diesem Artikel diskutieren wir, wie sich Wissenschaftskommunikation sowie die Rollen von WissenschaftlerInnen und WissenschaftskommunikatorInnen durch Open Science verändern. Wir argumentieren, dass die Schaffung neuer Wissenschaftskommunikations-Rollen und Positionen zur Überwindung aktueller Herausforderungen der Wissenschaftskommunikation nötig ist.The changing open science landscape leads to new requirements and expectations in terms of dissemination, communication and outreach. With the increasing importance of micro blogging, social media and other interactive Web 2.0 channels for communicating research outcomes to target audiences outside academia, pressure on researchers to apply more marketing-oriented communication strategies and produce related content increases. In this paper we discuss how research dissemination and communication as well as the roles of researchers and science communicators are transforming in an open science context. We argue that the introduction of new science communication roles and positions is necessary to solve current gaps in public science communication

The E-ARK Data Mining Showcase

This report focuses on recent developments that support the deployment of the IPRIP in different configurations at E-ARK stakeholder sites. These configurations are specifically targeting the processing of E-ARK Archival Information Packages (AIPs), as detailed in D4.4 Part A. A flexible packaging mechanism combined with a standalone backend implementation enables custom single-server deployments on demand. Work on the single-server deployment has been carried out jointly with WP4 in the context of the E-ARK Web project. For a detailed description of the E-ARK Web SIP to AIP conversion component, the reader is referred to deliverable D4.4 Part B

Archival Information Package (AIP) Pilot Specification

This report presents the E-ARK AIP format specification as it will be used by the pilots (implementations in pilot organizations). The deliverable is a follow-up version of E-ARK deliverable D4.2. The report describes the structure, metadata, and physical container format of the E-ARK AIP, a container which is the result of converting an E-ARK Submission Information Package (SIP) into the E-ARK Archival Information Package (AIP). The conversion will be implemented in the Integrated Platform as part of the component earkweb

Archival Information Package (AIP) Draft Specification

This report builds on the overview of existing solutions for AIPs given in D4.1. It describes a blueprint for the structure of an AIP format following from the state of the art described there. As an AIP has a potentially unlimited life span, however, we augment the presentation of the format of the physical file representing the AIP by a discussion of how such an AIP may keep an unchanged identity, while its physical representation may change over time. A “Pan-European AIP format” is supposed to handle essentially each type of digital content a user may want it to contain. It is obviously impossible, to describe in a format document, how content not yet known will be handled. The document, therefore, also contains a chapter on the way in which this format is embedded into the technical workflow within which an AIP exists

SIP-AIP conversion component: Reference Implementation

This report is about the E-ARK AIP format specification. There is a common structure of information packages shared between the different types of information packages which is defined by the document “Common Specification for Information Packages”. The current report references this Common Specification and focuses on the structural peculiarities of the AIP format and the implementation as part of the reference implementation E-ARK Web (in short: earkweb). Key objectives of this document are: To define a generic structure of the AIP format in a way that it is suitable for a wide variety of data types, such as document and image collections, archival records, databases or geographical data. To recommend a set of metadata related to the structural and the preservation aspects of the AIP as implemented by the reference implementation (earkweb). To ensure the format is also suitable to store large quantities of data

Archival Information Package (AIP) Formats and Restrictions

Within the overall strategy of E-ARK the AIPs have a small but highly significant role. While SIPs have to be created by all archival systems to be used within individual solutions, and DIPs have to be deployed in all environments, the conversion between the three pan-European formats for information packages (SIP ==>AIP ==> DIP), has to be realized only once, leading to significant savings. The structure of the E-ARK AIP has therefore not to be derived from individual implementations of existing technology providers, but from the major abstract concepts currently existing. This report examines and describes these concepts and derives recommendations from them, which will be used as a guide line in the next step, the design of the pan-European AIP format and the conversion tools supporting it

SIP-AIP conversion component: AIP specification

This report represents both the final version of the AIP format specification, and the documentation of the E-ARK reference implementation which includes the SIP-AIP conversion component

E‐ARK Dissemination Information Package (DIP) Draft Specification

The primary aim of this report is to present the first version of the E-­‐ARK Dissemination Information Package (DIP) format. In order to do so the report describes the workflows and use cases of archival access services, and ultimately makes use of these these to present a set of requirements which should be followed when designing a DIP format. As access to archival records is largely dependent on the tools and environments used, the secondary aim of the deliverable is to go beyond the DIP format and look closely at the tools needed for preparing and using the DIP

Semi-Automatic Identification of Travelogues

Travel literature represents a rich source of information about the past, and has been of increasing interest in the scholarly community. The Travelogues project aims to study what we can learn from past views of foreign regions, cultures and religions in the light of present-day challenges such as mass tourism, migration and globalization. Comprising a team of historians, librarians and data scientists, Travelogues applies a transdisciplinary approach, combining quantitative and qualitative analytical methods to study a large-scale corpus of German language travelogues