D1.1 Roadmap and pilot requirements 1st version

2018

Humanities Commons, 2022

PROFMUS is a collaborative project that aims to carry out the research and consolidation of information to support further research about the Portuguese musicians active in the period from 1750 to 1986. The information to be collected must include as many relevant attributes as possible, especially about their academic background, professional careers, and personal details. This project considers a large amount of data from a wide time-period, which means there will be various attributes for each object, which will evolve over time or differ from source to source. There is also an issue wit the lack of uniformity of existing sources in multiple institutions, museums, archives, and databases, each with its own data scheme. Since PROFMUS has a long-term perspective, it does not try to create a uniform and prefixed scheme for the data to consolidate but accepts every different scheme and stores all data in a controlled knowledge base. We describe here an application for that purpose, using MediaWiki and Wikibase for storage, and a back-office specific application to manage and publish the data.

The i-Treasures project deals with ICH (Intangible Cultural Heritage) preservation and transmission; its primary aim is to develop an open and extendable platform to provide access to ICH resources, enable knowledge exchange between researchers and contribute to the transmission of the rare know-how from Living Human Treasures to apprentices. The main purpose of this document is to define the system and user requirements of the i-Treasures platform. The requirements definition process was based on a participatory approach, where experts, performers and users have been actively involved through surveys and interviews, in the complex tasks of identifying specificities of rare traditional know-how, discovering existing teaching and learning practices and finally identifying the most cutting edge technologies able to support innovative learning approaches to ICH. Thus the document contains a state of the art review in the field, as well as the analysis of the artistic expressions (i.e. intangible heritages) identified by the project as use cases, namely: 1) rare traditional songs, 2) rare dance interactions, 3) traditional craftsmanship and 4) contemporary music composition.

2012

Since Cultural Heritage data are included in the theme 9 of the INSPIRE Annex I (Protected Sites), guaranteeing their interoperability is a priority. The Protected Sites Data Specification deals with this subject, although it is more oriented towards environmental data. Therefore we assumed that the implementation of the Protected Sites document in the Spanish case was a good chance to adapt the generic model to the specificity of Cultural Heritage data. Maintenance of this data in Spain is a complex matter, for there are 17 different regional administrations competent on the subject, responsible of data generation, along with other public administrations at a local, regional, national, European and worldwide level, as well as research organizations, universities and companies that also provide data; a circumstance that really calls for interoperability awareness. This data model also tries to solve such a situation for georeferenced heritage data under the INSPIRE Directive. 1.1 Interoperability This crucial issue is addressed in two ways: interoperability with INSPIRE spatial data and interoperability among heritage data. The first one is accomplished by the building of the data model as an application schema that develops the Protected Sites Data Specification, filling core INSPIRE documents and ISO 19100 series standards. The main INSPIRE documents that shape the model are the specification on Protected Sites itself, the Generic Conceptual Model and the Methodology for the development of data

2020

In SSHOC Task 5.7 (Open Linked Data. Archaeology Case Study), a virtual reconstruction of the Roman theatre in Catania will be created as an example of an actual transition of archaeological data to the cloud, i.e. from data silos on individual computers to webservices. The case study is based on a unified workflow that starts with the archaeological documentation and results in a virtual reconstruction. With this workflow, data manually acquired during an excavation and traditionally stored on paper can now be stored in the cloud and used for 3D visualisations of the site. The workflow uses tools that are being developed by the task partners, such as idai.field for exacavation documentation and the Extended Matrix for 3D reconstruction. The task partners will document the existing systems with their individual workflows and apply them to existing as well as newly created data on the Roman theatre. They will then work on combining these tools with the aim of creating an overarching ...

2022

Research Infrastructure Roadmaps and Open Research Research Infrastructure planning spans facilities, equipment, instruments, knowledge-based resources, e-infrastructures, research centres and targeted doctoral programmes. This set of concerns, and the potential benefits brought in terms of national RI Roadmaps, are clearly much broader than the infrastructural gaps presented by Open Research developments. Rather than rehearse the benefits of RI Roadmapping processes in general, we will focus on the relevance for Open Research in particular. Open Research at the heart of Research Excellence While the need for Open Access to Research Publications has long been recognised and remains an important issue, it affected only a small part of activity across the research lifecycle. With the expanded consideration for collaborative processes and FAIR research outputs (not only data but code and other artefacts needed to verify results), Open Research along with related efforts on Research Integrity and Reproducibility impacts on research methodology across the whole lifecycle. This shift can clearly be seen in the Horizon Europe Guidelines where "Open science practises are evaluated under the 'Excellence' criterion (in particular under methodology) and under the 'Quality and efficiency of implementation' award criterion" and applicants are asked to describe how Open Research is "implemented as an integral part of the methodology and [...] is adapted to the nature of their work". 1 Open Research, FAIR Data Management and their related e-infrastructures have become cross-cutting concerns underpinning specific disciplinary approaches. As such, Open Research infrastructures need to be considered not in isolation but as an integral part of RI strategies and roadmaps.

2012

Comunicacion presentada en el congreso "AGILE 2012. Bridging the Geographic Information Sciences", celebrado en Avignon del 24 al 27 de abril de 2012. Incluye un archivo comprimido en formato .zip con dos archivos en formato pdf, uno con el texto que formara parte de las actas del congreso y otro con el poster en tamano DIN A0 que se expuso durante el mismo.

2013

This paper explores the issues surrounding the development and management of sector level roadmaps. Traditionally, the generation of roadmaps to reflect future technology requirements and developments at a sector level have been reliant on support from an identified host organisation, which can support the authoritative view that is desired for the successful deployment of a technology focused roadmap. However the perceived ownership of a roadmap can be problematic in terms of data collection methods, introduction of bias in data representation, and maintaining its currency. Generation of technology roadmaps in traditional formats, such as paper based reports, negates the opportunity for interrogation to elicit links between a range of data items that support organisations and individuals who require knowledge elicited from a roadmap for a wide variety of purposes, such as alignment of technology developments with commercial, research, and political objectives, as well as technological planning. This paper presents an approach for supporting the collection of data which generates technology roadmaps in an electronic format. Existing methods of data collection only allow representation of data items in a one dimensional format and buy in from participants on a regular basis can be difficult to achieve. It is critical to develop a set of methods that will ensure that data collected from disparate sources can be represented in such a way that customised views can be supported. The generation of a technology roadmap which can be viewed as a single 'high level' roadmap or as a series of composite roadmaps is also required. An approach is explored in the paper to support the collection of data which generates knowledge on technology opportunities associated with other key data items such as technology readiness levels, source of current activity, timescales, as well as key legislation. The methods adopted include the opportunity to update as and when necessary by identified key participants in the process using customised, robust software.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011), 2011

Europeana has put in a stretch many known procedures in digital libraries, imposing requirements difficult to be implemented in many small institutions, often without dedicated systems support personnel. Although there are freely available open source software platforms that provide most of the commonly needed functionality such as OAI-PMH support, the migration from legacy software may not be easy, possible or desired. Furthermore, advanced requirements like selective harvesting according to complex criteria are not widely supported. To accommodate these needs and help institutions contribute their content to Europeana, we developed a series of tools. For the majority of small content providers that are running DSpace, we developed a DSpace plug-in, to convert and augment the Dublin Core metadata according to Europeana ESE requirements. For sites with different software, incompatible with OAI-PMH, we developed wrappers enabling repeatable generation and harvesting of ESE-compatible metadata via OAI-PMH. In both cases, the system is able to select and harvest only the desired metadata records, according to a variety of configuration criteria of arbitrary complexity. We applied our tools to providers with sophisticated needs, and present the benefits they achieved.

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2007

We present the 'HealthGrid' initiative and review work carried out in various European projects. Since the European Commission's Information Society Technologies programme funded the first grid-based health and medical projects, the HealthGrid movement has flourished in Europe. Many projects have now been completed and 'Healthgrid' consulted a number of experts to compile and publish a 'White Paper' which establishes the foundations, potential scope and prospects of an approach to health informatics based on a grid infrastructure. The White Paper demonstrates the ways in which the healthgrid approach supports many modern trends in medicine and healthcare, such as evidence-based practice, integration across levels, from molecules and cells, through tissues and organs to the whole person and community, and the promise of individualized health care. A second generation of projects have now been funded, and the EC has commissioned a study to define a research...