Browsing by Subject "humanities"

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    CORPUS: Toward a Collaborative Online Research Platform for Users of Scholarly Editions
    (2013-04-05) De Tienne, André
    Scholarly editions are central to the humanities: they seek to reconstitute the texts of seminal writers and thinkers with rigorous exactitude in order to provide researchers with an authoritative standard text. In the digital age, scholarly editions need to rethink from the ground up their dissemination methods in the light of the kind of services they need to provide to their growing international constituency. Successful scholarly editions will be those that take full advantage of advanced contents management frameworks so as to stimulate transformative scholarship while opening it to broader audiences. They need to offer online a wide but conveniently centralized array of options to users, including powerful search tools, interactive tools, collaborative tools, work zones, discussion areas, and—especially important for academic users—feedback areas where their contributions get peer-reviewed, assessed, and professionally accredited. We present the results of a research we have conducted toward the design of CORPUS, a dissemination platform that will (1) provide electronic access to the specialized content of critical editions; (2) provide access to a database of digital images while allowing authorized users to contribute metadata to that database; (3) provide an interactive interface allowing scholarly users to conduct research both publicly (in collaboration with others) and privately; (4) provide different levels of privileges allowing users to enhance the electronic product with their own scholarly contributions; (5) institute a quality-assessment system that keeps track of all contributors, gauges the quality of their contributions, protects the system’s integrity to guarantee a safe and productive environment, and offers peer-reviewed certifications that scholars can use as evidence of professional worth for instance in P&T dossiers or grant applications. We will report the results of a contextual study based on a series of IRB-approved interviews. We identified seven key user requirements, and generated corresponding design ideations for CORPUS.
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    Digital Atlas of American Religion
    (2013-04-05) Bodenhamer, David; Kandris, Sharon; Devadasan, Neil; Colbert, Jay; Dowling, Jim; Danielson, Laura
    Our poster presentation will introduce DAAR, the Digital Atlas of American Religion (http://www.religionatlas.org). DAAR is a web-based research platform with innovative data exploration and visualization tools to support research in the humanities. Time and location are essential components of humanities exploratory research; however, GIS technology, especially in its web form, does not support the easy exploration and visualization of the complex spatio-temporal data manipulated by humanists. DAAR presents researchers with an integrated solution stemming from several fields including GIS, visualization, and classification theory. Researchers using DAAR are provided with the following exploration/visualization techniques: maps, cartograms, tree maps, pie charts, and motion charts. Using these tools and methods, researchers can explore patterns, trends, and relationships in the data that otherwise are not apparent with traditional GIS or statistical software. DAAR allows researchers to understand the multiple dimensions and diversity of religion across geographies, or within geographies. Paired with historic census data, it allows them to explore relationships to give better context and meaning to the patterns and trends. Maps provide the spatial patterns and relationships, tree maps show relative strength and relationships, charts show trends, cartograms reveal relative numbers of adherence, and motion charts animate trends over time.
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    The Open Scholarship Project: creating sustainable growth for open access publishing in the humanities and social sciences
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Odell, Jere D.; Kelly, Jason M.
    Some successful approaches to open access publishing have grown organically from the cultures that sustain them. For example, arXiv has leveraged the need for the quick transfer of research findings by providing a preprint service. Alternatively, PLOS One has met a need for timely, methods-based review (particularly in the grant-supported health and life sciences) and sustains publishing by levying article processing fees. A successful approach to open access publishing in the humanities will also need to grow from the unique needs of its authors while complimenting existing value structures. Thus, the Open Scholarship Project (OSP) seeks to build a no-fee, subscription-free, transparent and unbound approach to open access publishing. The development of the OSP aims to incorporate four principles: 1) no-fee ("Diamond") open access, 2) versioning, 3) open peer review, and 4) badging. Here we share some prototypes of the system that will support these principles, including: asynchronous, threaded, open peer review at the paragraph level; versioning inspired by GitHub; and a use of the Mozilla Open Badges Framework to permit interdisciplinary authors to solicit imprimaturs from relevant societies and organizations. We also describe initial steps to leverage a library publishing partnership to establish a sustainable, no-fee approach to open access publishing. By joining with others, we believe that ventures like the OSP can create an environment for scholarly communications that respects the culture of the humanities while taking advantage of a fully unbound digital model.
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    Sparking humanities conversations with rural community partnerships
    (Libraries Unlimited, 2019-03) Lamb, Annette; Library and Information Science, School of Informatics and Computing