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- Burman, Emma, et al.
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Digital humaniora utmanar biblioteket
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Diskussion om vad digital humaniora (DH) betyder för biblioteken. Hur påverkar det den kompetens och infrastruktur som behövs för att stödja forskning och utbildning inom DH. Vad det kan få för konsekvenser för hur man organiserar arbetet.
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- Burman, Emma, et al.
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Making Sense of Digital Humanities at the Library
- 2019
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Ingår i: Book of abstracts 4th Conference of The Association Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Introduction. Digitisation of information and methods has brought new possibilities and challenges into all aspects of society and a direction of continued advances is readily apparent in strategic initiatives all the way from European and national funding to directives at individual academic institutions in Sweden. Resources that used to be available only in physical archives are becoming more freely accessible on the internet, far beyond the walls of the library, and in formats that can be read and interpreted by apps and algorithms.Nine years ago, digital humanities (DH) was described as “the next big thing” and the concept has later been compared to an allegory of the future of the humanities (Liu, 2012). Today library employees encounter the term in their interactions with education and research alike. The process of understanding and framing the challenges and possibilities that DH has brought into the library has been a topic in parallel initiatives at Linköping University Library and at Uppsala University Library.Questions. The purpose of this paper is to draw on the experience of academic libraries to frame the challenges and possibilities of supporting DH in a Nordic context. The paper aims to answer to the following questions from a Nordic academic library perspective:How do we understand to the notion of DH in the library?How do we (re)organise to support researchers and students in DH?Background. Burdick (2012) writes that DH has encouraged new ways of conducting research in the humanities and that a possible effect is that traditional boundaries start to blur as collaborations between disciplines form. And the exploding wealth of computers, mobile devices and new communication channels enables global knowledge creation and sharing (Nyberg et al, 2012). As a consequence, the intersection of digital methods, technology and humanities can expand and enhance humanities research with increased accessibility both within and beyond the academic context (Burdick, 2012). Drucker et.al. (2013) and Raffaghelli et.al. (2013) describes DH as a mix of humanities and digital technology. Svensson (2010) define a Centre for Digital Humanities as the place or event where new knowledge is created in the humanities, with digital methods, media and technology. The idea of a place for DH has since been realised in Swedish universities e.g. in Umeå (Humlab) and Lund (Humanities Lab), and the idea of a DH lab is a recognised idea of how DH can be executed.Within the library context, the characteristics of the sources and data formats that researchers in the humanities are working with are changing and it is possible to study significantly larger collections of pictures and texts than before (Liu, 2012). The fact that DH is a complex notion and that the conditions are quickly changing with new technology means that libraries have to develop readiness to meet the needs of today as well as those of tomorrow (Sula, 2013).Svensson (2010) describes the library as a form of laboratory for humanities research and that knowledge in building collections, information science and IT make libraries a natural and important infrastructure for DH. Zhang et al (2015) studied how information experts can contribute in DH projects and underline the importance of expertise in storage and access, publishing, search, training and innovation. Green (2014) conducted case studies involving five libraries in the USA and show that a close collaboration with the library is necessary to optimise the research process. Wong (2016) stresses the strength in gathering experts and specialists from different fields as a part of bringing DH to its full potential.Approach. This paper stems from the experience of practitioners who have been involved in efforts to organise support for DH at two academic libraries in Sweden. The discussion and conclusions are supported by the results ofconducting lightly structured interviews, semi-structured observations and document analysis at libraries in the Sweden, Denmark, and the USAsurveying how libraries in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland describe their work related to DHdesigning and evaluating DH-related activities for students and researchers at Uppsala University LibraryThe results are interpreted with a life-cycle perspective on research and education and focus on organisation, actors, activities, services, tools and spaces.Findings. We confirm that Sula’s (2013) description of DH as a complex notion is valid in the Nordic academic library context as the results show that different people attribute the term with different meanings. There were libraries labelling themselves as not actively supporting DH, while at the same time describing activities that could just as well indicate that they are indeed active. We suggest that it may be useful for libraries to focus on emerging needs in relation to digital sources and methods, interdisciplinary research support, and new media for scholarly communications.The result also showed that the surveyed Nordic academic libraries were at an early stage of organising work to support DH and predominantly positioned their activities as collaborations with researchers or participation in networks. Contrasting with the results from academic libraries where DH practices are already well established, we suggest that Nordic libraries can organise to support DH byPositioning staff/services close to active research and education with elements of DHFraming DH activities in the context of today’s goals and responsibilitiesEngaging staff with technical skills, subject expertise and a learning mindset (Lewis et al, 2015) in DH projects, labs and eventsCreating digital and physical spaces to support DH tools and practicesAdopting and sharing practices and expertise with other libraries and academic infrastructures
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- David, Romain, et al.
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Converging on a Semantic Interoperability Framework for the European Data Space for Science, Research and Innovation (EOSC)
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Semantic interoperability (SI) is at the heart of the FAIR principles and of the design of large scale cross disciplinary infrastructures. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a European-wide effort towards such an infrastructure, aiming to deepen the regional research collaboration and realising a shared data space for science, research and innovation. In this context, the research community’s voice is represented by the EOSC Association (EOSC-A) and a number of advisory groups with a broad range of representatives from different stakeholder organisations. The advisory group on metadata and data quality has formed a task force focusing on developing and implementing recommendations for SI (EOSC SI Task Force) with the ambition to converge on globally relevant and scalable SI solutions for EOSC. This paper provides context to SI in EOSC, the various components contributing to it, as well as some views on the socio-technical challenges to arriving at a consensus. In particular, the paper provides motivation for exploring the heterogeneity of SI solutions demonstrated across scientific communities and insight into the task force’s planned approach to conduct a survey to identify relevant components and structures. The paper is also an invitation to the global community to align and engage with the task force’s activities going forward.
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- Neves, Aitana, et al.
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FAIR+E Pathogen data for surveillance and research : lessons from COVID-19
- 2023
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Ingår i: Frontiers In Public Health. - : Frontiers Media S.A.. - 2296-2565. ; 11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The COVID-19 pandemic has exemplified the importance of interoperable and equitable data sharing for global surveillance and to support research. While many challenges could be overcome, at least in some countries, many hurdles within the organisational, scientific, technical and cultural realms still remain to be tackled to be prepared for future threats. We propose to (i) continue supporting global efforts that have proven to be efficient and trustworthy towards addressing challenges in pathogen molecular data sharing; (ii) establish a distributed network of Pathogen Data Platforms to (a) ensure high quality data, metadata standardization and data analysis, (b) perform data brokering on behalf of data providers both for research and surveillance, (c) foster capacity building and continuous improvements, also for pandemic preparedness; (iii) establish an International One Health Pathogens Portal, connecting pathogen data isolated from various sources (human, animal, food, environment), in a truly One Health approach and following FAIR principles. To get started in these challenging endeavors, we started an ELIXIR Focus Group and invite all interested experts to join in this concerted, expert-driven effort towards sustaining and ensuring high-quality data for global surveillance and research.
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- Nyberg Åkerström, Wolmar, et al.
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AI och algoritmer för bibliotek och brukare
- 2021
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Ingår i: Bildning i en digital tid?. - Umeå : Svensk biblioteksförening; Högskolan i Borås; Umeå universitet. ; , s. 28-35
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Konferensbidrag (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Artificiell intelligens (AI) och maskininlärning (ML) är termer som aktualiseras i såväl nationella som internationella satsningar, strategier och samhällsdebatter. Det finns spår av AI överallt och vi frågar oss dels hur människan ska behålla kontrollen över allt smartare system och dels hur vi ska hitta nya sätt att samexistera i en värld där automatiseringen breder ut sig i kunskapsyrken. Vi har mött termer som expertsystem, våra bibliotekssystem och databaser blir allt smartare, och inom en snar framtid flyttar Uppsala universitets (UU) tvärvetenskapliga AI-satsning in i universitetsbibliotekets lokaler på Carolina Rediviva. Som biblioteksanställda frågar vi oss nu vad AI kommer att innebära för oss och vår profession. Vår förhoppning är att den här texten ska kunna fungera som ett underlag för såväl lokala initia-tiv som för diskussioner där professionen och forskningen hittar gemensamma intressen. Vi tar avstamp i diskussioner från Uppsala universitetsbibliotek (UUB) och repliker från biblioteksvärlden, forskningsresultat och exempel från vår vardag i ett försök att svara till frågeställningarna: Vad innebär AI och ML för oss som biblioteksanställda och vår kompetens?Hur kan vi använda AI och ML för att förbättra bibliotekets tjänster och service?Vilken roll kan biblioteket ha i samarbeten kring AI och ML?
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- Nyberg Åkerström, Wolmar, et al.
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Case studies and use cases as means of effectively demonstrating value and engaging stakeholders
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This talk was presented during the Engagement of research communities and service providers in EOSC session at the EOSC Symposium in Prague, Czech Republic on 15 November 2022. It was presented by Peter Maccallum (ELIXIR) on behalf of Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström (ELIXIR Sweden) and the EOSC Semantic Interoperability Task Force.Description of the talk: The premise of this talk is that case studies and use cases can be used to effectively demonstrate value and engage stakeholders in requirements gathering for developing services. The EOSC Association's Task Force on Semantic Interoperability have drafted a procedure to capturing and exploring inspiring and representative case studies in order to provide input to the initiatives that are shaping EOSC and to provide examples and lessons learned to stakeholders across Europe. The talk will argue for building a competence network and a curated collection of resources that can be used across EOSC members, projects and task forces with examples from efforts in research infrastructures, special interest groups, EU projects and universities.Relevance to EOSC: Encouraging collaboration across EOSC initiatives on collecting case studies and use cases to demonstrate value and engage stakeholders. Addressing the needs for aligning the work of the EOSC implementation projects with EOSC Association's Task Forces.
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- Nyberg Åkerström, Wolmar, et al.
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Developing and implementing the semantic interoperability recommendations of the EOSC Interoperability Framework
- 2024
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This document expands on and provides nuance to some of the concepts defined in the EOSC Interoperability Framework report from the EOSC Executive Board Working Groups (WG) FAIR and Architecture published in 2021 and the conceptualisation of an EOSC Interoperability Framework that it embodies (EOSC-IF). It accounts for a deep-dive into the landscape of semantic interoperability implementations and a wide range of interoperability scenarios focused around the Semantic Interoperability Specification, some subtypes of Semantic Business Objects, as well as the Semantic Artefact Catalogue and Mapping Repository. A small set of new concepts of relevance to this work and to EOSC at large have also been added.The introduction provides context to the creation of this report, the basic concepts section provides and overview of the related components of the EOSC-IF, and the following four sections summarise explorations that frame the concluding set of recommendations to the EOSC community at large.The explorations that frame the recommendations are titled as follows:The Semantic Interoperability Specification: Implementation profiles for communitiesThe Semantic Artefact Catalogue: Twelve maturity dimensionsThe Mapping Repository: Making a case for FAIR mappings and crosswalksImplementation examples: Common use cases and real-world case studiesThe recommendations themselves are organised under the following five broad categories:Align emerging adaptations and implementations to the Semantic View of the EOSC-IF (pp. 39–42) reference architecture.Identify and consolidate different approaches to representing and exchanging (meta)data with the FAIR Digital Objects model described in the EOSC-IF (pp. 29–34).Extend the EOSC-IF to include a research process perspective that can support convergence on solutions for common use cases.Extend the set of Semantic Business Objects described in the EOSC-IF (pp. 40–41) to include artefacts such as mappings and crosswalks.Recognise Semantic Artefact Catalogue component described in the EOSC-IF (p. 42) as a critical part of the long-term viability of any research data infrastructure.
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- Nyberg Åkerström, Wolmar, et al.
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ELIXIR Report of the 19th Plenary of the RDA, June 2022
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report document has been prepared by ELIXIR’s RDA Activities Focus Group to showcase the synergies and activities of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) which may be useful for ELIXIR members operating in the life sciences domain. The RDA was launched as a community-driven initiative in 2013 with the goal of building the social and technical infrastructure to enable open sharing and re-use of data. The ELIXIR RDA Activities Focus Group has prepared eighteen reports of RDA Plenary events to date containing overviews of highlighted RDA recommendations and outputs. This report contains highlights from various sessions of the RDA 19th Plenary which took place as a hybrid event in South Korea, 20-23 June, 2022.
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