Samordningssekretariatet för digitalisering - RIksarkivet 20111025Lars Lundqvist
DC-net och Samordningssekretariatet för digitalisering anordnade ett seminarium kring infrastruktur för forskning. Bilderna visar vad RIksantikvarieämbetet arbetar med.
The Digital Archaeological Workflow: A Case Study from SwedenMarcus Smith
# The Digital Archaeological Workflow: A Case Study from Sweden
The Digital Archaeological Workflow (DAP) is a programme of work being carried out at the Information Development Unit at the Swedish National Heritage Board, in partnership with the major Swedish archaeological stakeholders. The programme aims to streamline the flow of archaeological data (and its associated metadata) between different actors in the Swedish archaeological process, and to ensure that this data is preserved in a sustainable and accessible manner. It aims to address a number of problems which have hampered the practice of archaeology in Sweden for some time, but which have now started to become more acute as digital technology saturates the processes involved.
There is no centralised register of archaeological fieldwork in Sweden, making it difficult not only to keep track of what is going on where, but also to know what fieldwork – if any – has taken place in connection to a particular site in the national sites and monuments record. Sweden also has no central digital archive for the storage of either archaeological fieldwork data or reports; as such records are now produced digitally, valuable archaeological data is thus increasingly at risk of being lost.
Furthermore, despite the fact that almost all of the data and administrative metadata surrounding archaeological work are digital-born, they are still handled according to analogue paradigms, particularly when information must be shared between different organisations. Sources of archaeological data which are currently made available digitally by various national and local bodies are not typically linked together. This leads to inefficiencies in information transfer, duplication of data and effort, and to information describing the same 'objects' being stored in different systems within different organisations.
The DAP programme intends to address these problems over the course of a five-year period, using standardised platform-agnostic data formats and protocols to streamline information transfer between organisations, by releasing a series of open taxonomies and ontologies for common Swedish archaeological terms and concepts on the semantic web in order to facilitate data interoperability, and by creating a secure digital repository both for the raw data and reports arising from fieldwork and research. We aim to make this information freely available as linked open data.
Our overall mapping of the current Swedish archaeological process is complete (although some details remain) and we are currently working on a conceptual model on which our future information architecture will be based. In parallell, we are also working to translate and release our existing (analogue) archaeological taxonomies to SKOS and release them as linked open data authorities, beginning with the Swedish monuments types thesaurus.
Real-time Visualisation of Cultural Heritage and Environmental Archaeology Da...Marcus Smith
This document discusses a hack day event called "ArkHack" where participants worked to link archaeological, cultural heritage, and environmental data. It describes efforts to map environmental data from the SEAD database to linked open data formats. The document then discusses potential uses of linked data from multiple sources to reconstruct past landscapes and environments over time through techniques like paleoenvironmental modeling. Challenges and prerequisites for more fully realizing this vision are also outlined.
Linked Open Data and The Digital Archaeological Workflow at the Swedish Natio...Marcus Smith
A presentation of two aspects of the linked open data work ongoing at the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet): Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH/K-samsök) and the Digital Archaeological Process (DAP).
Delivered at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 2014-11-10
The Semantic Web and the Digital Archaeological Workflow: A Case Study from S...Marcus Smith
The document discusses the Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH) project and the Digital Archaeological Workflow (DAP) project. SOCH aggregates metadata from 40 Swedish cultural heritage institutions containing over 4.7 million objects and makes it available and queryable via APIs and as linked open data. DAP aims to address problems with the current unstructured and disconnected handling of archaeological data and events by developing a central digital archive, semantically linking data, and expressing fieldwork documentation as linked data. The goals are to improve access, discovery, and reuse of archaeological information through a more integrated digital system.
Samordningssekretariatet för digitalisering - RIksarkivet 20111025Lars Lundqvist
DC-net och Samordningssekretariatet för digitalisering anordnade ett seminarium kring infrastruktur för forskning. Bilderna visar vad RIksantikvarieämbetet arbetar med.
The Digital Archaeological Workflow: A Case Study from SwedenMarcus Smith
# The Digital Archaeological Workflow: A Case Study from Sweden
The Digital Archaeological Workflow (DAP) is a programme of work being carried out at the Information Development Unit at the Swedish National Heritage Board, in partnership with the major Swedish archaeological stakeholders. The programme aims to streamline the flow of archaeological data (and its associated metadata) between different actors in the Swedish archaeological process, and to ensure that this data is preserved in a sustainable and accessible manner. It aims to address a number of problems which have hampered the practice of archaeology in Sweden for some time, but which have now started to become more acute as digital technology saturates the processes involved.
There is no centralised register of archaeological fieldwork in Sweden, making it difficult not only to keep track of what is going on where, but also to know what fieldwork – if any – has taken place in connection to a particular site in the national sites and monuments record. Sweden also has no central digital archive for the storage of either archaeological fieldwork data or reports; as such records are now produced digitally, valuable archaeological data is thus increasingly at risk of being lost.
Furthermore, despite the fact that almost all of the data and administrative metadata surrounding archaeological work are digital-born, they are still handled according to analogue paradigms, particularly when information must be shared between different organisations. Sources of archaeological data which are currently made available digitally by various national and local bodies are not typically linked together. This leads to inefficiencies in information transfer, duplication of data and effort, and to information describing the same 'objects' being stored in different systems within different organisations.
The DAP programme intends to address these problems over the course of a five-year period, using standardised platform-agnostic data formats and protocols to streamline information transfer between organisations, by releasing a series of open taxonomies and ontologies for common Swedish archaeological terms and concepts on the semantic web in order to facilitate data interoperability, and by creating a secure digital repository both for the raw data and reports arising from fieldwork and research. We aim to make this information freely available as linked open data.
Our overall mapping of the current Swedish archaeological process is complete (although some details remain) and we are currently working on a conceptual model on which our future information architecture will be based. In parallell, we are also working to translate and release our existing (analogue) archaeological taxonomies to SKOS and release them as linked open data authorities, beginning with the Swedish monuments types thesaurus.
Real-time Visualisation of Cultural Heritage and Environmental Archaeology Da...Marcus Smith
This document discusses a hack day event called "ArkHack" where participants worked to link archaeological, cultural heritage, and environmental data. It describes efforts to map environmental data from the SEAD database to linked open data formats. The document then discusses potential uses of linked data from multiple sources to reconstruct past landscapes and environments over time through techniques like paleoenvironmental modeling. Challenges and prerequisites for more fully realizing this vision are also outlined.
Linked Open Data and The Digital Archaeological Workflow at the Swedish Natio...Marcus Smith
A presentation of two aspects of the linked open data work ongoing at the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet): Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH/K-samsök) and the Digital Archaeological Process (DAP).
Delivered at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 2014-11-10
The Semantic Web and the Digital Archaeological Workflow: A Case Study from S...Marcus Smith
The document discusses the Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH) project and the Digital Archaeological Workflow (DAP) project. SOCH aggregates metadata from 40 Swedish cultural heritage institutions containing over 4.7 million objects and makes it available and queryable via APIs and as linked open data. DAP aims to address problems with the current unstructured and disconnected handling of archaeological data and events by developing a central digital archive, semantically linking data, and expressing fieldwork documentation as linked data. The goals are to improve access, discovery, and reuse of archaeological information through a more integrated digital system.
Digitalt ekosystem för museer - vision och målbild samt exempel på tillämpning. Föredrag på konferensen Digikult - kulturarv i praktiken. Göteborg 25/3 2015.
Digitalt ekosystem för museer - vision och målbild samt exempel på tillämpning. Föredrag på konferensen Digikult - kulturarv i praktiken. Göteborg 25/3 2015.
3. Problembeskrivning
• Inget gemensamt
undersökningsregister
• Inget gemensamt lager
för arkeologisk data
’Charles Babb parts stroage’ – SDASM (flickr)
4. Problembeskrivning
• Inget gemensamt
undersökningsregister
• Inget gemensamt lager
för arkeologisk data
• Splittrad tillgänglighet
för rapporterna
5. Problembeskrivning
• Inget gemensamt
undersökningsregister
• Inget gemensamt lager
för arkeologisk data
• Splittrad tillgänglighet
för rapporterna
• Källorna är ej
sammanlänkade ’silos’ – Doc Searls (flickr)
6. Problembeskrivning
• Inget gemensamt
undersökningsregister
• Inget gemensamt lager
för arkeologisk data
• Splittrad tillgänglighet
för rapporterna
• Källorna är ej
sammanlänkade
• Ineffektiv
informationsöverföring
(digitalt → papper → digitalt)
How It Works – The Computer.
The Output Unit. (Ladybird books)
7. Slutsats
• Information som beskriver en
och samma sak, splittras upp
• Relationerna mellan olika
enheter beskrivs inte
• Digital information hanteras
utifrån analoga principer
8. Gemensamma behov
• Ett undersökningsregister
• Ett digitalt rapportregister
• Ett lager för fältdokumentation
(alt distribuerad enligt en gemensam modell)
• Sömlös elektronisk dataöverföring
mellan olika organisationer
9. Mål för DAP
• Digitalt arkiv för
arkeologisk data
’CERN storage servers’ – skimaniac (flickr)
10. Mål för DAP
• Digitalt arkiv för
arkeologisk data
• Tillgång till källdatan
11. Mål för DAP
• Digitalt arkiv för
arkeologisk data
• Tillgång till källdatan
• Semantiskt länkad
data
’Anchor Men of the Mauretania’
Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums (flickr)
12. Mål för DAP
• Digitalt arkiv för
arkeologisk data
• Tillgång till källdatan
• Semantiskt länkad
data
• Öppet licensierad och
återanvändningsbar
data ’Come in We’re Open’ – jilleatsapples (flickr)
13. Mål för DAP
• Digitalt arkiv för
arkeologisk data
• Tillgång till källdatan
• Semantiskt länkad
data
• Öppet licensierad och
återanvändningsbar
data
• Händelsebaserat ’Come in We’re Open’ – jilleatsapples (flickr)
FMIS
14. Objekt Resultat: Karta
Sökgränssnitt
Inventeringsd Undersökning
Kartpresentation
Kart- Kartsök Metadatasök ata sdata
(FMIS)
server
UGC
Händelseflöde
Fråga Svar
Litteratur
(Libris)
Wikipedia K-samsök (SOCH) UGC
Platsr
Rapporter
Undersökni Fältdokume Bilder, Föremål Andra
FMIS Media
ngs-register ntation ritningar Museer
(Dspace) K-Samsök
källor…
Varje fornlämning har en hemsida.
Visar (länkar) till:
-inventeringsdata
-rapport, litteratur
Besluts- -GIS-dataset alt skannat material
register -Föremål/fynd
-Bilder + ritningar
-Analysdata
17. Kända resultat – och lösningar…
Problem: Lösning:
• Det sker dubbelarbete • Det krävs ökad
• Oklart ansvar för samordning och
informationshantering samarbete mellan de
• Analoga delprocesser olika aktörerna
skapar friktion • Se till att alla processer
• Informationen är svår att hanteras digitalt
hitta • Skapa ett lager för
• Akut behov av ett digitala rapporter och
fältdokumentation
digitallager 'Grävlagret'
18. Händelsebaserat FMIS
• Informationssystemet om
fornminnen är ett system
som innehåller
information om
fornminnen(!)
’Ottarshögen i Vendels socken, Uppland, 1979’
Upplandsmuseet (Kringla)
19. Händelsebaserat FMIS
• Informationssystemet om
fornminnen är ett system
som innehåller
information om
fornminnen(!)
• Inte så mycket om
antikvariska händelser:
undersökningar,
utgrävningar, osv.
Antikvarisk händelse: kattungar!
En kokgrop; Straumen, Inderøya, Nord-Trøndelag
NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet (flickr)
20. Händelsebaserat FMIS
• Informationssystemet om
fornminnen är ett system
som innehåller
information om
fornminnen(!)
• Inte så mycket om
antikvariska händelser:
undersökningar,
utgrävningar, osv.
• Informationen som finns
’bricks’ – Judy van der Velden (flickr)
är ostrukturerad och
därmed svårt att söka
21. Händelsebaserat FMIS
Huvudproblem: Konstaterande:
• Det är svårt att hitta resultat • Undersökningar är händelser
från arkeologiska som berör FMIS-objekt
undersökningar (fornlämningar)
Beroende på att: Lösning:
• Det saknas (system för) • Händelser bör kopplas till
strukturerad information om FMIS
antikvariska händelser • FMIS-objekten får en ”biografi”
• Objekt som beskriver
händelser ska semantiskt
länkas mot FMIS-objekt
26. Hur fortsätter vi?
• Vi måste samarbeta kring
gemensamma lösningar
• Ambitionen är att skapa en eller flera
samarbetsplattformar och
gemensamma projekt
• Tillämpningar/gränssnitt kan använda
sig av plattformen efter olika behov
27. Hur fortsätter vi?
• Kartläggning: Hur funkar det idag?
• Behovsanalys: Hur borde det funka?
• Standards och öppna format
• Gradvis, hållbar förbättring
(tänker inte lösa allt på en gång!)
• För det mesta, den tekniska
infrastrukturen redan finns!
28. Objekt Resultat: Karta
Sökgränssnitt
Inventeringsd Undersökning
Kartpresentation
Kart- Kartsök Metadatasök ata sdata
(FMIS)
server
UGC
Händelseflöde
Fråga Svar
Litteratur
(Libris)
Wikipedia K-samsök (SOCH) UGC
Platsr
Rapporter
Undersökni Fältdokume Bilder, Föremål Andra
FMIS Media
ngs-register ntation ritningar Museer
(Dspace) K-Samsök
källor…
Varje fornlämning har en hemsida.
Visar (länkar) till:
-inventeringsdata
-rapport, litteratur
Besluts- -GIS-dataset alt skannat material
register -Föremål/fynd
-Bilder + ritningar
-Analysdata