A brief introduction to Metadata, it’s value and how it can be leveraged in Omeka as a digital narrative tool; and to evaluate what digital narrative tools - such as Omeka or others - may be of use in sharing your research – and telling your story.
Why do they call it Linked Data when they want to say...?Oscar Corcho
The four Linked Data publishing principles established in 2006 seem to be quite clear and well understood by people inside and outside the core Linked Data and Semantic Web community. However, not only when discussing with outsiders about the goodness of Linked Data but also when reviewing papers for the COLD workshop series, I find myself, in many occasions, going back again to the principles in order to see whether some approach for Web data publication and consumption is actually Linked Data or not. In this talk we will review some of the current approaches that we have for publishing data on the Web, and we will reflect on why it is sometimes so difficult to get into an agreement on what we understand by Linked Data. Furthermore, we will take the opportunity to describe yet another approach that we have been working on recently at the Center for Open Middleware, a joint technology center between Banco Santander and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in order to facilitate Linked Data consumption.
Slides for a presentation made at the Archives Association of British Columbia's 2016 Annual Conference, April 15, 2016, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The slides aim to provide users with a basic introduction to some of the key considerations when implementing a digital preservation plan, describing the workflow with a series of cooking-related references.
Digital Infrastructure: Storage and Content ManagementNoreen Whysel
Discusses analogies between the rise of the electric power grid and the Internet. Describes storage capacity issues and requirements for digital repositories. Reviews different repository platforms specific to archival and digital collection management. Has a really cool picture of Burden's Wheel.
Linked Statistical Data: does it actually pay off?Oscar Corcho
Invited keynote at the ISWC2015 Workshop on Semantics and Statistics (SemStats 2015). http://semstats.github.io/2015/
The release of the W3C RDF Data Cube recommendation was a significant milestone towards improving the maturity of the area of Linked Statistical Data. Many Data Cube-based datasets have been released since then. Tools for the generation and exploitation of such datasets have also appeared. While the benefits for the usage of RDF Data Cube and the generation of Linked Data in this area seem to be clear, there are still many challenges associated to the generation and exploitation of such data. In this talk we will reflect about them, based on our experience on generating and exploiting such type of data, and hopefully provoke some discussion about what the next steps should be.
This paper surveys the landscape of linked open data projects in cultural heritage, exam- ining the work of groups from around the world. Traditionally, linked open data has been ranked using the five star method proposed by Tim Berners-Lee. We found this ranking to be lacking when evaluating how cultural heritage groups not merely develop linked open datasets, but find ways to used linked data to augment user experience. Building on the five-star method, we developed a six-stage life cycle describing both dataset development and dataset usage. We use this framework to describe and evaluate fifteen linked open data projects in the realm of cultural heritage.
DBpedia Archive using Memento, Triple Pattern Fragments, and HDTHerbert Van de Sompel
DBpedia is the Linked Data version of Wikipedia. Starting in 2007, several DBpedia dumps have been made available for download. In 2010, the Research Library at the Los Alamos National Laboratory used these dumps to deploy a Memento-compliant DBpedia Archive, in order to demonstrate the applicability and appeal of accessing temporal versions of Linked Data sets using the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” protocol. The archive supported datetime negotiation to access various temporal versions of RDF descriptions of DBpedia subject URIs.
In a recent collaboration with the iMinds Group of Ghent University, the DBpedia Archive received a major overhaul. The initial MongoDB storage approach, which was unable to handle increasingly large DBpedia dumps, was replaced by HDT, the Binary RDF Representation for Publication and Exchange. And, in addition to the existing subject URI access point, Triple Pattern Fragments access, as proposed by the Linked Data Fragments project, was added. This allows datetime negotiation for URIs that identify RDF triples that match subject/predicate/object patterns. To add this powerful capability, native Memento support was added to the Linked Data Fragments Server of Ghent University.
In this talk, we will include a brief refresher of Memento, and will cover Linked Data Fragments, Triple Pattern Fragments, and HDT in more detail. We will share lessons learned from this effort and demo the new DBpedia Archive, which, at this point, holds over 5 billion RDF triples.
A brief introduction to Metadata, it’s value and how it can be leveraged in Omeka as a digital narrative tool; and to evaluate what digital narrative tools - such as Omeka or others - may be of use in sharing your research – and telling your story.
Why do they call it Linked Data when they want to say...?Oscar Corcho
The four Linked Data publishing principles established in 2006 seem to be quite clear and well understood by people inside and outside the core Linked Data and Semantic Web community. However, not only when discussing with outsiders about the goodness of Linked Data but also when reviewing papers for the COLD workshop series, I find myself, in many occasions, going back again to the principles in order to see whether some approach for Web data publication and consumption is actually Linked Data or not. In this talk we will review some of the current approaches that we have for publishing data on the Web, and we will reflect on why it is sometimes so difficult to get into an agreement on what we understand by Linked Data. Furthermore, we will take the opportunity to describe yet another approach that we have been working on recently at the Center for Open Middleware, a joint technology center between Banco Santander and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, in order to facilitate Linked Data consumption.
Slides for a presentation made at the Archives Association of British Columbia's 2016 Annual Conference, April 15, 2016, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The slides aim to provide users with a basic introduction to some of the key considerations when implementing a digital preservation plan, describing the workflow with a series of cooking-related references.
Digital Infrastructure: Storage and Content ManagementNoreen Whysel
Discusses analogies between the rise of the electric power grid and the Internet. Describes storage capacity issues and requirements for digital repositories. Reviews different repository platforms specific to archival and digital collection management. Has a really cool picture of Burden's Wheel.
Linked Statistical Data: does it actually pay off?Oscar Corcho
Invited keynote at the ISWC2015 Workshop on Semantics and Statistics (SemStats 2015). http://semstats.github.io/2015/
The release of the W3C RDF Data Cube recommendation was a significant milestone towards improving the maturity of the area of Linked Statistical Data. Many Data Cube-based datasets have been released since then. Tools for the generation and exploitation of such datasets have also appeared. While the benefits for the usage of RDF Data Cube and the generation of Linked Data in this area seem to be clear, there are still many challenges associated to the generation and exploitation of such data. In this talk we will reflect about them, based on our experience on generating and exploiting such type of data, and hopefully provoke some discussion about what the next steps should be.
This paper surveys the landscape of linked open data projects in cultural heritage, exam- ining the work of groups from around the world. Traditionally, linked open data has been ranked using the five star method proposed by Tim Berners-Lee. We found this ranking to be lacking when evaluating how cultural heritage groups not merely develop linked open datasets, but find ways to used linked data to augment user experience. Building on the five-star method, we developed a six-stage life cycle describing both dataset development and dataset usage. We use this framework to describe and evaluate fifteen linked open data projects in the realm of cultural heritage.
DBpedia Archive using Memento, Triple Pattern Fragments, and HDTHerbert Van de Sompel
DBpedia is the Linked Data version of Wikipedia. Starting in 2007, several DBpedia dumps have been made available for download. In 2010, the Research Library at the Los Alamos National Laboratory used these dumps to deploy a Memento-compliant DBpedia Archive, in order to demonstrate the applicability and appeal of accessing temporal versions of Linked Data sets using the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” protocol. The archive supported datetime negotiation to access various temporal versions of RDF descriptions of DBpedia subject URIs.
In a recent collaboration with the iMinds Group of Ghent University, the DBpedia Archive received a major overhaul. The initial MongoDB storage approach, which was unable to handle increasingly large DBpedia dumps, was replaced by HDT, the Binary RDF Representation for Publication and Exchange. And, in addition to the existing subject URI access point, Triple Pattern Fragments access, as proposed by the Linked Data Fragments project, was added. This allows datetime negotiation for URIs that identify RDF triples that match subject/predicate/object patterns. To add this powerful capability, native Memento support was added to the Linked Data Fragments Server of Ghent University.
In this talk, we will include a brief refresher of Memento, and will cover Linked Data Fragments, Triple Pattern Fragments, and HDT in more detail. We will share lessons learned from this effort and demo the new DBpedia Archive, which, at this point, holds over 5 billion RDF triples.
Inside a Digital Collection: Historic Clothing in OmekaArden Kirkland
In July of 2014, I was invited to present a guest lecture for Foundations of Digital Data (IST676) at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, taught by Angela U. Ramnarine-Rieks. This talk provides an inside look at creating a digital collection. As this was an online, asynchronous class, I recorded my presentation as a YouTube video, which you can see at http://youtu.be/vYTggDBqBgQ. It includes some discussion of the technical underpinnings of the Omeka site I've created for Vassar's collection of historic clothing, including slides that show my customizations in PHP for showing related items.
Intro to Digital Archiving, Exhibit Building & Web Publishing with OmekaAshley Sanders, Ph.D.
Learn how to set up Omeka, add items to the database, create metadata, add tags, build collections and exhibits, enhance the features of your Omeka website by installing plugins, and how make your site fully searchable.
Digital Tools in The Classroom: Omeka Workshop (Northeastern University)jkmcgrath
Slides from a workshop on using Omeka in the college classroom. The workshop, held on November 17th, 2014 at Northeastern University, was run by Jim McGrath, Dave DeCamp, and Amanda Rust. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Group and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. For more information about the DSG, please visit dsg.neu.edu. For more information about the NULab, please visit nulab.neu.edu
Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projectslibrarianrafia
Digital Frontiers 2015 https://digital-frontiers.org/ Presentation on Omeka 9/18/2015
Presenters: Jeff Downing, Lynn Johnson, and Derek Reece (Digital Projects Librarians) and Rafia Mirza (Digital Humanities Librarian)
This is a very basic workshop to introduce novice users to Omeka with an eye towards providing hands-on experience to decide whether it can serve their own research needs.
Digital Tools, Trends and Methodologies in the Humanities and Social SciencesShawn Day
This interactive seminar will explore trends and initiatives in the digital community of practice in the humanities and the social sciences. Participants will come away with a appreciation of from where the field has emerged and how it interacts with traditional disciplines. This seminar will be of interest to those in traditional disciplines as well as the wider academy as digital humanities is both collaborative and multidisciplinary in practise. It is intended to form a broad and easy introduction to the practise of digital humanities and will appeal especially to new scholar who is open to the potential to combine their traditional scholarship with digital tools and methodologies. It is *introductory* in nature.
Slides and notes from a presentation that I gave as part of a masterclass for library managers in April 2008. Some slides contain links and the slides are best read in conjunction with the notes that appear at the bottom of the slideshare screen.
A North Carolina Connecting to Collections (C2C) workshop co-taught by Audra Eagle Yun (WFU), Nicholas Graham (UNC), and Lisa Gregory (State Archives of NC). This workshop took place on June 13, 2011 in Wilson, NC.
DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor
Joint Training Event:
The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications
March, 23th- 27th 2008
Barcelona, Spain
Christian Keitel
Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg and nestor
we adopt two points of view.
1) A national contributor point of view who wants to give visibility to his contributions
2) A researchers point of view, of any countries, who is looking for specific tools or data of any topics. Consequently, this proposal wants to give to the researchers some means to find relevant information
Inside a Digital Collection: Historic Clothing in OmekaArden Kirkland
In July of 2014, I was invited to present a guest lecture for Foundations of Digital Data (IST676) at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, taught by Angela U. Ramnarine-Rieks. This talk provides an inside look at creating a digital collection. As this was an online, asynchronous class, I recorded my presentation as a YouTube video, which you can see at http://youtu.be/vYTggDBqBgQ. It includes some discussion of the technical underpinnings of the Omeka site I've created for Vassar's collection of historic clothing, including slides that show my customizations in PHP for showing related items.
Intro to Digital Archiving, Exhibit Building & Web Publishing with OmekaAshley Sanders, Ph.D.
Learn how to set up Omeka, add items to the database, create metadata, add tags, build collections and exhibits, enhance the features of your Omeka website by installing plugins, and how make your site fully searchable.
Digital Tools in The Classroom: Omeka Workshop (Northeastern University)jkmcgrath
Slides from a workshop on using Omeka in the college classroom. The workshop, held on November 17th, 2014 at Northeastern University, was run by Jim McGrath, Dave DeCamp, and Amanda Rust. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Group and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. For more information about the DSG, please visit dsg.neu.edu. For more information about the NULab, please visit nulab.neu.edu
Using Omeka as a Gateway to Digital Projectslibrarianrafia
Digital Frontiers 2015 https://digital-frontiers.org/ Presentation on Omeka 9/18/2015
Presenters: Jeff Downing, Lynn Johnson, and Derek Reece (Digital Projects Librarians) and Rafia Mirza (Digital Humanities Librarian)
This is a very basic workshop to introduce novice users to Omeka with an eye towards providing hands-on experience to decide whether it can serve their own research needs.
Digital Tools, Trends and Methodologies in the Humanities and Social SciencesShawn Day
This interactive seminar will explore trends and initiatives in the digital community of practice in the humanities and the social sciences. Participants will come away with a appreciation of from where the field has emerged and how it interacts with traditional disciplines. This seminar will be of interest to those in traditional disciplines as well as the wider academy as digital humanities is both collaborative and multidisciplinary in practise. It is intended to form a broad and easy introduction to the practise of digital humanities and will appeal especially to new scholar who is open to the potential to combine their traditional scholarship with digital tools and methodologies. It is *introductory* in nature.
Slides and notes from a presentation that I gave as part of a masterclass for library managers in April 2008. Some slides contain links and the slides are best read in conjunction with the notes that appear at the bottom of the slideshare screen.
A North Carolina Connecting to Collections (C2C) workshop co-taught by Audra Eagle Yun (WFU), Nicholas Graham (UNC), and Lisa Gregory (State Archives of NC). This workshop took place on June 13, 2011 in Wilson, NC.
DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor
Joint Training Event:
The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications
March, 23th- 27th 2008
Barcelona, Spain
Christian Keitel
Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg and nestor
we adopt two points of view.
1) A national contributor point of view who wants to give visibility to his contributions
2) A researchers point of view, of any countries, who is looking for specific tools or data of any topics. Consequently, this proposal wants to give to the researchers some means to find relevant information
Report on the International Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives and Muse...Adrian Stevenson
A report on the 'International Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums Summit' held in San Francisco, California June 2-3, 2011 for the 'Linked Data and Libraries 2011' event held at the British Library, London, UK, 14th July 2011
http://lod-lam.net/summit/
http://consulting.talis.com/event/linked-data-in-libraries/
WGBH Media Library and Archives Director Karen Cariani and American Archive of Public Broadcasting Project Manager Casey Davis gave this presentation at the New England Archivists 2014 Fall Symposium. Karen and Casey discussed managing and preserving digital video; Project Hydra; metadata for audiovisual materials; and collaboration with other institutions through the lens of WGBH Media Library and Archives projects including the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and the NEH funded HydraDAM project.
RDMkit, a Research Data Management Toolkit. Built by the Community for the ...Carole Goble
https://datascience.nih.gov/news/march-data-sharing-and-reuse-seminar 11 March 2022
Starting in 2023, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will require institutes and researchers receiving funding to include a Data Management Plan (DMP) in their grant applications, including the making their data publicly available. Similar mandates are already in place in Europe, for example a DMP is mandatory in Horizon Europe projects involving data.
Policy is one thing - practice is quite another. How do we provide the necessary information, guidance and advice for our bioscientists, researchers, data stewards and project managers? There are numerous repositories and standards. Which is best? What are the challenges at each step of the data lifecycle? How should different types of data? What tools are available? Research Data Management advice is often too general to be useful and specific information is fragmented and hard to find.
ELIXIR, the pan-national European Research Infrastructure for Life Science data, aims to enable research projects to operate “FAIR data first”. ELIXIR supports researchers across their whole RDM lifecycle, navigating the complexity of a data ecosystem that bridges from local cyberinfrastructures to pan-national archives and across bio-domains.
The ELIXIR RDMkit (https://rdmkit.elixir-europe.org (link is external)) is a toolkit built by the biosciences community, for the biosciences community to provide the RDM information they need. It is a framework for advice and best practice for RDM and acts as a hub of RDM information, with links to tool registries, training materials, standards, and databases, and to services that offer deeper knowledge for DMP planning and FAIR-ification practices.
Launched in March 2021, over 120 contributors have provided nearly 100 pages of content and links to more than 300 tools. Content covers the data lifecycle and specialized domains in biology, national considerations and examples of “tool assemblies” developed to support RDM. It has been accessed by over 123 countries, and the top of the access list is … the United States.
The RDMkit is already a recommended resource of the European Commission. The platform, editorial, and contributor methods helped build a specialized sister toolkit for infectious diseases as part of the recently launched BY-COVID project. The toolkit’s platform is the simplest we could manage - built on plain GitHub - and the whole development and contribution approach tailored to be as lightweight and sustainable as possible.
In this talk, Carole and Frederik will present the RDMkit; aims and context, content, community management, how folks can contribute, and our future plans and potential prospects for trans-Atlantic cooperation.
Data policy must be partnered with data practice. Our researchers need to be the best informed in order to meet these new data management and data sharing mandates.
Similar to ICRH Winter Institute Strand 4 Day 1 - Building Narratives with Digital Objects (20)
Requirements Engineering for the HumanitiesShawn Day
This workshop explores how requirements engineering can be employed by digital and non-digital humanities scholars (and others) to conceptualise and communicate a research project.
requirementsEngineeringAs the field of digital humanities has evolved, one of the biggest challenges has been getting the marrying technical expertise with humanities scholarly practice to successfully deliver sustainable and sound digital projects. At its core this is a communications exercise. However, to communicate effectively demands an ability to effectively translate, define and find clarity in your own mind.
Google Tools for Digital Humanities ScholarsShawn Day
In this seminar we have introduced many lesser known, but potentially even more useful tools to scholars such as the particularly powerful Google Fusion Tables and Google Trends to the simple but powerful Google Keep among others. This just scrapes the surface with a series of tools that evolve everyday and with new tools emerging and other fading away after contributing to our scholarly imagination.
Mapping your data can help to provide new insights on your research findings. However, many scholars are put off by the steep learning curve demanded by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) such as ArcGIS from ESRI. New and simple tools have become available that offer sophisticated output without extensive training. In fact, tools such as Google Maps, Google Earth, Open Street Map among others can offer immediate returns in a matter of hours where tasks in the past required, weeks, months and even years of training.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptx
ICRH Winter Institute Strand 4 Day 1 - Building Narratives with Digital Objects
1. Metadata and Omeka
Developing Narratives around Digital Objects
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Deirdre Wildy
Catherine Porter
Shawn Day
Digital Environments Winter Institute
29 January 2014
2. Workshop Strand Agenda
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Wednesday 13:45 - 17:30
What and why is Metadata?
Welcome, Introduction and a look at
Metadata
Hands-On: Breakouts with artefacts
and metadata
Presentation: A Brief Introduction to
OMEKA for collection management
Hands-On: Adding Digital Objects to a
Collection
Roundtable: How do you use
Metadata in Your Work
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Presentation : The Life of Robert Hart
Presentation: Exploring OMEKA and
it’s Narrative Tools
Hands-On: Building a Narrative
Exhibit
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Thursday 9:30 -11:00
Presentation/Case Study:
Crónán Ó Doibhlin
Wrap-Up/ Alternate Tools / Extending
and Discussion – All
3. Objective
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A brief introduction to Metadata, it’s value and how it can
be leveraged using Omeka as a digital narrative tool;
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Outcome: to be informed to evaluate what digital narrative
tools - such as Omeka - may be of use in your research
programme.
4. "If a resource does not have any associated metadata
information, then it is essentially lost."
5. "If a resource has erroneous, inconsistent, or not enough
metadata information, then it is essentially non-existent."
6. Why and How? - Basic Metadata
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What is this resource?
Who created the resource?
When was this resource created or published?
Why was this resource created?
Who owns or how do you purchase the resource?
Can you re-use and/or share this resource? (Licensing)
7. Types of Metadata
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Descriptive metadata —> Identification;
Structural metadata —> Referential;
Administrative metadata —> meta metadata —> Manage;
Technical metadata —> Production Process;
Preservation metadata —> Preservation Processes;
Rights metadata —> Access and Use.
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Some or all
13. TITLE
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Title
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<dc:title></dc:title>
What the formal name of this resource - how would a user
know it?
Examples: title of a painting, photo, document; the name of a
person when using the "person" item type; the name of a
lesson plan.
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Subject
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<dc:subject></dc:subject>
What is the domain area/topic (non-spatial or temporal) that
the object is part of?
Controlled vocabularies such as the Getty can help here.
Typically keywords, key phrases, or classification codes.
Examples: Library of Congress subject headings; subjectspecific nomenclature.
15. DESCRIPTION
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Description
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<dc:description></dc:description>
What sort of short narrative will help a user to know whether
this resource is relevant to their needs?
This is often an abstract, a table of contents or even a
graphical representation of the object
Examples: a photo caption; descriptive information of an
artifact/museum object; summary of a lesson plan; abstract
or summary of a long document;
16. CREATOR
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Creator
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<dc:creator></dc:creator>
Who is responsible for making this digital resource - digtiser,
digital author?
The original author or the digitising institution?
Examples: Author/authors; artists; photographers; institutional
authors or producers, such as university or federal agency.
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<dc:source></dc:source>
From what resource did the derived digital resource come
from?
This can be a type, a descriptor but best practice recommends
a string conforming to a formal identifier system
Examples: Accession number; Collection of objects; Division of
an archive or library.
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A point or period in the lifecycle of the digital object
When was this scanned? When was it published?
Consistency - decided by project management - documented
Consider in relation to the coverage of the object
Date is one of the trickiest fields to fill.You will want to decide how best
to use it for your project for consistency. There is an open text field for
date so that you can reflect the type of date information you have
whether it is a very specific date MM/DD/YYYY or if it is "circa 1940".
21. RIGHTS
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Rights
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<dc:rights></dc:rights>
What restrictions are held in and over this resource?
This is typically a statement relation to the intellectual and
usage rights relating to this digital object
Examples: spell out conditions of use for specific items here;
Creative Commons type; Public Domain.
23. FORMAT
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Format
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<dc:format></dc:format>
What is the file format of this digital resource?
Examples include size and duration. Recommended best
practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the
Internet Media Types (MIME).
25. TYPE
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Type
‣ <dc:type></dc:type>
‣ What defined type best represents the object you are referencing?
‣ Best practice to use the DCMI Type controlled vocabulary
‣ http://dublincore.org/documents/2010/10/11/dcmi-typevocabulary/
‣ Examples: For consistency, use item type controlled vocabulary
provided by Omeka: Document, Moving Image, Oral History,
Sound, Still Image,Website, Event, Email, Lesson Plan, Hyperlink,
Person, or Interactive Resource.
27. COVERAGE
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Coverage
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<dc:coverage></dc:coverage>
To what defining place or time is this item relevant (spatial or
temporal)?
Typically relies on a controlled vocabulary relevant to the
domain, ie. The Getty Museum / Research Institute
Where appropriate, named places or time periods can be
used in preference to numeric identifiers such as sets of
coordinates or date ranges.
28. Keeping in Mind the User !!
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How will people find what they are looking for?
How will they differentiate from one 'thing' over another?
How will your information architecture refer to the digital
objects?
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Useful for Straight Dublin Core: Dublin Core Generator
29. Lessons
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The world is fluid and formats and standards change
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How can I choose the right one?
Be consistent and you can transform and evolve Crosswalks
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How can I make the right decisions?
I am a big fan of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
They have some very useful tools: http://dcc.ac.uk
32. A Quick Look at Omeka
Collecting and Managing Digital Objects
33. Who’s Behind Omeka?: CNMH
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Roy Rosenzweig Centre for New Media and History
Founded 1994
George Mason University in Washington
Collaborative Space Supporting 50+ Scholars
To preserve and present history online
Transform scholarship across the humanities
Supported by grants from AHA, NEH, NHC, Library of
Congress, Mellon, Sloan, Rockefeller and Kellog
Foundations amongst others
34. Products
Zotero
Omeka
Omeka.net
THATCamp
Scripto
PressForward
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!
!
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Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is
a free, easy-to-use
Firefox extension to
help you collect,
manage, and cite
your research
sources.
Designed for cultural
Let Omeka.net host your
institutions, enthusiasts,
collections, research,
and educators, Omeka is
exhibits, and digital
a platform for publishing
projects.
online collections and
exhibitions.
Short for “The
Humanities and
Technology Camp,"
THATCamp is a
BarCamp-style, usergenerated
“unconference” on
digital humanities.
Scripto is a free, open
source tool that enables
community
transcriptions of
document and
multimedia files.
PressForward is
pioneering new
methods to capture
and highlight
orphaned or
underappreciated
scholarship and
share it with digital
humanists across
the web.
ScholarPress
Anthologize
Survey Builder
Timeline Builder
Serendip-o-matic
Web Scrapbook
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!
!
!
!
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Manage your class,
Anthologize is a free, open- Build online surveys that
publish research, or
source, plugin that
are especially
collaborate on a
transforms WordPress
applicable to oral
conference
into a platform for
histories.
presentation with this
publishing electronic
hub for scholarly &
texts.
educational plugins.
CHNM Labs: Easily
create and manage a
timeline of historical
events for your
website.
Serendip-o-matic connects
your sources to digital
materials located in
libraries, museums, and
archives around the
world.
Store all kinds of
media items —
URLs, images, text,
and movies — &
collaborate thru the
CHNM online
scrapbook.
35. What is Omeka?
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Omeka was developed at Center for History and New
Media (CHNM) at George Mason University as a "next
generation web publishing platform for museums,
historical societies, scholars, enthusiasts, and
educators." The feature-rich offering provides for the
presentation, searching and browsing of digital
collections along with a robust metadata management
facility.
39. OMEKA Core Features
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Based on Open Source
Technology: Linux,
Apache, MySQL, PHP;
Free to Use, Free to
Change;
Easy to Use;
Change Design using
Themes;
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Add Functionality with
Plug-Ins;
Unqualified Dublin Core
Metadata;
Strong Support
Community;
Extensible, Scalable,
Flexible;
Interoperable
40. What is 'an Omeka'
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An Omeka 'instance' contains:
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Items (digital Objects of various
types)
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Collections (of objects)
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Sites (set of collections)
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Exhibits (curated subsets of site
collections)
42. Workshop Logistics
1. You should have received a username and password to
the Library Omeka instance during the last few days?
2. Please access your User Account on eireidium.com/
omeka/admin - You are all Contributors
3. Add an Item to the Collection
47. Brief Omeka Tutorial: Add an Item and its MD
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Return to the Item List
Choose Add Item
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Take your Metadata record and populate the item record
Dublin Core more info: http://dublincore.org
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15 Metadata Elements of a generic and wide-ranging number
of digital resources;
Each Dublin Core element is optional and may be repeated
48. Add an Item
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Enter data to the best of your ability for the Dublin Core
info - bearing in mind not all fields are mandatory;
Title, Description and Subject important.
Title:
Description:
Subject:
54. Spend time thinking about your
metadata in advance
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It’s really about best practice
which means although you
can touch and feel an
object, you must define it
properly first
59. Create an Exhibit
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What is an Exhibit?
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A carefully composed and curated digital showcase that
organizes the images, texts, video, audio, and other
uploaded items on your Omeka site into a coherent
narrative for people to browse.
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- Harriet Green, Librarian, University of Illinois Scholarly Commons
60. Create an Exhibit
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Exhibits consist of Sections and Pages and Group
Collections and Items
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The first step is to take the time to plan your exhibit to
consider basic user interaction.
68. Add an 'About’ Page
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Use the Simple Page Plug-In to Add A Static Page
69. Thank You
Shawn Day - s.day@qub.co.uk - @iridium
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The Library/Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities
18 University Square - Ground Floor
http://qubdh.co.uk