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anonymization problems/privacy concerns
missing tools for anonymizing data from social sciences
Panton Principles?
* make an explicit and robust statement of your wishes (reviews, questions,...)
* use a recognized waiver or license that is appropriate (explain, give guidance)
* no restrictive clauses like non-commercial - Open Definition
* explicit dedication to public/open domain
application to humanities?
* data is too narrow for humanities -> "a work" can be more
* description of re-usability of elements
* possibility of adaption is important
* Open Content Definition
* recommendation of explicit declaration of copyright status (cc by, cc by-sa)
Goals of the session:
* A set of clear principles
* perspective of humanities on open (data)
comments:
- accessability of works
- stuck at certain types (books)
- referencing problem: annotations
- no clear way to refer to place in text - nilf(?) annotation format
- problem with other media types (video, audio): privacy
- re-usability only of results (annotations,...), re-using original data very tricky
- unintended consequences / use-cases
- risks of e.g. survey participants, interview partners not addressed
- distinguish between data types in humanities: different principles needed
- not "what are open humanities" but "what are Open Data in the humanities"
issues:
- rephrasing of work for data valid? distinguish data from works
- problem of crediting annotations
questions:
- underlying principle: permissive and/or prohibitive?
- to which disciplines can these principles be applied?
- where is the link between Open and Digital Humanities? Digital: use/explore how computers can be used in the humanities - open as in Open; other link: publicly funded efforts are in the public domain (museums, ...)
group discussions about problems & solutions:
privacy concerns:
- tools that help making data compliant
- risk management: publish guidance on how to different data formats (manuscripts, paintings, sculptures) (museums, archives, libraries)
definitions:
- what are data in the humanities?
- research materials instead of data
- talk with researchers in the field
- works are not data; blurry definitions
motivations/barriers/incentives:
- attribution
- foreign use of assembled datasets and possible loss of research results
summary:
- clear definition of what are data in the humanities is needed badly
- problem this definition could be context dependent
NOTES BY DAVID POTOCNIK
(level 0 problem)
data in humanities = in books
books are not digitesed
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MOVE CLASSICAL CANNON TO PUBLIC DOMAIN
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use pirate editions?
library genesis
aaaaaaarg
....
level 1 problem
no ways of REFERENCING moments in books
= no URI for books !!!!!!!
not unlike http://bookuri.com/aristotle/politics/42343
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technically possible, but not done!
"How to put existing materials into the public domain?"
PRIVACY CONCERNS
licensing
Is principle 1 permissive or prohibited?
"panton principles are not scripture"
rethink and make a crowd effort
in humanities:
WORKS vs DATA ?
but there is also other types of "objects of study" that appear in humanities
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distinction HUMANITIES vs SOCIAL SCIENCES
OKFN has a working group for OPEN HUMANITIES
Join the Mailing list!
Some projects:
. OpenPhilosophy
. OpenShakespeare
. Textus project
. OpenAnnotation
Open Humanities vs Digital Humanities ?
"Digital" doesn't care about licenses, openness, etc
A lot though is publicly funded, so gets in the public domain
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Access problem:
Public funding pays for projects
books cost money to print
digital release not done because then "no one would buy books"
Problem:
annotated / "improved" editions do not maintain the openness of the public domain work that it is based on
solutions ???
idea: a diff for humanities
micro attributions
positive example:
TOPOI humanities publishing
kafka
...
in berlin
they are commited to digital and open publishing
2 years after release it becomes PD
open humanities vs open data for humanities (?)
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"What is OPEN DATA FOR HUMANITIES"?
this is what binds to the panton principles
participatory research ..?
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1. PRIVACY CONCERNS
anonymisation
publish guidance on data in diff formats
considerations to be legal compliant / risk mgmt
2. problem of attribution
use research materials instead of data
motivation for research is attribution/citation
... so DOES THIS collide with specific levels of openness (like CC-Zero)
3. "fears of getting scooped"
you assemble a dataset
then "someone comes and scoops/publishes the best stuff"
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so where is the incentive to publish primary dataset?
4. work is not same as data
forget about "data" in humanities
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humanities is not science
<peter
"panton was bout legal protection and public domain"
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OpenBibliography : open data for catalogs
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"We need to give a list of things we think are data" !!!
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assemble a list/examples of open data in humanities?
"list of poets"
"Map of parnasus"
...is this somewhat "para-humanities"?
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de-contextualized data
Regards to Iain!
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