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# From paper to digits

Roxanne Wyns

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From paper to digits.

Challenges and opportunities of Digital research

Roxanne Wyns

Roxanne.Wyns@kuleuven.be

LIBIS
INTO INFO
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Timelapse installation BrENIAC - YouTube

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Source: https://admin.kuleuven.be/icts/nieuws/breniac
Digital transformation of research

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Services for researchers @ KU Leuven

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In: 晚明以来的天主教研究, pp
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CCT Secondary sources

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Sustainable service
portfolio

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Sustainable RI
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# Integrated Database for Early Music

## IDEM project

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# Integrated Database for Early Music project

IDEM project

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## Alamire Foundation

- International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries

- Research on medieval music manuscripts

## Hercules call 2013

- Flemish investment fund for research infrastructures

- Proposal accepted, budget heavily reduced

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Probably created by the workshop of Petrus Alamire for the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Lady in 's-Hertogenbosch (around 1530's).</figcaption></figure>

Source: [idemdatabase.org](https://idemdatabase.org)

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IDEM project – Budget limitations

* Main budget preserved for storage & long term preservation

* Limited resources for database, website, and viewer

* No budget for post-project maintenance and support

Budget cut on post-project maintenance influenced the selection of tools

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IDEM project - Selection of tools

→ Reuse a combination of existing tools in a flexible way

→ Use open source where possible to limit the license costs

→ Share the development costs with projects with similar interests

Clear communication on pros
& cons of offered tools and
total cost of ownership

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LIBIS services and tools
IDEM project - Tools & infrastructure

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Heron

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IDEM project – Viewer requirements

* Quick, without loss of quality

* Easy navigation within manuscript

* Full screen, tool bars should take up limited space

* Extensive zooming options in a single and fluid movement, focused on selected area

* Easily compare folio's from different manuscripts in a single view

* ...

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# IDEM – Selection of IIIF Mirador viewer

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## International Image Interoperability Framework

Enabling Richer Access to the World's Images

Learn how to get started

IIIF Community and Communications Officer Hired, 5 August 2016.

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Community Focused

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Defined APIs

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Plug 'n' Play
Software
# IDEM – Selection of IIIF Mirador viewer

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mirador

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## OPEN SOURCE

Participate in development on Github.
Submit issues, changes, or
suggestions, and be a part of the
process. You can also join the
discussion on the mirador-tech
mailing list and slack channel.

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## FULL FEATURED

Mirador implements the full client
functionality of the IIIF Image and
Presentation APIs. It provides tools
for bringing in metadata, images,
structures, and can create, edit,
delete, and view annotations in Open
Annotation Format.

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## CONFIGURABLE

Mirador can be easily configured to
provide the simple functionality of an
embedded viewer or bookreader, or
opened up into a fully-featured
scholarly workspace.
IDEM – Selection of IIIF Mirador viewer

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Teneo

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Bookmark

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Change Layout

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Full Screen

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D-Mbs-ms-Mus.ms-34

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D-Mbs-ms-Mus.ms.-F

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# Challenges & opportunities

From a service provider point of view

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Budget vs. Requirements

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Budget for IT usually
underestimated

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www.dilbert.com
scotladams@aol.com

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4|4|01 © 2001 United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

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Awareness and IT knowledge are growing

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Sustainability

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Costs for maintenance, storage
and support remains the biggest
challenge for humanities
research groups
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Growing number of partnerships through
investments and diversification of services

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Opportunities

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Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/132926626478982555/

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Working together to
achieve our goals

Clear communication
on the limitations and
what to expect (TCO)

Willingness to
collaborate and share
developments is
growing

Alternative financing
mechanisms for post-
project sustainability
Benifits for Humanities researchers

Technical research
support services at the
University

* Have access to both financial and personnel resources to execute technology projects

- Can interpret and translate the research needs into technical requirements

* Can provide qualitative, scalable, affordable and reusable services

- Can link up with other service providers and vendors to achieve technical innovation

- Are the best guarantee for technical and financial sustainability

- Can serve as a bridge between DH researchers and research infrastructures such as DARIAH
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By Maximilien Brice (CERN) (CERN Document Server) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

# The bigger picture

## Sustainable research infrastructures on a pan-European and global scale

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Innovation sustainability

Dariah is in the position to:

* Fully exploit synergies and integration activities between smaller regional, national and other pan-European RI

* Identify the needs of Humanities researchers and the gaps of the research and development

* Provide training programs for humanities researchers that will lead to the increased use of existing RI

* Create awareness around sustainability and the benefits of collaborating and investing in an existing RI instead of starting a new project

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By Tighef - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
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Data sustainability

DARIAH is in a position to:

* Promote and support use and reuse of research results and open data

* Help reduce the heterogeneity of data

* Promote data management and stewardship

* Point researchers to trusted repositories

* Make available core data experts to provide best practice guidelines and assist researchers in creating FAIR data

* Be an intermediate between RI and e-infrastructures to provide cost efficient and sustainable storage and access

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# Sustainable partnerships

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Source: https://www.pinterest.com/AshlingGilbert/colonies/

DARIAH is in the position to:

* Explore and indicate pathways for DH projects and RI to collaborate

* Provide guidance on access to RI and data

* Look out and apply for joint funding mechanisms

* Coordinate joint initiatives

* Stenghten the European position on DH research within the international context

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Sustainable skills

DARIAH is in a position to

* Continuous upskilling of DH researchers and RI managers

* Support the transfer of best practices

* Mentoring programs between experienced and less experienced users

* Training experiments

* Stimulate knowledge transfer, not only of researchers, but also of supporting personnel

* Facilitate the organization of staff exchanges

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SKILLS
KNOWLEDGE
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Financial sustainability

DARIAH is in a position to:

* Support smaller distributed RI to gain financial stability

* Simplifying the discoverability of these services

* Help users better understand their relevance

* Provide shared language for service descriptions

* Increase visibility of service offerings

* Train and assist RI managers in business modeling, setting up open source projects, and managing user communities

* Point them to similar projects for participation and collaboration

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Source: [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com)

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Sources & reading material

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* [ESFRI - Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures](#)

* [European Commission - Long term sustainability of Research Infrastructures, Exploring RI's full potential](#)

* [Workshop report](#)

* [Non paper](#)

* [Report on the consultation on the Long Term Sustainability of Research Infrastructures](#)

* [Presentations](#)

* Note on research infrastructures by LERU Working Group of Deans of Natural Sciences

* [How to create a successful opensource project. St. Andrews 2012](#)

* [The Impacts of Large Research Infrastructures on Economic Innovation and on Society: Case Studies at CERN](#)

* [European Charter for Access to Research Infrastructures](#)

* [Finland's Strategy and Roadmap for Research Infrastructures 2014–2020](#)

* [Dublin City University Research Infrastructure Policy](#)

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Thank you! Questions?

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© Veerle Francke - Alamire

Roxanne Wyns - [Roxanne.Wyns@kuleuven.be](mailto:Roxanne.Wyns@kuleuven.be)

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