Supporting Digital Projects in the Humanities & Social Sciences

Talk given at the "Creating and Exploiting Digital Collections" seminar, run by NUI Galway Library (http://library.nuigalway.ie) on 28th July, 2014. Programme details are available at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/creating-and-exploiting-digital-collections-tickets-5180495000

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1. Supporting 

   Digital Projects"
   in the humanities and social sciences!
   

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2. David Kelly "
   Research Technologist"
   Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences"
   NUI Galway"
   david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie"
   

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3. Introductions!
   Overview!
   Project themes & examples!
   Data-oriented!
   Challenges!
   Questions!
    
    
   Web Interactive!
   Collections!
   

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5. User Interface design!
   Visual design!
   Front-end web development!
   !
   Web application / database
   development!
   Data
   oriented
   Collections
   Web
   Interactive
   

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6. Data oriented"
   

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7. Structuring
   Data
   Importing
   Data
   Enhancing
   Data
   Tool  
   development
   Exploratory
   visualisations
   Types of
   outputs
   h&ps://www.flickr.com/photos/usoceangov/8290528771  
   

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8. •  Data  structure  
   •  Merged  exisEng  data  
   with  data  extracted  
   from  web  sources  
   •  Data  cleaning  
   •  Data  enhancement  
   through  geo-­‐coding  
   h&p://mapping.creaEve-­‐edge.eu  
   Pat  Collins,  James  Cunningham  
   Data oriented
   sample"
   

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10. Collections"
    

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11. Catalogue or “database-style”
    applications and "
    Digital editions"
    

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12. h&p://ossianonline.org  
    Rebecca  Barr,  JusEn  Tonra  
    •  UI/Visual  Design  
    •  Data  transformaEons  (TEI  
    XML  à  HTML  /  Plain  Text)  
    •  Novel  interfaces  &  
    interacEons  (annotaEon)  
    Collection Sample"
    

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13. h&p://ossianonline.org  
    Rebecca  Barr,  JusEn  Tonra  
    

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14. Web Interactives"
    

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15. Create explorable
    explanations"
    "
    Interactive visualisation of data to allow for
    user-driven exploration"
    "
    (vs. presenting a single view)"
     *  h&ps://medium.com/@akarve/virtuoso-­‐data-­‐visualizaEon-­‐297cf7f858f6  
    *
    

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16. Display  the  high-­‐level  
    overview  
    Allow  user  to    
    explore  based  on  
    their  interests  
    

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17. Unpublished  interacEve  prototype  
    

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18. Unpublished  interacEve  prototype  
    

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19. Challenges"
    

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20. Maintenance &
    Preservation"
    

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21. Measurement &"
    Marketing"
    

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22. Publishing data,
    APIs, code"
    

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23. h&ps://twi&er.com/jakevdp/status/487329553417658368  
    

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24. Identifying potential
    linkages"
    

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25. Thank you"
    David Kelly"
    david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie
    @davkell
    linkedin.com/in/davkell
    

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