Optimizing the Openness of Digital Scholarly Editions

Optimizing the Openness of Digital Scholarly Editions DHH 2025 Osijek Rethinking Heritage across STEM, Humanities, and Arts [email protected] · 2025-10-24 Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB) Austrian Academy of Sciences Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17404979 1 Attempting ›openness‹ examples from two digital scholarly edition projects • https://mrp.oeaw.ac.at (since 2018/20) • https://qhod.net (since 2021) 2 Overview What is ›open‹? What helps increase traffic/knowledge/…? • Effects of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? • Multiple interface languages increase international user interest? • Social media use to propagate editions? • Anniversaries of historical events? • Scientific outreach projects? Tech implementations – a11y , meta , interconnectivity, … Openness and transparency are key. 3 What is ›open‹? • not closed / siloed / secret • not ›enshittified‹ • FAIR • fully documented • also, more known 4 ›Opennesses‹ Open Access Open Data Open Science Open Source Open licencing Focus on UX 5 Are there measurable effects from using Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? MRP $cd./mp‐app;gitblametemplates/page.html https://matomo.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ 6 Are there measurable effects from using Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? QhoD cd./qhod‐dev/;gitblameqhod‐static.xsl|grepmeta 7 Do multiple interface languages increase international user interest? QhoD (not in MRP) cd./qhod‐dev/;gitblameqhod‐static.xsl|grep\$lang https://qhod.net/stats/2023/12/awstats.gams-qhod.html https://qhod.net/stats/2024/12/awstats.gams-qhod.html 8 Does social media use to propagate editions affect usage of digital resources beyond short-term page access counts? • Moving away from FB and Xitter means opening • just ignore the switching cost • move to interoperable tools • more open Social media: ◦ https://fedihum.org/@qhod ◦ https://fedihum.org/@MinisterratCis 9 Hvala. Openly share your feedback, and|or spread the word! [email protected] · [email protected] Slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17404979 16