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Tomas Foltyn and Zdeno Vozar, National Library of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Mgr. Tomas Foltyn is the graduate of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pardubice, where he completed his master studies in the field of cultural history in 2008. From 2007 he worked in the Digitization Department of the National Library of Czech Republic, first as Project Manager, then as the Head of the Metadata Creation and Management Department. From February 2012 he held the position of the Head of the Strategic Planning Department for the Digitization of Library Collections. In January 2013, he was appointed as Collections´ Management Division Director. Mgr. Tomas Foltyn is involved in various national and international research projects, is an expert guarantor of the VISK 7 Funding Program, the regular member of the Central Library Council of the Czech Republic, regular board member of the IFLA Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group a finally also the member of the CASLIN international conference program committee. From the professional perspective he is interested especially in the area of the effective collections´ management and long-term preservation of the modern collections including the digital content. During last years he started to be involved also in various activities connected with digital humanities. More detailed information about his professional life is available via his LinkedIn professional profile. Zdeno Vozar: I’m passionate developer of engaging information frameworks both for backend users and public. As the Technical lead as well as PhD student I am well aware of new tools, but also value of established processes. I’m looking for new ideas, looking up to scale machinery and support digital continuity of informations in all organizations despite all technological challenges and transformations. In National Library I started as technical operator and support of Webarchive of the Czech Republic. From 2017 on, this role was broadened not only by scope, but also by new team members. We stand behind Aleph and Union catalogue of CR, also as presentation system of digitisation ( Kramerius) and support of digitisation and LTP processes (National Digital Library). National Library, from technical perspective, right now undergoes important architectural transformations and integrations on several levels leading to Library 2.0. On my academical path, I study diffusion and transformation of ideas and metaphors, spread of innovations and use of print in the late Middle ages and Early Modern Age.I want to comprehend these processes in historical realities of shifting mental landscapes in difficult eras by traditional qualitative methods. However, for my dissertation “The Alchemical Mind: Towards a Digital Archaeology of the Transmission of Knowledge” I opted for quantitative methods of distant reading through metadata, complex networks analysis, NLP preprocessing and ML classification leading to a new kind of historical endeavour. Presentation: Development of the Centralized Interface for the Web Content and Social Networks Data Mining“ project – a springboard to open Czech web archive One of the most important tasks is to prepare an appropriate technological infrastructure and prepare the running workflow reflecting both heterogeneous nature of the source and various future conceptualizations and inquiries into human digital heritage. In the core of this concept lies a definition of the exchange matrix data format (to reduce all the operations). This will be defined within fault tolerant collection of elements of Resilient distributed datasets (RDD). With the limited resources at hand for large scale infrastructure implementation, there is a need to define it as much lightweight and scalable as possible for access services – but still saturated with lot of information. It will be used as reduction of otherwise storage demanding full WARC files. Over this format, to the researches we will provide two level access. First one will be aimed for more general audience in the form of web portal with research tools and export possibilities. Second level of access will be implemented as on demands service, where all the users could iterate over preordered datasets and perform cluster computing operations over IF and WARCs alike. As the mail result of the project the implemented solution will provide a durable and scalable scientific infrastructure for research tasks over the broad content of web collections. |
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Martin Lhoták, Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences Czech Republic Martin Lhoták graduated at the Czech University of Life Sciences in field of Informatics in 1996. He works at the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences from 1997. For nearly 10 years, he was responsible for library automation as the head of the IT department. In 2003, he established the Library’s Digitization Center. From 2007 he was for two 5 year terms appointed as the director of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences and currently he is in the position of the Library deputy director responsible for research, development and technologies. At the research level Martin Lhoták focuses on development of open source solutions supporting digitization, dissemination and archiving of digital documents – Kramerius, ProArc and ARCLib systems. He is also responsible for coordination of two national projects “The Czech Digital Library” http://www.czechdigitallibrary.cz/en/ and “The Central Portal of Czech Libraries” http://www.knihovny.cz/en/. He has been involved in the open access movement and he initiated the Open Access Policy of the Czech Academy of Sciences adopted by the Academic Council and the start-up of the institutional repository of the Academy. Martin Lhoták is the national coordinator of the Czech Republic for DARIAH ERIC and he currently actively participates in digital humanities projects with concern mainly on development of new tools and building of information infrastructures. Open source software development projects: Kramerius, ProArc, ARCLib and INDIHU. Presentation: DL4DH – digital libraries for digital humanities Almost every single central or large library stores a big amount of data in a digital form. The data are usually described by the high-quality metadata, which enables to browse these collections, to create various virtual exhibitions etc. They are stored in digital libraries or different repositories, whose design and basic functionalities are primarily intended just for the content viewing. To increase the level of their usability for the special research group of the data scientists is needed to enrich the metadata content and to develop the appropriate interfaces to extract the data to make the heuristic part of the research more effective than today. The aim of the DL4DH project is to design a set of the new functionalities and independent tools that enables the extensive data mining procedures in digital libraries to cover the digital humanities researchers needs. The second project goal is to use this content in the applied research. The project is connected with the European research infrastructure called DARIAH and with the outputs of the research project INDIHU, focused on the development of tools for digital humanities. |
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Hardy Schwamm, Open Scholarship Librarian at the National University of Ireland Galway Ireland Hardy Schwamm has been working in Open Scholarship for more than twelve years in various roles related to Open Access, Research Data Management and Research Impact. In August 2019, Hardy left Lancaster University in the UK to join the National University of Ireland Galway. Hardy is particularly interested in the concept of culture change, i.e. how does collective behaviour change in a sustainable way, and how this can be applied to Open Scholarship. Hardy is one of the co-founders of the Open Scholarship Community Galway (OSCG) that brings together Open advocates on the West coast of Ireland. Hardy is a member of the Liber Metrics Working Group. Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardySchwamm Presentation: Community building as a way of promoting Open Scholarship According to the Center for Open Science (COS) there are five components to achieving cultural change. A crucial but often overlooked component are “Communities” who are the drivers in making behavioural change normative. This presentation will look at strategies of how culture change can be facilitated through community building and what strategic role libraries can play in that process. Modelling on successful examples in the Netherlands (e.g. Open Science Community Utrecht), the Open Scholarship Community Galway (OSCG) launched in late 2019 as the first of its kind in the UK and Ireland. |