What are cyber infrastructures in the digital humanities

What are cyber-infrastructures in the Digital Humanities? France and

other countries as case studiesPierre Mounier

Centre for open electronic publishing

What are cyberinfrastructures ?• “a layer of information,

expertise, standards, policies, tools, and services that are shared broadly across communities of inquiry but developed for specific scholarly purposes : cyberinfrastructure is something more specific than the network itself, but it is something more general than a tool or a resource developed for a particular project, a range of projects, or, even more broadly, for a particular discipline.”

Infrastructures are a mix of hardware and software

Infrastructures are highly connected

But what are they built upon ?

Infrastructures are made to be built upon

Infrastructures in national history

• Railway : SNCF• Power : EDF (1946)• Telecommunications : P&T(1870)• TV and cinema : SFP (1975)• Science : CNRS (1939)• And so on : CNES, CNL, CNC, INSEE, CINES, INIST,

IN2P3… all are « national » (institutes, societies, or centers) and more or less dependant from national administration

CYBER-INFRASTRUCTURES IN FRANCE, A CASE STUDY

a view from the trenches

Pillars of cyber-infrastructures

HAL (HYPER ARTICLES EN LIGNE)The french touch in open archives

Appropriation

A difficult question

Top-down or bottom-up ?

Top-top or bottom-bottom ?

The Cléo-CENS example

Changing times

Where the story becomes complicated

LOLF (Loi organique relative aux lois de finances 2001)RGPP (Révision Générale des Politiques Publiques 2007)LRU (Loi relative aux libertés et responsabilités des universités 2007)

Changing times

The Persée example

The CRN (centres de ressources numériques) examples (from 2005)

Quetelet network

An infrastructure for statistical data

The « very bigs »

Next gen french cyberinfrastructures

The « très grandes infrastructures de recherche »

(TGIR)

Integration in ESFRI roadmap (from 2008)

Towards an european convergence ?

You turn now !

What is the situation in your country? Do you think a european

convergence is possible ? Desirable ? Horrible ?

Credits

Newbie, Atwater Village. Establishing Shot: The 405, juillet 17, 2007. http://www.flickr.com/photos/atwatervillage/842866223/Ryan, Steve. Network Diagram, janvier 13, 2009. http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniorvelo/3195854520/Schroeter, Matt. DSC_3059, juillet 4, 2010. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakelucid/4766439717/