1. Cooperation DM2E & eCloud
Athens, 28/11/2013
Joris Klerkx
Research Expert, PhD.
http://hci.cs.kuleuven.be
@jkofmsk

2. Technology Enhanced
Learning
e-health
Music
Research 2.0
Removing friction between users and information

3. Europeana Cloud
Unlocking Europe’s
research via the Cloud
Thanks for the invitation!

4. Best Practice Network
Feb 2013 - Jan 2016
4.7 M €

5. Project Aims
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1.1m new metadata records and 5m research focussed items
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Cloud based infrastructure
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Legal, strategic and economic issues
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Broad consensus on the advantages of a cloud based
solution
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Digital platform, named Europeana Research
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tools and services for researchers that permit
innovative research that exploits digitised content in
Europeana

7. Understand how we can
help researchers
make use
of Europeana content

8. User-Centered design
Create useful & usable tools
(for researchers in humanities and social sciences)
Image from http://connectedsocialmedia.com/10134/inside-it-user-centered-it/

9. Know your users
Study their workflow & habits
Observe them
Describe personas & scenarios
Image from: http://mysteryboxes.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/personas-and-scenarios/

10. Researchers and their core problem
(in humanities and social sciences)
No appropriate & user-friendly tools for
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finding and identifying relevant (digital) content
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navigating content and research it
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sharing annotations about the content and being aware of
what colleagues and peers are doing.

11. Hide metadata, data model, schemas, etc.
from researchers

12. Mash-up existing tools
Tools are merely means-to-an-end to
understand how we can help researchers
Develop new tools

13. Every tool should be tailored to goals, users, …

14. Usefulness & Usability

15. Rapid Prototyping
Paper prototypes
Digital prototypes
Quickly evaluate ideas in real-life scenarios
Find problems in early stages of design
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/09/appseed-transforms-your-sketches-into-app-prototypes/?mbid=social12565664
Products

16. Case-study I
Hein and the ARIADNE Finder
Find relevant content

17. Persona - Hein
Hein is a post-doctoral researcher working on the history of
philosophy, the history of biology and their interplay. In
particular, he is interested in 18th century philosophical ideals
of science and their influence on 18th century life sciences. His
research has been recently focused on debates in philosophy
of history and historiography, where he investigates and needs
access to philosophical document and digital media corpora
and their visualisations.
!

18. Scenario - Hein
Hein would like to enhance the web site of this group with
a search interface that will allow the group to discover and
navigate relevant digital resources that are coming from
other large aggregators, such as: material on the history of
philosophy collected by the Europeana aggregator),
relevant literature that has been indexed and aggregated
from various European national libraries through The
European Library), as well as presentations, notes, slides,
and other relevant educational resources that come from a
global network of educational repositories called GLOBE.

19. ARIADNE Finder
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be

21. http://greenlearningnetwork.com/axiom/

22. Case-study II
Paul and the wittgenstein Nachlass
Navigate content.

23. Persona - Paul
Paul is a post-doctoral researcher on philosophy at the
Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) in
Norway. The focus of his research is on the linguistic aspects
of Wittgenstein's work. WAB has published 5,000 pages of the
Wittgenstein Nachlass Open Access on the Web and
developed a Wittgenstein domain ontology for these texts.
WAB is part of a Framework 7 EU research project, called
Digital Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E), where Paul is
involved in testing new technologies for collaborative work
with semantic annotations online.
!

24. Scenario - Paul
Studying Wittgenstein’s work, would like to be able to look
up various concepts and persons occurring in the texts.
Furthermore, he would like to see those occurrences
visualized on a timeline.

25. 54.537 entries

26. Can we navigate the wittgenstein
nachlass by using a timeline?

27. version 1
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/wittgenstein/

28. version 2
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/wittgenstein2

29. version 3
http://localhost:3002/wittgenstein2/wittgenstein3

30. Case-study III
John and TiNYARM
Being aware of what colleagues and
peers are doing.

31. Persona - John
John is a PhD candidate in the doctoral school of human
sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. After finishing his
master in arts, he just started to work pursuing a PhD degree
in philosophy and history of education. During his master
thesis work, he got familiar with tools used by researchers,
such as: references managers (Mendeley and BibTeX) and
digital libraries.
!

32. Scenario - John
John has a clear idea of his dissertation topic and started with the literature
review about the subject. As he is new in the research community and he
doesn’t know which colleagues from other European universities may be
working on the same topic. Colleagues from his research team suggested
him to use TiNYARM. His research group employs this tool to share
publications read by them, to know what other research groups are
reading, and his advisor uses it to suggest articles to his PhD students. As
soon as he joined the tool, John saw a recent suggestion from Anna (a
researcher from Germany) to one of his colleagues; this article was quite
interesting for his research. He also opened the TiNYARM profile page of his
advisor and skimmed the different papers his promoter read over the past
months. John found some articles that were relevant for his research.
Looking at his group activity, John got an idea of what everybody is
interested in, based on the different papers they read or skimmed.

33. Activity Streams
Paper reading
Search activities

34. Activity Streams
AED registrations

35. We take shortcuts.
Find out what makes sense.

36. Question(s) to you.
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What content is relevant for DM2E?
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what tools are relevant for DM2E?
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yours, ours and other
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(how) can we involve DM2E users?
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(how) can we evaluate our tools with DM2E?
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usability?
usefulness?
Feedback on progress?

37. Thank you for your attention!
joris.klerkx@cs.kuleuven.be
@jkofmsk