Open Access to Humanities Data #OAdata
Symposium by Digital Repository of Ireland, at the Royal Irish Academy, May 7, 2013 Opened by Prof Luke Drury, Chaired by Dr. Sandra Collins Speakers: Prof. Laurent Romary, Catriona Crowe, Dr. Eucharia Meehan
Busy day for @RIAdawson & @dri_ireland. HSS event all day http://www.ucc.ie/en/media/HSSEUPresidencyConferenceMay72013Programme.pdf … & then our #OAdata event at 5:30pm: http://www.dri.ie/open-access-humanities-data …- Prof. Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy, opens the event:
- Dr. Sandra Collins, Director of Digital Repository of Ireland (event organiser) discusses DRI position on the sharing of data. Bio: http://dri.ie/dri-team/sandra-collins …
Impressive podium. RT @dri_ireland: #OAdata 'Why would you want to share data?' asks @SandriCollins pic.twitter.com/CGY6sEtWdotWdo- #OAdata Lack of demand for data likely a result of a lack of good examples of shared data, says @SandriCollins, Director of @dri_ireland
- Prof. Laurent Romary, Directeur Recherche INRIA, guest scientist at Humboldt University Berlin, Director of DARIAH. Bio: dri.ie/laurent-romary
- .@laurentromary Q often posed: it is wise to openly share Humanities data? He says: why would it be really be unwise? #OAdata
- Pooling scholarly results could lead to greater demand for the objects - @laurentromary #OAdata
#OAdata more visibility of data demonstrates level of activity- @laurentromary Going digital has not changed human nature - attributions will continue (or not) in digital world #OAdata
- .@laurentromary advocates CC-BY license to encourage reuse; says need for cultural change (esp re scholarly attachment to book) #OAdata
What are the challenges? More infra structure like @dri_ireland funding, cultural change #oadata
- Catriona Crowe, Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland, and responsible for the release online of the digitised 1901 and 1911 census. Bio: http://.dri.ie/catriona-crowe
- Catriona Crowe (National Archives of Ireland) speaking on #OpenAccess 1901/11 census project http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ s.OAdatadata
- Catriona Crowe 'Impossible to contemplate households we learn about in Census data without feeling compassion' #OAdata
- Citizen access to archives can actually change social attitudes - e.g. work of late Mary Raftery #OAdata
- Sharing: I don't care if they have it on their website, as long as we have it on ours. - Catriona Crowe #OAdata
