Digitised content is often created behind tailored interfaces. How can the world of open data and APIs allow for different interfaces be built over the same content for different audiences
Keynote presentation for CSWS 2013 Conference in Shanghai, China.
Some slides borrowed from Jan Wielemaker, Guus Schreiber, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Niels Ockeloen, Antske Fokkens, Serge ter Braake.
Digital librarianship - BIALL/CLSIG/SLA Europe Open DaySimon Bowie
A presentation delivered on 18th April 2013 at the BIALL / CLSIG / SLA Europe Graduate Trainee Open Day. Discusses the emerging role of the 'digital librarian', how I developed into this career, and what skills are required of future librarians.
Keynote presentation for CSWS 2013 Conference in Shanghai, China.
Some slides borrowed from Jan Wielemaker, Guus Schreiber, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Niels Ockeloen, Antske Fokkens, Serge ter Braake.
Digital librarianship - BIALL/CLSIG/SLA Europe Open DaySimon Bowie
A presentation delivered on 18th April 2013 at the BIALL / CLSIG / SLA Europe Graduate Trainee Open Day. Discusses the emerging role of the 'digital librarian', how I developed into this career, and what skills are required of future librarians.
By invitation of the Center for Public Innovation in Bucharest, Romania, made possible by the Dutch embassy in Romania on the occasion of the Culture Hack program, a presentation to see what Romania and The Netherlands can collaborate upon in the context of European Digital Culture with a focus on open data.
Digital History Seminar and Archives and Society Seminar
Institute of Historical Research
23 June 2015
http://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2015/06/15/23-june-2015-exploring-big-and-small-historical-datasets-reflections-on-two-recent-projects/
Digital Scholarship Seminar: Implications of Data for the 21st-century HumanistRebecca Davis
As increasing amounts of humanities data comes online, scholars face new challenges in adapting traditional research, dissemination, and teaching practices. Without pretending to have all the answers, this presentation will address a constellation of related questions:
What do humanists gain from using new techniques for quick charting or mapping of their data?
How can we lower the technological barrier?
Does this compromise the deep analysis so valued in the humanities?
How is data in the humanities changing the relationship between researchers and archivists, as well as the nature of scholarly collaboration?
How does our evaluation of historical scholarship need to change? How much do algorithms and data literacy need to be a part of humanities courses?
What happens when we can’t understand where our data is coming from or what our digital tools are doing?
Fred Gibbs is an Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University and Director of Digital Scholarship at the Center for History and New Media.
This Digital Scholarship seminar will be facilitated by Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College (MA) and will take place online in NITLE’s Virtual Auditorium. For more information, see our instructions on Participating in Online Events.
Joseph Padfield and Rupert Shepherd, The National Gallery, and Rob Tice, Knowledge Integration
How can information be opened up within an organisation? The National Gallery was faced with a series of different systems, all holding data related to the collection - but speaking to each other only intermittently. This issue was solved with the installation of a middleware system to combine and deliver data from these eight different data sources as a seamless whole.
Our paper will look at the implications this has had for how we work with our data, and as an organisation. We will also touch upon the benefits of opening information up within our organisation, and some projects that are currently using - or are planning to use - our data, which will be delivered using established, open standards.
Cultural Heritage Insitutions and Big Data Collectionslljohnston
Data is not just generated by satellites, identified during experiments, or collected during surveys. Datasets are not just scientific and business tables and spreadsheets. We have Big Data in our Libraries, Archives and Museums, and we and managing and preserving those collections for research use. Preservation given at the 2013 Wolfram Data Summit.
Building and Evaluating Collection DashboardsRichard Urban
This slide deck served as an introduction to the Building and Evaluating Collections Dashboards Workshop, held at Museums & the Web 2010, Denver, CO.
Piotr Adamcyzk
Richard Urban
Michael Twidale
http://archimuse.com/mw2010/abstracts/prg_335002328.html
Reconciliation is a Necessity – IIIF Meeting, Edinburgh 2018 Stefano Cossu
This presentation wants to give an overview of the Getty Trust's plans to publish 50 million images from its Museum, Conservation Institute, Research Institute, and other programs using the IIIF protocol by 2022.
Abstracts for the ten presentations at EAA 2021 Session 476: Understanding and expanding capacity in archaeological data management beyond western Europe organised by ARIADNEplus and SEADDA under Theme 3: The new normality of heritage management and museums in post-Covid times on 8th September 2021.
Introduction to the Europeana hackathon in PoznanDavid Haskiya
My introductory slides for the Poznan hackathon. Covering the hackathon roadshow, its links to the EU Digital Agenda, the Europeana API, the Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot and the kind of content we have in Europeana
By invitation of the Center for Public Innovation in Bucharest, Romania, made possible by the Dutch embassy in Romania on the occasion of the Culture Hack program, a presentation to see what Romania and The Netherlands can collaborate upon in the context of European Digital Culture with a focus on open data.
Digital History Seminar and Archives and Society Seminar
Institute of Historical Research
23 June 2015
http://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2015/06/15/23-june-2015-exploring-big-and-small-historical-datasets-reflections-on-two-recent-projects/
Digital Scholarship Seminar: Implications of Data for the 21st-century HumanistRebecca Davis
As increasing amounts of humanities data comes online, scholars face new challenges in adapting traditional research, dissemination, and teaching practices. Without pretending to have all the answers, this presentation will address a constellation of related questions:
What do humanists gain from using new techniques for quick charting or mapping of their data?
How can we lower the technological barrier?
Does this compromise the deep analysis so valued in the humanities?
How is data in the humanities changing the relationship between researchers and archivists, as well as the nature of scholarly collaboration?
How does our evaluation of historical scholarship need to change? How much do algorithms and data literacy need to be a part of humanities courses?
What happens when we can’t understand where our data is coming from or what our digital tools are doing?
Fred Gibbs is an Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University and Director of Digital Scholarship at the Center for History and New Media.
This Digital Scholarship seminar will be facilitated by Kathryn Tomasek, Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College (MA) and will take place online in NITLE’s Virtual Auditorium. For more information, see our instructions on Participating in Online Events.
Joseph Padfield and Rupert Shepherd, The National Gallery, and Rob Tice, Knowledge Integration
How can information be opened up within an organisation? The National Gallery was faced with a series of different systems, all holding data related to the collection - but speaking to each other only intermittently. This issue was solved with the installation of a middleware system to combine and deliver data from these eight different data sources as a seamless whole.
Our paper will look at the implications this has had for how we work with our data, and as an organisation. We will also touch upon the benefits of opening information up within our organisation, and some projects that are currently using - or are planning to use - our data, which will be delivered using established, open standards.
Cultural Heritage Insitutions and Big Data Collectionslljohnston
Data is not just generated by satellites, identified during experiments, or collected during surveys. Datasets are not just scientific and business tables and spreadsheets. We have Big Data in our Libraries, Archives and Museums, and we and managing and preserving those collections for research use. Preservation given at the 2013 Wolfram Data Summit.
Building and Evaluating Collection DashboardsRichard Urban
This slide deck served as an introduction to the Building and Evaluating Collections Dashboards Workshop, held at Museums & the Web 2010, Denver, CO.
Piotr Adamcyzk
Richard Urban
Michael Twidale
http://archimuse.com/mw2010/abstracts/prg_335002328.html
Reconciliation is a Necessity – IIIF Meeting, Edinburgh 2018 Stefano Cossu
This presentation wants to give an overview of the Getty Trust's plans to publish 50 million images from its Museum, Conservation Institute, Research Institute, and other programs using the IIIF protocol by 2022.
Abstracts for the ten presentations at EAA 2021 Session 476: Understanding and expanding capacity in archaeological data management beyond western Europe organised by ARIADNEplus and SEADDA under Theme 3: The new normality of heritage management and museums in post-Covid times on 8th September 2021.
Introduction to the Europeana hackathon in PoznanDavid Haskiya
My introductory slides for the Poznan hackathon. Covering the hackathon roadshow, its links to the EU Digital Agenda, the Europeana API, the Europeana Linked Open Data Pilot and the kind of content we have in Europeana
How university libraries of the future need to make global content accessible locally, and local content accessible globally. Given at Slovakian Digital Library conference, October 2012
Catherine Grout's introduction to the JISC Digital Content Partnerships event (28th October 2010), with some of the background and vision informing JISC's current strategy in this area
These slides can be reused as they are according to the CC BY 4.0 license.
After a short explanation of the main principles of the semantic web, the benefits of ontologies and LOD for the cultural heritage domain are presented, accompanied by examples from the ArCo (w3id.org/arco) project.
Developments in Access to Art Information: Trove. Presentation at ARLIS confe...Rose Holley
Presentation at ARLIS conference Darwin, September 2010 by Rose Holley. Demonstrates how Trove aggregrates information for Art resources and is a useful tool for researchers, artists and librarians.
xDams and the Reload Project at "Italian lectures on semantic web and linked ...regesta_com
Le slide di Silvia Mazzini di regesta.exe sui Linked Data in ambito archivistico. Intervento sul progetto Reload e xDams alla giornata di lavoro organizzata dall' American University of Rome il 7maggio 2014. Regesta speech by Silvia Mazzini at American University of Rome workshop: "archival resources into the web of data"
Where Do I Stand? Deconstructing Digital Collections [Research] Infrastructur...Javier Pereda
This presentation sheds light on the critical challenges of establishing a sustainable digital infrastructure in the United Kingdom. The work conducted by TaNC plays a crucial role in addressing key factors within the realm of digital infrastructure, including:
[1] Tools and Pipelines: This encompasses software and related components.
[2] User Knowledge Needs: We draw insights from Ackoff's 'Data to Wisdom' model and Taylor's 'Needs of Information' theory to understand user requirements.
[3] Platform Support: This pertains to the necessary infrastructure to sustain the digital ecosystem.
Currently, our focus lies in finding solutions to several pressing issues, such as:
Capacity and Digital Readiness: We are actively exploring strategies to address capacity-related challenges and enhance digital readiness.
Open Access and Equivalently Licensed Content: We are committed to promoting open access and content with equivalent licensing to foster a more accessible digital landscape.
Collaboration Pathways: We are working towards optimizing collaboration pathways to facilitate seamless cooperation within the digital community.
How can design help us communicate data easily to users? Where does this stem from? What methods of design are easy for users to engage with? What should we be trying to achieve with these designs?
The cultural sector is a big adopter of open data and semantic web technologies. They have embraced the ideas and are weaving them into everything they do. So, who is doing what? What data sets are there available? And how have these been presented to the public.
Using case studies from the cultural sector, we will explore the practical challenges associated with complex UI designs. Looking at work-in-progress through to finished products we will discuss best practice, finding innovation, and the challenges of working with data sets.
Estermann Linked Data Ecosystem for Heritage Data - 29 Feb 2020Beat Estermann
Linked Open Data Ecosystem for Heritage Data. Presentation held at the 5th Anniversary of the Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon on 29 February 2020 at the National Library in Bern.
Tanya Szrajber, The British Museum Collection DatabaseAndrew Prescott
'The British Museum Collection Database: How to Create and Manage over 2,000,000 Records': seminar by Tanya Szrajber, Head of Documentation, The British Museum, to Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, 20 November 2012
I Linked Open Data nei Beni Culturali, alcuni progetti e casi di studioCulturaItalia
Maria Emilia Masci, Scuola Normale Superiore, Linked Open Data (LOD): Un’Opportunità per il Patrimonio Culturale Digitale, Roma, ICCU, 29 novembre 2013
Winning the Tour de France, Research Data and Data StewardshipAlastair Dunning
Presentation to Sport Data Valley given at TU Delft Library meeting on value of Data Stewardship and Curation for those working with data from elite and public sport
May 2016
A presentation from the JISC conference New Strategies for Digital Content, 18 March 2011, London
By Andy MacGregor
http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/12/09
A presentation from the JISC conference New Strategies for Digital Content, 18 March 2011, London
By Alastair Dunning
http://digitisation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/12/09
A presentation from the JISC Programme Meeting for its Content Programme for 2011 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent11.aspx
A presentation from the JISC Programme Meeting for its Content Programme for 2011 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent11.aspx
Great Expectations, or how to remain friends (with JISC) after a JISC project
A presentation from the JISC Programme Meeting for its Content Programme for 2011 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent11.aspx
Summary of the Programme Meeting by Catherine GroutAlastair Dunning
Summary of the Programme Meeting
A presentation from the JISC Programme Meeting for its Content Programme for 2011 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent11.aspx
Making sure your content is licenced and discoverable
A presentation from the JISC Programme Meeting for its Content Programme for 2011 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent11.aspx
Improving usage and impact of digitised resourcesAlastair Dunning
A presentation from the JISC Programme Meeting for its Content Programme for 2011 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/econtent11.aspx
How JISC Projects are Funded and Sustained (2010 version)Alastair Dunning
An introduction to how JISC projects are funded and sustained, with particular emphasis on concentration of projects funded under its Digitisation Programme
Stuart Dempster's presentation at the JISC Digital Content Partnerships event (28th October 2010), looking at some of the pros and cons of collaboration
Simon Whittemore's Presentation from the JISC Digital Content Partnerships event (28 October 2010), looking at Strand B of Grant call 11/10 on Developing Community Content
Alastair Dunning's Presentation from the JISC Digital Content Partnerships event (28 October 2010), looking at Strand A of Grant call 11/10 on Enriching via Collaboration, and grant call 16/10 on Rapid Digitisation
Digitisation: A Funder’s Perspective
Viewpoints from UK's funding body JISC on funding digitisation projects
Presentation given at British Library, 20th July 2010 at conference on 'Digitised History: newspapers and their impact on research into 18th and 19th century Britain'
(https://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/1157)
A description of the sustainability processes put in place by UK funding body when supporting digitisation projects in universities and cultural heritage bodies in the UK
1. Digitised Content in an API World Alastair Dunning, JISC a.dunning AT jisc.ac.uk Resource Discovery Taskforce Meeting London, 20th April 2011 Acronym Count: 8
2. types of content I’m talking about: digitised text, manuscripts, images, film footage, audio archives, newspapers, documents, music (and their metadata). ie. the type of stuff at http://www.jisc-content.ac.uk/
3. such content tends to be locked down behind interfaces. usage is tied to technical infrastructure and interface
4. the trouble with current resources is that they demand certain ways of analysing and representing the resource – and they constitute the creators’ way of seeing the world, not the users’
6. but what would such content look like in an RDTF world, where data and service are separated? What do APIs allow to happen?
7. an API driven world would allow much greater flexibility over analysing a digitised dataset, i.e. different intellectual questions to be asked
8. and also different ways of visualising that digital content Thanks David McCandless! http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/
9. and also of different ways of tailoring content for different audiences – different interfaces for schools, undergrads and researchers – all over the same content
10. more importantly, it can help break down the notion of a collection, and the related silos
22. Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, 1674-1913but it is based on an API architecture which allows for aggregation and cross-search of 11 enriched metadata sets for the resources listed above (note: the aggregators created the enriched metadata and the APIs not the resource provider, and are testing the business model behind this)
23. so not only has an API architecture created a new resource for early modern British history, aggregating many disparate datasets but others can come along and create their own interfaces – including or excluding elements of 11 resources (and adding others) as required within these sources, there is rich metadata about places, areas, streets, names, crimes, genders, ages, occupations – these can be exploited in myriad ways
24. indeed, the team will be incorporating map data and archaeological data from BL and Museum of London to allow for spatial visualisation via geographical data (maps in this case) and mashing of historical data (largely about events and people) with archaeological data (largely about objects) Map - First Series Ordnance Survey, c.1805 from British Library via http://visionofbritain.org.uk/maps
25. and think how this could work when you start bringing datasets and content from different subject areas – economics, anthropology, fashion
26. on a practical note: don’t forget sustainability – the pressure of sustaining dataset and digitised content is relaxed for the collection holder; looking after the interface less important
27. short-term wins content and enthusiasm is out there, although disparate – see The New History Lab article visualisation can produce eye-catching success short bursts of funding can make things happen scholarly labs at KCL, UCL, Sheffield and elsewhere (BL, BUFVC) enthusiasm of GLAM sector (good work at V+A and Sci Museum) opportunties for enriching metadata via crowdsourcing
28. long-term challenges getting people to build and document and sustain APIs; explaing to collection curators how and why to do it (some) publishers suspicious getting people to build interfaces on top of APIs; technical knowledge required to do so quality of metadata; who owns enriched metadata? business models unclear; related licencing interoperability between APIs? citation academic scepticism + misunderstanding {the web changes}