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- Jensen, Uwe, et al.
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Metadata standards and practices in related disciplines and standards for linking different sources : DELIVERABLE D7.6 - Data without Boundaries (DwB) WORK PACKAGE 7 - Standards Development
- 2015
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Standards development is a key concern for system and infrastructure development when the goal is to support interdisciplinary research by providing access to data from different sources and disciplines for re-use to improve the knowledge base. Metadata is a key concept in the development of better data access as well as to communicate knowledge about discipline specific data to a wider research community to improve the analysis potential of standard data sources like statistical or survey data hosted by NSIs, DAs or universities. This report begins by investigating options and practises to foster extension of existing metadata, applying research data and results e.g. from health and geospatial research disciplines. Secondly the report describes concepts, standards and practices linking data, publication and further research assets to create rich contextual metadata sources. Both facets of metadata are of relevance for interdisciplinary re-use of available data to innovate answers to research questions using different data sources in a rich data and metadata environment. The audience for this report are statistical institutes, data archives and metadata experts with interests in standards development to foster data re-use and knowledge discovery.
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- Angelis, Stavros, et al.
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Research Community Evaluation Report : Europeana Cloud Deliverable 1.7
- 2016
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This report deals with three Evaluation Workshops organized by ATHENA R.C that took place as part of research undertaken in Work Package 1 of the Europeana Cloud (eCloud) project (2013-16). The workshops were linked to WP3 iterative development cycle, and intended to provide feedback regarding the usefulness, as against usability, of tools and service prototypes within Europeana Cloud and their fitness-for-purpose with regard to the requirements analysis and user-centred design of Europeana Research.
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- Angelis, Stavros, et al.
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User Requirements Analysis and Case Studies Report. Content Strategy Report. : Europeana Cloud Deliverable 1.3 and 1.6: User Requirements Analysis and Case Studies Report (1.3) and Content Strategy Report (1.6)
- 2015
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The present Deliverable (1.3) comprises of two joint reports: former Deliverable 1.3 (User Requirements and Case Studies report) and Deliverable 1.6 (Content Strategy Report). As a product of a multi-scale, interdisciplinary effort, Deliverable 1.3 (User Requirements and Case Studies report / Content Strategy Report) employs a multi-faceted approach to make sense of the information needs and behaviour of Humanities and Social Sciences researchers both within and outside the Europeana ecosystem, while achieving profound understanding of the ways these communities interact with existing Europeana content and metadata. Through extensive and widely-levelled empirical research (Case Studies, Web Survey, Interviews, Focus Groups) complimented by thorough desk research (Literature review, study of particular thematic areas), and building on work previously conducted in the context of other Digital Humanities Research Infrastructures (DARIAH, EHRI, ARIADNE, NeDiMAH) Work Package 1 managed to reach a long list of non-prioritized User Requirements as well as a set of flexible Content Recommendations for the upcoming development of Europeana Research.
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- Benardou, Agiatis, et al.
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Reflecting on and Refracting User Needs through Case Studies in the Light of Europeana Research
- 2016
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In: Digital Humanities 2016, 11-16 juli, 2016, Krakow, Polen.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This poster presents work on documenting user needs in the Humanities and Social Sciences as illustrated through Case Studies in the context of the Europeana Cloud “Unlocking Europe's Research via the Cloud” project. Conducted as part of a wider methodological effort including desk research, expert fora and a web survey, methodology and findings of actual use of innovative digital tools and services will be visually represented. This work will form the basis of the Europeana Research Case Studies which will seek to gather and process an evidence-based record of the information practices, needs and scholarly methods in the respective communities. This poster reports on collaborative, cross-European work conducted during 2013-2015 in the context of the Europeana Cloud “Unlocking Europe's Research via the Cloud” project, and touches upon planned activities in the context of Europeana Research in 2016. Europeana Research is an initiative which aims to create stronger links between the cultural heritage sector and academia. More particularly, it aims to ensure that open, high-quality data from the cultural sector is available for reuse by the digital humanities community. One of the main objectives of Europeana Cloud was the enhancement of the understanding of digital tools, research processes and scholarly content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in Europeana for research purposes. To this end, and in order to contribute towards the development of the new platform of Europeana Research, Case Studies were developed as part of a wider methodological effort which included desk research, expert fora and web survey for reaching user requirements. The purpose of this poster is to visually represent the methodology followed and results reached in documenting actual use of innovative digital tools and services in the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities illustrated in three main Case Studies in the disciplines of Education, Art History and Sociology, and further complemented by satellite cases. The Case Studies were initially selected based on the disciplines and tools that might best make use of current Europeana content. By defining “innovative” as “either performing functions that were previously unavailable, or performing already available functions in a qualitatively different way”, three tools were identified as best fitting this criteria (Transana, HyperImage, NodeXL) enriched by two “satellite” tools more frequently used in the respective research disciplines (NVivo, Voyant). These were further approached following a threefold methodology of semi-structured interviews, empirical observation of the tools and background research. The results were then discussed both from the perspective of the discipline area, and through the lens of the scholarly primitives (Unsworth 2000, Palmer et al 2009), to determine their use with Europeana content. The poster will also highlight the importance of accessibility of data for research infrastructures and research groups and need to focus on high quality metadata and content both for Europeana Research and the wider GLAM sector, and will illustrate how digital tools are not themselves a guarantee of good research, as researchers do not necessarily use the same digital tool throughout the research process; rather they use one tool per step (one tool = one research primitive). This poster will also present future work planned to be undertaken in the context of Europeana Research in 2016. Based on Europeana Cloud, a series of new Case Studies will be developed and expanded towards different research communities. The Europeana Research Case Studies will be undertaken in collaboration with existing European research initiatives, and will seek to gather and process an evidence-based record of the information practices, needs and scholarly methods of arts and humanities and social sciences researchers within the broad Europeana ecosystem and particularly in relation to Europeana content. Τhe Case Studies will employ a mixed methods approach combining various ways of gathering empirical evidence on the information needs and scholarly methods employed in digitally-enabled arts and humanities and social sciences research across Europe and beyond.
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- Borin, Lars, 1957, et al.
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Swe-Clarin: Language resources and technology for Digital Humanities
- 2017
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In: Digital Humanities 2016. Extended Papers of the International Symposium on Digital Humanities (DH 2016) Växjö, Sweden, November, 7-8, 2016. Edited by Koraljka Golub, Marcelo Milra. Vol-2021. - Aachen : M. Jeusfeld c/o Redaktion Sun SITE, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen.. - 1613-0073.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- CLARIN is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), which aims at (a) making extensive language-based materials available as primary research data to the humanities and social sciences (HSS); and (b) offering state-of-the-art language technology (LT) as an e-research tool for this purpose, positioning CLARIN centrally in what is often referred to as the digital humanities (DH). The Swedish CLARIN node Swe-Clarin was established in 2015 with funding from the Swedish Research Council. In this paper, we describe the composition and activities of Swe-Clarin, aiming at meeting the requirements of all HSS and other researchers whose research involves using text and speech as primary research data, and spreading the awareness of what Swe-Clarin can offer these research communities. We focus on one of the central means for doing this: pilot projects conducted in collaboration between HSS researchers and Swe-Clarin, together formulating a research question, the addressing of which requires working with large language-based materials. Four such pilot projects are described in more detail, illustrating research on rhetorical history, second-language acquisition, literature, and political science. A common thread to these projects is an aspiration to meet the challenge of conducting research on the basis of very large amounts of textual data in a consistent way without losing sight of the individual cases making up the mass of data, i.e., to be able to move between Moretti’s “distant” and “close reading” modes. While the pilot projects clearly make substantial contributions to DH, they also reveal some needs for more development, and in particular a need for document-level access to the text materials. As a consequence of this, work has now been initiated in Swe-Clarin to meet this need, so that Swe-Clarin together with HSS scholars investigating intricate research questions can take on the methodological challenges of big-data language-based digital humanities.
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- Ekman, Stefan, 1972
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Entering a Fantasy World through Its Map
- 2018
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In: Extrapolation. - : Liverpool University Press. - 0014-5483 .- 2047-7708. ; 59:1, s. 71-87
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This essay demonstrates how we can gain critical insights into a fantasy world by reading its accompanying map, using Ben McSweeney's map from Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist as an example. An analysis of the map's topography, linguistic signs, and surround elements is carried out in terms of Denis Wood's proposition that all maps have authors, subjects, and themes. The results show that even without reference to the text, the map comments on the fantasy world's technological level, its colonial history, and the central conflict of the story. Interpreting the map also invites a broader examination of the relationship between the fantastical and the actual.
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- Ekman, Stefan, 1972
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Förord
- 2016
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In: Stadens väsen. - Göteborg : Catoblepas förlag. - 9789188183019 ; , s. 11-15
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)
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- Ekman, Stefan, 1972-, et al.
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Literatura Niewidocznego : Wizje i rewizje urban fantasy
- 2018
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In: Creatio Fantastica. - : Facta Ficta Research Centre. - 2300-2514. ; 58:1, s. 177-188
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A discussion Literature of the Unseen—Visions and (Re)visions of Urban Fantasy collects theoretical reflections upon the subgenres of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, along with a brief commentary on the body of text representative for both conventions. Participants include „Creatio Fantastica” editors—Sylwia Borowska-Szerszun, Krzysztof M. Maj, and Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk—as well as renowned experts in the field of fantasy studies: Stefan Ekman, author of the first monograph of fantasy map-making, Here Be Dragons. Exploring Fantasy Maps & Settings (2013), and Audrey Taylor, author of Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-building (2017).
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- Ekman, Stefan, 1972-
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Map and Text : World-Architecture and the Case of Miéville's Perdido Street Station
- 2018
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In: Literary Geographies. - : Manchester Metropolitan University. - 0324-8305 .- 2397-1797. ; 4:1, s. 66-83
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this essay, the author argues that analysing a fantasy novel that comes with a map without taking into account the dynamic between map and text would be to omit a vital part of the fictional world. By drawing on the Vitruvian triad of architectural theory, the construction of the world in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station (2001) is analysed through some building-blocks of that world that emerge prominently on the novel’s map. After a brief discussion of world-building and fantasy maps, the map is taken as a starting point in order to demonstrate how the transport network in general and railways and skyrail in particular are given distinctive form. One function that these building-blocks have in the novel is to provide locations which the reader can use to link dynamically between text and map, thus relating locations to each other spatially and adding layers of meaning to them, turning them from spaces into places. Passages in the text are used to show how it is possible to move between map and text, and how such movement not only augments the spatiality of the world but that it also provides a way to discuss the city’s social and economic issues by juxtaposing different characters’ perspectives.
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