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Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) is a collaborative research project funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation built in Drupal
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add references to data export #452

Open hannahackermans opened 3 years ago

hannahackermans commented 3 years ago

A key feature of the ELMCIP Knowledge Base is the cross-references, but these are currently not exported. When data is exported on a certain content type (let's start with creative works and critical writings), it should also export the references documented for those works.

I think we must have had this before because @elmcip wrote an article about it in 2014 (https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/an-emerging-canon-a-preliminary-analysis-of-all-references-to-creative-works-in-critical-writing-documented-in-the-elmcip-electronic-literature-knowledge-base/) I don't know what this originally looked like. If we have to make it from scratch again, I am guessing this a bit of a bigger issue to figure out how to do right, but if you could come up with an idea or a list of questions on what we want exactly, that would be great, @steinmb . Otherwise we could go with the old system?

This functionality is important both to the students who want to do project similar to Scott's article, but also for our collaboration with Brown as they would also like to do these types of analysis using the Brown collections.

hannahackermans commented 3 years ago

Here's a simple mock up of the creative work export containing the critical references that reference the creative work. I used the export of https://elmcip.net/node/14177 The two excel sheets show the expanded and regular export. mock up reference is creative work export.xlsx

A thing to discuss is how much information about the references should be in the export. For example, do we only want the title or also the author? Just the title keeps it simple, but adding the author might be more useful in a quantitative analysis, because gephi could make a bigger node for authors that frequently cite a particular work that authors that only cite it once, for example. What do you all think is the best way to go?

A second thing: Adding the critical writing references is the most useful, but if we are going to add references, maybe we should also add the teaching resources that reference the creative work?

jilltxt commented 3 years ago

This is a fabulous start! I made these visualisations by exporting creative works referenced by each of 44 dissertations individually, so from each of the dissertation pages. This obviously was a painstaking process, and not sustainable for larger numbers of critical works. I want to redo the dissertation analysis and there are now over a hundred PhD dissertations in the database, so it would be wonderful to have a data export that makes this easier.

For the analysis of what creative works dissertations reference I need more info about the Critical Works, specifically:

My last paper split things up in 5 year segments, so 2003-2007, 2008-2013 - and I want to do an update with 2014-2018. The DIKULT207 have entered most of the new dissertations we found, but haven't done all the references, and I won't have time to continue work on this until next spring at earliest unfortunately. An export like this would hugely help, though.

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