scholarly journals Evaluating a Taxonomy of Textual Uncertainty for Collaborative Visualisation in the Digital Humanities

Information ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 436
Author(s):  
Alejandro Benito-Santos ◽  
Michelle Doran ◽  
Aleyda Rocha ◽  
Eveline Wandl-Vogt ◽  
Jennifer Edmond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analytics ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Collaborative Tools ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Uncertainty Models

The capture, modelling and visualisation of uncertainty has become a hot topic in many areas of science, such as the digital humanities (DH). Fuelled by critical voices among the DH community, DH scholars are becoming more aware of the intrinsic advantages that incorporating the notion of uncertainty into their workflows may bring. Additionally, the increasing availability of ubiquitous, web-based technologies has given rise to many collaborative tools that aim to support DH scholars in performing remote work alongside distant peers from other parts of the world. In this context, this paper describes two user studies seeking to evaluate a taxonomy of textual uncertainty aimed at enabling remote collaborations on digital humanities (DH) research objects in a digital medium. Our study focuses on the task of free annotation of uncertainty in texts in two different scenarios, seeking to establish the requirements of the underlying data and uncertainty models that would be needed to implement a hypothetical collaborative annotation system (CAS) that uses information visualisation and visual analytics techniques to leverage the cognitive effort implied by these tasks. To identify user needs and other requirements, we held two user-driven design experiences with DH experts and lay users, focusing on the annotation of uncertainty in historical recipes and literary texts. The lessons learned from these experiments are gathered in a series of insights and observations on how these different user groups collaborated to adapt an uncertainty taxonomy to solve the proposed exercises. Furthermore, we extract a series of recommendations and future lines of work that we share with the community in an attempt to establish a common agenda of DH research that focuses on collaboration around the idea of uncertainty.

scholarly journals Usability testing of the Letters of 1916 Digital Edition

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Wusteman
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
General Public ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Edition ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the process and implications of usability testing a prototype version of the Letters of 1916 Digital Edition. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents the testing, the lessons learned and how those lessons informed the subsequent redesign of the site. Findings Results imply that a majority of users, even digital humanists, were not looking for a unique and specialised interface, but assumed – and preferred – a user experience that reflects common search systems. Although the audience for digital humanities sites is becoming increasingly diverse, the needs of the different user groups may be more similar than had previously been assumed. Research limitations/implications The usability test employed 11 participants, five of whom were coded as “general public”. Four of these five had previously volunteered to transcribe and upload letters. This meant that they were already familiar with the project and with the Letters of 1916 Transcription Desk. However, their prior involvement was a result of their genuine interest in the site, thus ensuring that their interactions during testing were more realistic. Practical implications The lesson learned may be useful for the Digital Editions of future crowdsourced humanities projects. Originality/value Letters of 1916 is the first crowdsourced humanities project in Ireland. The theme of the project is topical, emotive and socially important in Ireland and among Irish diaspora today. The project’s content has been created by the “ordinary citizens of Ireland” and they are likely to be the major users of the Digital Edition. The study explores how the Digital Edition can support these users, while also facilitating the range of traditional scholars and digital humanities researchers.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-290
Author(s):  
Jennifer Richards
Keyword(s):  
Oral Reading ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
The Real ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Digital Books ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Voice

The Conclusion looks forward to future cross-disciplinary work on the physical voice. It reflects on why a literary scholar might be interested in the physical voice, recalling that literary texts are full of voices that make reference to the real voice off the page. It also suggests why a Renaissance literary historian might have something distinctive to offer future work on the voice, recalling the inter-relationship in this period between voice and printed books. It recognizes that a new technological revolution is well underway that is changing our relationship with print. It briefly considers how the digital medium uses or ignores voice, and asks whether a new history of oral reading can enable us to imagine different ways of interacting with—and immersing ourselves in—the print/digital books of the future.

scholarly journals Advancing User-Centered Evaluation of Visual Analytic Environments through Contests

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loura Costello ◽  
Georges Grinstein ◽  
Catherine Plaisant ◽  
Jean Scholtz
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analytics ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
End Users ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Future ◽  
User Centered

In this paper, the authors describe the Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium contests run in 2006 and 2007 and the VAST 2008 and 2009 challenges. These contests were designed to provide researchers with a better understanding of the tasks and data that face potential end users. Access to these end users is limited because of time constraints and the classified nature of the tasks and data. In that respect, the contests serve as an intermediary, with the metrics and feedback serving as measures of utility to the end users. The authors summarize the lessons learned and the future directions for VAST Challenges.

scholarly journals BANKSAFE: Visual analytics for big data in large-scale computer networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Fischer ◽  
Johannes Fuchs ◽  
Florian Mansmann ◽  
Daniel A Keim
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
Visual Analytics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Monitoring Data ◽  
Making Sense

The enormous growth of data in the last decades led to a wide variety of different database technologies. Nowadays, we are capable of storing vast amounts of structured and unstructured data. To address the challenge of exploring and making sense out of big data using visual analytics, the tight integration of such backend services is needed. In this article, we introduce BANKSAFE, which was built for the VAST Challenge 2012 and won the outstanding comprehensive submission award. BANKSAFE is based on modern database technologies and is capable of visually analyzing vast amounts of monitoring data and security-related datasets of large-scale computer networks. To better describe and demonstrate the visualizations, we utilize the Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge 2012 as case study. Additionally, we discuss lessons learned during the design and development of BANKSAFE, which are also applicable to other visual analytics applications for big data.

scholarly journals Responding to COVID-19: Lessons Learned from a Senior Living and Social Service Organization

Geriatrics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Margaret Danilovich ◽  
Christie Norrick ◽  
Rachel Lessem ◽  
Laura Milstein ◽  
Nikki Briggs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Care Recipient ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Work From Home

This case study analyzes one senior living and social service organization’s coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis response. We conducted interviews with n = 14 department managers to explore the organization’s pivot to remote work and service provision. We used the Pearson and Mitroff Crisis Management Framework to organize themes. A pre-existing culture of teamwork, willingness to adapt and adopt new approaches, and responsiveness to new policies and procedures facilitated the COVID-19 crisis response. However, low levels of digital literacy among staff, decreased job satisfaction due to no face-to-face interaction between care recipient and service provider, and lack of proactive policies for crisis response, which decreased the speed of enacting remote service provision, were obstacles in effective crisis response. Lessons learned from this case study highlight the need for pre-emptive policy creation on remote service provision and work from home policies, as well as training considerations for senior living and social service organizations.

Mindset and Guidelines: Insights to Enhance Collaborative, Campus-wide, Cross-sectoral Digital Humanities Initiatives

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Gaffield
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
History Of

At the heart of the emergence and development of the Digital Humanities has been the potential to move beyond the out-dated epistemological and metaphysical dichotomies of the later 20th century including quantitative-qualitative, pure-applied, and campus-community. Despite significant steps forward, this potential has been only partially realized as illustrated by DH pioneer Edward L. Ayers’ recent question, ‘Does Digital Scholarship have a future?’ As a way to think through current challenges and opportunities, this paper reflects on the building and initial use of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure (CCRI). As one of the largest projects in the history of the social sciences and humanities, CCRI enables research on the making of modern Canada by offering complex databases that cover the first half of the twentieth century. Built by scholars from multiple disciplines from coast-to-coast and in collaboration with government agencies and the private sector, CCRI team members came to grips with key DH questions especially those faced by interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, cross-sectoral and internationally-connected initiatives. Thinking through this experience does not generate simple recipes or lessons-learned but does offer promising practices as well as new questions for future scholarly consideration.

Trust me: the keys to success in cooperative collections ventures

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 653-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Lynn Jakubs
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Collection Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Association Of Research Libraries ◽  
Collaborative Tools

Purpose – Cooperation among research libraries is a venerable pursuit with a long history. The purpose of this paper is to examine three collaborative tools and programs ranging from the late 1970s to the present to identify the promise of each as well as the challenges, the factors that both facilitate and interfere with true cooperation, highlighting the lessons learned. Design/methodology/approach – The author analyzes the development and functions of the Conspectus of the Research Libraries Group, the Global Resources Program of the Association of Research Libraries, and the Triangle Research Libraries Network in the state of North Carolina, USA. Findings – While the goals of collaborative collections initiatives are laudable, it is often difficult to accomplish true, balanced, and lasting cooperation that results in both expanded access and financial reallocation. Originality/value – The study is a first-hand, inside look at the methods and mechanisms of cooperative collection development that offers suggestions for future partnerships on either a small or a large scale.

Target

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 654-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora Virginio Rosa ◽  
Marcirio Silveira Chaves ◽  
Mirian Oliveira ◽  
Cristiane Pedron
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Target Model ◽  
Collaborative Tools ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Future Work

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a model of adoption of social media to assist project managers in the treatment of lessons learned (LL). Target, a collaborative model to foster learning in projects, approaches the problem of LL management from nearly a new light and perspective. Design/methodology/approach – This research was conducted using a mixed methods approach with a research design denominated partially mixed concurrent equal status. In this design, both quantitative and qualitative elements were conducted concurrently in their entirety before being mixed at the data interpretation stage. These elements have approximately equal emphasis with respect to reaching the objectives of the research. Findings – The results indicate the most suitable social media that match each LL process. They show how to manage LL through processes made in any phase of the project life cycle. The LL processes most commonly used in the projects are raising awareness, collect and store. According to the questionnaire respondents, 54.5 percent of organizations make use of social media in project management, and among the interviewees, half of them use such tools in projects. In addition, 84.1 percent of the questionnaire respondents believe that social media can assist in the LL management. Research limitations/implications – This study did not get proven successful experience reports in the management of LL. Respondents and interviewees mentioned and recognized such importance, but in projects that use LL management there are no control reports of this learning in organizations in order to measure the gains from the practice of LL management, which indicates an area for future work. An empirical validation of the model proposed in this paper is one immediate research to be done. Another future work is to validate the model in projects from disparate sectors. Practical implications – The Target model could minimize the problem of knowledge drain, which is ineffective learning practices, resulting in knowledge hoarding, limited sharing and superficial LL practices. Thus, the use of processes supported by collaborative tools that promote discussion, with a familiar format for the user and with an efficient search engine, can generate greater involvement in projects. The usefulness is determined as practical and scientific. It is determined as practical use, because the model allows the selection of tools for each LL process and it can be applied to projects in organizations. Originality/value – This research proposes a new approach to the management of LL supported by social media. The Target model adds a theoretical contribution to LL processes associating them to social media. This research revisited the extant LL processes and methods in the literature, proposing a new process – raising awareness – that covers personal and interpersonal aspects for the management of LL. The theoretical contribution lies on incremental originality, since it is based on existing theories, processes, methods and tools in order to provide a solution to a known problem.

scholarly journals Reading Environments for Genetic Editions

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Rehbein ◽  
Hans Walter Gabler
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Research Environments ◽  
Manuscript Project ◽  
Friedrich Hölderlin

This paper discusses the state-of-the-art in digital “genetic” editing, that is the philological analysis (and presentation) of the processes behind the creation of literary texts. Research on such processes is mainly based on draft manuscripts or typescripts that authors have left behind intentionally or accidentally. Creative note-taking, revisions, proof-readings, cross-linkings and additional material makes them a complex and interwoven set of data requiring specific analytic tools and reading and research environments for both general and specialist readers and users to understand them better. The paper traces the idea of pre-electronic genetic editing and the significant changes it is undergoing in the digital era. It compares two editorial projects on renowned authors, one in print and one digital: the so-called ‘Frankfurt edition’ of Friedrich Hölderlin, and the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. The paper discusses these in particular as “reading environments” (or user interfaces) designed for “critically experiencing” authorial writing processes in both the print and the digital medium.

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