Discussion of different approaches to modeling information for digital humanities work. Presented at the FSU Digital Scholars. https://digitalscholars.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/data-modeling-mindsets-and-the-digital-humanities/

1. Data-Modeling
Mindsets
and the
Digital
Humanities
Richard J. Urban
FSU Digital Scholars
November 9, 2015

2. Agenda
• Mindsets
• Model development in the
Linked Women Pedagogues Project

3. Mindsets
Iivari, J., Hirschheim, R., & Klein, H. K. (1998). A
Paradigmatic Analysis Contrasting Information Systems
Development Approaches and Methodologies. Information
Systems Research, 9(2), 164–193.
http://doi.org/10.1287/isre.9.2.164

4. Metadata Mindsets

5. Knowledge Organization
Ontology • Model of “bibliographic universe”
• bibliocentrism
Epistemology Fractured and contested.
• Empiricism, Rationalism, Historicism, Pragmatism (Hjørland)
• Operationalism, Referential Theory, Instrumental Theory, and
Systems Theory (Svenonius)
• Social epistemology (Shera, Egan; Furner)
Methodology • Design of metadata encoding standards
• Specification of rules for description (AACR2/RDA, etc.)
• Development of controlled vocabularies and classifications
• Design of information storage/retrieval systems
• Information needs/behaviors study
Ethics • Objectivism/Empiricism (ideal)
• Literary warrant vs. cultural warrant

6. Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC)
Most citation formats.
Functional Requirements
for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)
CIDOC CRM
FRBRoo

7. Interstitial Metadata
Knowledge
Organization
Data Models
Scholarly
Data Models

8. (Graban, 2014)

9. Metadata Mapping Project
(MDMP)
• Femisist historiographic methodology that
digitally portrays rhetorical activity for which
there may not be circulating artifacts. (Graban,
2013)
• The work of MDMP, then, is to create an
epistemic network that makes visible
browseable and dynamic lists that formally
represent the kinds of topical relationships
believed to exist among a set of data records at
any point in time (what [Graban] terms
ontologies) and movable maps.
• Visualizations (what [Graban] terms ec0logies)

10. MDMP/LWP
Ontology Model of rhetorical activity?
• Intellectual topographies
• People, Organizations, Events
• Publications, Manuscripts, textual components
• Concept thesauri
Model for feminist historiography?
• Recovery process/provenance
• Peer contributions and recognition
Epistemology • Feminism
• Historicism
• ?
Methodology • Social/epistemic network analysis
• Visualization of rhetorical activities
• Crowdsourcing
• Historiography
• Bibliometrics/altmetrics (Historical altmetrics)
Ethics • ?

11. The data
Graban, 2013

14. People (FOAF/EAC-CPF)
Organizations (Org
Ontology/EAC-CPF)
Concepts/Topics (SKOS)
Locations (GeoNames/SKOS)
Artifacts (Dublin Core/EAD)
From MDMP to LWP
Texts? (TEI? )
Rhetorical activities? (CIDOC CRM?)

15. People (FOAF/EAC-CPF)
Organizations (Org
Ontology/EAC-CPF)
Concepts/Topics (SKOS)
Locations (GeoNames/SKOS)
Artifacts (Dublin Core/EAD)
Affiliations
Rhetorical activities as
kinds of Events
citation

16. People (F
Organiza
Ontology
Concepts
Location
Artifacts (
Annotation
Texts? (TE
Description
Definition
Identification
Identification
Feminist Historiography
Recovery
Process
Other
“Scholarly Primitives”

17. References
• Graban, T. S. (2014). Re/Situating the Digital Archive
in John T. McCutcheon’s “Publics,” Then and Now.
Peitho, 73.
• Graban, T. S. (2013). From Location(s) to Locatability:
Mapping Feminist Recovery and Archival Activity
through Metadata. College English, 76(2), 171–193.
• Riley, J., & Becker, D. (2010). Seeing Standards: A
Visualization of the Metadata Universe. Indiana
University Libraries. Retrieved from
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
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