Ringvorlesung „Dazzling Data: Digital Humanities in der Mediävistik und Frühneuzeitforschung.“ – Ab kommenden Montag werden in der durch das Interdisziplinäre Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühgeschichte (IZMF) der Universität Salzburg organisierten Ringvorlesung in insgesamt 15...

Welcome to another summary of new digital scholarschip resources added to the Artes Digital Scholarship Community on Zotero (learn more about this group and join with your Zotero account to get the group’s resources right in Zotero on your desktop).

In this edition: reference management tips and tricks, essential reading for those starting out with research on social media or other user-generated content online, a guide to organising and supporting citizen science projects, musings about the role of software in research, a warning shot for researchers who keep data on Google services (sorry), and for inspiration, a very lovely and fascinating visualization of character relationships in The Witcher:

• Want to start using a reference manager like Zotero, but worried about laboriously transferring every single reference in the long list of sources that you’ve been keeping in Word or elsewhere? AnyStyle converts a list of references into a structured format that can be imported by reference managers and other programs: Keil, S. (n.d.). AnyStyle.io. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://anystyle.io/
• We always recommend using a reference manager like Zotero to automatically generate bibliographies for your articles and ensure that your references section is complete and correct. If you haven’t used a reference manager, however, you can still use Recite to automatically check whether your in-text citations match your list of references: 4cite Labs. (n.d.). Recite: APA and Harvard citations checked instantly. Retrieved December 23, 2021, from https://reciteworks.com/
• A humorous interlude on reproducibility: Ben Golub. (2021, December 24). Economics paper with secret data be like https://t.co/wmUk2N4lrZ [Tweet]. @ben_golub. https://twitter.com/ben_golub/status/1474213075268128772
• A great summary of what researchers should keep in mind when using data from social media in their projects: Centre for Data, Culture, and Society. (2021). Social media research: Ethical guidance for researchers at the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh. https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/files/2021-09/Social_Media_Ethics.pdf
• A basic and essential guide to the ethical considerations that come with researching online materials: franzke, aline shakti, Bechmann, A., Zimmer, M., Ess, C., the, & Association of Internet Researchers. (n.d.). Internet Research: Ethical Guidelines 3.0. Retrieved January 10, 2022, from https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf
• A practical guide designed to assist those organising and participating in a citizen science project to get the most out of the experience: Group, L. C. S. W. (2021). Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers, and the Public. LIBER Citizen Science Working Group. https://doi.org/10.25815/hf0m-2a57
• An engaging example of network analysis and data visualization applied to textual data from the popular “Witcher” novels: Janosov, M. (2021, December 23). A Network Map of The Witcher. Nightingale. https://nightingaledvs.com/a-network-map-of-the-witcher
• On the crucial role of software in research, which is difficult to recognize within the traditional academic publication model: Jay, C., Haines, R., & Katz, D. S. (2021). Software Must be Recognised as an Important Output of Scholarly Research. International Journal of Digital Curation, 16(1), 6. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v16i1.745
• And finally, a scary reminder that external cloud services exert sometimes unexpected amounts of control over the data posted there, and that scholarly data on cloud services is in danger if it’s flagged as a “potential policy violation”: Khalili, J. (2021, December 15). Google Drive could soon start locking your files. TechRadar. https://www.techradar.com/news/google-drive-could-soon-start-locking-your-personal-files

On 2 and 4 June, LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) will organize a Citizen Science workshop at KU Leuven. The workshop will be of a highly participatory nature, with participants required to work in small groups during their own time. The first session will take place on the 2nd of June from 10.00-11.30 (CEST), followed by a second session on the 4th of June from 14.00-15.30 (CEST). Important to note: once registered, you are required to participate in both sessions. You can find the registration link for the first workshop here. Registration information for the second workshop will be sent to participants shortly after the first session.

Who Can Attend? Students of all levels; staff and faculty of universities and libraries (including academic and administrative staff). Prior experience with Citizen Science is not mandatory.

From the event website:

This two-day workshop is designed to provide input into what Citizen Science is and how Citizen Science projects can be implemented in universities and research libraries. The workshop will focus on:

• The basics of Citizen Science and its benefits;
•  Requirements to take into consideration when involving citizen scientists in research projects;
• Examples and benefits of integrating Citizen Science into educational programmes;
• Practical guidance on how to develop and implement Citizen Science projects;
• Examples of Citizen Science research projects.

Speakers

Guest lecture on ‘Everything Citizen Science’:

• Dirk van Gorp, Open Science Manager, Radboud University Library, member of LIBER Citizen Science Working group

Lightning talks: localising Citizen Science – KU Leuven

• Maarten Loopmans, researcher, service learning, sociology course
• Liesbet Vranken, researcher, bioscience engineering, bioeconomics
• Thomas Neyens, researcher, biomedical sciences group
• Nora Eisner, PhD (citizen science) student in astrophysics, Oxford, researcher at KU Leuven
• Katrien Kolenberg, researcher, ‘AstroSounds – Listen to the Stars’
• Ben Somers, researcher