semantic annotation of digital libraries. a model for science communication
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Semantic annotation of Digital Libraries
a model of science communicationFrancesca Di Donato
SNS - ERC [email protected]
This presentation is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
Knowledge TriangleNew formulas for science communication
Pisa, May 23-24 2013
A new way of carrying out research
How we produce scientific results
How we store data and results
How we disseminate them
What we can do with
How they are evaluated
An example as a modelEUROCORR Project (ERC -AdG , 2010-2014)
Critical edition (on paper and digital) of the unpublished correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt (1842-97)
Coordinated by Maurizio Ghelardi (SNS, Principal Investigator), the research group involves 5 people (3 humanists, 2 developers, 1 "digital humanist")
EUROCORR goals
1. publish new materials and tools for the study of European culture of the second half of 1800
2. enrich science of new knowledge that will help to answer interesting research questions
A full OA model
Access to data (physical layer)
Access to data (legal layer)
Access to data (technological layer)
Physical layer: manuscripts, transcriptions, metadata, documentation
1. Manuscripts (http://www.burckhardtsource.org/box_view_url_shortener?u=Z)
2. Transcriptions (XML-TEI)
The transcription workflow
3. Metadata
4. Documentation (soon on a wiki)Transparency of the research process is essential for replicate it
1. Transcription compendium
2. Transcription workflow
3. XML - TEI Schema
4. XML - TEI Schema documentation
Rights on data (sources) and results
1a. Manuscripts of the correspondence to Burckhardt
1b. Burckhardt’s letters (printed edition) (?)
2. Project results
Interoperability: Towards open science
1. Open source platform (muruca.org)
2. XML-TEI (standard)
3. Linked Open Data (standard)
open science (in pratice)
1. Variations, frequency of relevant terms for author
3. Salutations, dates, other (?) tag clouds
2. B.’s correspondents on a map and a timelinean example: http://goo.gl/5h6Vpa second one: http://goo.gl/w5amR
Annotations are linked to the Web of Data
Web of Data (RDF)mash-updbpediaeuropeanaiconclassbibserver
Ad hoc vocabsex. persons, works of art, biblio-graphies
What can we do with annotations?
Some example:
1. Network of people discussing about a certain topic
2. Display on a historical map the works of art mentioned in the letters
see:http://goo.gl/6xfUa
We can do more
What about the debate on the same topics in the Republic of Letters?
Other examples1. Polymath Project (2009)A collaborative space for mathematical research
3. HapMap (2002) http://hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
The goal of the International HapMap Project is to develop a haplotype map of the human genome which will describe the common patterns of human DNA sequence variation
2. GenBank (1996)http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
Genetic data are immediately shared online
4. Galaxy Zoo http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
200.000 volontari collaborano con esperti alla classificazione delle galassie
5. Wikipedia (2000)A collaborative Encyclopedia
6. MAPPA Project (2011-14)Study predictive computational tools applicable to the archaeological potential of an urban areaCreate the first italian open digital archaeological archive
7. Transcribe Bentham http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
A collaborative transcription project
The open scienceimperative
[M. Nielsen, Le nuove vie della scoperta scientifica, Einaudi, pp. 222-229]
A community of knowledge in a republic of science
changethe "traffic direction"
of science
how groups can work together to manage the commons (intangible)?
1. Demanding open science
a) Funding agencies mandate to deposit in OA archives
(ex. ERC, FP7, Horizon2020, National Science Foundation)
b) Funding agencies mandate to document researchers activities on the Web
Create agreement and consensus in the scientific community
and make a long-term strategy
2. Encourage open science
How adopting new ways of sharing can become an imperative for scientists as it is today publishing
an article?
Science economy is based on reputation
Publications: articles/books through journals/series
The citation leads to the assessment, which leads to the reward, which leads to people motivated to
contribute to the science in a new way
Include in the evaluation mechanisms citations of data, wikis,
comments, etc.
Altmetricshttp://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
Thank you
CreditsMaurizio Ghelardi (SNS)Susanne Müller (SNS-ERC)Costanza Giannaccini (SNS- ERC)Alexander auf der Heyde (SNS- ERC)Alessio Piccioli (Net7 www.netseven.it)Michele Barbera (Net7 www.netseven.it)Simone Fonda (Net7 www.netseven.it)Romeo Zitarosa (Net7 www.netseven.it)www.burckhardtsource.orgwww.muruca.orgthepund.it
See also a video on Pundit and semantic annotation at the LODLAM Challenge 2013 http://summit2013.lodlam.net/2013/04/03/pundit/