Work Package 4 (Month 6-11 Review)

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Work Package 4August-December 2012

Sam Leon(Open Knowledge Foundation)

@DM2Europeana

#DM2E

Deliverables

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Tasks

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Task 4.1

“Strengthen and expand the community around Europeana.”

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Europeana CC-0 Announcement

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Guardian Data Blog

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Task 4.2

“Series of hands on workshops (1) Demonstration and training with DM2E tools

(2) Best practices in legal and technical aspects of opening up metadata (3) coding sprints”

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OpenGLAM Workshop, Finland

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OpenGLAM Workshop, Israel

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OKFest Hackday

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Open Humanities Hack

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Task 4.4

“Building a network of open metadata evangelists… to encourage cultural heritage organisations across

Europe: (i) to openly license their metadata and (ii) to work with Europeana community to use tools

developed in

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OpenGLAM.org

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Task 4.6

“Engagement with users in teaching and research in the humanities.”

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Conference Country Date Who?

Semantics and the Web France 20th April 2012 Stefan Gradmann

Judaica Europeana Session Israel 3rd June 2012 Dov Winer

Semantic Media Web Workshop Germany 22nd October 2012 Kai Eckert

Leipzig eHumanities Seminar Germany 7th November 2012 Stefan Gradmann

Minerva Israel Digital Humanities Track Jerusalem 13th November 2012 Sam Leon

Semantic Web in Libraries Germany 26th November 2012 Kai Eckert

Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship Holland 24th November 2012 Simone Fonda

Everything is on the Move: The Mamluk Empire as a Node in (Trans-) Regional Networks Germany December 2012 Klaus Thöden

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DM2E Open Humanities Awards

• The Open Humanities Awards will support exemplary contributions to humanities scholarship that incorporate open source tools to augment interpretation or argument.

• Two rounds of projects (2013 and 2014)• Awards will be advertised via DARIAH, Open Knowledge Foundation lists,

Europeana and in Digital Humanities Departments across Europe.• First project will commence in or after February 2013 and be finished by

August 2013 in time to present findings at OKFestival 2013 in Geneva.• 2-5 successful projects will be funded in each round with €15,000 worth of

prizes on offer.• All winners will be expected to produce regular blog updates about their

projects and to present their findings at OKFestival 2013 in Geneva.

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DM2E Event at British Library

• Large-scale event at the British Library in June 2013 bringing together cultural heritage professionals and Digital Humanists

• Hands-on training with DM2E tools.• High-level talks on the overall vision of the

project and the possibility of Linked Data technologies for the humanities.

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Online Communication

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Twitter

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Newsletter

• Joris collecting information from each Work Package via Skype calls prior to sending out

• Information collated from Work Package mailing lists

• Circulated via public DM2E mailing lists and Europeana mailing lists

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