eHumanities News

Participatory knowledge production 2.0: Critical views and experiences

On Wednesday 23rd March, the Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio…

e-Humanities: Innovating Scholarship

About 60 people came together at NIAS on 28 March to discuss…

Reinventing research? Information practices in the humanities

Researchers from the e-Humanities Group, together with colleagues…

Web archives for researchers

Charles van den Heuvel (Huygens-ING) and Sally Wyatt were involved…

VP-Cross in maart

De afgelopen maand heeft vooral in het teken gestaan van correcties en verbetering in gebruiksgemak van de verschillende componenten. Bij softwareontwikkeling geldt de bekende 80/20-regel: 80% van de functionaliteit wordt in 20% van de tijd gerealiseerd, maar die laatste 20% kost 80% van de tijd. Wij hebben daar nu ook last van. Bij testen komen [...]

VP-Cross in februari

Deze maand zijn wij gestart met het eerste workpackage van VP-Cross: het naar HTML converteren van de XML-tekst die als invoer dient voor de Flash-document reader. Daarbij wordt de paginastructuur van de Flash-versie niet nagebouwd, maar gaat het vooral om één nette HTML-tekst die goed is te printen, op alle mogelijke apparaten getoond kan worden [...]

Brainstorm Meeting – e-Humanities: Innovating Scholarship

29 March 2011, at NAIS Wassenaar Organized by: KNAW (e-Humanities…

Programma e-Humanities van start

03-02-2011 Met het programma e-Humanities wil de Koninklijke…

Presentation at Open Annotation Workshop in Chicago

DANS is invited to present the Open Annotation Demonstrator of Alfalab at the OAC Workshop which will be held on 24 –25 March in Chicago, IL. Goal of this workshop is to “examine, comment on, and provide feedback on how well the OAC data model and framework intersects (or fails to intersect) with domain-specific needs for [...]

Post-doc ACUMEN

With effect from March 1st there is a vacancy for a Post-doc 38…

Enhanced Science Centre and Programme

On 19 January, Andrea Scharnhorst and Sally Wyatt attended the…

Current labour of love…

… is the finalisation of a chapter for the edited volume New Representation in Scientific Practice, edited by Catelijne Coopmans, Mike Lynch, Janet Vertesi & Steve Woolgar. MIT Press. Our contribution is entitled: Networked neuroscience: brain scans and visual knowing … Continue reading →

Enhanced Publications: Getting Started

This is the first posting on hybrid publications that is part of the SURFfoundation tender on ‘enhanced publications’. Four researchers associated with the KNAW e-Humanities Group are involved in this project: Nick Jankowski, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Clifford Tatum; see our professional profiles elsewhere on this site. Under the Enhanced Publications tab at the top of the page is a short description of the project and a slightly edited version of the full proposal approved for funding. n brief, this project is designed to construct websites to complement four scholarly books in various stages of completion. One book has [...]

Ethical issues of e-research from a health perspective

The growing potential of health informatics and the use of linked datasets offer opportunities for a new wave of health research which can track large numbers of individuals or populations across different datasets. However, such study designs exhibit substantial differences from the models of clinical trials which have informed previous narratives on research ethics. The [...]

Inventing enlightened ways of relating to e-environments

Written by Ekaterina de Vries, edevries@vub.ac.be PhD at the Center for Law, Science, Technology & Society Studies (LSTS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 /1050 Brussel Belgium To invent enlightened ways of relating to e-environments may mean playing on their actual affordances and constraints[1]. Relating to the new The last decades a wide variety of e-environments (online and off line data [...]

Digitizing Words of Power

Following an introductory presentation at the conference The Social Life of Methods in Oxford this fall, a pilot project, Digitizing Words of Power, has been presented in Alfalab on December 2nd. A collaborative endeavor of the University of Amsterdam, Virtual Knowledge Studio and Meertens Institute, Digitizing Words of Power is a sub-project of the NWO-VIDI [...]

Exciting conference coming up!

In March, scholars of visualisation and digital imaging will gather for what promises to be a great event entitled Visualisation in the age of computerisation. The call for papers can be found on the conference website. Deadline is 1 December. … Continue reading →

Insights on visual digital scholarship

A geat piece by Tara McPherson has recently appeared. Not only does it contain important insights about the first few years of experimentation at the journal Vectors, but is also describes important efforts to rethink scholarly communication in relation to … Continue reading →

Rich Internet Publications (RIP)

Today Leen Breure is talking about Rich Internet Publications: super enhanced research publications. A new way of bringing research material to an on line published state. They’re lightweight, cheap and easy to create. They tie together text, tools (research instruments) and non linear reading of research results. The advantage over traditional (journal) publications is that [...]

Network realism in the States

Coming up: the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts annual conference in Indianapolis (28-31 October), the Reimagining the Archive conference at UCLA (12-14 November), and a two-week stay in San Diego (UCSD) in the middle. I’m looking forward to … Continue reading →

Ethical issues in digital data archiving and sharing

The development of a manifesto on ethics of e-research assumes that e-research differs from other research approaches, therefore requiring its own set of ethical guidelines. In considering the distinctiveness of e-research, it is helpful to differentiate between e-research as tool or method and e-research as site or ‘field’. Our own discussion focuses on e-research as [...]

Automation

In the early days of e-Research there was much talk of the data deluge (from new scientific instruments, sensor networks, online transactions…) and how researchers couldn’t cope: manual triaging of available data into manageable chunks would lead to failure to discover results and an inability to see patterns in the overall picture. The ‘obvious’ answer was [...]

Annamaria Carusi visits Alfalab

We have the pleasure of welcoming Annamaria Carusi of the University of Oxford at Alfalab today. Dr Carusi is Senior Research Associate of the Oxford E-Research Institute, and is currently a visitor of the Virtual Knowledge Studio. She has recently completed a major survey of  Virtual Research Environments, which is [...]

Upcoming Workshop, E-research Ethics: What are the issues? What can researchers do?

In the framework of the project ‘e-research ethics’, a workshop will be held in Amsterdam on 12 October 2010. In the course of the afternoon, participants will discuss and reflect on the issues around ethics of e-research and the role of researchers in addressing them. Debate around these issues was initiated in Oxford in July [...]