Howard Hotson: ‘Collaboration, Early Modern Letters Online, and Horizon 2020: The Creation of One Virtual Community to Reassemble Another’

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1. Collaboration, EMLO, and Horizon 2020: The Creation of One Virtual Community to Reassemble Another Current state and future prospects for Cultures of Knowledge Early Modern Letters Online and COST Action IS1310 Professor Howard Hotson University of Oxford http://www.culturesofknowledge.org
2. Outline Problem Towards a solution • Early Modern Letters Online: current and pending • COST Action: Reassembling the Republic of Letters • Horizon 2020
3. Outline Problem Towards a solution • Early Modern Letters Online: current and pending • COST Action: Reassembling the Republic of Letters • Horizon 2020
4. Improved Postal Systems: Habsburg dominions 1563
5. Improved Postal Systems: France 1631
6. Improved Postal Systems: Great Britain 1756
7. Improved Postal Systems: Germany 1843
8. The Republic of Letters, 1500-1800
9. Problem: A Scattered Heritage
10. Problem: A Scattered Heritage
11. Problem: A Scattered Heritage
12. Problem: A Scattered Heritage
13. Problem: A Fragmented heritage
14. Problem / opportunity: proliferation of ‘silos’
15. Problem / opportunity: proliferation of ‘silos’ http://www.culturesofknowledge.org/?page_id=2319
16. Outline Problem Towards a solution • Early Modern Letters Online: current and pending • COST Action: Reassembling the Republic of Letters • Horizon 2020
17. Outline Problem Towards a solution • Early Modern Letters Online: current and pending • COST Action: Reassembling the Republic of Letteres • Horizon 2020
19. EMLO Phases I-III Phase I (2009-12): 60,000 records / 4 years • Mostly editorial with onboard digital experiment • EMLO designed, built and populated in Oxford • EMLO (user interface) + EMLOedit (editorial toolset) Phase II (2013-14): 40,000 records / 2 years • Mostly digital, scholarship shapes systems development • Designed and built in Oxford but populated collaboratively • web-form + EMLOcollect (holding area) + catalogue pages Phase III (2015-17): 60,000 records / 2 years? • Designed, built and populated collaboratively • Semi-automation of data standardization + visualization
20. Early Modern Letters Online
21. Phase II web-form: dates
22. Phase II web-form: people
23. Phase II web-form: places
25. Phase II data INCOMING DATASETS Contributor Current state of dataset Total letters Estimated publication date BARLAEUS, Caspar CKCC Ready 505 December 2014 BEECKMAN, Isaac CKCC Ready 28 December 2015 DESCARTES, René CKCC Ready 727 December 2016 GROOT, Hugo de [Grotius] CKCC Ready 8,034 December 2017 HUYGENS, Christiaan CKCC Ready 3,090 December 2018 HUYGENS, Constantijn CKCC Ready 727 December 2019 LEEUWENHOEK, Antoni van CKCC Ready 282 December 2020 VAN NIEROP, Dirck Rembrandtsz CKCC Ready 80 December 2021 SWAMMERDAM, Jan CKCC Ready 172 December 2022 BISTERFELD, Johann Heinrich Noemi Viskolcz Ready 121 Jan-March 2015 BRAHE, Tycho Adam Mosley Ready 496 Jan-March 2015 KIRCHER, Athanasius Kircher Project, Stanford Ready 2,777 Jan-March 2015 MERSENNE, Marin CofK Ready 1,893 Jan-March 2015 NEWTON, Isaac Newton Project; Cambridge University Ready 127 Jan-March 2015 SACHS VON LEWENHEIMB Iva Lelkova Ready 147 Jan-March 2015 SCALIGER, Joseph Dirk van Miert; Paul Botley; Droz Ready 1,670 Jan-March 2015 SCHOTT, Caspar Thomas Conlon; Joachim Vollrath Work in progress 100 Jan-March 2015 STOEFFLER, Johannes Gerhard Betsch Ready c.20 Jan-March 2015 ZWINGER, Theodor Carlos Gilly Work in progress 2,766 Jan-March 2015 ALSTED, Johann Heinrich Howard Hotson Work in progress 240 April–May 2015 BAYLE, Pierre Bayle Correspondance Project Work in progress 1,600 April–May 2015 BESS of HARDWICK Bess of Hardwick project Agreed 234 April–May 2015 BLOTIUS and TENGNAGEL Paola Molino, Vienna Work in progress 2,000 spring 2015 DA GAMBA CofK; Vittoria Feola; ONB Work in progress 1,000 spring 2015 DUPLESSIS-MORNAY, Philippe Hugues Daussy and Droz, Geneva Work in progress c.1,000 April–May 2015 HRUBY edition Masaryk University Work in progress 290 Spring 2015 POLANUS, Amandus Iva Lelkova; Marc Kolakowski Work in progress c.400 Spring 2015 WOLF, Hieronymus Carlos Gilly Agreed 508 April–May 2015 Women's Early Modern Letters WEMLO project Work in progress 2,500 spring 2015 LIPSIUS, Juste Iuste Lipse edition; Jeanine de Landtsheer Work in progress c.4500 summer 2015 MAESTLIN, Michael Adam Mosley; Gerhard Betsch Work in progress 120 summer 2015 MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio Adam Mosley Work in progress 102 summer 2015 PLANTIN, Christoph CofK Work in progress 1,515 summer 2015 PONTANUS,Johan Isaksson van Doorninck and Molhuysen edition Work in progress c.1,500 summer 2015 ORTELIUS, Abraham Joost Depuydt; Jeanine de Landtsheer; CofK Work in progress c.600 July 2015 Dutch Church in London, HESSELS CofK Work in progress 6,500 summer 2015 Spalding Gentlemen's Society Diana Honeybone and Michael Honeybone Agreed 580 summer 2015 RUBENS, Peter Paul CofK Agreed 937 Autumn 2015 SCHEFFERUS, Johannes Per Landgren Agreed 300 Autumn 2015 SLOANE, Hans Sloane Correspondence Project Agreed 2,000 Autumn 2015 ANDREAE, Johann Heinrich Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Work in progress 5,000 Autumn 2015
26. Phase II data Date Number Correspondences Dec 2014 c.20,000 Grotius, Barlaeus, Descartes, Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens, van Leeuwenhoek, Swammerdam Spring 2015 c.20,000 Zwinger, Brahe, Blotius, Tengnagel, Bohemian exiles, Scaliger, Mersenne, Bayle, Da Gamba collection, WEMLO Summer 2015 c.15,000 Ortelius, Lipsius, Plantin, Pontanus, correspondence of Dutch church in London Autumn 2015 c.8.000 Andreae, Rubens, Sloane 2015–16 c.35,000 G.J. Vossius, Worm, Ussher, Baxter, Collins, Isaak Vossius, Ashmole, Pennant Total : c.98,000
28. Phase II Re-design • New look for EMLO to coincide with start of rolling publication for new catalogues • Improved aesthetic and enhanced collaborator accreditation • EMLO refresh: preview
29. EMLO Re-design: home page
30. EMLO Re-design: Browse people
31. EMLO Re-design: Search results
32. EMLO Re-design: Letter record
33. EMLO Re-design: Letter record
34. EMLO Re-design: Letter record
35. EMLO Re-design: Letter image
36. EMLO Re-design: Printed copy
37. EMLO Re-design: Repository
38. EMLO Re-design: Catalogue page
39. EMLO Re-design: Catalogue page
40. EMLO Re-design: Catalogue page
41. EMLO Re-design: Catalogue page
42. Phase II prosopography: pilot projects
43. Data model: basic categories genealogy personal life social status personal location history social contact ecclesiastical activities educational activities professional activity learned activities creative work activity
44. Data model: ‘educational activities’
45. Data model: ‘matriculation’
46. Inputting prosopographical data
47. Inputting prosopographical data: webform
48. Prosopographical data: output 1599-05-10 matriculation, Paedagogium, Herborn 1600-10-08 in third class, Paedagogium, Herborn 1602-10-02 matriculation, schola publica, Herborn 1605 theological disputation under Johannes Piscator 1605 verses in disputation by Joannes Vetterus 1606-04-29 matriculation, University of Marburg 1606-late travelled to Westphalia 1607-07 matriculation, University of Basel studied mathematics under Leonhardt Zubler 1608 Published Flores theologici, Basel 1608-10-10 letter from Caspar Waser, Basel
49. Phase III: Semi-automation
50. Phase III: Visualisation
51. Stanford: Mapping the Republic of Letters
52. Stanford: Humanities + Design
53. Stanford: Palladio
54. Outline Problem Towards a solution • Early Modern Letters Online: current and pending • COST Action: Reassembling the Republic of Letters • Horizon 2020
55. COST Action IS1310
56. COST: Agenda • to bring together four communities of experts: librarians, archivists, IT experts and scholars from across and beyond Europe • to think through all aspects of the problem: chronological, geographical, prosopographical, thematic, textual, technical, legal, financial • to collaborate on devising solutions and raising funds to execute them
57. Participants • Current members: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK (26) • Pending members: Latvia, Serbia, Slovakia (=29) • Potential members: Greece, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Turkey (=33) • Extra-European members: US, Canada (=35)
58. Participants
59. Participating libraries • Austrian National Library, Vienna • British Library, London • Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague • Czech National Museum Library, Prague • Herzog August Biibliothek, Wolfenbuettel • Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest • Huygens Institute, Royal Library, The Hague • Royal Library, Copenhagen • Uppsala University Library
60. Six Areas Requiring Consensus • Chronological and geographical standards • Biographical and prosopographical standards • Thematic and textual standards • Archival and collection standards • Technical and legal standards for data exchange • Scholarly standards for data analysis and visualization • One working group assigned to each of these areas • Each working group assembles relevant experts from each of the four communities
61. Six COST Working Groups • WG 1 Space and Time • WG 2 People and Networks • WG 3 Texts and Topics • WG 4 Documents and Collections • WG 5 Data Exchange and Strategic Planning • WG 6 Visualization and Communication • One working group assigned to each of these areas • Each working group assembles relevant experts from each of the four communities
62. WG 1: Space and Time
63. WG 1 Leader: Ian Gregory (Lancaster)
64. WG 2: People and Networks
65. WG 2 Leader: Eero Hyvonen (Helsinki)
66. WG 3: Texts and Topics
67. WG 3 Leader: Charles van den Heuvel (The Hague)
68. WG 4: Documents and Collections
69. WG 4 Leader: Elizabethanne Boran (Dublin)
70. WG 5: Data Exchange and Strategic Planning
71. WG 5 Leader: Thomas Stacker (Wolfenbuttel)
72. WG 6: Visualisation and Communication
73. WG 6 Leader: Paolo Ciuccarelli (Milan)
74. COST website: mock-ups
75. COST website: mock-ups
76. Outline Problem Towards a solution • Early Modern Letters Online: current and pending • COST Action: Reassembling the Republic of Letters • Horizon 2020
77. Horizon 2020: e-infrastructures
78. Ultimate objective to devise and build collaboratively a ‘scholarly social machine’ – that is a platform for radically multilateral scholarly collaboration in reassembling the scattered documentation on the republic of letters – and thereby to harness the potential of the ongoing revolution in digital communications to address the scholarly problems created by the revolution in postal communications of the early modern period
79. howard.hotson@history.ox.ac.uk http://www.culturesofknowledge.org
80. Conference, Training School, meetings Training School Working Group Meetings MC Meeting Conference Saturday March 21 Trainees arrive SC members arrive Sunday March 22 MORNING Training School Introduction SC meeting Sunday March 22 AFTERNOON (Attend conference) Conference WG 1 themed session WG 2 themed session Monday March 23 MORNING (Attend conference) WG 3 themed session WG 4 themed session Monday March 23 AFTERNOON (Attend conference) WG 5 themed session WG 6 themed session Conference dinner ENDS Tuesday March 24 MORNING Training School EMLO/CKCC? 3 sets of 2 parallel WG meetings WG 1 + WG 4 WG 2 + WG 5 Tuesday March 24 AFTERNOON Training School GIS? WG 3 + WG 6 Formalising agenda, esp. WG leaders Wednesday March 25 MORNING Training School Visualisation? MCM Meeting/synopsis 6 x 15min WG leaders’ feedback to MC. AOB. Wednesday March 25 AFTERNOON Training School Network analysis?
81. Olivier H. Beauchesne, Map of scientific collaboration (2011)