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The aim of this poster is to provide an overview of the work carried out in the CLS INFRA project and its conclusions for the field of Computational Literary Studies.

Given the dynamic rate of change in the OA books business models landscape, the OPERAS Open Access Business Models Special Interest Group launched a survey in 2021 to 1) improve our understanding of the scholarly publishing landscape and of the challenges that publishers face in the context of publishing OA monographs; and 2) to identify main trends (including opportunities and challenges) and the knowledge of collaborative funding and infrastructure models in OA publishing in Social Science and the Humanities. This white paper updates and expands an earlier version published in 2021, which presented the preliminary analysis of the findings. Despite a small sample of presses meaning that no strong trends ought to be discussed, several insights were drawn and should be considered important directions for the future. Key findings in the report have been grouped into three main areas: collaboration, funding, and support. The report found that, although not opposed to the idea, a majority of presses do not engage in collaboration, specifically collaborative models for shared infrastructure, mainly due to the lack of knowledge and information, or perceived lack of need. This indicates that, for OA books, we are still at the early stage of the adoption curve for collaborative shared infrastructure. In terms of funding, most publishers perceive themselves to be somewhat sustainable. For institutional publishers, parent organisations are crucial as providers of financial or non-monetary support of OA. In addition, most publishers stress the need to have more resources and rely on more than one funding source, including grants and subsidies. The report found that awareness-raising and targeted support and training could be used to engage the presses but further incentivisation may be required to encourage publishers to collaborate more widely. We believe that the insights from this white paper may be interesting to a number of projects, such as DIAMAS, OPERAS-PLUS, and Palomera and have presented areas for further research and more specific actionable points for these projects.

The process of onboarding new texts onto already established platforms, such as the Drama Corpora (DraCor) ecosystem, poses several challenges in terms of data curation and homogenization. We present here for discussion the prototypes of some pipelines, workflows, and tools embedding plays from diverse sources and formats into the DraCor environment. As a showcase of our approach, we also report on the building process of two new corpora (the English-language EPDraCor and the Ukrainian UDraCor), whose different sources require a flexible and tailored approach. Ein Beitrag zur 9. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2023 Open Humanities Open Culture.

Abstract Wikidata has been widely used in Digital Humanities (DH) projects. However, a focused discussion regarding the current status, potential, and challenges of its application in the field is still lacking. A systematic review was conducted to identify and evaluate how DH projects perceive and utilize Wikidata, as well as its potential and challenges as demonstrated through use. This research concludes that: (1) Wikidata is understood in the DH projects as a content provider, a platform, and a technology stack; (2) it is commonly implemented for annotation and enrichment, metadata curation, knowledge modelling, and Named Entity Recognition (NER); (3) Most projects tend to consume data from Wikidata, whereas there is more potential to utilize it as a platform and a technology stack to publish data on Wikidata or to create an ecosystem of data exchange; and (4) Projects face two types of challenges: technical issues in the implementations and concerns with Wikidata’s data quality. In the discussion, this article contributes to addressing three issues related to coping with the challenges in the specific context of the DH field based on the research findings: the relevance and authority of other available domain sources; domain communities and their practices; and workflow design that coordinates technical and labour resources from projects and Wikidata.

Previous research on indicators for measuring the success of Open Science tends to operate at a macro/global level and very rarely addresses the need to measure success at the level of a single project. However, this previous research has the merit of arguing for the definition of indicators that offer an alternative to more traditional bibliometric measures or indicators that focus on mere performance. This paper is the outcome of work conducted for a specific project that aims to build a discovery platform for social sciences and humanities, the platform GoTriple. GoTriple is designed taking inspiration from Open Science principles and has been built through a user-centered approach. The paper details the practice-led work conducted by the GoTriple team for assessing the meaning of the term success for the project and to identify indicators. To this end, this paper proposes the concept of compass indicators and presents how the project team arrived at the definition of this concept. The paper also highlights a distinction between compass indicators, which are modest measures, and key performance indicators, which tend to be tied up with measurable objectives. Compass indicators are defined as indicators that do not aim to achieve a specified numerical target of success but rather explain the journey of a project toward achieving certain desirable outcomes and offer insights to take action. Compass indicators defined for the project embrace areas such as diversity, inclusivity, collaboration, and the general use of the platform. In the final discussion, the paper offers reflections on the potential relevance of the notion of compass indicators and closes with a discussion of the next steps for this work.

{"references": ["Clivaz, Claire. \"Mk 16 im Codex Bobbiensis. Neue Materialien zur conclusio brevior des Markusevangeliums.\" Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Neues Testament 47/24 (2021), p. 59-85, https://serval.unil.ch/fr/notice/serval:BIB_4D607A256FE4", "Clivaz, Claire. \"Looking at Scribal Practices in the Endings of Mark 16\", Henoch 42 (2020/2), special issue edited by P. Pouchelle and J.-S. Rey, p. 373-387, https://serval.unil.ch/fr/notice/serval:BIB_94927C83CD64", "Clivaz, Claire. \"Returning to Mark 16,8: What's New?\" Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 96/4 (2019a), p. 645-659; https://dx.doi.org/10.2143/ETL.95.4.3286928", "Clivaz, Claire, \"The Impact of Digital Research: Thinking about the MARK16 Project.\" Open Theology 5/1 (2019b): 1-12; https://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2019-0001", "Clivaz, Claire, Mina Monier and Jonathan Barda, \"MARK16 as Virtual Research Environment. Challenges and Opportunities in New Testament Studies\". In \"Ancient Manuscripts and Virtual Research Environments,\" ed. Claire Clivaz and Garrick V. Allen, special issue, Classics@ 18. [N.p.] https://classics-at.chs.harvard.edu/classics18-clivaz-monier-barda/", "Focant, Camille. \"Un silence qui fait parler (Mc 16,8).\" In Marc, un \u00e9vangile \u00e9tonnant, Recueil d'essais, Camille Focant., 194:341\u201358. BEThL. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. https://mark16material.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/focantsilence2006.pdf.", "Monier, Mina. 2022. \"Mark's Endings in Context: Paratexts and Codicological Remarks\" Religions 13, no. 6: 548. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13060548", "Monier, Mina, \"Mark's Ending in the Digital Age: Paratextual Evidence, New Findings and Transcription Challenges\", Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts 12 (2021/1), p. 75-98; open access (green road): https://serval.unil.ch/fr/notice/serval:BIB_F1A56F977830; https://journal.equinoxpub.com/POST/article/view/20256", "Monier, Mina, \"GA 304, Theophylact's Commentary and the Ending of Mark.\" Filolog\u00eda Neotestamentaria 52 (2019), p. 94-106; https://reader.digitalbooks.pro/book/preview/125526/filo-8?1574842521282"]} DARIAH-CH Study Day 2022 - The SNSF MARK16 project Mina Monier and Elisa Nury (DH+, SIB) This poster will present the virtual research environment (VRE) of the five-year SNSF project MARK16, the first VRE focused on a biblical chapter (https://mark16.sib.swiss). The last chapter of Mark is a well-known enigma of New Testament textual criticism (NTTC): at least six different endings have been listed (e.g. Focant, 2006; Clivaz 2019a). We presumed that many useful manuscripts have not yet been studied, and therefore, should be explored. This led to significant primary results that were gradually documented during our research (Monier 2019, 2021 & 2022; Clivaz 2020, 2021). To support the harvest of results, we have created a VRE in four parts (Clivaz, 2019b): the main part of the MARK16 VRE holds 55 items visualized in a Manuscript Room application (https://mr-mark16.sib.swiss), with the code on Github (https://github.com/sib-swiss/dh-mr-mark16). Prepared in collaboration with the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (INTF, Münster), it provides folios of Mark 16 from ancient manuscripts in ten ancient languages. More than 20 international colleagues are MARK16 partners, and data have been nominally published in Nakala, the Huma-Num open public repository (https://mark16-snsf-prima-project.nakala.fr). The second part, Interpretations, presents scholarly individual opinions on Mark’s endings from the team and some colleagues (https://mark16-etalk.sib.swiss/search.php). It uses the tool eTalk, with the API on Github (https://github.com/sib-swiss/etalk-docker). The third part, Material, presents relevant material from the printed and digital cultures, like printed editions, articles, and also multimedia publications on Mark 16 (https://material-mark16.sib.swiss). The fourth part, forthcoming, Dataviz (https:// dataviz-mark16.sib.swiss) is building a geographical map in collaboration with the network Pelagios.

Since the 1990s digital storytelling, as an extension of the traditional narrative theory set against the backdrop of the “digital turn” (Noiret, 2018), has received significant attention in several fields that are concerned with human expression and experience, such as media research, public history, and education. Digital storytelling, understood here as a movement or method for creating, expressing, and sharing information using digital tools and new media forms, has been viewed as a “democratization of culture” (Clarke & Adam, 2011). It draws attention away from the mainstream and gives a voice to the marginalized, the minority, the overlooked and forgotten. Effective storytelling is based on the full participation of the both speaker and listener, providing a means of expression that can resonate both cognitively and emotionally (Chaitin, 2003). Despite ongoing discourse and practice in literary, education, and media research, its theory construction and practice in DH projects is still at an exploratory stage. This presentation examines how digital storytelling has been used as a critical research method in the DH project A Journey from Wukang Road at Shanghai Library. Taking the site of Wukang Road and its associated buildings as the framework, this project uses knowledge organization methods and linked data to extract the relevant narrative elements and related details about people, events, activities, and historical changes from the appropriate library collection resources (including newspapers, old photos, books, maps, videos, etc.). In this way, the project reconstructs and restores the historical evolution of Wukang Road over more than 100 years by using the memories of the people connected with it (Xia et al., 2021). By organizing cultural resources based on their narrative elements, the evolutionary history can be reconstructed and decolonized with a more complete and clear storyline. It also engages citizens by having them upload photos and personal accounts of their memories and experiences of the road, restoring a rich picture of diverse voices from the community, challenging the established historiography and sociopolitical bias in the sources (Noble, 2018). Using digital storytelling as a primary research method unlocks the diverse possibilities for reconstructing its history and the expression of existing narrative materials to meet the needs of different aims, contexts, and communities. It also supports inference from the resources to supplement and discover “new” knowledge that was always there but never before included in the story. Through the process of collecting, organizing, storing, linking, and displaying historical and cultural information, including the voices of the people, with the support of digital tools, this project is in essence a process of attaching consciousness and various perspectives on the past, retelling the story by rebuilding the complete picture. Digital storytelling in this DH project emphasizes "reconstruction", a way to integrate, relate, and restore existing resources with the affordances of digital tools, thereby encouraging diverse expression, sharing, and even stimulating civil creativity. It is also collective behavior that discusses the perspectives on history and arouses public engagement, particularly in consideration of Shanghai cultural identity in this former home to the colonial powers.