The Prior eArchive as Virtual Research Environment:Towards Serendipity and Explorability
Fatima Sabir, Engerer, Volkmar Paul · Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) · 2019
The Prior Virtual Lab is an online research collaboration which aims to transcribe and make public manuscripts, notes and letters by (or sent to) the logician and philosopher Arthur N. Prior (1914-1969). This article explores and discusses the Danish Prior Internet Resources (PIR), which the Prior Virtual Lab is part of, and argues that it constitutes a Virtual Research Environment (VRE). The article also argues that a significant challenge for future work with the PIR is applying the knowledge of the iHumanist. In particular, we shall argue that part of what is required when moving into the digital humanities is a shift from a needy-user paradigm (emphasizing search for missing information) to an explorability paradigm (which emphasizes serendipity).