Supporting Digital Projects in the Humanities & Social Sciences

Talk given at the "Creating and Exploiting Digital Collections" seminar, run by NUI Galway Library (http://library.nuigalway.ie) on 28th July, 2014. Programme details are available at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/creating-and-exploiting-digital-collections-tickets-5180495000

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1. Supporting 
 Digital Projects" in the humanities and social sciences!
2. David Kelly " Research Technologist" Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences" NUI Galway" david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie"
3. Introductions! Overview! Project themes & examples! Data-oriented! Challenges! Questions!     Web Interactive! Collections!
5. User Interface design! Visual design! Front-end web development! ! Web application / database development! Data oriented Collections Web Interactive
6. Data oriented"
7. Structuring Data Importing Data Enhancing Data Tool   development Exploratory visualisations Types of outputs h&ps://www.flickr.com/photos/usoceangov/8290528771  
8. •  Data  structure   •  Merged  exisEng  data   with  data  extracted   from  web  sources   •  Data  cleaning   •  Data  enhancement   through  geo-­‐coding   h&p://mapping.creaEve-­‐edge.eu   Pat  Collins,  James  Cunningham   Data oriented sample"
10. Collections"
11. Catalogue or “database-style” applications and " Digital editions"
12. h&p://ossianonline.org   Rebecca  Barr,  JusEn  Tonra   •  UI/Visual  Design   •  Data  transformaEons  (TEI   XML  à  HTML  /  Plain  Text)   •  Novel  interfaces  &   interacEons  (annotaEon)   Collection Sample"
13. h&p://ossianonline.org   Rebecca  Barr,  JusEn  Tonra  
14. Web Interactives"
15. Create explorable explanations" " Interactive visualisation of data to allow for user-driven exploration" " (vs. presenting a single view)"  *  h&ps://medium.com/@akarve/virtuoso-­‐data-­‐visualizaEon-­‐297cf7f858f6   *
16. Display  the  high-­‐level   overview   Allow  user  to     explore  based  on   their  interests  
17. Unpublished  interacEve  prototype  
18. Unpublished  interacEve  prototype  
19. Challenges"
20. Maintenance & Preservation"
21. Measurement &" Marketing"
22. Publishing data, APIs, code"
23. h&ps://twi&er.com/jakevdp/status/487329553417658368  
24. Identifying potential linkages"
25. Thank you" David Kelly" david.d.kelly@nuigalway.ie @davkell linkedin.com/in/davkell