Humanities and Social Sciences Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory — Australian Historical Association annual conference hosted by The Australian National University

Humanities and Social Sciences Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory

Humanities and Social Sciences Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory (561)

Robert Tanton , Christina Parolin , Mark Finnane , Hamish Holewa , Elycia Wallis , Alexis Tindall

The Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory (DEVL) is a collaborative project running in 2017/2018. It follows on from the success of the predecessor Cultures & Communities Project (2016/17), which established data sharing and transfer between archives, institutions and research projects. Now twelve organisations – universities, government and GLAM – are coming together to continue improving HASS infrastructure.

This project has four aims. First is to achieve increased interoperability between existing infrastructure platforms, data sets and tools through the development of publishable reproducible workflows. Second is to create better data infrastructure through the development of a HASS data curation framework that enables better reuse, reproduction, and publishing of research data sets across a variety of platforms throughout the life of the research data. Third is the development of a HASS workbench that enables access to tools (transcription, text analysis and geocoding). Finally, the development of a national HASS skills and training framework that supports the uptake of the workflows, data curation framework and the workbench.

This roundtable will discuss the aims of the project, progress to date and the goal of providing infrastructure that supports the Humanities and Social Sciences research community in a scalable and sustainable manner.

Panel

Professor Robert Tanton, University of Canberra
Dr Tina Parolin, Australian Academy of Humanities
Professor Mark Finnane, Griffith University
Dr Elycia Wallis, Museum Victoria
Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, University of Tasmania
The session will be facilitated by Alexis Tindall, eRSA

The project involves twelve organisations working together: