 These arts and social sciences data enhanced virtual laboratory and better known as the past devil So this brings together Because someone type in the chat if they're able to hear us Sorry Sorry about that. Okay We're getting there so 12 partners from around the country it's a national collaborative project It represents 1 million dollars in total including the co-investment and will be delivered within 2018 some of our project partners are pictured here at a one of our project workshops that we held in Melbourne and You can see the group of people involved in the logos at the bottom right of the screen there our aims include lowering barriers of entry For digital has infrastructure exploring and addressing interoperability issues between platforms for has data Working towards a more joined up landscape data curation for better reuse reproduction and republishing of research data and multi-lane skills and training and human training opportunities research practices in humanities arts and social sciences ago through a period of Change with greater as a greater availability of large-scale data and increasingly accessible digital research tools We've chosen to focus on a few areas of focused activity to demonstrate value and impact for and to researchers and We're taking advantage of community engagement aspects around the project to consult on further opportunities and extension of our work Should further infrastructure support become available I'll talk through the three areas of project activity that make up this devil The workbench environment will be an online space that will host tools and research and development opportunities in the one space It'll be a central Location to access tools to be used in transcription Text analysis and geocoding in the first instance So these three focus areas of activity we've chosen as a result of consultation Convected last year and mapping of the research challenges that were common to the areas of humanities arts and social sciences This this discipline brings together a very diverse group of researchers and when we sort of mapped out certain research practices that people within these disciplines did this was a selection of Focus points which could actually have research impact for that community were common to a large group of them In some cases the workbench environment will offer guidance to support and using existing tools in some cases The tools will be a hosted service and in the case of geocoding We're developing a chooser to aid researchers in finding the most useful geocoding resource for their need And we have conducted to date we've conducted consultation around the relevant tools And I'll talk a little bit about that later We've worked up a prototype to test existing tools and explore the delivery in online space You can see a snapshot of that there. This is a prototype which will help us go to user testing during August And gain further input on that at a recent demonstration of the eco cloud explorer from the eco science We're considering a repurposing that framework to host a future iteration of the workbench Some of you will be familiar with that because to get hard and kindly reported on that at the last tech talk The eco cloud explorer is designed as a flexible modular framework that can provide data access points for a variety of sources Hosted tools links to external tools a space for storing users own data and can host Support materials including training materials one of the other benefits is that it will Allow it integration of Jupiter notebooks and compatibility with other workspaces including GitHub This is one approach to the objective that we have of allowing users to share their own tools and workflows This is very much still an idea and this back here is literally our putting our thoughts down around it We haven't had access to that framework just yet, but we're looking forward to exploring that during August The second project activity area is the data curation framework The humanities research environment can be characterized by high-value but fragmented data tools and services Research has drawn a number of data sources many of which are hosted by different institutions And in many of which are notionally accessible being open licensed and organized according to accepted metadata scheme of Some are accessible via API's our data curation team is exploring issues around interoperability and accessibility By working through certain processes with three reference data sets in order to reduce the variables in Assessing these data curation issues with chosen to work with data sets that are open As we've determined that sensitive data while it will be a big issue for humanities researchers in the future We can't address it within the scope of this project So the reference data sets that we're working with are listed there Troves Australian government visits a set of data from the Griffith University prosecution project around the crime of figure me and historical census records from the Australian data archive What's happening is that this curation team is Subjecting these data sets to particular transformations that would be useful to researchers as a way of testing their interoperability utility I won't go into detail to What transformations are being done to which data sets, but they're being passed through named entity recognition processes Geocoding processes text analysis processes and we're recording the challenges both technical and social that we experience along the way The data curation team are presently working on a framework to help consider the various lenses through which the data curation process can be viewed Including how data is formed and alters how data flows in and out of archives and how data arises from and feeds into human research The third area of activity is the skills and training work package and The this will be delivered in a couple of different ways as standalone modules or workshops It will have some online presence in the workbench And it will be delivered as the two-day intensive train the trainer program to a small group of researchers who have teaching responsibilities This final champions program is another example of cross-devil work because it's inspired by the work It was done by the biodiversity and climate change virtual laboratory last year That project demonstrated the ability of a train the trainer model to broaden the reach of their training activities So all of this work will be accompanied by a program of community engagement Including a monthly in use letter with regular updates to the house devil Appearance at relevant conferences and we'll be continuing our series of digital humanities pathways events through the remainder of 2018 This was a model of community engagement that we initiated last year and the made up of day long Projects showcase interspersed with panel discussions and audience interaction These events were an excellent consultation forum in 2017 and we anticipate that they'll help us validate the aims and achievements of the project this year We are adding to that pathways format this year Inspired by our work with the eco science devil and starting those days with an intensive executive session Which will consult with relative community leaders and decision makers So I just wanted to talk a little bit about the consultation that we've done to date and some of the discoveries We've had through that. We yeah as we've as I've mentioned all the project deliverers are being informed by consultation We've had really positive feedback researchers have acknowledged the benefit of access to good web based tools The tools that we have chosen to work on and there was consensus for supporting tools that accommodate researchers without Coding skills through to those who are comfortable working with more technical applications The Researchers one of the one of the things that imagine from consultation was that researchers We were working with required a lot of direction in how to manage and prepare their data or sort of a pre-processing stage of information So workshops on both transcription and text analysis The discussion of data handling cleaning assembling a corpus and preparedness to use the tools actually dominated discussion Which demonstrated a need to help work bench and tool users understand how to effectively Gather and prepare their data before using the tools Accessibility of tools has arisen as a challenge. We're okay We're aiming for our workbench environment to be Welcoming and accessible and not something that you feel like you need to be a coder to use So we're exploring a number of options in response to that challenge including presenting One avenue into the tools as a series of recipes based on user pathways and these will be Designed around real and hypothetical research challenges that we've identified that make use of all of the tools and will be a segmented pathway through the through the workbench for the user Consultation has also already as I imagine in many devil circumstances led to opportunities that are outside of scope for the current project. So things like So we have talked about text analysis transcription and geocoding as the three main research practices that we wanted to work on But in consultations other issues such as an entity recognition and guidance on the data life cycle are areas of activity that would really impact research outcomes So to a degree our project team challenges one of our challenges for a project team is how to Incorporate those things where we do have the resources to avoid scope creep and consider what we might put into future projects So I just wanted to finish on our objectives for the project We are our main objectives are lowering barriers to entry for digital research tools for house researchers and democratizing access our primary focus is building skills across the community Brooding broadening the base and making digital tools data and research methods more accessible from walking We need to be flexible Responsive and thinking about this as a basis for the future We're building a modular environment It's one of the things that appealed to us about working with the eco cloud framework that can be expanded and reconfigured over time This is very much a starting point and can be a stimulus to further activity And as in going with that we're thinking about this as a pathway to the next step This is concretizing focusing and stimulating the conversation around these tools in this community and bringing the community together around a Prototype that we can build on we're building familiarity with the tools the barriers and the opportunities so that the Community is better informed and has the language to talk about the next step for supporting research infrastructure in humanities arts and social sciences And so looking forward we will have digital humanities pathways of its carrying out through the rest of this year We will have a presence at these upcoming conferences digital humanities Australasia in September and research Australia in October And for the meantime the best way to find out updates on the devil is to subscribe to us as Cultures and community ease newsletter with the The URL is there on your screen So thank you for that and please feel free to ask any questions in the chat window