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Research Practices Infrastructures Interfaces

Research Practices Infrastructures Interfaces. Paul Wouters. Outline. The relevance of humanities e-Research != data science Interfaces as important as infrastructures What about 2.0?. VKS has dual mission studying practices and supporting exploration.

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Research Practices Infrastructures Interfaces

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  1. Research Practices Infrastructures Interfaces Paul Wouters

  2. Outline • The relevance of humanities • e-Research != data science • Interfaces as important as infrastructures • What about 2.0? eSI Users & Web 2.0

  3. VKS has dual missionstudying practices and supporting exploration changing practices, telling stories, building tools eSI Users & Web 2.0

  4. Building collaboratories in social history VKS & International Institute for Social History Exploring women’s studies VKS & Women’ Studies, University of Utrecht Alfa-lab VKS & Royal Netherlands Academy Arts & Sciences examples of work eSI Users & Web 2.0

  5. Humanities “Meaning concerns interpretation of data, evidence, and texts. Value ranges over the entire field of cultural, aesthetic, social, and scientific investments. Significance, implicating both the former two, raises questions of representation, in the sense of accounting for (explanation) and of capturing, in the sense both of offering a faithful rendition (description) and of making broad claims (generalization).” eSI Users & Web 2.0

  6. Double claim eSI Users & Web 2.0

  7. 7th eConcertation eInfrastructures

  8. Given out there Building block Standard for hypothesis testing Constructed Result Theory-laden Data theories eSI Users & Web 2.0

  9. 4 perspectives on ICT Conservative: ICT as neutral container Pragmatic: ICT as tool Critical: ICT as technology of control Radical: ICT as metaphor eSI Users & Web 2.0

  10. Crombie’s styles • Deductive • Experimental • Hypotheses and analogies • Taxonomy • Probabilistic - statistical • Evolutionary (“historic” or “genetic”) eSI Users & Web 2.0

  11. Some modes of e-research • From data scarcity to data floods and cloud computing: new methods in data analysis and representation • Beyond data science: the radical promise of computational modelling • Visual culture: how do we visualize not only data but also knowledge and interests ("Can you see what I know?")? • Telling stories in New media: new formats of communication, publication and representation • Social neuroscience: coupling brains and the social dimension eSI Users & Web 2.0

  12. Interfacing • Interfaces between disciplines • Interfaces between infrastructures and practices • Interfaces as representation researcher eSI Users & Web 2.0

  13. Alfalab • http://www.slideshare.net/douwez/ieee-oxford-presentatie-alfalab-2008 • http://alfalablog.huygensinstituut.nl/ • from tools to communities eSI Users & Web 2.0

  14. 7th eConcertation eInfrastructures

  15. Flickr and other 2.0 • implicit technology focus • synergy in practices • VKS collab • institutions and infrastructures • Flickr: commercial cultural heritage? • method as institution • Flickr: invisible use eSI Users & Web 2.0

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