User:DirkRoorda

Dirk Roorda works at [http://www.dans.knaw.nl/en Data Archiving and Networked Services. DANS] is a national research archive and has a self-service repository, called EASY.

I work as a researcher, trying to work out new practices for archives in supporting digital humanities scholars. That involves working for CLARIN, DARIAH and other projects.

Currently I am involved (with Jan Krans, Juan Garcés and Matthew Munson) in the analysis of all the New Testament manuscripts in which the epistle of Jude occurs. This is work based on the transcriptions of Tommy Wasserman, which he has deposited at DANS persistent identifier: urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-qxf4-1v.

We try to collate it, with a view of doing stemmatology and a new kind of access to the complete variation data. The on-going work can be followed on the DANS research wiki.

Hopefully some of the insights that arise when dealing with data like this, will influence archival practice. The concept of annotation could be the generic carrier. So I try to stretch the possible use cases of annotations to the limit: saving queries and carriers of datamining (intermediate) results. Maybe most important is to stress the weak points of current annotation practice: their portability to other incarnations of the same sources, or even to variants of the sources. See also these slides.