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Strategic workshop on research
communities and research
infrastructures in the Humanities
(some observations)
Strasbourg (France), October 29-30,
2010
Prof. Algis Krupavicius
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RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES AND
THE EUROPE 2020 STRATEGY
• By 2015 the EU should have completed and/or
launched 60% of the ESFRI Roadmap projects.
• This means that the €100 billion total in RI
investment in Europe today will be increased by
about €20 billion by 2020.
• But quality is at least as important as quantity.
RIs are dedicated to providing scientific
communities with world-class facilities.
• EFFECTIVE COOPERATION AMONG EU,
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL FUNDERS WILL
PROVIDE A STABLE BASE FOR BUILDING,
MAINTAINING AND OPERATING RIs.
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Goals and Actors
• MAIN GOAL - RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES AS
TOOLS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN
INNOVATIVE EUROPE
• EU Member States: bilateral and multilateral links
between the main national research organisations;
national roadmaps for RI;
• Europe: ESFRI Roadmaps, ESF and RI Database Portal,
Networks of RIs funded under RTD Framework
programmes (ESS and SHARE), e-Infrastructure
Reflection Group, EIROforum- European
Intergovernmental Research Organisations (not SSH),
EUROHORCs;
• Europe (standards): EuroCRIS, CERIF, ERIC Legal
Framework.
• International: OECD's Global Science Forum, Roadmaps
of US, Australia
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ESF and RIs
• Research infrastructures (RIs) are a strategic
issue at the European Science Foundation.
ESF regards the provision of high-quality
research infrastructures within Europe as a
key element in the development of the
European Research Area (ERA).
• RIs have been singled out as one of the main
priorities within the EUROHORCs – ESF
Vision on a Globally Competitive ERA and
their Roadmap for Actions.
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SCSS and RIs
• The SCSS inputs for the research infrastructures portal –
hosted by the European Commission.
• SCSS Science Position Paper ‘Vital Questions: The
Contribution of European Social Science’ (2009) has
highlighted the relevance for social scientists of three major
projects: the European Social Survey (ESS); the Council of
European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) project to
link European social science data archives; and the Survey of
Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).
• The case of ESS is particularly significant as the development
of the infrastructure was originally nested in ESF, managing
to secure support from the ESFRI at a later stage.
• In February 2010 a recommendation to establish a working
group dedicated to research infrastructure issues within
SCSS.
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Notes on Standing Committee for
the Humanities Strategic
Workshop
• These remarks are based on a wrap up
made by Dr. Arianna Ciula (Science
Officer – Humanities Unit) & Prof.
Claudine Moulin (SCH member –
University of Trier and Trier Center for
Digital Humanities):
• Typology of RIs;
• Ecosystem of RIs;
• Priorities;
• Future of RIs.
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Themes of workshop
1. Research communities and
adoption of research
infrastructures
2. Re-purposing/re-use of data
3. Text vs. Non text
4. Disciplinary vs.
interdisciplinary resource
5. Integrating extant resources
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TOPICS for
SCH Science Policy Publication on RIs
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Bridge traditional RIs in the humanities (archives etc.)
with digital RIs
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Research input and engagement of researchers in
producing RIs
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Definition/taxonomy/typology of RIs
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Training
Best practices and awareness
Wide access and national languages
Evaluation of alternative research outputs (e.g. digital
publications, scholarly-driven digital resources)
Priorities
Support to young researchers to be dealt with across
sections
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Definitions of RIs
• Reflections on definition/typology of RIs:
• Primary  raw (? )
• Secondary  enrichment (example from Irish National
Archives), added value, qualitative approach
• Interconnection and bridges: thesauri, co-references,
conceptual models, semantic web
• Subject/institutional etc. (Uppsala- Gender and Work
database)
• But ‘research infrastructures’ refers to facilities,
resources and related services used by the scientific
community to conduct top-level research in their
respective fields.
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Ecosystem of RIs
• Ecosystem of RIs (infrastructures for infrastructures)
or RIs as organism
• Pan-European
• Research community-driven
• Local/institutional (e.g. Competence centres)
Quality of data, process, instruments.... (scholarly reliability,
transparency of standards, methods,...)
Ownership vs. licensing
Multilingual resources (CLARIN)
 Multimodal and multidimensional (2-3D) resources (arts
and architecture etc.)
 Ethical issues (connection to/learn from social sciences
data)
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Priorities (i)
– Survey/study of existing standards/tools/licences (need
not to re-do) and filter
• RIs to
• build on communities (consensus)
• offer open access to data (process and raw)
• develop standards, to act as trusted repositories  funding to
create and maintain long term
• With an eye to facilitating research across interests and communities
• connect the silos (mash-ups, portals etc.)
• Involvement, training and ‘translators’
• Build on models, best practices, early adopters (e.g.
archaeology/linguistics)
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Priorities (ii)
• Recognition of interdisciplinary research (it’s possible!)
• Evaluation issues (expectations, economic, social
benefits)
• Advocacy (emerging cross-disciplinary fields; academic
recognition) and authorities/champions/ambassadors
• Partnerships across communities and institutions
(scientific/libraries/archives/museums)  equal
partners, common meta-language, two/multi-way
collaboration
• Enhance networked dimension
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From Present  Future
• Reliable dynamic correlation across resources, data...
(happening)
• New (also virtual) research infrastructures based on
existing framework (tools etc.)
• Easy to adopt/use
• Ground on methods and common interests go beyond
disciplines and tackle new research questions
• Outreach and interactive cycle (social networks)
• Grand challenges (humanities-driven)
• New culture (beyond academic circle)
• And....?
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Main Challenges Facing RIs
Development: an example of the
Roadmap Projects
• COSTING AND FUNDING
• COORDINATION WITH EXISTING AND
OTHER NEW RESEARCH
INFRASTRUCTURES (INCLUDING
POLITICAL SUPPORT)
• CHOOSING A SITE GOVERNANCE AND/OR
ADMINISTRATION
• DATA MANAGEMENT AND LONG TERM
ACCESS OF DATA
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Data management: a special
issue
• Data collection;
• Digitalization;
• Interoperability of data;
• Interoperability between fields
and languages;
• Control access/location services;
• Harmonisation of data access
policies
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Next steps or questions
• How to update RI Database Portalan inventory of national and paneuropean RIs is still needed.
• ERICs: what might be a role of the
ESF here?
• Is the ESF able to coordinate RIs
policies of member organisations?
• etc.
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