JSTOR Advanced Technology Research Group Working in collaboration with other researchers to provide access to advanced technologies within the same workspace as the literature and primary source material. This will enhance discovery and further encourage the use of the materials, enabling new scholarship and the creation of new knowledge.
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JSTOR Advanced Technology Research Group
Working in collaboration with other researchers to provide access to advanced technologies within the same workspace as the literature and primary source material.
This will enhance discovery and further encourage the use of the materials, enabling new scholarship and the creation of new knowledge.
JSTOR
As a digital library we’ve done quite well.
Research Support
• JSTOR has always worked with researchers by providing datasets and supported them in analyzing our data in their research.
• We continue to that and will rarely refuse a reasonable request (we handle1-2 dozen requests a year for usage, citation and content data).
• Recently we decided to become a more active participant in the use of JSTOR data for research.
Evolving JSTOR’s Technology
JSTOR is, for many scholars, their digital ‘bookshelf’ (or part of it). The ‘real’ work takes place at the workbench, not the bookshelf Workbenches are ‘trade’ specific (though tools need not be). We need to recognize the diversity of practice and, as yet, neither we nor
the practitioners really understand what is needed for each digital practice. JSTOR’s Showcase is where we bring technology and scholarship together
and develop digital workbenches for our constituents. It is an open, ongoing digital workshop with shared tools and materials,
where we try to build workbenches with and for other scholars. It will be extended to interwork with other facilities and provide APIs to our
functionality and resources.
The plan
• We will host tools and technologies from the community (including JSTOR), quickly and openly, working on JSTOR content (and others where available).
• Showcase will be a step toward ‘real’ offerings, but our betas will be as useful and usable as we can manage.
• We will actively solicit and respond to feedback, so that our workbenches will evolve.
• We will provide a place where researchers can expose their work to users for the mutual benefit of both.
Active projects
• DfR – Simple text mining and corpus exploration
• Visualizations of JSTOR usage, participants
• Topic mapping ( Blei / Princeton )
• Document Remastering from camera Images – aka “Decapod” (Breuel/Kaiserslautern, Treviranus/Toronto)
• Open Annotation Collaboration (Cole, Von de Sompel, Cohen, Sanderson et al)
• …
Data for Research - Examples
The long ‘s’
The British Empire
The golden age of social sciences
Foresite
A collaborative program with University of Liverpool and HP Labs, Bristol
Build a relationship graph of the entire JSTOR corpus.
Explore using an ‘acetate overlay’ model.
Decapod
A collaborative program with University of Kaiserslautern & University of Toronto. Funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation.
Building a small, inexpensive, easy to operate, ‘1-click’ paper to document digitization rig.
Apply state of the art document understanding and usability to allow small institutions to digitize their collections.
Decapod
• “1-Click”, paper to remastered document.
• OSS software.• state-of-art document
understanding. • Mobile friendly (reflow).• Operator friendly.• Budget Friendly.• Based off Ocropus & Fluid• Partners: DFKI/Kaiserslautern,
ATRC/Toronto, JSTOR
Open Annotation CollaborationA Mellon funded project, starting in May 2009, with the over arching goals to• Facilitate the emergence of a Web and Resource-centric interoperable annotation
environment that allows leveraging annotations across the boundaries of annotation clients, annotation servers, and content collections. Interoperability specifications will be devised.
• To demonstrate through implementations an interoperable annotation environment enabled by the interoperability specifications in settings characterized by a variety of annotation client/server environments, content collections, and scholarly use cases.
• To seed widespread adoption by deploying robust, production-quality applications conformant with the interoperable annotation environment in ubiquitous and specialized services and tools used by scholars (eg. JSTOR, Zotero, and MONK).
• The partners in this project are:– University Library and Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Center for History and New Media, George Mason University– Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland– eResearch Laboratory, School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, The
University of Queensland – Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory – JSTOR
• Contacts– Tim Cole UIUC– Clare Llewellyn JSTOR
What we are investigating.
Corpus Analysts Workbench• Topic Mapping with LDA (Blei / Princeton)
• Extract topic “signatures” and trace them through time.