Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Enfolding semantic web technologies and historical-interpretative analysis

混合方法数字口述历史：包含语义网络技术和历史解释分析

• 批准号: AH/Y007557/1
• 负责人: Andreas Vlachidis
• 金额: $ 44.55万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY007557%2F1
• 关键词: Mixed; methods; Digital; Oral; History

Long before social media and the internet, oral history used representational technologies, like the tape recorder, to capture and amplify voices that would otherwise have gone unheard. Yet, despite oral history's long use of technology, its engagement with the digital turn in the humanities has thus far been limited, focussing more on recording and accessibility rather than analysis and new research possibilities. Oral historians are predominately using the digital to publish and disseminate interviews or to interrogate individual interviews according to timestamp, project-specific annotation and interview-specific keywords. The field has engaged little with research that is ongoing in other fields of the Humanities, such as History, which is showing the potential of Semantic Web technologies to open a new quality of research horizon. Based on formal languages such as RDF, RDFS or OWL, these technologies can describe the meaning and the connections among data to define concepts, persons, places, and any kind of entity and to facilitate multifaceted retrieval, reasoning, optimal data integration and knowledge reuse. It is this innovative and far-reaching research potential that this project seeks to unlock. This project will bring together experienced researchers in the UK and Germany to ask how semantic web technologies, historical-interpretative analysis and digital research methods can be mobilised and interfolded to foment a 'digital methodological- hermeneutical turn' in oral history research. Positioning the emerging sub-field of the history of Digital Humanities as an exemplary case study for this research, this project will seek to understand the impacts that digital technology is making on the production, organisation and 'peoplescapes' of Humanities knowledge (and vice versa). In doing so, it will develop and make freely available an interoperable infrastructure of interconnected entities, in the form of a Knowledge Graph, to promote shared understanding, information representation, interrogation and discovery whilst ensuring data consistency, reusability and accessibility. Moreover, this project will generate new historical knowledge and data about the processes of formation, disruption and change that have underpinned the take up of technology in the wider Humanities, leading to the field now known as Digital Humanities. Using FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles we will advocate data sharing and reuse, ensuring transparency and reliability of our project. Combining oral history as a source and process, semantic web technologies and digital methods, this project will create new knowledge, digital artefacts and hermeneutic critical reflections that have relevance right across the fields of oral history and the history of knowledge, the history of the humanities and science, information studies and computer science including semantic technologies

在社交媒体和互联网之前很久，口述历史记录使用了录音机（例如录音机）来捕获和放大原本会闻所未闻的声音。然而，尽管口述历史悠久地使用了技术，但迄今为止，它与人文学科的数字转折的参与受到限制，更多地专注于记录和可访问性，而不是分析和新的研究可能性。口头历史学家主要使用数字来发布和传播访谈或根据时间戳，特定于项目的注释和特定于访谈的关键字来审问单个访谈。该领域几乎没有与人文科学领域正在进行的研究相关的，例如历史，这表明语义网络技术的潜力开放了新的研究视野。这些技术基于RDF，RDFS或OWL等形式语言，可以描述数据之间的含义和连接，以定义概念，人员，地点和任何类型的实体，并促进多方面检索，推理，最佳数据集成和知识重复使用。这个项目试图解锁的是这种创新和深远的研究潜力。该项目将汇集英国和德国的经验丰富的研究人员，询问语义网络技术，历史解剖分析和数字研究方法如何在口述历史研究中动员和插入以引起“数字方法论 - 解释性转向”。将数字人文科学历史的新兴子场定位为这项研究的典范案例研究，该项目将寻求了解数字技术对人文知识的生产，组织和“人民”的影响（反之亦然）。这样一来，它将以知识图的形式开发并免费提供一个互连实体的可互操作基础架构，以促进共享的理解，信息表示，询问和发现，同时确保数据一致性，可重复性和可访问性。此外，该项目将产生有关形成，破坏和变化过程的新历史知识和数据，这些过程为更广泛的人文科学的技术采用而构成了技术的领域，从而导致该领域现在被称为数字人文科学。使用公平的（可访问，可互操作，可重复使用的）原则，我们将主张数据共享和重复使用，以确保项目的透明度和可靠性。该项目将口述历史作为来源和流程，语义网络技术和数字方法结合在一起，将创建新知识，数字伪像和诠释学的批判性思考，这些反思与口述历史以及知识的历史，人文和科学的历史，信息研究，信息研究和计算机科学在内，包括语义技术，包括语义技术在内