Connecting TEI Content Into an Ontology of the Editorial Domain

We argued elsewhere that, in order to support interoperable annotations, editions should provide machine-readable identifiers for text and text fragments, as well as information about the text fragments’ type and structure. That is to say, they should be embedded in a Linked Open Data context that facilitates interchange and interpretation of annotation. In this article, assuming a TEI context, we consider the practical question of how the relevant RDF triples are to be derived. How is the edition to know which URIs are to be assigned to which elements in the XML hierarchy, and what are the relevant classes and properties? We discuss different options. Our preference is to generate the relevant triples upon ingestion of the XML file in a version control system and then to store the triples in the TEI xenodata element. We briefly consider situations in which cases the fine-grained annotation that we want to facilitate might be appropriate, or not

Individual Differences and Task Behaviour

The Interactive Social Book Search track at CLEF has run the same experiment, task, and interface for two years. This provides an opportunity to study the individual differences between two separately recruited participant cohorts, rather than between sub-sets of a single cohort. Overall the results show no significant differences in how the participants used the three main stages of the interface for the two tasks. However, at the detail level there are some quite significant changes in exactly how participants use the available functionality

Audiovisual Media Annotation Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software: A Comparative Analysis

The variety of specialized tools designed to facilitate analysis of audio-visual (AV) media are useful not only to media scholars and oral historians but to other researchers as well. Both Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS) packages and dedicated systems created for specific disciplines, such as linguistics, can be used for this purpose. Software proliferation challenges researchers to make informed choices about which package will be most useful for their project. This paper aims to present an information science perspective of the scholarly use of tools in qualitative research of audio-visual sources. It provides a baseline of affordances based on functionalities with the goal of making the types of research tasks that they support more explicit (e.g., transcribing, segmenting, coding, linking, and commenting on data). We look closely at how these functionalities relate to each other, and at how system design influences research tasks

DHBeNeLux : incubator for digital humanities in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg

Digital Humanities BeNeLux is a grass roots initiative to foster knowledge networking and dissemination in digital humanities in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. This special issue highlights a selection of the work that was presented at the DHBenelux 2015 Conference by way of anthology for the digital humanities currently being done in the Benelux area and beyond. The introduction describes why this grass roots initiative came about and how DHBenelux is currently supporting community building and knowledge exchange for digital humanities in the Benelux area and how this is integrating regional digital humanities in the larger international digital humanities environment