Strengthening Digital Researchin the Philippines:

Digital Humanities Projects at theUniversity of the Philippines
CHITO N. ANGELES
University Librarian
University of the Philippines Diliman

About theUniversityof thePhilippines

 Founded on June 18, 1908 in theCity of Manila.
 The only National University in
the Philippines mandated toperform its unique and distinctive
leadership in higher educationand development.
 With 8 Constituent Universities in17 Campuses all over the country.
 258 Undergraduate Programs; 438
Graduate Programs.

The University of thePhilippines Diliman: TheFlagship CampusThe biggest campus and the physical seatof the UP System Administration.

The largest constituent university (CU) interms of the number of degree-granting
academic units, student population,faculty and library resources.

Facts at a Glance:•••••

Land Area: 493 hectares
No. of faculty: 1,531
No. of students: 22,765
Degree granting units: 27
Academic programs offered: 376*Data as of August 2017

Project DevelopmentContext

Project Development Context
 The need to develop the culture of researchamong faculty, staff, and students

 Low Research Output, especially in theHumanities, compared to other countries

 Reduced number of PhDs teaching in UP

Ranking Data for UP(Published Research Works)

Common Constraints / Problems
 Lack of motivation for pursuing a research

career – finishing a PhD is not required forfaculty members and does not imply a dramaticincrease in salary.

 The lack of awareness of new methodologies in

research and teaching (digital tools, e.g., LMS,MOOCs).

Common Constraints / Problems
 Difficulty of accessing original materials
 Rare periodicals kept in selected universities in thePhilippines usually requires physical access (nodigital copy) Rare materials are usually accessible only inmicroforms

 Originals are sometimes in very poor state andphysical access is not encouraged

 Catalog or index not available online

Common Constraints / Problems
 Lack of digital resources, infrastructure, andfacilities to access these resources online (e.g,digital humanities platforms, digital tools).

 Internet speed in the Philippines is relatively

slow, affecting access to digital resources.

Internet speed in the Philippines
Compared to other ASEAN countries

Current Initiatives toStrengthen Digital Researchin the Philippines
Digital Humanities Projects at theUniversity of the Philippines A pioneer digitalhumanities projectby professors andinter-disciplinary
research specialists
from the Universityof the Philippines(UP).

Philippine Performance Archive It is the first comprehensive archive that

consolidates distinctly Filipino performance
practices - dances, rituals, festivals, andtheatrical presentations - into an online
multimedia database gathered from thedifferent Philippine regions in collaborationand consultation with the constituent
universities of the University of thePhilippines System.

Project Blog

http://blog.plabas.org

Repository Website

http://philippineperformance-repository.upd.edu.ph

The Philippine Performance Archive is composed of four distinct archival
projects: Philippine Rituals and Cultural Spectacles, Philippine
Dance, Philippine Theater, and Bibliography, Scholarship and Criticism on
Performance Traditions in the Philippines.

Archive Content
 streaming of video recordings of performancesor documentaries on cultural spectacles; galleries of photographs;
 performance notations (for dance),performance scripts (for theater), historicalnotes (for cultural spectacles); an authoritative bibliography of scholarlymaterials on Philippine performance history.

Philippine Performance Archive Philippine Cultural

Performances archive
explores culturalactivities in thePhilippines where
Filipino communities
dramatize theircollective narratives
in rituals, festivals
and spectacles.

Philippine Performance Archive Philippine Dance aims to complement the works done in

the field of dance by collating the existing works withvideo recordings of performances accompanied bydescriptions, photographs and notations.

Philippine Performance Archive Philippine

Theater archive
provides access toaudio-visual andprint materials ofperformancesalong withscholarship andcriticism on
Philippine theater.

Philippine Performance Archive Philippine Performance: Bibliography, Scholarshipand Criticism archive provides bibliographicalinformation on the written materials on Philippine
performance history and criticism.

Digitization of Rare
Periodicals and Training onDigital Humanities
2018-2021

Project Scope Digitization of Materials, particularly rare

Philippine periodicals (pre-1945) 200 titles in Print
 300 titles in Microfilm

 Development of an open-access digital

repository of humanities-related researches Training of Faculty and Post-Graduate Students

in Digital Humanities

Rare Periodicals (print)

Rare Periodicals (microfilm)

Digital Humanities Project Details
 Project Duration: 2018-2021 (4 years) Partner: University of Antwerp, Belgium
 Funding Institution: Flemish InteruniversityCouncil (VLIR-UOS), Belgium

2018

2019

Acquisition of Equipment
Digitization of Rare Periodicals
Training in Digital Humanities (fortrainers)

Digitization of Rare Periodicals
Development of Digital Archiving System
Training in Digital Humanities:
Introductory course (for faculty members
and post-graduate students)

Uploading of digital resources to online
platform
Enhancement of Digital Archiving System
Training in Digital Humanities: Advanced
course (for faculty members and postgraduate students)

2020
Project Phases

Indexing, Tagging, and Annotations
Double-keying
Translation of non-English Terms
Text mining, data analysis

2021

PROJECT PHASESRelevance of the Project Preserve important resources (in digital form) Increase access to valuable research materials(thru online means) Increase research and publication output offaculty and graduate students

 Improve teaching quality
 Encourage faculty/staff to pursue furtherstudies (PhD/post-graduate studies) Enable distance learning

Activities
Conversion(Digitization)

Image
Processing,including OCR

Text Mining

Publishing,
Resource
Discovery

Uploading toRepository

Indexing,
Annotation

Translation,
Double-Keying

Digitization Hardware
Requirements

DigitizationHardware
 Book Scanner

Digitization Hardware

 PlanetaryScanner

Digitization Hardware

 Microfilm

ScannerLong-Term Storage Solutions
Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), and Cloud Solutions

Repository Platform Omeka TeitokIssues and Challenges
Current Condition of the Materials

Indexing of Non-English text / translation

Low OCR accuracy (especially those converted from microfilms)

Interoperability / compliance with standards (OAI-PMH), Open Archival Information System(OAIS), International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Marketing and Promotion

Sustainability (including funding)THANK YOU!

Email:cnangeles@up.edu.ph