This talk was co-presented with David De Roure at a Digital Research Cluster workshop at Wolfson College, Oxford, 18 June 2018: The Isaiah Berlin Digital Archive: A test case for the development of on-line research resources (https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/event/isaiah-berlin-digital-archive-test-case-development-line-research-resources).

1. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Image:http://www.isaiahberlin.org/en/isaiah_berlin/4
The Isaiah Berlin Digital Archive Workshop
Wolfson College, Oxford, 18 June 2018
Building on-line archives:
New approaches and technologies
David De Roure and Pip Willcox
Digital Research Cluster

2. The archive and the community
• Archives have communities of users around them:
• Accessing IBO directly (Interfaces? Search?)
• Citation, indirect use, discovery
• Improving IBO
• The Isaiah Berlin Archive comes with a community:
• College, Digital Research Cluster, University, academic and general
readers…
Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Digital Research Cluster

3. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
An established archive
• Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library
• Catalogue of Written and Spoken Words
• Isaiah Berlin Image Database (IBID)
• Sir Isaiah Berlin Papers, Bodleian Library
• Expertise and scholarship of Mark Pottle and colleagues
http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/
https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/berlin/
Digital Research Cluster

4. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Image:https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/
Digital Research Cluster

5. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
International standards: TEI,
IIIF, Linked Data, W3C
PROV
Images, text, audio, film,
metadata, annotation
Open and useful to a range of
audiences
Creation,preservation,discovery
Readable and useful to humans
and machines
Progammatic access
Use and exploitation Reuse and exchange
https://against-the-grain.com/2015/12/atg-book-of-the-week-is-digital-different-how-information-creation-
capture-preservation-and-discovery-are-being-transformed/
https://opensource.com/article/17/9/python-logging
http://heranet.info/about-us/governance-and-structure/knowledge-exchange-and-strategy-group/
A sustainable archiveDigital Research Cluster

6. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Publishing structured data so
that it can be interlinked
and become more useful
through semantic queries
Builds on standard Web
technologies such as URIs,
HTTP & RDF
Guidelines for the preparation
and interchange of electronic
texts for scholarly research
An international standard,
currently in XML
Data modelling
Text Encoding Initiative
Uniform and rich access to image-
based resources
Support interoperability between
image repositories
International Image
Interoperability Framework Linked Data
http://www.tei-c.org/
http://iiif.io/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data
A standards-based archiveDigital Research Cluster

7. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Image:https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/node/2594
[02078]IBsatatdesk
Digital Research Cluster

8. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
An open archive
• Editorial control
• Intellectual property, copyright, licensing
• Governance and legal responsibility for website
• API: application programming interface
• Exporting data
Digital Research Cluster

9. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Image:https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/node/2594
[02086]IBreadinginGreatQuad,AllSouls
Digital Research Cluster

10. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
A co-created archive
• Crowdsourced transcription, annotation
• Links in and out: ODNB, VIAF, Wikipedia, YouTube…
• Incorporating data re-presentations
• Digitizing Enlightenment III: Prosopography and
Networks, 19–20 July 2018
Digital Research Cluster

11. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Image:https://www.ft.com/content/b69a5ee6-ff44-11e2-aa15-00144feabdc0
IsaiahBerlinphotographedinParaggi,Italy,in1969
Digital Research Cluster

12. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
A social archive
• Local expertise
• Crowdsourced annotation*
• Wikipedia editathons
• Student masterclasses on archives and editing
Digital Research Cluster
Bodleian Student Editions
OXLOD

13. Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
“to promote the value of
Berlin’s life and works”
“to make his ideas more widely
accessible in the digital age,
while illustrating their
growing relevance to the
central questions of the day”
Images: https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.tpslogistics.com/global-reach/
http://news.bpmsupreme.com/how-to-build-an-online-presence-as-a-dj-chapter-i-build-a-website/
"a resource for enquiring minds,
shedding light on the
multiplicity of ideas in which
Berlin was himself interested”
Global reach
“for the academic community
and the interested non-
specialist”
"definitive information on
Berlin's life and works”
Isaiah Berlin Online IB Legacy Project
A living archiveDigital Research Cluster

14. Points for later discussion
• Aim to articulate some “User stories” for users of the archive
• Who are the different kinds of reader? (Reading on phone? Searching?)
• How will it link in and out of other resources?
• How will it be discovered?
• Can people annotate, and share annotations?
• How can the DRC help; e.g. how can we usefully make this a DRC
collaboration in an ongoing way?
• Are there opportunities for innovation?
Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Digital Research Cluster