2022 |
The Greek Landscape of Digital Humanities Initiatives (Presentation) Dritsou, Vicky Presentation at Fiesole Retreat 2022, Athens, April 5 , 2022. @misc{Dritsou2022, title = {The Greek Landscape of Digital Humanities Initiatives}, author = {Vicky Dritsou}, url = {https://www.casalini.it/retreat/web_content/2022/presentations/dritsou.pdf https://youtu.be/YViAk77Vfoc}, year = {2022}, date = {2022-04-05}, abstract = {Over the last decade the Greek landscape of digital humanities has undergone considerable reframing. At the time of intense digitization, a significant number of cultural heritage institutions from across the country digitized and documented their collections, making them available online or locally for use by both specialists and wider audiences. This wave of digitization projects by Greek libraries, archives, museums, universities, ministry ephorates and publishers, have been instrumental in fostering the growth of major research and teaching resources online, as well as in providing the foundations for national digital infrastructures. The transformative effect of digitization and, more recently, of academic-led initiatives (projects and infrastructures) on Greek scholarship has appeared as the aftermath of increased access to primary and secondary resources, facilitated management of data, and enhanced reuse of digital cultural assets. Digital tools have not only transformed our engagement and interaction with the past, but they have also reshaped arts and humanities research, prompting a new community of digital humanists within, across and beyond Greece. Focusing on the example of APOLLONIS, the Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation, this talk will present the challenges and the significant shifts the Greek landscape of digital humanities has been going through over the last years.}, howpublished = {Presentation at Fiesole Retreat 2022, Athens, April 5}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } Over the last decade the Greek landscape of digital humanities has undergone considerable reframing. At the time of intense digitization, a significant number of cultural heritage institutions from across the country digitized and documented their collections, making them available online or locally for use by both specialists and wider audiences. This wave of digitization projects by Greek libraries, archives, museums, universities, ministry ephorates and publishers, have been instrumental in fostering the growth of major research and teaching resources online, as well as in providing the foundations for national digital infrastructures. The transformative effect of digitization and, more recently, of academic-led initiatives (projects and infrastructures) on Greek scholarship has appeared as the aftermath of increased access to primary and secondary resources, facilitated management of data, and enhanced reuse of digital cultural assets. Digital tools have not only transformed our engagement and interaction with the past, but they have also reshaped arts and humanities research, prompting a new community of digital humanists within, across and beyond Greece. Focusing on the example of APOLLONIS, the Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation, this talk will present the challenges and the significant shifts the Greek landscape of digital humanities has been going through over the last years. |
Aggregation and Curation of Historical Archive Information (Book Chapter) Constantopoulos, Panos; Dritsou, Vicky; Ilvanidou, Maria; Chroni, Alexandra Karagiannis, Dimitris; Lee, Moonkun; Hinkelmann, Knut; Utz, Wilfrid (Ed.): Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling, Chapter 23, Pages: 523-540, Springer, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-93546-7. @inbook{Constantopoulos2022, title = {Aggregation and Curation of Historical Archive Information}, author = {Panos Constantopoulos and Vicky Dritsou and Maria Ilvanidou and Alexandra Chroni}, editor = {Dimitris Karagiannis and Moonkun Lee and Knut Hinkelmann and Wilfrid Utz }, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93547-4_23}, isbn = {978-3-030-93546-7}, year = {2022}, date = {2022-03-11}, booktitle = {Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling}, pages = {523-540}, publisher = {Springer}, chapter = {23}, abstract = {Integrating archival information from different cultural heritage institutions to support historical research has been a commonly pursued goal among humanities digital research infrastructures. Due to the lack of standards in performing such processes, there is a need to provide guidance to interested parties and share knowledge deriving from successful practices. In this chapter, we introduce the Historical Information Curation (HIC) model that aims to address this need. Based on our experience with aggregating and curating archival collections, we have developed a two-faceted model for such processes, capable of supporting both the structural representation of the required workflows and the analysis of their dynamics.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } Integrating archival information from different cultural heritage institutions to support historical research has been a commonly pursued goal among humanities digital research infrastructures. Due to the lack of standards in performing such processes, there is a need to provide guidance to interested parties and share knowledge deriving from successful practices. In this chapter, we introduce the Historical Information Curation (HIC) model that aims to address this need. Based on our experience with aggregating and curating archival collections, we have developed a two-faceted model for such processes, capable of supporting both the structural representation of the required workflows and the analysis of their dynamics. |
2021 |
DH Goes Viral (Book) Barker, Elton; Benardou, Agiatis; Giorgio, Sara Di; Dritsou, Vicky; Dombrowski, Quinn; Felicetti, Achille; Gardikas, Katerina; Garnett, Vicky; Ilvanidou, Maria; Irollo, Alba; Floch, Justine Le; Meghini, Carlo; Mikros, George; Papaki, Eliza; Richardson, Lorna; Schreibman, Susan; Terras, Melissa; Tsakonas, Giannis 2021, ISBN: 978-618-85875-0-2. @book{Barker2021, title = {DH Goes Viral}, author = {Elton Barker and Agiatis Benardou and Sara Di Giorgio and Vicky Dritsou and Quinn Dombrowski and Achille Felicetti and Katerina Gardikas and Vicky Garnett and Maria Ilvanidou and Alba Irollo and Justine Le Floch and Carlo Meghini and George Mikros and Eliza Papaki and Lorna Richardson and Susan Schreibman and Melissa Terras and Giannis Tsakonas}, editor = {Agiatis Benardou and Vicky Dritsou and Maria Ilvanidou}, url = {https://zenodo.org/record/5793151}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5793151}, isbn = {978-618-85875-0-2}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-12-23}, abstract = {As a response to COVID-19 and while the onset of the pandemic was still in its very early stages, in April 2020 the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), Research and Innovation Center "Athena", as co-ordinator of APOLLONIS, the Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation, organized a Twitter Conference under the title “DH in the Time of Virus”. This event aimed at battling academic isolation and facilitating and supporting community building and osmosis in DH research and education. Due to its sensitive timing, with Italy going through extreme difficulties and Europe and the US entering quarantine and work-from-home regimes, the Twitter Conference provided a platform of communication of DH research pursuits as well as of expression of an unprecedented human experience. With the support of a DARIAH Theme grant, a year later, in 2021, we designed and organized a digital workshop in which we reunited the Twitter Conference participants alongside further DH researchers who were selected through an open call. The outcome of these events is an electronic as well as a printed publication monitoring the effects of the pandemic on e-Education, e-Research and digital tools, methods and platforms, the developments the pandemic has expedited and the delays it may have caused in DH research and the distance covered and toils endured by DH researchers and practitioners to keep track of their work.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } As a response to COVID-19 and while the onset of the pandemic was still in its very early stages, in April 2020 the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), Research and Innovation Center "Athena", as co-ordinator of APOLLONIS, the Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation, organized a Twitter Conference under the title “DH in the Time of Virus”. This event aimed at battling academic isolation and facilitating and supporting community building and osmosis in DH research and education. Due to its sensitive timing, with Italy going through extreme difficulties and Europe and the US entering quarantine and work-from-home regimes, the Twitter Conference provided a platform of communication of DH research pursuits as well as of expression of an unprecedented human experience. With the support of a DARIAH Theme grant, a year later, in 2021, we designed and organized a digital workshop in which we reunited the Twitter Conference participants alongside further DH researchers who were selected through an open call. The outcome of these events is an electronic as well as a printed publication monitoring the effects of the pandemic on e-Education, e-Research and digital tools, methods and platforms, the developments the pandemic has expedited and the delays it may have caused in DH research and the distance covered and toils endured by DH researchers and practitioners to keep track of their work. |
The vision of an open, transferable, hybrid reading hub in urban Greece (Journal Article) Benardou, Agiatis; Kalamaras, Michalis; Sgouridi, Magdalini; Tsakonas, Giannis Journal of Greek Media and Culture, Volume: 7 (1), Pages: 125-136(12), 2021. @article{Benardou2021, title = {The vision of an open, transferable, hybrid reading hub in urban Greece}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Michalis Kalamaras and Magdalini Sgouridi and Giannis Tsakonas}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00033_3}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-04-01}, journal = {Journal of Greek Media and Culture}, volume = {7}, number = {1}, pages = {125-136(12)}, publisher = {Intellect}, abstract = {In recent years the traditional concept of the library has been drastically diversified. Libraries appear in different forms, adding collections of content beyond books, expanding already existing services and developing new ones, while focusing on their engagement with audiences. This visual essay presents CLOISTER, a vision of an open, inclusive, non-profit, physical and digital reading space to be located in the heart of the Greek city. CLOISTER is envisioned as a sustainable, transferable and inviting library construction, that aims to disrupt the city flow by offering a new reading and collaboration space. The design of this pop-up library is inspired by the Athenian Agora, with its covered arcades and the open porticos running along building walls. The project aspires to transform Greek city squares by challenging the fixity of reading spaces and empowering the city pulse.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } In recent years the traditional concept of the library has been drastically diversified. Libraries appear in different forms, adding collections of content beyond books, expanding already existing services and developing new ones, while focusing on their engagement with audiences. This visual essay presents CLOISTER, a vision of an open, inclusive, non-profit, physical and digital reading space to be located in the heart of the Greek city. CLOISTER is envisioned as a sustainable, transferable and inviting library construction, that aims to disrupt the city flow by offering a new reading and collaboration space. The design of this pop-up library is inspired by the Athenian Agora, with its covered arcades and the open porticos running along building walls. The project aspires to transform Greek city squares by challenging the fixity of reading spaces and empowering the city pulse. |
A retrospective on Telos as a metamodeling language for requirements engineering (Journal Article) Koubarakis, Manolis; Borgida, Alexander; Constantopoulos, Panos; et al., Requirements Eng, Volume: 26 , Pages: 1-23, 2021. @article{Koubarakis2021, title = {A retrospective on Telos as a metamodeling language for requirements engineering}, author = {Manolis Koubarakis and Alexander Borgida and Panos Constantopoulos and et al.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-020-00329-x}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-00-00}, journal = {Requirements Eng}, volume = {26}, pages = {1-23}, abstract = {Telos is a conceptual modeling language intended to capture software knowledge, such as software system requirements, domain knowledge, architectures, design decisions and more. To accomplish this, Telos was designed to be extensible in the sense that the concepts used to capture software knowledge can be defined in the language itself, instead of being built-in. This extensibility is accomplished through powerful metamodeling features, which proved very useful for interrelating het- erogeneous models from requirements, model-driven software engineering, data integration, ontology engineering, cultural informatics and education. We trace the evolution of ideas and research results in the Telos project from its origins in the late eighties. Our account looks at the semantics of Telos, its various implementations and its applications. We also recount related research by other groups and the cross-influences of ideas thereof. We conclude with lessons learnt.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Telos is a conceptual modeling language intended to capture software knowledge, such as software system requirements, domain knowledge, architectures, design decisions and more. To accomplish this, Telos was designed to be extensible in the sense that the concepts used to capture software knowledge can be defined in the language itself, instead of being built-in. This extensibility is accomplished through powerful metamodeling features, which proved very useful for interrelating het- erogeneous models from requirements, model-driven software engineering, data integration, ontology engineering, cultural informatics and education. We trace the evolution of ideas and research results in the Telos project from its origins in the late eighties. Our account looks at the semantics of Telos, its various implementations and its applications. We also recount related research by other groups and the cross-influences of ideas thereof. We conclude with lessons learnt. |
2020 |
Integrating archival materials for the study of the turbulent Greek 40s (Presentation) Dritsou, Vicky; Ilvanidou, Maria; Despotidou, Isidora; Liakopoulou, Vicky; Vourvachaki, Karmen; Constantopoulos, Panos Presentation at Scholarly Primitives - DARIAH Annual Event 2020 , 2020, (Honorable mention). @misc{Dritsou2020, title = {Integrating archival materials for the study of the turbulent Greek 40s}, author = {Vicky Dritsou and Maria Ilvanidou and Isidora Despotidou and Vicky Liakopoulou and Karmen Vourvachaki and Panos Constantopoulos}, url = {https://zenodo.org/record/4271531}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4271531}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-11-12}, abstract = {Humanities researchers often need to study heterogeneous digitized archives from different sources. But how can they deal with this heterogeneity, both in terms of structure and semantics? What are the digital tools they can use in order to integrate resources and study them as a whole? And what if they are unfamiliar with the methods and tools available? Towards this end, DARIAH-EU[1] and CLARIN[2] research infrastructures already support researchers in exploiting digital tools. Specific use case research scenarios have also been developed, with the PARTHENOS SSK[3] being a successful example. In this paper we describe our related (ongoing) experience from the development of the Greek research infrastructure APOLLONIS[4], where, among others, we have focused on identifying and supporting the workflows that researchers need to follow to perform specific research studies while jointly accessing disparate archives. Using the decade of 1940s as a use case, a turbulent period in Greek history due to its significant events (WWII, Occupation, Opposition, Liberation, Civil War), we have assembled (digitized) historical archives, coming from different providers and shedding light on different historical aspects of these events. From the acquisition of the resources to the desired outcome, we record the workflows of the whole research study, including the initial curation process of the digitized archives, the ingestion, the joint indexing of the data, the generation of semantic graph representations and, finally, their publication and searching. After the acquisition of the heterogeneous source materials we perform a detailed investigation of their structure and contents, in order to map the different archive metadata onto a common metadata schema, thus enabling joint indexing and establishing semantic relations among the contents of the archives. The next step is data cleaning, where messy records are cleaned and normalized. Natural Language Processing methods are then exploited for the extraction of additional information contained in the archival records or in free text metadata fields, such as persons, places, armed units, dates and topics, which enhance the initial datasets. The outcome is encoded in XML using the common schema and ingested into a repository through an aggregator implemented using the MoRE[5] system. A joint index based on a set of basic criteria is generated and maintained, thus ensuring joint access to all archival records regardless of their source. In addition, an RDF representation is generated from the encoded archival data, enabling their publication in the form of a semantic graph and supporting interesting complex queries. This is based on a specifically designed extension of CIDOC CRM[6] and a compilation of a list of research queries of varying complexity encoded in SPARQL. Preliminary tests of the entire workflows and the tools used in all steps yielded very encouraging results. Our immediate plans include full scale ingestion and indexing of the material from a number of archives, producing the corresponding semantic graph and streamlining the incorporation of new archives. [1]DARIAH-EU, https://www.dariah.eu/ [2]CLARIN, https://www.clarin.eu/ [3]PARTHENOS Standardization Survival Kit (SSK), http://www.parthenos-project.eu/portal/ssk-2 [4]APOLLONIS Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation, https://apollonis-infrastructure.gr/ [5]MoRE Aggregator, http://more.dcu.gr/ [6]CIDOC CRM, http://www.cidoc-crm.org/}, howpublished = {Presentation at Scholarly Primitives - DARIAH Annual Event 2020}, note = {Honorable mention}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } Humanities researchers often need to study heterogeneous digitized archives from different sources. But how can they deal with this heterogeneity, both in terms of structure and semantics? What are the digital tools they can use in order to integrate resources and study them as a whole? And what if they are unfamiliar with the methods and tools available? Towards this end, DARIAH-EU[1] and CLARIN[2] research infrastructures already support researchers in exploiting digital tools. Specific use case research scenarios have also been developed, with the PARTHENOS SSK[3] being a successful example. In this paper we describe our related (ongoing) experience from the development of the Greek research infrastructure APOLLONIS[4], where, among others, we have focused on identifying and supporting the workflows that researchers need to follow to perform specific research studies while jointly accessing disparate archives. Using the decade of 1940s as a use case, a turbulent period in Greek history due to its significant events (WWII, Occupation, Opposition, Liberation, Civil War), we have assembled (digitized) historical archives, coming from different providers and shedding light on different historical aspects of these events. From the acquisition of the resources to the desired outcome, we record the workflows of the whole research study, including the initial curation process of the digitized archives, the ingestion, the joint indexing of the data, the generation of semantic graph representations and, finally, their publication and searching. After the acquisition of the heterogeneous source materials we perform a detailed investigation of their structure and contents, in order to map the different archive metadata onto a common metadata schema, thus enabling joint indexing and establishing semantic relations among the contents of the archives. The next step is data cleaning, where messy records are cleaned and normalized. Natural Language Processing methods are then exploited for the extraction of additional information contained in the archival records or in free text metadata fields, such as persons, places, armed units, dates and topics, which enhance the initial datasets. The outcome is encoded in XML using the common schema and ingested into a repository through an aggregator implemented using the MoRE[5] system. A joint index based on a set of basic criteria is generated and maintained, thus ensuring joint access to all archival records regardless of their source. In addition, an RDF representation is generated from the encoded archival data, enabling their publication in the form of a semantic graph and supporting interesting complex queries. This is based on a specifically designed extension of CIDOC CRM[6] and a compilation of a list of research queries of varying complexity encoded in SPARQL. Preliminary tests of the entire workflows and the tools used in all steps yielded very encouraging results. Our immediate plans include full scale ingestion and indexing of the material from a number of archives, producing the corresponding semantic graph and streamlining the incorporation of new archives. [1]DARIAH-EU, https://www.dariah.eu/ [2]CLARIN, https://www.clarin.eu/ [3]PARTHENOS Standardization Survival Kit (SSK), http://www.parthenos-project.eu/portal/ssk-2 [4]APOLLONIS Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation, https://apollonis-infrastructure.gr/ [5]MoRE Aggregator, http://more.dcu.gr/ [6]CIDOC CRM, http://www.cidoc-crm.org/ |
English language and digital cultural heritage (Book Chapter) Hughes, Lorna; Benardou, Agiatis; Gow, Ann Adolphs, Svenja; Knight, Dawn (Ed.): The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities, Chapter 29, Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 9781138901766. @inbook{Hughes2020, title = {English language and digital cultural heritage}, author = {Lorna M. Hughes and Agiatis Benardou and Ann Gow}, editor = {Svenja Adolphs and Dawn Knight}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-English-Language-and-Digital-Humanities/Adolphs-Knight/p/book/9781138901766}, isbn = {9781138901766}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-05-05}, booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities}, publisher = {Routledge}, chapter = {29}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } |
From Publications to Knowledge Graphs (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Constantopoulos, Panos; Pertsas, Vayianos Flouris, Giorgos; Laurent, Dominique; Plexousakis, Dimitris; Spyratos, Nicolas; Tanaka, Yuzuru (Ed.): Information Search, Integration, and Personalization. Revised Selected Papers from 13th International Workshop, ISIP 2019, Heraklion, Greece, May 9–10, 2019., Pages: 18-33, Springer, 2020. @inproceedings{Constantopoulos2020, title = {From Publications to Knowledge Graphs}, author = {Panos Constantopoulos and Vayianos Pertsas}, editor = {Giorgos Flouris and Dominique Laurent and Dimitris Plexousakis and Nicolas Spyratos and Yuzuru Tanaka}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-03-27}, booktitle = {Information Search, Integration, and Personalization. Revised Selected Papers from 13th International Workshop, ISIP 2019, Heraklion, Greece, May 9–10, 2019.}, pages = {18-33}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {We address the task of compiling structured documentation of research processes in the form of knowledge graphs by automatically extracting information from publications and associating it with information from other sources. This challenge has not been previously addressed at the level described here. We have developed a process and a system that leverages existing information from DBpedia, retrieves articles from repositories, extracts and interrelates various kinds of named and non-named entities by exploiting article metadata, the structure of text as well as syntactic, lexical and semantic constraints, and populates a knowledge base in the form of RDF triples. An ontology designed to represent scholarly practices is driving the whole process. Rule -based and machine learning - based methods that account for the nature of scientific texts and a wide variety of writing styles have been developed for the task. Evaluation on datasets from three disciplines, Digital Humanities, Bioinformatics, and Medicine, shows very promising performance.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } We address the task of compiling structured documentation of research processes in the form of knowledge graphs by automatically extracting information from publications and associating it with information from other sources. This challenge has not been previously addressed at the level described here. We have developed a process and a system that leverages existing information from DBpedia, retrieves articles from repositories, extracts and interrelates various kinds of named and non-named entities by exploiting article metadata, the structure of text as well as syntactic, lexical and semantic constraints, and populates a knowledge base in the form of RDF triples. An ontology designed to represent scholarly practices is driving the whole process. Rule -based and machine learning - based methods that account for the nature of scientific texts and a wide variety of writing styles have been developed for the task. Evaluation on datasets from three disciplines, Digital Humanities, Bioinformatics, and Medicine, shows very promising performance. |
The Digital Community Archives (Book Chapter) Benardou, Agiatis Varvarousis, Angelos (Ed.): The Uncommon Planner: To Whom Does Athens Belong? Athens., Onassis Foundation, 2020, ISBN: 978-618-83618-4-3. @inbook{Benardou2020, title = {The Digital Community Archives}, author = {Agiatis Benardou }, editor = {Angelos Varvarousis}, url = {https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-publications/hackathens-the-uncommon-planner}, isbn = {978-618-83618-4-3}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-00-00}, booktitle = {The Uncommon Planner: To Whom Does Athens Belong? Athens.}, publisher = {Onassis Foundation}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } |
2019 |
From publications to knowledge graphs (Presentation) Constantopoulos, Panos; Pertsas, Vayianos Talk at World Health Organization Global Technical Meeting 2019, Seoul, 12-14 Nov. , 2019. (BibTeX) @misc{Constantopoulos2019b, title = {From publications to knowledge graphs}, author = {Panos Constantopoulos and Vayianos Pertsas}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-11-12}, howpublished = {Talk at World Health Organization Global Technical Meeting 2019, Seoul, 12-14 Nov.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } |
From the catalogue to the virtual information space (Presentation) Constantopoulos, Panos Invited talk at IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Athens, 24-30 Aug. , 2019. @misc{Constantopoulos2019, title = {From the catalogue to the virtual information space}, author = {Panos Constantopoulos}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-08-24}, abstract = {Libraries have always been knowledge vaults, serving as indispensable infrastructure for research, education, and an array of important social functions. With time, sophisticated knowledge organization systems have been developed that support the access to the content of libraries. Effectively, these systems reflect our perception of various domains of knowledge through agreed, yet evolving, organizational schemes. The contents of libraries also undergo an important evolution: not only do the documents of knowledge become increasingly digital, they also come at widely different media and levels of granularity, from books, to articles, to images, tables, datasets, video, audio, etc., each independently identified. In addition, the entanglement of research processes with information processes becomes tighter in digital environments. In this talk we will review, in the context of these trends, the potential for knowledge access and integration offered by ontology-driven semantic graph indexing. We will also try to show that a wider margin for effective knowledge access is enjoyed when data- and process- oriented approaches are combined, especially in view of the increasing ability to use automatic knowledge extraction and indexing techniques. Libraries are thus facing the opportunity and challenge to create connected information spaces rendering, as close as possible, the rapidly evolving body of knowledge.}, howpublished = {Invited talk at IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Athens, 24-30 Aug.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } Libraries have always been knowledge vaults, serving as indispensable infrastructure for research, education, and an array of important social functions. With time, sophisticated knowledge organization systems have been developed that support the access to the content of libraries. Effectively, these systems reflect our perception of various domains of knowledge through agreed, yet evolving, organizational schemes. The contents of libraries also undergo an important evolution: not only do the documents of knowledge become increasingly digital, they also come at widely different media and levels of granularity, from books, to articles, to images, tables, datasets, video, audio, etc., each independently identified. In addition, the entanglement of research processes with information processes becomes tighter in digital environments. In this talk we will review, in the context of these trends, the potential for knowledge access and integration offered by ontology-driven semantic graph indexing. We will also try to show that a wider margin for effective knowledge access is enjoyed when data- and process- oriented approaches are combined, especially in view of the increasing ability to use automatic knowledge extraction and indexing techniques. Libraries are thus facing the opportunity and challenge to create connected information spaces rendering, as close as possible, the rapidly evolving body of knowledge. |
And The First One Now Will Later Be Last, For The Times They Are A-changin': Modeling Land Communication In Roman Crete (Presentation) Ilvanidou, Maria Short paper presentation at DH2019 Conference, Utrecht University 9-12 July , 2019. @misc{Ilvanidou2019, title = {And The First One Now Will Later Be Last, For The Times They Are A-changin': Modeling Land Communication In Roman Crete}, author = {Maria Ilvanidou}, url = {https://dev.clariah.nl/files/dh2019/boa/0632.html}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-07-11}, abstract = {The present contribution has a twofold aim: on the one hand it will seek to demonstrate how the use of digital tools and methods enabled the reconstruction of the road network in Crete, Greece during the Roman period (1st century BCE - 4th century CE), while on the other hand it will showcase how the rapid developments in digital tools often deems research in the field of the Humanities outdated or obsolete. Back in 2005, when I first started working on digitally modeling land communication in Roman Crete, the puzzle I was trying to put together was looking for the bits and pieces of relevant and useful information within a variety of diverse and scattered sources: ancient written sources (like, for example, Strabo’s Geography and Stadiasmus Maris Magni , an ancient Roman periplus detailing the ports on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea), archaeological evidence (paved road remains, bridges, miliaria, i.e. Roman milestones, and Roman sites), historical maps (like, for example, the Tabula Peutingeriana , a medieval copy of an itinerarium pictum, i.e. a painted itinerary, showing the layout of the road network of the Roman Empire, and Venetian maps of Crete), travel literature (15th-20th century travelers’ accounts) and topography (largely my own surveys). Material heterogeneity and diversity of information and data collected called for sophisticated modeling; that is, an information schema that would capture and document any determinant detail, and, when implemented, be able to facilitate correlation and answer my research questions: which settlement types (for example cities, sanctuaries, farmsteads) were connected through the road network, what were the distances between them, how long it took to travel and by what means of transportation (e.g., by foot, horseback, mules, etc.), which route was followed by which traveler and for what purpose, do the routes mentioned by different travelers change across time, how accurate or credible is the information provided by ancient sources with regard to distances between settlements, what parameters affected the course of the route and the planning of the road, to what extend Cretan topography determined the route direction, what were the local topographic characteristics that affected transportation on the island, and can we reconstruct the original trace of the Roman road network with the use of digital tools and methods even though the archaeological evidence is scarce and fragmentary? The other challenge was to combine the use of Geographical Information Systems in order to restore visually the spatial data and exploit the GIS functionality to check and assess parameters that affected the planning of the road network in question. The digital tools that made this endeavor feasible were two. The first one was ArcGIS (ArcView 9.0), a commercial GIS software still largely in use, for the spatial analysis of geographic data. The selection of the second one, the tool that would enable me to manage, store and correlate all historical and archaeological data, has proved more challenging and changed over the years. From MS Access, for the implementation of a relational database, back in 2005, to BetaCMS, an open source web-based content management platform, which used XML schema definitions to represent content, in 2010. The BetaCMS, later called Astroboa, was developed by a Greek IT company, Beta Concept, and allowed fast and easy modeling, storing and querying of all data, thus providing what it seemed to be, at the time (2010), a suitable alternative to switch into. The alternate and combined use of both systems (GIS and database) allowed for a long and intriguing iterative process from which a network of optimal paths emerged as a result. This enabled me to propose a reconstruction of the original trace of the public road network connecting the major cities and settlements of Roman Crete, and in specific cases test it against field trip data, with very promising results. Such an initiative as the integration, connection and modeling of complex data on Roman road networks in the digital domain was indeed quite innovative in 2005. Had this venture been undertaken manually, i.e. without employing any digital methods or tools, it would undoubtedly have taken longer and it would most probably not been as accurate. Correlating the data so that they become meaningful and usable for my analysis and making more realistic calculations over geographic space, could not have been performed as efficiently relying on analogue methods alone. However, an analogue approach would still have been up to date and re-usable, unlike my 2005 and 2010 end-results. Sustainability of my Roman roads modeling project has proven to be a great challenge, as BetaCMS is not supported any longer, while ArcGIS is not an open source tool. Therefore, one could argue that, what the digital so generously offered my work, it has taken it back rather fiercely. In this short presentation I will be going through my methodology and results of the Roman Crete land communication modeling and will be raising questions as to their usefulness, curation, re-usability and sustainability as well as the implications to Humanities research, also looking into the prospect of the employment of current innovative digital methods and tools that are available openly. While there is a considerable number of studies regarding digital preservation strategies and planning on an institutional level (e.g. libraries and archives), my intention is to address those very issues from the individual scholar’s perspective.}, howpublished = {Short paper presentation at DH2019 Conference, Utrecht University 9-12 July}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } The present contribution has a twofold aim: on the one hand it will seek to demonstrate how the use of digital tools and methods enabled the reconstruction of the road network in Crete, Greece during the Roman period (1st century BCE - 4th century CE), while on the other hand it will showcase how the rapid developments in digital tools often deems research in the field of the Humanities outdated or obsolete. Back in 2005, when I first started working on digitally modeling land communication in Roman Crete, the puzzle I was trying to put together was looking for the bits and pieces of relevant and useful information within a variety of diverse and scattered sources: ancient written sources (like, for example, Strabo’s Geography and Stadiasmus Maris Magni , an ancient Roman periplus detailing the ports on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea), archaeological evidence (paved road remains, bridges, miliaria, i.e. Roman milestones, and Roman sites), historical maps (like, for example, the Tabula Peutingeriana , a medieval copy of an itinerarium pictum, i.e. a painted itinerary, showing the layout of the road network of the Roman Empire, and Venetian maps of Crete), travel literature (15th-20th century travelers’ accounts) and topography (largely my own surveys). Material heterogeneity and diversity of information and data collected called for sophisticated modeling; that is, an information schema that would capture and document any determinant detail, and, when implemented, be able to facilitate correlation and answer my research questions: which settlement types (for example cities, sanctuaries, farmsteads) were connected through the road network, what were the distances between them, how long it took to travel and by what means of transportation (e.g., by foot, horseback, mules, etc.), which route was followed by which traveler and for what purpose, do the routes mentioned by different travelers change across time, how accurate or credible is the information provided by ancient sources with regard to distances between settlements, what parameters affected the course of the route and the planning of the road, to what extend Cretan topography determined the route direction, what were the local topographic characteristics that affected transportation on the island, and can we reconstruct the original trace of the Roman road network with the use of digital tools and methods even though the archaeological evidence is scarce and fragmentary? The other challenge was to combine the use of Geographical Information Systems in order to restore visually the spatial data and exploit the GIS functionality to check and assess parameters that affected the planning of the road network in question. The digital tools that made this endeavor feasible were two. The first one was ArcGIS (ArcView 9.0), a commercial GIS software still largely in use, for the spatial analysis of geographic data. The selection of the second one, the tool that would enable me to manage, store and correlate all historical and archaeological data, has proved more challenging and changed over the years. From MS Access, for the implementation of a relational database, back in 2005, to BetaCMS, an open source web-based content management platform, which used XML schema definitions to represent content, in 2010. The BetaCMS, later called Astroboa, was developed by a Greek IT company, Beta Concept, and allowed fast and easy modeling, storing and querying of all data, thus providing what it seemed to be, at the time (2010), a suitable alternative to switch into. The alternate and combined use of both systems (GIS and database) allowed for a long and intriguing iterative process from which a network of optimal paths emerged as a result. This enabled me to propose a reconstruction of the original trace of the public road network connecting the major cities and settlements of Roman Crete, and in specific cases test it against field trip data, with very promising results. Such an initiative as the integration, connection and modeling of complex data on Roman road networks in the digital domain was indeed quite innovative in 2005. Had this venture been undertaken manually, i.e. without employing any digital methods or tools, it would undoubtedly have taken longer and it would most probably not been as accurate. Correlating the data so that they become meaningful and usable for my analysis and making more realistic calculations over geographic space, could not have been performed as efficiently relying on analogue methods alone. However, an analogue approach would still have been up to date and re-usable, unlike my 2005 and 2010 end-results. Sustainability of my Roman roads modeling project has proven to be a great challenge, as BetaCMS is not supported any longer, while ArcGIS is not an open source tool. Therefore, one could argue that, what the digital so generously offered my work, it has taken it back rather fiercely. In this short presentation I will be going through my methodology and results of the Roman Crete land communication modeling and will be raising questions as to their usefulness, curation, re-usability and sustainability as well as the implications to Humanities research, also looking into the prospect of the employment of current innovative digital methods and tools that are available openly. While there is a considerable number of studies regarding digital preservation strategies and planning on an institutional level (e.g. libraries and archives), my intention is to address those very issues from the individual scholar’s perspective. |
From Research Articles to Knowledge Graphs: Methods for ontology-driven knowledge base creation from text (Presentation) Pertsas, Vayianos; Constantopoulos, Panos Tutorial presented at The Web Conference WWW2019, San Francisco, 13-17 May , 2019. @misc{Pertsas2019, title = {From Research Articles to Knowledge Graphs: Methods for ontology-driven knowledge base creation from text}, author = {Vayianos Pertsas and Panos Constantopoulos}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-03-13}, abstract = {Understanding and extracting knowledge contained in text and encoding it as linked data for the WEB is a highly complex task that poses several challenges, requiring expertise from different fields such as conceptual modeling, natural language processing and web technologies including web mining, linked data generation and publishing, etc. When it comes to the scholarly domain, the transformation of human readable research articles into machine comprehensible knowledge bases is considered of high importance and necessity today due to the explosion of scientific publications in every major discipline, that makes it increasingly difficult for experts to maintain an overview of their domain or relate ideas from different domains. This situation could be significantly alleviated by knowledge bases capable of supporting queries such as: find all papers that address a given problem; how was the problem solved; which methods are employed by whom in addressing particular tasks; etc. that currently cannot be addressed by commonly used search engines such as Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar. This tutorial addresses the above challenge by introducing the participants to methods required in order to model knowledge regarding a given domain, extract information from available texts using advanced machine learning techniques, associate it with other information mined from the web in order to infer new knowledge and republish everything as linked open data on the Web. To this end, we will use a specific use case – that of the scholarly domain, and will show how to model research processes, extract them from research articles associate them with contextual information from article metadata and other linked repositories and create knowledge bases available as linked data. Our aim is to show how methodologies from different computer science fields, namely natural language processing, machine learning and conceptual modeling, can be combined with Web technologies in a single meaningful workflow.}, howpublished = {Tutorial presented at The Web Conference WWW2019, San Francisco, 13-17 May}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {presentation} } Understanding and extracting knowledge contained in text and encoding it as linked data for the WEB is a highly complex task that poses several challenges, requiring expertise from different fields such as conceptual modeling, natural language processing and web technologies including web mining, linked data generation and publishing, etc. When it comes to the scholarly domain, the transformation of human readable research articles into machine comprehensible knowledge bases is considered of high importance and necessity today due to the explosion of scientific publications in every major discipline, that makes it increasingly difficult for experts to maintain an overview of their domain or relate ideas from different domains. This situation could be significantly alleviated by knowledge bases capable of supporting queries such as: find all papers that address a given problem; how was the problem solved; which methods are employed by whom in addressing particular tasks; etc. that currently cannot be addressed by commonly used search engines such as Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar. This tutorial addresses the above challenge by introducing the participants to methods required in order to model knowledge regarding a given domain, extract information from available texts using advanced machine learning techniques, associate it with other information mined from the web in order to infer new knowledge and republish everything as linked open data on the Web. To this end, we will use a specific use case – that of the scholarly domain, and will show how to model research processes, extract them from research articles associate them with contextual information from article metadata and other linked repositories and create knowledge bases available as linked data. Our aim is to show how methodologies from different computer science fields, namely natural language processing, machine learning and conceptual modeling, can be combined with Web technologies in a single meaningful workflow. |
Angelaki, Georgia; Badzmierowska, Karolina; Brown, David; Chiquet, Vera; Colla, Joris; Finlay-McAlester, Judith; Grabowska, Klaudia; Hannesschläger, Vanessa; Harrower, Natalie; Howat-Maxted, Freja; Ilvanidou, Maria; Kordyzon, Wojciech; Król, Magdalena; Losada, Gómez; Antonio, Gabriel; Maryl, Maciej; Reinsone, Sanita; Suslova, Natalia; Sweetnam, Mark; Śliwowski, Kamil; Werla, Marcin 2019, ISBN: 978-83-66076-49-5. @book{Angelaki2019, title = {How to Facilitate Cooperation between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions. Guidelines}, author = {Georgia Angelaki and Karolina Badzmierowska and David Brown and Vera Chiquet and Joris Colla and Judith Finlay-McAlester and Klaudia Grabowska and Vanessa Hannesschläger and Natalie Harrower and Freja Howat-Maxted and Maria Ilvanidou and Wojciech Kordyzon and Magdalena Król and Gómez Losada and Gabriel Antonio and Maciej Maryl and Sanita Reinsone and Natalia Suslova and Mark Sweetnam and Kamil Śliwowski and Marcin Werla}, url = {https://zenodo.org/record/2587481}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.2587481}, isbn = {978-83-66076-49-5}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-03-10}, abstract = {The overall objective of this report is to support collaboration between humanities researchers (literary and cultural studies, history, arts) on the one hand, and cultural heritage institutions on the other, by raising awareness about the possibilities for reusing heritage resources in academic settings and increasing the visibility of online heritage collections. This publication aims to provide both cultural heritage institutions and researchers with know-how, examples of good practice which will enable and strengthen collaboration between both sides, and enable a greater circulation and reuse of heritage resources within the academic field. This document was prepared during a hands-on workshop for representatives of the European academic community and heritage professionals who are working to share their collections online in order to promote digital methods and the academic reuse of heritage content. We engaged humanities researchers who expressed an interest in exploring digitised cultural resources, and heritage professionals who create internal institutional policies for providing access and sharing resources online. The workshop took place at the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland) on 19–20 June 2018. Invited experts included Natalie Harrower (Digital Repository of Ireland), Mark Sweetnam (Trinity College Dublin), David Brown (Trinity College Dublin), and Marcin Werla (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center). Twelve participants from various European countries were recruited through an open call for contributors (they are listed as co-authors of this document). The workshop participants explored the main problems associated with heritage reuse in the context of their expertise and later translated those discussions into this document through a ‘book-sprint,’ which was facilitated by Kamil Śliwowski. The workshop and the preparation of the guidelines were funded by a DARIAH Theme 2017 grant, which was awarded for the project ‘Facilitating Cooperation Between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions,’ jointly proposed by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, and Creative Commons Polska.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } The overall objective of this report is to support collaboration between humanities researchers (literary and cultural studies, history, arts) on the one hand, and cultural heritage institutions on the other, by raising awareness about the possibilities for reusing heritage resources in academic settings and increasing the visibility of online heritage collections. This publication aims to provide both cultural heritage institutions and researchers with know-how, examples of good practice which will enable and strengthen collaboration between both sides, and enable a greater circulation and reuse of heritage resources within the academic field. This document was prepared during a hands-on workshop for representatives of the European academic community and heritage professionals who are working to share their collections online in order to promote digital methods and the academic reuse of heritage content. We engaged humanities researchers who expressed an interest in exploring digitised cultural resources, and heritage professionals who create internal institutional policies for providing access and sharing resources online. The workshop took place at the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (Poland) on 19–20 June 2018. Invited experts included Natalie Harrower (Digital Repository of Ireland), Mark Sweetnam (Trinity College Dublin), David Brown (Trinity College Dublin), and Marcin Werla (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center). Twelve participants from various European countries were recruited through an open call for contributors (they are listed as co-authors of this document). The workshop participants explored the main problems associated with heritage reuse in the context of their expertise and later translated those discussions into this document through a ‘book-sprint,’ which was facilitated by Kamil Śliwowski. The workshop and the preparation of the guidelines were funded by a DARIAH Theme 2017 grant, which was awarded for the project ‘Facilitating Cooperation Between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions,’ jointly proposed by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, and Creative Commons Polska. |
A world of immersive experiences (Journal Article) Benardou, Agiatis; Konstantelos, Leonidas History Scotland, Volume: 19 (2), Pages: 8-9, 2019. (BibTeX) @article{Benardou2019, title = {A world of immersive experiences}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Leonidas Konstantelos}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-03-00}, journal = {History Scotland}, volume = {19}, number = {2}, pages = {8-9}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } |
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Ontology-Driven Extraction of Research Processes (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Pertsas, Vayianos; Constantopoulos, Panos; Androutsopoulos, Ion Vrandečić, Denny; Bontcheva, Kalina; Suárez-Figueroa, Mari Carmen; Presutti, Valentina; Celino, Irene; Sabou, Marta; Kaffee, Lucie-Aimée; Simperl, Elena (Ed.): The Semantic Web – ISWC 2018. 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey, CA, USA, October 8–12, 2018, Proceedings, Volume: 11136 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science Pages: 162-178, Springer, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-030-00670-9. @inproceedings{Pertsas2018b, title = {Ontology-Driven Extraction of Research Processes}, author = {Vayianos Pertsas and Panos Constantopoulos and Ion Androutsopoulos}, editor = {Denny Vrandečić and Kalina Bontcheva and Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and Valentina Presutti and Irene Celino and Marta Sabou and Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and Elena Simperl}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-00671-6_10}, isbn = {978-3-030-00670-9}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-09-18}, booktitle = {The Semantic Web – ISWC 2018. 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey, CA, USA, October 8–12, 2018, Proceedings}, volume = {11136}, pages = {162-178}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, abstract = {We address the automatic extraction from publications of two key concepts for representing research processes: the concept of research activity and the sequence relation between successive activities. These representations are driven by the Scholarly Ontology, specifically conceived for documenting research processes. Unlike usual named entity recognition and relation extrac- tion tasks, we are facing textual descriptions of activities of widely variable length, while pairs of successive activities often span multiple sentences. We developed and experimented with several sliding window classifiers using Logistic Regression, SVMs, and Random Forests, as well as a two-stage pipeline classifier. Our classifiers employ task-specific features, as well as word, part-of-speech and dependency embeddings, engineered to exploit distinctive traits of research publications written in English. The extracted activities and sequences are associated with other relevant information from publication metadata and stored as RDF triples in a knowledge base. Evaluation on datasets from three disciplines, Digital Humanities, Bioinformatics, and Medicine, shows very promising performance.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } We address the automatic extraction from publications of two key concepts for representing research processes: the concept of research activity and the sequence relation between successive activities. These representations are driven by the Scholarly Ontology, specifically conceived for documenting research processes. Unlike usual named entity recognition and relation extrac- tion tasks, we are facing textual descriptions of activities of widely variable length, while pairs of successive activities often span multiple sentences. We developed and experimented with several sliding window classifiers using Logistic Regression, SVMs, and Random Forests, as well as a two-stage pipeline classifier. Our classifiers employ task-specific features, as well as word, part-of-speech and dependency embeddings, engineered to exploit distinctive traits of research publications written in English. The extracted activities and sequences are associated with other relevant information from publication metadata and stored as RDF triples in a knowledge base. Evaluation on datasets from three disciplines, Digital Humanities, Bioinformatics, and Medicine, shows very promising performance. |
Ontology-Driven Information Extraction from Research Publications (Paper in Conference Proceedings) Pertsas, Vayianos; Constantopoulos, Panos Méndez, Eva; Crestani, Fabio; Ribeiro, Cristina; David, Gabriel; Lopes, João Correia (Ed.): Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2018., Volume: 11057 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science Pages: 241-253, Springer, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-030-00065-3. @inproceedings{Pertsas2018, title = {Ontology-Driven Information Extraction from Research Publications}, author = {Vayianos Pertsas and Panos Constantopoulos}, editor = {Eva Méndez and Fabio Crestani and Cristina Ribeiro and Gabriel David and João Correia Lopes}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_21}, isbn = {978-3-030-00065-3}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-09-05}, booktitle = {Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. TPDL 2018.}, volume = {11057}, pages = {241-253}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, abstract = {Extraction of information from a research article, association with other sources and inference of new knowledge is a challenging task that has not yet been entirely addressed. We present Research Spotlight, a system that leverages existing information from DBpedia, retrieves articles from repositories, extracts and interrelates various kinds of named and non-named entities by exploiting article metadata, the structure of text as well as syntactic, lexical and semantic constraints, and populates a knowledge base in the form of RDF triples. An ontology designed to represent scholarly practices is driving the whole process. The system is evaluated through two experiments that measure the overall accuracy in terms of token- and entity- based precision, recall and F1 scores, as well as entity boundary detection, with promising results.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } Extraction of information from a research article, association with other sources and inference of new knowledge is a challenging task that has not yet been entirely addressed. We present Research Spotlight, a system that leverages existing information from DBpedia, retrieves articles from repositories, extracts and interrelates various kinds of named and non-named entities by exploiting article metadata, the structure of text as well as syntactic, lexical and semantic constraints, and populates a knowledge base in the form of RDF triples. An ontology designed to represent scholarly practices is driving the whole process. The system is evaluated through two experiments that measure the overall accuracy in terms of token- and entity- based precision, recall and F1 scores, as well as entity boundary detection, with promising results. |
Archaeological Knowledge Production and Global Communities: Boundaries and Structure of the Field (Journal Article) Laužikas, Rimvydas; Dallas, Costis; Thomas, Suzie; Kelpšienė, Ingrida; Huvila, Isto; Luengo, Pedro; Nobre, Helena; Toumpouri, Marina; Vaitkevičius, Vykintas Open Archaeology, Volume: 4 (1), Pages: 350–364, 2018, ISSN: 2300-6560. @article{Laužikas2018, title = {Archaeological Knowledge Production and Global Communities: Boundaries and Structure of the Field}, author = {Rimvydas Laužikas and Costis Dallas and Suzie Thomas and Ingrida Kelpšienė and Isto Huvila and Pedro Luengo and Helena Nobre and Marina Toumpouri and Vykintas Vaitkevičius}, doi = {10.1515/opar-2018-0022}, issn = {2300-6560}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-09-01}, journal = {Open Archaeology}, volume = {4}, number = {1}, pages = {350–364}, abstract = {Archaeology and material cultural heritage enjoys a particular status as a form of heritage that, capturing the public imagination, has become the locus for the expression and negotiation of regional, national, and intra-national cultural identities. One important question is: why and how do contemporary people engage with archaeological heritage objects, artefacts, information or knowledge outside the realm of an professional, academically-based archaeology? This question is investigated here from the perspective of theoretical considerations based on Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere theory, which helps to describe the connections between the centre and peripheries of professional archaeology as sign structures. The centre may be defined according to prevalent scientific paradigms, while periphery in the space of creolisation in which, through interactions with other culturally more distant sign structures, archaeology-related nonprofessional communities emerge. On the basis of these considerations, we use collocation analysis on representative English language corpora to outline the structure of the field of archaeology-related nonprofessional communities, identify salient creolised peripheral spaces and archaeology-related practices, and develop a framework for further investigation of archaeological knowledge production and reuse in the context of global archaeology.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Archaeology and material cultural heritage enjoys a particular status as a form of heritage that, capturing the public imagination, has become the locus for the expression and negotiation of regional, national, and intra-national cultural identities. One important question is: why and how do contemporary people engage with archaeological heritage objects, artefacts, information or knowledge outside the realm of an professional, academically-based archaeology? This question is investigated here from the perspective of theoretical considerations based on Yuri Lotman’s semiosphere theory, which helps to describe the connections between the centre and peripheries of professional archaeology as sign structures. The centre may be defined according to prevalent scientific paradigms, while periphery in the space of creolisation in which, through interactions with other culturally more distant sign structures, archaeology-related nonprofessional communities emerge. On the basis of these considerations, we use collocation analysis on representative English language corpora to outline the structure of the field of archaeology-related nonprofessional communities, identify salient creolised peripheral spaces and archaeology-related practices, and develop a framework for further investigation of archaeological knowledge production and reuse in the context of global archaeology. |
Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Book) Benardou, Agiatis; Champion, Erik; Dallas, Costis; Hughes, Lorna (Ed.) Routledge, 2018, ISBN: 9781472447128. @book{Benardou2018, title = {Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities}, editor = {Agiatis Benardou and Erik Champion and Costis Dallas and Lorna M. Hughes}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Heritage-Infrastructures-in-Digital-Humanities/Benardou-Champion-Dallas-Hughes/p/book/9780367880415}, isbn = {9781472447128}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-00-00}, publisher = {Routledge}, series = {Digital research in the arts and humanities}, abstract = {What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings, both in terms of new tools and archives, and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings, both in terms of new tools and archives, and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public. |
Introduction: a critique of digital practices and research infrastructures (Book Chapter) Benardou, Agiatis; Champion, Erik; Dallas, Costis; Hughes, Lorna Benardou, Agiatis; Champion, Erik; Dallas, Costis; Hughes, Lorna (Ed.): Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities, Routledge, 2018, ISBN: 9781472447128. @inbook{Benardou2018, title = {Introduction: a critique of digital practices and research infrastructures}, author = {Agiatis Benardou and Erik Champion and Costis Dallas and Lorna M. Hughes}, editor = {Agiatis Benardou and Erik Champion and Costis Dallas and Lorna M. Hughes}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Heritage-Infrastructures-in-Digital-Humanities/Benardou-Champion-Dallas-Hughes/p/book/9780367880415}, isbn = {9781472447128}, year = {2018}, date = {2018-00-00}, booktitle = {Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities}, publisher = {Routledge}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } |