Transcript Exploring new ways of integrating heterogeneous spatial data and annotations Douwe Zeldenrust, Joris van Zundert, Anne Beaulieu, Alexander Witteveen, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Kees Mandemakers, Arjen Versloot,

Exploring new ways of
integrating heterogeneous
spatial data and annotations
Douwe Zeldenrust, Joris van Zundert, Anne
Beaulieu, Alexander Witteveen, Karina van
Dalen-Oskam, Kees Mandemakers, Arjen
Versloot, Leen Breure and Smiljana
Antonijevic.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences
http://alfalab.ehumanities.nl
Introducing Alfalab
Alfalab is being created by Anne Beaulieu • Joris van Zundert • Douwe
Zeldenrust • Rob Zeeman • Maarten Hoogerwerf • Charles van den
Heuvel • Smiljana Antonijevic • Ruud Bronmans • Dirk Roorda • Leen
Breure • Karina van Dalen • Ronald Dekker • Arjen Versloot • Sander
Strating • Derk Drukker • Kees Mandemakers • Henk Wals • Paul
Wouters • Peter Doorn • Reinier Salverda • Melle de Vries • Hans
Bennis • Suzanne van Kaam • Bas Doppen • and a growing number of
others cooperating...
Alfalab
Humanities meets Computational Science
Gravitate
Spheres of Alfalab
question
researcher
community
VRE
tool
data
Common data services
infrastructure
Alfalab virtual research
environment (VRE):
‘Tools and datasets tailored to facilitate a specific
research workflow over a distributed digital
infrastructure that transcends institutional borders.’*
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Alfalab
Mission
Collection
Literature
Interviews
Expertmeeting
Presentations
Publications
* Zundert, Joris van, Smiljana Antonijevic, Anne Beaulieu, Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Douwe Zeldenrust, and Tara Andrews.
Under Review. "Cultures of Formalization: Towards an encounter between humanities and computing." In: David M.
Berry (ed.) Understanding Digital Humanities: The Computational Turn and New Technology. (Palgrave Macmillan,
London 2011) pp 12.
Alfalab GIS pilot
Annotation
GEO tools
Database
Dataset
Dataset MI
CLARIN
RIP
Viewer FA
GISpilot Home
GEOreferencer
GEOreferencer
GEOreferencer
GEOtagger
GEOtagger
Additional results
Publications:
• Zundert, Joris van, Antonijevic, Smiljana, Beaulieu, Anne, Dalen-Oskam, Karina van, Zeldenrust, Douwe
and Andrews, Tara, "Cultures of Formalization Towards an encounter between humanities and computing”.
In: David M. Berry (ed.) Understanding Digital Humanities (London, 2012).
• Zeldenrust, Douwe and Marc Kemps-Snijders, 'Establishing connections: Making resources available
through the CLARIN infrastructure.’ In: Supporting Digital Humanities 2011 (Copenhagen, 2011).
• Zeldenrust, Douwe, Marc Kemps-Snijders, Rob Zeeman, Joris van Zundert, Anne Beaulieu. "Creating
Interfaces, Alfalab and practical approaches for connecting researchers, developers and infrastructures."
In: The 13th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2011
(Leeuwarden 2011).
• Zundert, Joris van, Zeldenrust, Douwe and Beaulieu, Anne, “Alfalab: Construction and Deconstruction of a
Digital Humanities Experiment”. In: e-Science 2009, Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science
(Oxford, 2009).
Presentations:
• D.A. Zeldenrust, Alfalab and the e-Humanities Group, present and future of the microtopym pilot at eHumanities Group research meeting, International Institute of Social History (IISH-KNAW), Amsterdam,
10-03-2011.
• D.A. Zeldenrust, Spheres of Alfalab, Virtual Research Environments between research questions and
infrastructure, poster presentation with abstract at SDH 2010 (Supporting Digital Humanities conference),
Vienna, Austria, 18-21 Oktober 2010.
• D.A. Zeldenrust, De microtoponiemen databank van Alfalab. Eerste Alfalab Microtoponiemen
Expertmeeting, Amsterdam 08-04-2010.
• D.A. Zeldenrust, Over de 'Bloemweide' en de microtoponiemen pilot van Alfalab. ICTDelta2010,
Rotterdam, 18-03-2010.
• J. van Zundert & D.A. Zeldenrust, Alfalab, Construction and Deconstruction of a Digital Humanities
Experiment. IEEE conference Oxford 2009, Oxford, 09-12-2009.
• D.A. Zeldenrust, Micotoponiemen en Alfalab, Microtoponymie in Nederland, Amsterdam, 26-06-2009.
Alfalab GIS pilot
Annotation
GEO tools
Database
Dataset
Dataset MI
CLARIN
RIP
Viewer FA
Connecting CLARIN
171000 high res. Tiff images
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CMDI metadata (images and records)
PID’s (EPIC, handle)
OAI-PMH (DCMI & CDMI)
Single sign on (Shibboleth)
SOLR (index for metadata search interface)
CLARIN
Virtual Language Observatory
Alfalab GIS pilot
Annotation
GEO tools
Database
Dataset
Dataset MI
CLARIN
RIP
Viewer FA
Rich Internet Publication
(RIP)
Alfalab GIS pilot
Annotation
GEO tools
Database
Dataset
Dataset MI
CLARIN
RIP
Viewer FA
Annotations
(Open Annotation Collaboration)
Demonstrator VREs
TextLab
GISLab
LifeLab
Dataset, tools and
distributed infrastructure
- Scans of the total collection (over 170.000 index card
and more than 2400 maps)
- Web based Georeferencer
- Web based Geotagger
- Webservice: data export (Rich Internet Publication,
FA Viewer, Annotation Demonstrator)
- Digital collection CLARIN compatible
Closing – Q&A
Thank you for the attention!
Exploring new ways of integrating
heterogeneous spatial data and annotations
http://alfalab.ehumanities.nl
Douwe Zeldenrust
Meertens Institute
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
[email protected]
www.douwezeldenrust.nl