In the light of new digital production and dissemination practices, the scholarly publishing system has seen significant and also disruptive changes, especially in STM (science, technology and medicine) and with regard to the predominant format "journal article." The digital transformation also holds true for those disciplines that continue to rely on the scholarly monograph as a publication format and means for reputation building, namely the Humanities and the Social Sciences with a qualitative approach (HSS). In our paper we analyse the reasons why the monograph has not yet reached its full potential in the digital paradigm, especially in the uptake of Open Access and innovative publishing options. We highlight some of the principal underlying factors for this, and suggest how especially practices, now more widespread in HSS but arising from the Digital Humanities, could play a role in moving forward the rich digitality of the scholarly monograph.
e-Science bzw. e-Research führt wissenschaftliche Methoden zusammen, die bislang getrennt verfolgt wurden: Experiment, Theorie und Simulation werden in einer "datenzentrierten Wissenschaft" vereinigt. Während dies für die Naturwissenschaften bereits zutrifft, sind die Geisteswissenschaften in dieser "4. Generation der Wissenschaften" noch nicht vollständig angekommen. Doch gerade diese Fachdisziplinen eignen sich hervorragend, um in Form von Virtuellen Forschungsumgebungen durch den Zugang zu relevanten Ressourcen wie Inhalten, Forschungsdaten und Diensten, Tools kooperativ und kollaborativ auch über Disziplingrenzen hinweg zu forschen. Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick und benennt konkrete Maßnahmen, wie die Geisteswissenschaften in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Informationsspezialisten die Vorteile innovativer digitaler Technologien für den Aufbau und die Weiterentwicklung von Virtuellen Forschungsumgebungen nutzen können. Virtual research environments for e-Humanities. Measures for optimal assistance of research methods in the arts and humanitiesThe concepts of e-Science and e-Research merge research methods that were applied discretely so far. This data-centric research reunites experiment, theory, and simulation. Whereas the sciences already have established these new concepts, the arts and humanities are still on the way to the "4 th generation of science", despite the fact that there is great potential for the arts and humanities to advance research via collaborative and interdisciplinary Virtual Research Environments with direct access to relevant resources such as digitized content, primary data, services, and tools. This article discusses how innovative digital technologies may be taken advantage of in the arts and humanities and proposes steps for the collaborative establishment and advancement of Virtual Research Environments in a community with humanities scholars and information scientists.L'environnement virtuel de recherche pour les e-Humanities. Des mesures de soutien optimal des processus de recherche dans les lettres e-Science respectivement e-Research réunit des méthodes scientifiques jusqu'alors séparés : l'expérience, la théorie et la simulation se trouvent fusionnés dans une science centrée sur des dates. Tandis que c'est déjà le cas dans les sciences exactes, les lettres ne sont pas encore arrivé à cette « quatrième génération des sciences ». Mais ce sont exactement ces disciplines spécifiques qui se prêtent particulièrement bien pour avancer la recherche par des environnements virtuels afin d'accéder aux ressources importantes telles les contenus, les dates et services de recherche, les outils, et ceci de façon coopérative et collaborative par-dessus les frontières disciplinaires. L'article présente un survol et désigne des mesures concrètes par lesquelles les lettres en collaboration étroite avec des spécialistes de l'information, peuvent bénéficier des avantages des technologies numériques innovatrices pour l'établissement et le développement d'environnements virtuels de recherche.
Digital methods and collaborative research in virtual research environments are gaining in importance for the arts and humanities. The EU-funded project DARIAH aims to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across these disciplines.The most basic but nevertheless fundamental task of DARIAH is to provide sustainable storage for research data. Information contained in data like images, texts or music needs to be secured and to remain accessible even if the original information carrier becomes lost or corrupted. The heterogeneity of the humanistic data and the need for distributed, performant access are the main challenges in designing an archiving system for the arts and humanities.Using the "Virtual Scriptorium", a digitisation project in Trier, Germany, this paper exemplary identifies the humanistic researchers' storage needs and derives requirements for an infrastructure. As a solution, a generic architecture for a federated data zone based on the iRODS technologies is proposed. The system implemented in Trier and Karlsruhe is described and will be extended to other locations as the researchers benefit from the initial set-up.
Sustainability Aspects of Digital Research InfrastructuresAbstract: DARIAH-DE as a research infrastructure is entering the next important phase. After the preparatory phase, followed by the construction DARIAH-DE is now preparing the operational phase which has to guarantee on the one hand the stability of all services and tools of this digital research infrastructure and on the other hand a dynamic as well as flexible development based on user needs from the scholarly, information science and ITexpert communities. The challenge is now to find the right balance between trust as well as stability and communitydriven expansion and development. This article introduces in different aspects of sustainability of research infrastructures.
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