History Department R&D Laboratory

About

The Laboratory was established to conduct research and development on computer-based methods that can be used in education and research in the fields of history and other social sciences. Kaynakca.info (Kkynakca.hacettepe.edu.tr), a web based platform developed within this framework, is used by students and researchers from all over the world, mainly in Turkey.

Research Infrastructure

• 26 desktop computers
• 1 projection device

Researchers

• Prof. Dr. Ramazan Acun
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhat Küçük
• Research Assistants
• Thesis students

Ongoing Projects

• Kaynakca.info: Turkey Bibliography
Kaynakca.info is based on research-based education instead of classical lecture-based teaching in higher education. It is designed to prepare, manage and analyze comprehensive bibliographic citation indexes of social science publications on Turkey. The content of the system is developed from the voluntary cooperation network model.

However, a new and improved version of this system is needed. If this is done, the system has the potential to be used as an exemplary system in higher education in all of Europe. As a matter of fact, the system has tripled in April and May 2020, when the number of daily users was around 2000 when normal face-to-face training was carried out.

By using this system, the communication between the instructor, students and students is carried out entirely through this system. More importantly, basic research processes related to a project such as literature review, data entry, data cleaning and analysis are largely based on this system. All transactions made by students during these processes are automatically recorded by the system. Thus, it creates a database that grows every year. This is a new approach.

Transactions performed by students, such as data entry and data cleaning, appear dynamically as lists and numerical totals in the resource.info profiles. These are also used by the instructor for grading. Thus, in distance education programs and courses, assessment and evaluation methods are not only used with exams; It is fictionalized in a way that spans the process.

Some of the other functions of the system used in the field of education are as follows:

The first is to create lecture reading lists (bibliographies) or to recommend existing bibliographies to students.

Unlike classical reading lists, these bibliographies can access not only the title of the work, but also the full text of many works and some other supplementary information: Author's resume, other works of the author, statistics, citations, comments, likes and shares on social media. The system makes a ranking based on the number of views, with a clue as to which work should be read first.

Secondly, course communities can be created and processes such as communication about the course, assignment and evaluation can be carried out through these communities. At this point, the societies I formed for the courses in Methods and Techniques and Ethics in History of Science and History Research at undergraduate and graduate levels can be given as an example.

In this second community, for example, as I am communicating with the students as part of the course, I also ask students to upload their visa assignments here. Just as I evaluate these assignments myself, I ask the students to evaluate each other's homework: They do this by marking the related assignment as I like it, I don't like it. Educational scientists call this type of assessment peer assessment. This community has been like the memory of the lesson for the last four years. It is possible to see the change or progress achieved in the course over the years. Moreover, the ethical assignments made within the scope of the course have already become the most comprehensive archive in Turkey on ethical violations in historical research.

Third, multiple choice questions can be prepared on any topic and students can be asked to answer them. More interestingly, students may also be asked to prepare such questions and / or to answer the questions prepared by their friends and to evaluate the quality of the question as 'I like it / I don't like it'. Educational scientists call it learning by participating and learning by doing. It is also possible to access information about previously prepared questions on the same page: Who prepared the question, when it prepared it, how many times it was answered correctly or incorrectly, who liked it, who did not. Questions must be prepared in relation to a work (article, book, conference paper, thesis). This means: If the question is answered incorrectly, the related work must be read in order to find the correct answer. Sample questions can be accessed from the "Questions" tab on the page accessed from the following link:

Project Website: www.kaynakca.info (source.hacettepe.edu.tr)

 

Completed Projects

• Historical Place-Class Integration: Transforming Historical Site Trips into Educational Material (Video).

Publications

Prof. Dr. Ramazan Acun
• “The Structure of Historiography in Turkey: Light Comes from the West” Journal of Turkish Studies / Türklük Bilgi Araştırmaları. 51 (2019), 85-96.
• “From Social Network to Research Network: A Novel Approach for Integrating Teaching and Research Through Technology”, The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology. TOJET, IETC Special Issue 2018, 191-198: //www.tojet.net/special/2018_12_1.pdf.
• “Extracting Gems from Historical Texts: Text Mining”, Turkish Hand in European History Assoc. Dr. Silver Barberry Gift. Ankara 2017, 27-38.

Assoc. Dr. Serhat Küçük
• Science World: Turkey's First Popular Science Journal, Atatürk Research Center Publications, Ankara,
• One of the Forbidden Pages of Ottoman Press, Monsieur Elektrik, Berikan Publishing House, Ankara, 2015. (Editor)
• Gift to Halil İnalcık, the Centennial Planetary of Turkish Historiography, Turkish Culture Research Institute Publications, Ankara, 2017. (Pub. Jun.) (With Mehmet Öz).
• Turkish Hand in European History Assoc. Dr. Gift to Gümeç Karamuk, Hacettepe University Publications, Ankara, 2017. (Spring June) (with Ramazan Acun).
• A "Lonely" Name in Turkish Social History, A Gift to Bahaeddin Yediyıldız, Turkish Culture Research Institute Publications, Ankara, 2015. (Spring June) (with Yunus Koç).
• After the 6th Turkish Studies Symposium on “The Soviet Revolution and the Turkish World on its 100th Anniversary”, Bilig, Issue 84, Winter 2018, pp.337-340.
• “Epidemic Diseases in History”, Türk Yurdu, Vol 109, No 392, April 2020, 70-74.
• “Thoughts on Perception of Katip Çelebi”, Çankırı University Social Sciences Institute Journal, Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Year Special Issue, Vol 10, Issue 3, 2019, 45-59.
• “One of the Bibliographic Foundations of the Republic: Mehmet Sabri Toprak”, Journal of Academic History and Thought, Vol 5, No 18, 2018, 27-47.
• “Vision and Missions of Early Republican Period Scientific Journals”, Mustafa Kemal University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, Vol 12, No 31, 2015, 346-357.
• “19. Reforms and Development of Thought in the 21st Century ”, Turkish Thought History, Ed. Esra Yakut,
• Anadolu University Open Education Faculty. Yay., Eskişehir, 2020, p.100-129.
• “Manisalı Mehmet Saim Erkun and His Contributions to Turkish Medicine”, Manisa from Past to Present, Ed. Ferhat Berber et al., Vol 2, Celal Bayar University Pub., Manisa, 2018, p.1139-1156.
• “Soviet Influence on Agricultural Policies of Early Republican Turkey: Mehmet Sabri Toprak Period”, The Soviet Revolution and the Turkish World in its 100th Anniversary, Ed. Yunus Koç, Mikail Cengiz, Hacettepe University Institute of Turkic Studies Pub., Ankara, 2018, p.875-884.
• "From Telegraphy to Agriculture Ministry Turgutlulu Mehmet Sabri Soil and Its Role in the Construction of the Republic", International Turgutlu Symposium Proceedings, Volume 2, Turgutlu Municipality Pub., Manisa, 2018, p.587-605.
• "The Effect of Historical Imagination on Historiography: The Case of Salih Murad Uzdilek", A Gift to Halil İnalcık, the Centennial Plane of Turkish Historiography, Turkish Culture Research Institute Publications, Pub. Jun: Mehmet Öz, Serhat Küçük, Ankara, 2017, pp.199-203.
• “Roman Ways in the Context of the Effect of Scientific and Technological Development on Historical Analysis”, Turkish Hand in European History Assoc. Dr. Gift to Gümeç Karamuk, Hacettepe University Publications, Pub. Jun: Ramazan Acun, Serhat Küçük, Ankara, 2017, pp.195-203. (With M. Ayşegül Kulular İbrahem.)
• "The Role of the First Scientific Journals of the Republic in Building a Scientific Society", A "Lonely" Name in Turkish Social History A Gift to Bahaeddin Yediyıldız, Turkish Culture Research Institute Publications, Pub. Jun: Yunus Koç, Serhat Küçük, Ankara, 2015, pp.261-274.
• "A Contribution to the Early Republican Period Science-Religion Discussions Literature: Could Mutafennins Be Pious?", A Gift to Ahmet Yaşar Ocak in Pursuit of Others, TİMAŞ Publications, Pub. Jun: Mehmet Öz, Fatih Yeşil, Ankara, 2015, pp.691-704.
• “Manisalı Mehmet Saim Erkun and His Contributions to Turkish Medicine”, International Manisa Symposium, 26-28 October 2017, Organized by: Turkish Historical Society and Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa.
• “Soviet Influence on Agricultural Policies of Early Republican Turkey: Mehmet Sabri Toprak Period”, 100th Anniversary of the Soviet Revolution and the 6th International Symposium on Turkish Studies, 25-27 October 2017, Organized by: Hacettepe University Turkish Studies Institute, Ankara.
• "Mehmet Sabri Toprak of Turgutlulu from Telegraphy to the Ministry of Agriculture and its Role in the Construction of the Republic", International Turgutlu Symposium, 17-19 November 2016, Organized by: Manisa Celal Bayar University and Turgutlu Municipality, Turgutlu / Manisa.
• “Ottoman Science World and Katip Çelebi”, Traces of Cultural Heritage: KÂTİP ÇELEBİ Panel, One of the Pioneers of Ottoman Modernization, May 14, 2015, Organized by: Hacettepe University Historical and Cultural Heritage Research Center (HÜTKAM), Ankara.

Links

About

The Laboratory was established to conduct research and development on computer-based methods that can be used in education and research in the fields of history and other social sciences. Kaynakca.info (Kkynakca.hacettepe.edu.tr), a web based platform developed within this framework, is used by students and researchers from all over the world, mainly in Turkey.

Research Infrastructure

• 26 desktop computers
• 1 projection device

Researchers

• Prof. Dr. Ramazan Acun
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhat Küçük
• Research Assistants
• Thesis students

Ongoing Projects

• Kaynakca.info: Turkey Bibliography
Kaynakca.info is based on research-based education instead of classical lecture-based teaching in higher education. It is designed to prepare, manage and analyze comprehensive bibliographic citation indexes of social science publications on Turkey. The content of the system is developed from the voluntary cooperation network model.

However, a new and improved version of this system is needed. If this is done, the system has the potential to be used as an exemplary system in higher education in all of Europe. As a matter of fact, the system has tripled in April and May 2020, when the number of daily users was around 2000 when normal face-to-face training was carried out.

By using this system, the communication between the instructor, students and students is carried out entirely through this system. More importantly, basic research processes related to a project such as literature review, data entry, data cleaning and analysis are largely based on this system. All transactions made by students during these processes are automatically recorded by the system. Thus, it creates a database that grows every year. This is a new approach.

Transactions performed by students, such as data entry and data cleaning, appear dynamically as lists and numerical totals in the resource.info profiles. These are also used by the instructor for grading. Thus, in distance education programs and courses, assessment and evaluation methods are not only used with exams; It is fictionalized in a way that spans the process.

Some of the other functions of the system used in the field of education are as follows:

The first is to create lecture reading lists (bibliographies) or to recommend existing bibliographies to students.

Unlike classical reading lists, these bibliographies can access not only the title of the work, but also the full text of many works and some other supplementary information: Author's resume, other works of the author, statistics, citations, comments, likes and shares on social media. The system makes a ranking based on the number of views, with a clue as to which work should be read first.

Secondly, course communities can be created and processes such as communication about the course, assignment and evaluation can be carried out through these communities. At this point, the societies I formed for the courses in Methods and Techniques and Ethics in History of Science and History Research at undergraduate and graduate levels can be given as an example.

In this second community, for example, as I am communicating with the students as part of the course, I also ask students to upload their visa assignments here. Just as I evaluate these assignments myself, I ask the students to evaluate each other's homework: They do this by marking the related assignment as I like it, I don't like it. Educational scientists call this type of assessment peer assessment. This community has been like the memory of the lesson for the last four years. It is possible to see the change or progress achieved in the course over the years. Moreover, the ethical assignments made within the scope of the course have already become the most comprehensive archive in Turkey on ethical violations in historical research.

Third, multiple choice questions can be prepared on any topic and students can be asked to answer them. More interestingly, students may also be asked to prepare such questions and / or to answer the questions prepared by their friends and to evaluate the quality of the question as 'I like it / I don't like it'. Educational scientists call it learning by participating and learning by doing. It is also possible to access information about previously prepared questions on the same page: Who prepared the question, when it prepared it, how many times it was answered correctly or incorrectly, who liked it, who did not. Questions must be prepared in relation to a work (article, book, conference paper, thesis). This means: If the question is answered incorrectly, the related work must be read in order to find the correct answer. Sample questions can be accessed from the "Questions" tab on the page accessed from the following link:

Project Website: www.kaynakca.info (source.hacettepe.edu.tr)

 

Completed Projects

• Historical Place-Class Integration: Transforming Historical Site Trips into Educational Material (Video).

Publications

Prof. Dr. Ramazan Acun
• “The Structure of Historiography in Turkey: Light Comes from the West” Journal of Turkish Studies / Türklük Bilgi Araştırmaları. 51 (2019), 85-96.
• “From Social Network to Research Network: A Novel Approach for Integrating Teaching and Research Through Technology”, The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology. TOJET, IETC Special Issue 2018, 191-198: //www.tojet.net/special/2018_12_1.pdf.
• “Extracting Gems from Historical Texts: Text Mining”, Turkish Hand in European History Assoc. Dr. Silver Barberry Gift. Ankara 2017, 27-38.

Assoc. Dr. Serhat Küçük
• Science World: Turkey's First Popular Science Journal, Atatürk Research Center Publications, Ankara,
• One of the Forbidden Pages of Ottoman Press, Monsieur Elektrik, Berikan Publishing House, Ankara, 2015. (Editor)
• Gift to Halil İnalcık, the Centennial Planetary of Turkish Historiography, Turkish Culture Research Institute Publications, Ankara, 2017. (Pub. Jun.) (With Mehmet Öz).
• Turkish Hand in European History Assoc. Dr. Gift to Gümeç Karamuk, Hacettepe University Publications, Ankara, 2017. (Spring June) (with Ramazan Acun).
• A "Lonely" Name in Turkish Social History, A Gift to Bahaeddin Yediyıldız, Turkish Culture Research Institute Publications, Ankara, 2015. (Spring June) (with Yunus Koç).
• After the 6th Turkish Studies Symposium on “The Soviet Revolution and the Turkish World on its 100th Anniversary”, Bilig, Issue 84, Winter 2018, pp.337-340.
• “Epidemic Diseases in History”, Türk Yurdu, Vol 109, No 392, April 2020, 70-74.
• “Thoughts on Perception of Katip Çelebi”, Çankırı University Social Sciences Institute Journal, Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Year Special Issue, Vol 10, Issue 3, 2019, 45-59.
• “One of the Bibliographic Foundations of the Republic: Mehmet Sabri Toprak”, Journal of Academic History and Thought, Vol 5, No 18, 2018, 27-47.
• “Vision and Missions of Early Republican Period Scientific Journals”, Mustafa Kemal University Journal of Social Sciences Institute, Vol 12, No 31, 2015, 346-357.
• “19. Reforms and Development of Thought in the 21st Century ”, Turkish Thought History, Ed. Esra Yakut,
• Anadolu University Open Education Faculty. Yay., Eskişehir, 2020, p.100-129.
• “Manisalı Mehmet Saim Erkun and His Contributions to Turkish Medicine”, Manisa from Past to Present, Ed. Ferhat Berber et al., Vol 2, Celal Bayar University Pub., Manisa, 2018, p.1139-1156.
• “Soviet Influence on Agricultural Policies of Early Republican Turkey: Mehmet Sabri Toprak Period”, The Soviet Revolution and the Turkish World in its 100th Anniversary, Ed. Yunus Koç, Mikail Cengiz, Hacettepe University Institute of Turkic Studies Pub., Ankara, 2018, p.875-884.
• "From Telegraphy to Agriculture Ministry Turgutlulu Mehmet Sabri Soil and Its Role in the Construction of the Republic", International Turgutlu Symposium Proceedings, Volume 2, Turgutlu Municipality Pub., Manisa, 2018, p.587-605.
• "The Effect of Historical Imagination on Historiography: The Case of Salih Murad Uzdilek", A Gift to Halil İnalcık, the Centennial Plane of Turkish Historiography, Turkish Culture Research Institute Publications, Pub. Jun: Mehmet Öz, Serhat Küçük, Ankara, 2017, pp.199-203.
• “Roman Ways in the Context of the Effect of Scientific and Technological Development on Historical Analysis”, Turkish Hand in European History Assoc. Dr. Gift to Gümeç Karamuk, Hacettepe University Publications, Pub. Jun: Ramazan Acun, Serhat Küçük, Ankara, 2017, pp.195-203. (With M. Ayşegül Kulular İbrahem.)
• "The Role of the First Scientific Journals of the Republic in Building a Scientific Society", A "Lonely" Name in Turkish Social History A Gift to Bahaeddin Yediyıldız, Turkish Culture Research Institute Publications, Pub. Jun: Yunus Koç, Serhat Küçük, Ankara, 2015, pp.261-274.
• "A Contribution to the Early Republican Period Science-Religion Discussions Literature: Could Mutafennins Be Pious?", A Gift to Ahmet Yaşar Ocak in Pursuit of Others, TİMAŞ Publications, Pub. Jun: Mehmet Öz, Fatih Yeşil, Ankara, 2015, pp.691-704.
• “Manisalı Mehmet Saim Erkun and His Contributions to Turkish Medicine”, International Manisa Symposium, 26-28 October 2017, Organized by: Turkish Historical Society and Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa.
• “Soviet Influence on Agricultural Policies of Early Republican Turkey: Mehmet Sabri Toprak Period”, 100th Anniversary of the Soviet Revolution and the 6th International Symposium on Turkish Studies, 25-27 October 2017, Organized by: Hacettepe University Turkish Studies Institute, Ankara.
• "Mehmet Sabri Toprak of Turgutlulu from Telegraphy to the Ministry of Agriculture and its Role in the Construction of the Republic", International Turgutlu Symposium, 17-19 November 2016, Organized by: Manisa Celal Bayar University and Turgutlu Municipality, Turgutlu / Manisa.
• “Ottoman Science World and Katip Çelebi”, Traces of Cultural Heritage: KÂTİP ÇELEBİ Panel, One of the Pioneers of Ottoman Modernization, May 14, 2015, Organized by: Hacettepe University Historical and Cultural Heritage Research Center (HÜTKAM), Ankara.

Links