Digital research resources:inter-linking & integration
Fine Rolls of Henry III: WorkshopFine Rolls of Henry III: WorkshopKingKing’’s College London, 2 July 2007s College London, 2 July 2007
Arianna Ciula & Harold ShortCentre for Computing in the Humanities
King’s College London
Digital resources
• First generation– Single scholar (+ programmer)– ‘boutique’ projects
• Second generation– Collaborative– Multi-disciplinary / inter-disciplinary– Multiple technologies– New methodologies– Large scale– On-line publication
Third Generation Digital Resources
• Self-documenting• Inter-linked & Inter-operable• Inter-active / manipulable (tools)• Annotation (individual / group / public)• Re-configurable (elements & types)• Virtual (and ephemeral?)• Active (via Intelligent Agents)• eScience & Access Grids
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S 165 Cenwulf, king of Mercia (811): BL Cotton Charter viii. 3, from Rochester
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• The ASChart pilot projecthttp://www.aschart.kcl.ac.uk
What is it?
Texts
Charters
DiplomaticIndexes
General Project information
Feedback
DB
PASE
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XML TEI P4 mark-up of chartersTEI header Text
IDArchiveDescription of source content
invocationproemdispositive wordboundcursedating clausepromulgation placewitness list names in general
name of donatorname of beneficiary
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• The ASChart pilot projecthttp://www.aschart.kcl.ac.uk
Sawyer number IDLinks to PASE
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TEI header Text
ID
ArchiveDescription of source
content
invocationproemdispositive worboundcursedating clausepromulgation placewitness list names in general
name of donatorname of beneficiary
locations
PASEPASE
PASE
PASE
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PASE
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• The ASChart pilot projecthttp://www.aschart.kcl.ac.uk
Archive Description
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TEI header Text
ID
ArchiveDescription of source
content
BibliographyImagesManuscriptDescription
invocationproemdispositive wordboundcursedating clausepromulgation placewitness list names in general
name of donatorname of beneficiary
locations
PASEPASE
PASE
eSaw
eSaw
eSaw
eSaw
eSaw
eSawPASE
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eSaw
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TEI header Text
ID
ArchiveDescription of source
content
BibliographyImagesManuscriptDescription
invocationproemdispositive wordboundcursedating clausepromulgation placewitness list names in general
name of donatorname of beneficiary
locations
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PASE
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LangScape
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LangScape
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IDManuscriptsBibliographyDescription
ODDCEI?
ODDCEI?
ODDCEI?
bounds
ODDCEI?
PASE
Common / universal reference
• Entity identification
• Persons
– Authority tables within projects
– Authority sites/institutions/publications
– Collaborative prosopography (e.g. ESF workshop, Uppsala)
• Institutions
– Special category of ‘person’?
• Places
– Pleiades Project for the ancient world
• Events
– Multiple levels
Text mining
• NCSE text mining
– Waterloo indices
– NCSE concept map
– NCSE authority tables
– interlinking of approaches
• Purposes
– tools for editors
– navigation aids for readers
– tools for readers
e-Science for the Humanities
• e-Science
– ‘Grid’ technologies
– Significant data storage capacity (and computational power)
– Significant bandwidth
– Significant interactivity
• Grid types
– ‘Access’ : virtual meetings; interactive performances
– ‘Data’ : very large repositories - archives / digital libraries
– ‘Computational’ : NB multi-media resources; 3D visualisation
Contact Details
Harold ShortCentre for Computing in the Humanities
King’s College London
www.cch.kcl.ac.uk