Digital Humanities Data Hive: Accessing Humanities Data At Scale

本项目将建立数字人文数据蜂巢（DH2）。它被设想为一个活跃和互动的国家艺术和人文数据中心，在这里，作为研究核心的丰富而复杂的数据可以以新的和未开发的方式蓬勃发展。该项目的核心是尊重混合和多样化的数据阵列，这些数据是艺术和人文研究的基础。我们的提案拒绝对数据类型和学科的狭隘定义，而是建立在英国在数字文本、图像和多媒体收藏方面的悠久专业知识的基础上；在我们的范围内，任何人文数据都有可能通过数据驱动的研究数据和工具的整合进行转化和增值。我们的研究与艺术、人文和数据科学界密切合作，将探索DH2如何使数字化工作的全新方式成为可能。这将使我们能够为数据存储和使用寻找、开发和设计一套紧密集成的服务。我们的方法围绕构建挖掘、分析、探索和链接数据及其存储的工具，从而确保未来一个或多个中心的数据牢固地嵌入研究数据生命周期。通过这样做，我们的项目将培养在艺术和人文学科中创建数字驱动研究的新思维方式——同时，使使用数据进行学术研究的工具和服务的创建必须成为任何以数据为中心的人文学科项目的一个综合方面。我们知道，目前，研究人员、开发人员、用户和存储库管理人员的“人类基础设施”不希望与原始数据存储交互，而是希望与数据和工具的整体融合交互。因此，我们项目将设计的综合数据/接口/工具生态系统对于识别未来的跨学科机会和新兴的人文数据变革用途至关重要。最后，通过以重用为中心，我们希望创造一个环境，在这个环境中，数据的使用和分析更加透明，研究的方法和工作流程是开放的，可以被观察、批评和复制。该项目的DH2提案将包括一个用于大规模使用数据的工具和服务的方法论层，提供一种服务，允许人们通过工具运行自己的数据，并基于与更大的数据体的比较和集成创建结果。为此，我们将为数据中心制定一个基于证据的、全成本的项目计划和完整的技术规范，该数据中心有两个关键要素：一个数据服务，它将通过一个抽象层联合新的和现有的数据存储库，它本身将在我们的数据实验室中使用；一个分析层的工具，用于数据操作、挖掘、重用和可视化。因此，我们的项目将是迈向艺术和人文学科国家数据服务的关键一步，将人文基础设施、以结果为导向的服务和最先进的技术发展结合在一起。

This project will scope the establishment of the Digital Humanities Data Hive ("DH2"). This is conceived as an active and interactive national data centre for the arts and humanities where the rich and complex data at the heart of research can flourish in new and unexplored ways. At the heart of the project is a respect for the hybrid and diverse array of data that are the basis for arts and humanities research. Our proposal rejects narrow definitions of data types and disciplines, and instead builds on the UK's long history of expertise in digital text, image, and multimedia collections; within our scope is any humanities data which has the potential to be transformed and have value added through the data-driven integration of research data and tools.Our research, carried in out close collaboration with the arts and humanities and data science communities, will explore how DH2 will make possible completely new ways of doing digitally enabled work. This will enable us to scope, develop and design a suite of tightly-integrated services for both data storage and use. Our approach centres around building tools for mining, analysing, exploring and linking data alongside its storage, thus ensuring data within a future centre or centres is firmly embedded within the research data lifecycle. By so doing, our project will foster new ways of thinking about creating digitally driven research in the arts and humanities - and in parallel, make the case that the creation of tools and services for using data for scholarship must be an integrated aspect of any data-focused project in the humanities. We know that at present, the 'human infrastructure' of researchers, developers, users, and repository managers does not wish to interact with raw data stores, but instead with the holistic confluence of data and tools. Therefore, the combined data/interface/tool ecosystem that our project will design will be essential for the identification of future cross-disciplinary opportunities and new and emerging transformative uses of humanities data. Finally, by centering re-use we want to create an environment where there is greater transparency around the use and analysis of data and where methods and workflows for research are open and can be observed, critiqued, and replicated. The DH2 proposal this project will scope will include a methodological layer of tools and services for using data at scale, offering a service that will allow people to run their own data through tools and create results based on comparisons and integration with larger bodies of data. To do this, we will develop an evidence based, fully-costed project plan, and full technical specifications for a data centre which has two key elements: a Data Service that will federate new and existing data repositories via an abstraction layer, which itself will be used in our Data Lab, an analytical layer of tools for data manipulation, mining, re-use, and visualisation. Our project will therefore be a crucial step towards a national data service for the arts and humanities, bringing together human infrastructures, results-oriented services, and state of the art technical developments.