Semantic annotation of digital libraries. A model for science communication

Semantic annotation of Digital Libraries

a model of science communicationFrancesca Di Donato

SNS - ERC francesca.didonato@sns.it

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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Critical edition (on paper and digital) of the unpublished correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt (1842-97)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

Semantic annotation of the DL

(thepund.it)

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/