The CENDARI infrastructure is a research supporting platform designed to provide tools for transnational historical research, focusing on two topics: Medieval culture and World War I. It exposes to the end users modern web-based tools relying on a sophisticated infrastructure to collect, enrich, annotate, and search through large document corpora. Supporting researchers in their daily work is a novel concern for infrastructures. We describe how we gathered requirements through multiple methods to understand the historians' needs and derive an abstract workflow to support them. We then outline the tools we have built, tying their technical descriptions to the user requirements. The main tools are the Note Taking Environment and its faceted search capabilities, the Data Integration platform including the Data API, supporting semantic enrichment through entity recognition, and the environment supporting the software development processes throughout the project to keep both technical partners and researchers in the loop. The outcomes are technical together with new resources developed and gathered, and the research workflow that has been described and documented.
AbstractsThe Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archival Research Infrastructure (CENDARI) project has developed a new virtual environment for humanities research, reimagining the analogue landscape of research sources for medieval and modern history and humanities research infrastructure models for the digital age. To achieve this, the project has needed to be sensitive to the ways in which historical research practices in the 21st Century are distinct from those of earlier eras, harnessing the affordances of technology to reveal connections and support or refute hypotheses, enabling transnational approaches, and federating sources beyond the well-known and across the largely national organization paradigms that dominate within traditional knowledge infrastructures (libraries, archives and museums). This paper describes both the usercentered development methodology deployed by the project and the resulting technical architecture adopted to meet these challenging requirements. The resulting system is a robust 'enquiry environment' able to integrate a variety of data types and standards with bespoke tools for the curation, annotation, communication and validation of historical insight.
User experience and usability (UX) form a key part of research and best practice for product and software development. In this paper, the topic is addressed from the perspective of the Digital Humanities (DH) and approaches undertaken in two DH infrastructure projects, DARIAH and CENDARI are presented. Both projects addressed aspects of UX, focusing on the usage of a single software tool, as well as on an integrated research workflow using several tools and devices. The article lists the main factors, gleaned from research undertaken in the projects, that influence usability practices in the DH, and provides possible recommendations on how to approach them.
Јovan Radulovic introduced himself to the readership as a writer of main- land, karst Dalmatia, as well as the literary successor of Simo Matavulj. The first two decades of Radulović’s litarary work were oriented exclusively to the topics related to his homeland. Only since the novel Braća po materi has his interests spread to larger urban areas (Zadar, Šibenik, Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana). By skillfully inserting a multitude of data about the Knin region, about its historical, geographical, social and cultural circum- stances, into the narrative of the novel Prošao život (1997), Radulović highlights the great significance and continuity of Serbian culture in Croatia. In this novel, says the writer, I paid homage to all those who successfully built what was called ’Serbian intelligence on the Coast’. The basic idea that unites all thematic, motivational, characterological, narrative, expressive and qualitative factors of the novel is reduced to the allegory of passed life. It permeates topics, characters, time, events ‒ all elements of the novel. The basic idea is diversified in many different ways and by using different stylistic means: contrasts, sym- bols, allusions, allegories. The idea is particularly emphasized in the passages describing everyday life of the people, as well as cultural and historical events. Even the characters have one common role: to form a coherent whole, to revitalize the collective spirit of the people that, by losing its natural habitat, has ceased to be what it was there. The novel is completely built on Christian symbolism: there is a calendar cycle of the most important Christian and Serbian holidays: Epiphany, Easter, Vidovdan, Saint Nicholas and Christmas; mention is made of Gojko’s Golgotha, wiping feet with a sinner’s hair, mourning the dead, the riders of the apocalypse who come in the form of Ignjat’s killers. The basic idea can also be interpreted as a symbol of the Christ-like suffering of an entire nation.
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