For ecloud meeting on 13 May 2015 in Amsterdam, NL

1. eCloud newspapers
13 May 2015, Amsterdam, NL
Erik Duval
Dept. Computerwetenschappen, KU Leuven, B
http://erikduval.wordpress.com
@ErikDuval

2. 09h30-09h40: welcome, logistics
09h40-09h45: Europeana Newspapers and eCloud
09h45-10h30: participant introductions
10h30-11h00: aim of eCloud demonstrator, earlier work
11h00-11h15: coffee
11h15-11h30: briefing for break-out groups
11h30-13h00: break-out groups
13h00-14h00: lunch
14h00-15h00: results of break-out groups
15h00-15h30: discussion on common themes
15h30-16h00: conclusion, next steps

3. participant introductions
participants briefly introduce
themselves,
their research and
their interest in eCloud
(a few slides can be shown, but only if they present
something that is hard to explain otherwise)

4. • 09h30-09h40: welcome, logistics
• 09h40-09h45: Europeana Newspapers and eCloud
• 09h45-10h30: participant introductions
• 10h30-11h00: aim of eCloud demonstrator, earlier work
• 11h00-11h15: coffee
• 11h15-11h30: briefing for break-out groups
• 11h30-13h00: break-out groups
• 13h00-14h00: lunch
• 14h00-15h00: results of break-out groups
• 15h00-15h30: discussion on common themes
• 15h30-16h00: conclusion, next steps

5. aim
Development of services and tools
that leverage Europeana content
for use by researchers

6. aim
What kind of research
can a digital humanities researcher do
with this technology
that he cannot (practically) do
without the technology?

7. In this paper, we address the following research
questions:
1. What are the main problems for digital musicologists
whose research focuses on Early Music?
2. How can we address these problems and
demonstrate the potential added value of cloud-
based tools and services on top of large repositories
of content like Europeana for Early Music
musicologists?

8. user centered design

9. focus on specific community
(or smaller: individual researcher…)

10. We study the development of ideas in texts by philosophers
& scientists, famous
Bolzano LeśniewskiWhitehead
&
Russell
TarskiFrege
…and less famous
Wolff Kant
1732 1781 1837 1879 1910 1929 1933
[fill in some
biologist]
Lotze,
Drobisch,
Twardowski
Peano,
Huntington,Vebl
Zermelo,
von Neumann
Krug, Watts
Salamucha

11. problems…
• navigating and identifying relevant content &
building corpora;
• lack of user-friendly tools for conducting fine-
grained textual research;
• lack of appropriate tools and infrastructure that
allow members of research groups to work
collaboratively.

12. tools…
• search tools to find relevant content
• visualization tools (maps, timelines)
• annotation tools
• social awareness and discovery tools

13. persona
Anita is a post-doctoral researcher on Technology-
Enhanced Learning in a computer science
department of a European university. She is
collaborating with colleagues from different
European research units, in a Framework 7 EU
project. She regularly travels to project meetings,
workshops, and conferences throughout the EU.
Anita is pretty tech savvy and works in a department
that is well equipped with smartphones, laptops,
large screens, and even a few multitouch tabletops.

14. scenario
Anita is assisting her supervisor with the preparation of a new EU proposal.
There are some partners that her team regularly collaborates with and they
decide to invite three of those partners to join the proposal preparation.
They then turn to the multitouch table and use Muse to explore whom else
they have worked with, and, more importantly, whom their colleagues have
worked with before. Together with her supervisor, she thus discovers a team
that focuses on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) in
Norway. Anita remembers that she met one of members of that team earlier
in the year. Through the visualisation, Anita and her supervisor discover that
the Norwegian team has a close collaboration with the team in Lausanne
that they had already invited for the new project. They thus decide to ask
the Lausanne team about the Norwegian partners first. Moreover, her
supervisor will travel to Madrid next week for a conference. With the tabletop
visualization, they remember that they had previously worked with two
research units in Madrid: Anita’s supervisor sends an email to both of them
to set up a meeting to discuss the new project proposal.

29. • 09h30-09h40: welcome, logistics
• 09h40-09h45: Europeana Newspapers and eCloud
• 09h45-10h30: participant introductions
• 10h30-11h00: aim of eCloud demonstrator, earlier work
• 11h00-11h15: coffee
• 11h15-11h30: briefing for break-out groups
• 11h30-13h00: break-out groups
• 13h00-14h00: lunch
• 14h00-15h00: results of break-out groups
• 15h00-15h30: discussion on common themes
• 15h30-16h00: conclusion, next steps

30. another (type of) example

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36. briefing
personas & scenarios
tool identification & mashup
evaluation sessions

37. briefing
personas & scenarios

38. be specific
• “she enters some search terms and finds
relevant documents”
• “she enters ‘einstein’ and sees a list of articles
on the timeline, including a very early mention in
a Swiss paper: she opens the article which
mentions that Einstein obtained his PhD from
ETHZurich. She’s struck by the fact that the very
short article mentions that Einstein is a Jew….”

39. feel free to suggest New Stuff
if you doubt whether it is possible,
then just assume it is

40. be prepared to report back:
flipchart & powerpoint &
whatever works for you…

41. ?@ErikDuval
http://erikduval.wordpress.com

42. • 09h30-09h40: welcome, logistics
• 09h40-09h45: Europeana Newspapers and eCloud
• 09h45-10h30: participant introductions
• 10h30-11h00: aim of eCloud demonstrator, earlier work
• 11h00-11h15: coffee
• 11h15-11h30: briefing for break-out groups
• 11h30-13h00: break-out groups
• 13h00-14h00: lunch
• 14h00-15h00: results of break-out groups
• 15h00-15h30: discussion on common themes
• 15h30-16h00: conclusion, next steps

43. ?@ErikDuval
http://erikduval.wordpress.com