DM2E DHAB Meeting: Report on the 2nd Project Review Meeting

co-funded by the European Union

DHAB-MeetingReport on the 2nd Project Review Meeting (13 March 2014)

Vivien Petras (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)3 April 2014

Outline

1. Overall Goals & Structure

2. Approaches & Achievements

3. Deliverables & Milestones

4. Outlook

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Overall Goals & Structure

About DM2E

• DM2E: Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana• CIP-ICT-PSP.2011.2.1 - Aggregating content in

Europeana• Duration: 1st February 2012 - 31st January 2015 (36

months) • Effort: 427 PM• Total cost: €2.62m• Website: http://dm2e.eu/


Who is involved?

• Technological Partners– ExLibris (Aleph, MARC sources management, Primo) – Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (ECHO) – Net7 S.r.l. (Muruca/Pundit) – National Technical University of Athens (MINT)– Universität Mannheim (LoD2, D2R, SILK)

• Content Providers (Beneficiaries)– European Association for Jewish Culture (Judaica) – Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (ECHO) – Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ABO/Google Books) – Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Kalliope) – University of Bergen (Wittgenstein Archive/Source) – CNRS ITEM (Nietzsche Source, associated) – National Library of Israel (Judaica, associated) – Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Deutsches

Textarchiv, associated) – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Polytechnisches Journal)


Who is involved?

• Digital Humanities – Stefan Gradmann (KU Leuven) – Chair– Tobias Blanke (King's College, London)– Sally Chambers (The European Library / DARIAH-D)– Gerhard Lauer (Göttingen University)– Alois Pichler (UIB)– Jürgen Renn (MPIWG)– Laurent Romary (UBER)– Susan Schreibman (Trinity College Dublin)– Claire Warwick (University College, London)

• Community Building– Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN)

• Coordination, Management & Information Science– Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (UBER)


Who is involved?

• Associated Content Partners– Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (UBFFM)– Brandeis University, Library and Technology Services– Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI)– The National Library of the Netherlands (KB)– Bulgarian Academy of Science (BAS)– The European Correspondence to Jacob Burckhardt (ECORR Project)– in negotiations with: UB Mannheim, AHDig, CENDARI, MarineLives

• Europeana Network– Europeana & Europeana Research– Europeana Cloud– Europeana Inside– Europeana Creative


Project Motivation


Heterogeneous object data in independent resources

Aggregation & linking for scholarly activities

Outcomes of DM2E

1. Digital Data Aggregation– Substantial enrichment of Europeana with contextualised

metadata of prominent digitised manuscripts2. Interoperability Infrastructure

– Provision of a flexible, scalable and configurable open source production environment for data migration and enrichment with EDM / DM2E as target format

3. Digital Humanities Applications– Provision of specialised Digital Humanities applications that can

showcase the usefulness of DM2E / Europeana data for this specific community

4. Community Building– To foster a community of content holders, Digital Humanists, IT

specialists, open data evangelists and other users around Europeana


Work Package Structure

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WP1Content

WP2InteroperabilityInfrastructure

WP3Digital Humanities

Requirements and RelatedEngineering

WP4Community andDissemination

WP5Project Lead and

Coordination

Digital HumanitiesAdvisory Board

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DM2E Architecture

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WP 1

WP 2

WP 3



Approaches & Results

DM2E Content

• Digitised manuscripts (including transcripts)• Various domains:

– Philosophy (Wittgenstein, Nietzsche etc.)– Jewish Culture (EAJC, JDC, Brandeis, NLI contacts)– History of Technology (Dingler Journal)– Educational History (Georg-Eckert Institute)– Historical German Texts (Deutsches Textarchiv)– Hebrew and Medieval Manuscripts (UBFFM)

9 datasets, 7 providers integrated (>17.5 mio. pages)


DM2E Model

• Europeana Data Model (EDM) application profile for describing digitised manuscripts

• Adds DM2E perspective about a dataset

• Iterative development process• Available as a stable release (v1.1)• Mapping guidelines • Wiki with provider mappings• Collaboration with DCMI


onto.dm2e.euwiki.dm2e.eu

Interoperability Infrastructure

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MARCTEI

Linked Data ServiceMetadata

DM2E

ContextualisationID generation

Link generation

AugmentationAnnotation

Semantic linking

WP 2OmNom

WP 3Pundit


OmNom (& MINT & SILK)

• Stable version since November 2013• Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) • Fast command-line tool• MINT & SILK integrated• Collaborative software development &

management via 15 github repositories• User documentation (walkthrough,

screencast, manuals)• Developer documentation• Tested in collaboration with WP1

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omnom.dm2e.eucontext.dm2e.eu

dm2e.eu/open-workflows/wiki.dm2e.eu

github.com/DM2E

Access & Search

• Linked Data API• OAI-PMH repository to export data in oai_dc, DM2E or EDM

(also used for data ingestion by Europeana) • ExLibris Primo interface• Solr instance as demonstrative application (open source) Additional access points for users


Scholarly Research Platform Pundit

• Scholars create, search, explore,share, visualise annotations

• Semantically structuredaugmentation

• Interface improved• New features• Stable release• Available on github• API for DM2E linked data• Used & tested in 2 pilots with

humanities scholars (in collaborationwith WP1)


Pilots and Documentation for Pundit

• Pilots: Wittgensteinsource, Burckhardtsource• Learning Materials for users:

– Videos & screencasts– Tutorials (en, de, it, no)

• Developer documentation• Demonstrative applications for

developers


wiki.dm2e.eu

Researching the Scholarly Workflow

• Scholarly Domain Model:– Presented at DH 2013– Submitted for journal publication– Extended with scholarly activities– Narrative interviews, training and

surveys for evidence• Digital Humanities Advisory Board

Influence the development of PunditAnticipate and trigger future developments and

community activities beyond DM2E


Community Building and Dissemination

Target audiences:• Content providers• Digital Humanities developers• Digital Humanities scholars• Aggregators & open data communityChannels & Tools:• DM2E website• Blog, Twitter, Slideshare, newsletters, mailing lists• Documentation of project outcomes (DM2E Wiki)• Publications & presentations• Workshops & hackdays (for developers & scholars)• OpenGLAM community • Open Humanities Awards• Exchange with Europeana & Europeana projects



Deliverables & Milestones

Deliverables

• All deliverables due in year 2 have been delivered.– D1.2 Final Integration Report (M24)

• MS1 Final Integration report Draft (M18)

– D2.2 Intermediate Version of the Interoperability Infrastructure (M18)

• First Operational Version 1.0 – DM2E Model (M15)

– D2.3 Final Version of the Interoperability Infrastructure (M24)– D3.3 E-Learning Courses Published (M24)

• MS3 Intermediary Research Report (M24)

– D4.3 Documentation Package (M24)– D5.2 First Annual Report to the Commission (M13)– D5.3 Pre-financing Request (M13)– D5.4 Interim Report on the third 6-months period (M19)– D5.5 Second Annual Report to the Commission (M25)

• Deliverables have also been published on EuropeanaPro.



Outlook

DM2E at the End of Year 2

• Content and partner acquisition progressing• Large scale data ingestion achieved• DM2E data model stable • Mappings ready & shared• Interoperability infrastructure stable• Search & access interfaces• Scholarly research platform stable• Scholarly Domain Model further specialized• 2 pilot scholarly communities • DM2E community established • Open Humanities Awards & hackdays established• Extended documentation & learning activities for different

audiences• Fruitful and extended collaboration between all WPs


Outlook: DM2E in Year 3

• More content & providers• Complete model & mapping documentation• Improve contextualisation (advanced linking methods)• Evaluation of contextualisation quality• Maintenance release of the interoperability infrastructure

(performance & stability)• Data export & ingestion to Europeana• Improve core components and build new features for scholarly

research platform• Evaluation and further research on DH Scholarly Primitives • More experiments & exchange with DH scholars in new domain• Continue to build awareness & dissemination• Update & extend documentation• Ensure sustainability of data, documentation & software components
