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Digital archives of memory institutions are typically concerned with the cataloguing of artefacts of artistic, historical, and cultural value. Recently, new forms of citizen participation in cultural heritage have emerged, producing a wealth of material spanning from visitors' experiential feedback on exhibitions and cultural artefacts, to digitally mediated interactions like the ones happening on social media platforms. Citizen curation is proposed in the context of the European project SPICE - Social Participation, Cohesion, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement - as a methodology for producing, collecting, interpreting, and archiving people's responses to cultural objects, with the aim of favouring the emergence of multiple, sometimes conflicting viewpoints, and motivating users and memory institutions to reflect upon them. We argue that citizen curation urges to rethink the nature of computational infrastructures supporting data management of memory institutions, bringing novel challenges that include issues of distribution, authoritativeness, interdependence, privacy, and rights management. To approach these issues, we survey relevant literature towards a distributed, Linked Data infrastructure, with a focus on identifying the roles and requirements involved in such an infrastructure. We show how existing research can contribute significantly in facing the challenges raised by citizen curation, and discuss challenges and opportunities from the socio-technical standpoint.

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.

Die europäische Umfrage zu wissenschaftlichen Praktiken und digitalen Bedürfnissen in den Geisteswissenschaften ist das Produkt eines kollaborativen Unterfangens europäischer Forschender, die mit der DiMPOArbeitsgruppe zusammenarbeiten. Sie wurde als überregionale Längsschnittstudie konzipiert, die in einem europäischen Rahmen nach einigen Jahren jeweils wiederholt werden soll. Ziel der Studie ist es, einen evidenzbasierten Ausblick über wissenschaftliche Praktiken sowie die Bedürfnisse und Einstellungen europäischer DH-Forschender zu digitalen Ressourcen, Methoden und Werkzeuge zu geben. Die Ergebnisse der ersten Studie (März 2015 abgeschlossen) werden in einem von mehreren Autoren und Autorinnen verfassten Bericht zusammengetragen, der vergleichende und konsolidierte Analysen sowie sechs Länderprofile enthält. Eine neue Erhebung ist für 2017/18 geplant. Weitere Informationen: bit.ly/scholarlypractices Deutsche Übersetzung: Beat Immenhauser (Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften) ---------------- The highlights of the European survey on scholarly practices and digital needs in the arts and humanities carried out by DARIAH Digital Methods and Practices Observatory WG (DiMPO). This research is the outcome of collaborative work of European researchers from different countries, working within the DiMPO Working Group. It has been designed as a multiregional longitudinal survey, to be conducted online across European countries and to be repeated every few years. Its aim is to provide an evidence-based outlook of scholarly practices, needs and attitudes of European humanities researchers towards digital resources, methods and tools across space and time. Results of the first run of the survey (completed in March 2015) are presented in a multi-authored report, which includes comparative and consolidated analyses, as well as five country profiles. A new run is planned for 2017-18. For more information, see bit.ly/scholarlypractices. German translation: Beat Immenhauser (Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences)

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.

"Literarische Werke und deren digitale Repräsentationen stellen auch in den Fachbereichen der Computational Literary Studies (CLS) das Fundament für epistemische Auseinandersetzungen und Diskurse. In unserem Teilprojekt Data Selection and Curation des europäischen ""Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure""-Projekts möchten wir Brücken zu wissensbasierten Ressourcen für die CLS-Community aufbauen, um die Zugangsparadigmen für literarische Daten signifikant zu rekonfigurieren und erheblich zu verbessern. Um die Auffindbarkeit und den forschungsorientierten Zugang zu literarischen Daten für die CLS-Community zu ermöglichen, ist eine Inventarisierung der CLS-Datenlandschaft erforderlich, die forschungsrelevante Kriterien für die Datenauswahl sowie deren Erfassung und Beschreibung anwendet. Mit dieser Inventarisierung, die wir in Form einer Data Landscape Review durchführen, kann die vorhandene Datenlandschaft als digitales Erbe für CLS-Kontexte erst umfassend sichtbar und als Vorlage für weitere Forschungsvorhaben zugänglich gemacht werden. Unser Posterbeitrag präsentiert die Ergebnisse der Data Landscape Review, das Beschreibungsmodell, dessen Umsetzung in RDF und ein proof-of-concept des Online-Katalogs." Ein Beitrag zur 8. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Gedächtnisses.

Im Rahmen des Horizon-2020-gef��rderten Projekts "Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud" (SSHOC), das eine Laufzeit von 2019���2022 hat, wird der SSH Open Marketplace entwickelt, der einen ��berblick nicht nur ��ber digitale Tools und Services bietet, sondern auch ��ber Trainingsmaterialien, Publikationen, Datensets und Workflows. Dabei werden diese miteinander kontextualisiert: Der Eintrag zu einem Tool verlinkt etwa Forschungspaper, die mithilfe dieses Tools entstanden sind, desweiteren passende Trainingseinheiten, zum Beispiel aus dem "Programming Historian", und, falls vorhanden, Forschungsdaten in einem f��r das Tool geeigneten Format. Das flexible Datenmodell und das Exponieren einer offenen API erm��glichen es, das gesammelte Praxiswissen f��r die Digital Humanities nutz- und erforschbar zu machen und eine neue, sich aktiv weiterentwickelnde Datenbasis daf��r zu schaffen. Ein Beitrag zur 8. Tagung des Verbands "Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum" - DHd 2022 Kulturen des digitalen Ged��chtnisses.

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.