IFLA Satellite Meeting 2017: Digital Humanities, Berlin, August 2017
> From "boutique" to mass digitization
> (Cooperative) online platforms for digitized content
> Research Partnerships
> User Participation
> Outreach
Keynote presentation in Belgrade on December 15th, 2016 about museums and the challenges of open access and how the Rijksmuseum dealt with this during the last decade.
IBL PAN
Presentation delivered during the workshop
BEYOND APCS: ALTERNATIVE OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING BUSINESS MODELS
Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands
April 5th and 6th, 2018
Presentation by Saskia Scheltjens (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) on October 31st 2016 at the workshop Two Birds, One Stone: Bridging cultural heritage collections with crowds and niches.
“Archäologische Informationen” and Open Journal Systems. Chances and Possibil...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Alexandra Büttner, Heidelberg University Library, Germany
EAA 2014 session: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology
Istanbul, Turkey
13 September 2013
Keynote presentation in Belgrade on December 15th, 2016 about museums and the challenges of open access and how the Rijksmuseum dealt with this during the last decade.
IBL PAN
Presentation delivered during the workshop
BEYOND APCS: ALTERNATIVE OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING BUSINESS MODELS
Royal Library, The Hague, Netherlands
April 5th and 6th, 2018
Presentation by Saskia Scheltjens (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) on October 31st 2016 at the workshop Two Birds, One Stone: Bridging cultural heritage collections with crowds and niches.
“Archäologische Informationen” and Open Journal Systems. Chances and Possibil...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Alexandra Büttner, Heidelberg University Library, Germany
EAA 2014 session: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology
Istanbul, Turkey
13 September 2013
Address to the conference ‘Museums in the Digital Sphere: Opportunities and Challenges’ held on 6 October 2017 at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany.
The event provided an opportunity to analyse the needs and wishes of museum visitors in the 21st century and to open up topics such as digital collections, transparency, and open access to public discussion. It addressed technical restrictions (databases, structures, resources) and legal limitations (copyright, image rights) as well as the opportunities created by interlinking multiple collections in comprehensive platforms such as the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library – DDB), ‘bavarikon’, Europeana and introduce initiatives such as #openGLAM.
Douglas presented Europeana, a unique digital resource where thousands of cultural institutions – from regional archives to national museums – share their collections online. Douglas emphasised the benefits of working with Europeana's community of 1700+ digital heritage and tech experts to expand and improve access to our shared cultural heritage. He outlined the opportunities for cultural institutions to showcase their collections with Europeana and to engage citizens within and beyond Europe.
Connecting Collections: exposing objects in a Linked Data search engineMuseums Computer Group
Rebecca Kahn – Director of Collections (Pelagios Commons and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin)
Pelagios Commons is a Linked Open Data project, which connects historical materials, such as texts, images (including maps) and objects to each other using Linked Open Data and Geodata specifically.
This session will highlight how decentralised collaborative models, (which have become increasingly common in larger museum tech communities) can be used to the of benefit smaller institutions by helping to expose their collections, without the need for high levels of technical skills among staff or large datasets.
Joining forces with Wikipedia reasons, experiences and impact - Sharing is Ca...Olaf Janssen
In this talk Olaf Janssen explains how and why joining forces with Wikipedia fits in the bigger open data strategies of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Starting from a brief historic overview of its Wikipedian-in-Residence project in 2013-14, he not only explains how the KB has been collaborating with Wikipedia and its volunteer community over the last couple of years, but also which positive impacts it has had for the exposure, distribution and reuse of KB's collections.
Sharing is Caring – Brussels Extension: Opening up with Wikimedia took place on 20 June at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels. This conference introduced the Belgian heritage sector to the possible applications of the various Wikimedia platforms for opening up digital collections. The conference showcased examples from museums, libraries and archives from Belgium and abroad. See
http://sharecare.nu/brussels-x-2017/
Sharing is Caring is a conference platform focused on collaboration and sharing in the cultural heritage sector, bringing together practitioners, researchers, and users of culture. See http://sharecare.nu/
This presentation is also available on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joining_forces_with_Wikipedia_reasons,_experiences_and_impact_-_Sharing_is_Caring_BrusselX_-_20_June_2017.pdf
Address to the conference ‘Museums in the Digital Sphere: Opportunities and Challenges’ held on 6 October 2017 at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany.
The event provided an opportunity to analyse the needs and wishes of museum visitors in the 21st century and to open up topics such as digital collections, transparency, and open access to public discussion. It addressed technical restrictions (databases, structures, resources) and legal limitations (copyright, image rights) as well as the opportunities created by interlinking multiple collections in comprehensive platforms such as the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library – DDB), ‘bavarikon’, Europeana and introduce initiatives such as #openGLAM.
Douglas presented Europeana, a unique digital resource where thousands of cultural institutions – from regional archives to national museums – share their collections online. Douglas emphasised the benefits of working with Europeana's community of 1700+ digital heritage and tech experts to expand and improve access to our shared cultural heritage. He outlined the opportunities for cultural institutions to showcase their collections with Europeana and to engage citizens within and beyond Europe.
Connecting Collections: exposing objects in a Linked Data search engineMuseums Computer Group
Rebecca Kahn – Director of Collections (Pelagios Commons and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin)
Pelagios Commons is a Linked Open Data project, which connects historical materials, such as texts, images (including maps) and objects to each other using Linked Open Data and Geodata specifically.
This session will highlight how decentralised collaborative models, (which have become increasingly common in larger museum tech communities) can be used to the of benefit smaller institutions by helping to expose their collections, without the need for high levels of technical skills among staff or large datasets.
Joining forces with Wikipedia reasons, experiences and impact - Sharing is Ca...Olaf Janssen
In this talk Olaf Janssen explains how and why joining forces with Wikipedia fits in the bigger open data strategies of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. Starting from a brief historic overview of its Wikipedian-in-Residence project in 2013-14, he not only explains how the KB has been collaborating with Wikipedia and its volunteer community over the last couple of years, but also which positive impacts it has had for the exposure, distribution and reuse of KB's collections.
Sharing is Caring – Brussels Extension: Opening up with Wikimedia took place on 20 June at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels. This conference introduced the Belgian heritage sector to the possible applications of the various Wikimedia platforms for opening up digital collections. The conference showcased examples from museums, libraries and archives from Belgium and abroad. See
http://sharecare.nu/brussels-x-2017/
Sharing is Caring is a conference platform focused on collaboration and sharing in the cultural heritage sector, bringing together practitioners, researchers, and users of culture. See http://sharecare.nu/
This presentation is also available on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joining_forces_with_Wikipedia_reasons,_experiences_and_impact_-_Sharing_is_Caring_BrusselX_-_20_June_2017.pdf
3D Digitizing a whole museum: a metadata centered workflow3D ICONS Project
Guidi, G., Rodríguez Navarro, P., Micoli, L.L., Gonizzi Barsanti, S., Russo, M., "3D Digitizing a whole museum: a metadata centered workflow", 2013 Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage), Vol. 2, pp. 307-310, IEEE, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4799-3169-9.
[Sommer] [7 into 1. Integration and Collaboration: The new library for Humani...Diane Koen
Presentation made by [Dorothea Sommer] at the IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Satellite Meeting. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Aug.10-11, 2016.
Museum x.0: Digital Future or Firewood Rental?Thomas Tunsch
Museum objects have been incompletely digitized in terms of quantity so far. The quality of digitization also shows shortcomings. In addition to the standardized and structured collection of extrinsic data, the complete collection of intrinsic data is not only a special challenge but also an indispensable necessity for modeling digital twins.
So far, Digitalization is mainly limited to the simple representation of analog objects with the help of digital media. Communication structures and methods of Web 2.0 or the semantic web are lacking, thus a comprehensive, standardized and complex structured digital information space for museum objects is not yet possible.
The digital information space is a prerequisite for the creation of digital twins. The ideational value of the objects as a basis of cultural heritage can be found in the long-term available data and their use. Therefore, the power of disposal and interpretative authority over the originals must be replaced by collaborative structures and the collective use of resources in order to guarantee the future of the museum in the information space.
Digital cultural heritage as humanities data: a labs approachSally Chambers
This presentation was given on 17th April 2020 as part of a #DH Hangout (during the Corona Virus) instigated by Lancaster University Digital Humanities Hub and Co-Organised by the Ghent Centre of Digital Humanities and the Digital Humanities Lab (DH_Lab) associated with NOVA-FCSH of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
Sharing is Caring. Societal impact of open collections? Merete Sanderhoff
Presentation for the seminar Open Collections, arranged by the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, on the occasion of the launh of their Public Domain policy, 7 October 2016
Présentation par Régis Robineau dans le cadre de la journée "Digital Catalogues. Towards Interoperability" organisée à l'Ecole normale supérieure (Paris, 5 février 2019)
Workshop Slides by Dr. Karin Glasemann (Digital Coordinator, Nationalmuseum Sweden) for Sharing is Caring - Hamburg Extension
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 20 April 2017
http://sharecare.nu/hamburg-2017/
Open up your data! Linked Open Data in the Museum Plantin-MoretusJeroen De Meester
Presentation given at the conference 'Special Collections in the Context of Cultural Heritage Protection and Cultural Development Fostering', Octobre 3, 2017, Serbia
Keynote at Wikimedia Netherland Conference 2017
Utrecht 4 November 2017
GLAMs hold tangible expression of culture, which conveys identity, meaning, and value.
GLAMs in Wikipedia reflect our current social values: increase diversity, innovation, equity, well-being.
https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCN_2017
Overview of OpenGLAM in Switzerland and the latest activities of the Bern University of Applied Sciences in the area of open cultural data. Presentation held at the Conference on Conference on Open Data and Open Maps for Heritage Protection in Bellinzona, Switzerland, 21 Feb 2020.
17:15 Kolloquium – Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2020 – Das Büro darf nicht nur Mit...ETH-Bibliothek
In Zeiten der Digitalisierung ist es nicht einfach, einen inspirierenden und motivierenden Arbeitsplatz zu kreieren: Papier trifft auf digitale Tools, Funktionen und Organigramme treffen auf interdisziplinäre Fragestellungen. Und was wir in der Kommunikation beobachten, taucht auch in der Arbeitswelt immer mehr auf: Mobile first, Flexibilität auf allen Ebenen. Das verändert die Art und Weise, wie wir zusammenarbeiten. Und auch Mitarbeitende haben neue Ansprüche an die Führung, ihren Arbeitsort, ihre Arbeitszeit.
Eine an die heutigen Ansprüche angepasste moderne Arbeitswelt ist für die Weiterentwicklung des gesamten Unternehmens wichtig, aber auch, um als Arbeitgeber attraktiv zu sein.
Vor einigen Jahren hat die Mobiliar daher work@mobiliar ins Leben gerufen: Work@mobiliar ist mehr als Raumgestaltung. Es beschäftigt sich mit Kultur, Kulturwandel und Mindset. Die Referentin führt in ihrem Vortrag aus, wie die Initiative eingeführt wurde, welche Massnahmen ergriffen wurden und erläutert dies an praktischen Beispielen.
OriginStamp: Trusted Time Stamping via the Bitcoin BlockchainETH-Bibliothek
In his talk, Bela Gipp, Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at the University of Wuppertal, will present the blockchain-based trusted timestamping service Origin-Stamp. Bela developed OriginStamp as a Ph.D. student in 2012, as no convenient and tamper-proof method existed to create timestamps. Since then, OriginStamp has been used over 6 million times by researchers, journalists in war regions, pharmaceutical companies, and individuals. Use cases are the timestamping of ideas for patent applications, timestamping of digital archives or timestamping of pre-existing damage, e.g., when hiring a rental car. The service can be used via a website, mobile phone apps, or an API, which allows developers to easily make use of trusted timestamping in their own applications. Trusted timestamping is the process of securely tracing the creation and modification time of any digital file. In contrast to conventional commercial timestamping authorities, OriginStamp uses the blockchain of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as a decentralized, tamper-proof, and cost-efficient timestamping authority. To try it yourself, visit www.originstamp.org.
Tracking Citations to Research Software via PIDsETH-Bibliothek
Tracking citations to research software via persistent identifiers is difficult due to dilution of citations over many PIDs assigned to a software package. On top of this, software citations are often consistently being edited out by every actor part of the scholarly communication process such as reference managers, publishers, professors and discovery systems. Thus, the survival rate of a software citation is extremely low in the current scholarly ecosystem. The Sloan-funded Asclepias project is a collaboration between a publisher, discovery system and repository with the goal to promote scientific software into an identifiable, citable, and preservable object. We have built a citation broker that is currently tracking some 6.000 citations to Zenodo DOIs from NASA ADS,
CrossRef and EuropePMC.
Persistent Identifiers for Scientific Data at CSCSETH-Bibliothek
Everyone knows the importance of FAIR data principles, data reuse opportunities and provenance traceability. In this talk, Mario Valle will explore the technical and human, non-technical, prerequisites that make these principles concrete. The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is supporting Swiss scientists by providing and managing Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) to name scientific data. Besides this base service, the CSCS is also experimenting and collecting use cases to make this deceptive simple thing, the PID string, a tool that could help speed up science in Switzerland.
Building Open Research Infrastructure with PIDsETH-Bibliothek
Learn more about ORCID, how it enables connections between persistent identifiers to increase transparency and trust in research information and how to get involved.
DataCite and its Members: Connecting Research and Identifying KnowledgeETH-Bibliothek
PIDs and their metadata support scholarly research and its increasing amounts and
variety of scholarly output. DataCite provides services which enable the research community to identify, connect, cite and track these outputs, making content FAIR. New
services include data level metrics and the use of identifiers for organizations and new
types of content, e.g. software, repositories and instruments. As an open, collaborative
and community driven membership organization we rely on our members for their
input and experience to build services that are beneficial for the research community
as a whole. DataCite services as well as current and future initiatives will be described
and it will be shown how members can contribute and benefit. Over the course of the
years, our membership has grown and diversified and we are therefore refreshing and
clarifying our member model. The new member model will be presented and described.
Bilder online recherchieren – Tipps und TricksETH-Bibliothek
Über die Google Bildersuche zur Bilddatenbank des Bildarchivs der ETH-Bibliothek (E-Pics Bildarchiv Online), allgemeine Suchstrategien, thematische Suche und Ähnlichkeitssuche,
Nutzung und Bildrechte, weitere Datenbanken für Bildmaterialien
Transkribus. Eine Forschungsplattform für die automatisierte Digitalisierung,...ETH-Bibliothek
War es bis vor wenigen Jahren unvorstellbar, dass historische Handschriften automatisiert texterkannt werden können, so haben maschinenlernende Verfahren nunmehr den Durchbruch gebracht. Ob mittelalterlicher Codices oder frühneuzeitliche Handschrift, ob Arabisch, Hebraeisch oder Bangla - mit einigen Dutzend Seiten können die zugrundeliegenden neuronalen Netze so trainiert werden, dass die Transkription für die weitere Verarbeitung brauchbar ist. Um die Technologie einem großen Kreis an Nutzerinnen und Nutzern verfügbar zu machen, wurde im Rahmen zweier EU Projekte die Froschungsplattform Transkribus entwickelt. Mit Transkribus erhalten Nutzerinnen und Nutzer ein Werkzeug, mit dem sie selbst alle Schritte im Workflow abdecken können. Mehr als 18.000 Benutzer haben sich in der Plattform bereits registriert und vielfach das Programm ausprobiert. Der Vortrag wird anhand konkreter Beispiele die Leistungsfähigkeit moderner Texterkennungsverfahren geben, sowie einen Ausblick auf die künftigen Entwicklungen bieten.
Herausforderungen im Datenmanagement von MetadatenETH-Bibliothek
Herausforderungen im Datenmanagement von Metadaten. Datenmanagement wird für viele Organisationen in der Schweiz immer wichtiger. Dabei ist die Bedeutung von Metadaten im Rahmen von Prozessdefinitionen nicht zu unterschätzen. Ohne entsprechende Datendokumentation haben z.B. Forschungsdaten wenig Aussagekraft, die ihre Bedeutung nicht mehr nachvollziehbar ist. Oftmals zwingt dieses Dilemma Mitarbeiter von Forschungsdateneinrichtungen in den Bereich der Nachdokumentation. Dieser Vortrag zeigt die Verwendung von Data Life Cycle Modellen, nennt Beispiele für verschiedene Metadatenstandards und passend dazu der Verwendung von Toolchains zur Datendokumentation.
Gamification und Game Design: Theorie und Praxis jenseits der Heilsversprechu...ETH-Bibliothek
Gamification bedeutet die Übertragung spielbasierter Elemente auf ursprünglich spielfremde Kontexte. Damit soll die Motivation der Anwender verstärkt werden, um gestellte Aufgaben leichter lösen zu können. Gamification-Szenarien verwenden in der Regel nur einzelne Elemente von Spielsystemen. Davon grenzen sich Serious Games («angewandte Spiele») ab, die über ausgefeilte Spielmechaniken verfügen und die Spielenden umfassender zu engagieren vermögen.
Diese Entwicklungen sind nicht neu, aber das «Heilsversprechen» digitaler Spiele für seriöse oder angewandte Kontexte sind tief in die Gesellschaft diffundiert. Die beiden Referenten zeigen auf, welche theoretischen Grundlagen hinter diesen Spielphänomenen stecken, was bei der Entwicklung bedacht werden muss und wie mit diesen Grundlagen, über den Magic Circle der Games hinaus, auch kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen erklärt werden können. Die Fragen werden anhand von konkreten Beispielen aus Projekten in der Therapie, Forschung und Entwicklungshilfe erörtert.
Presentations, exercises and discussion of the following topics:
- General requirements of research Data management
- Guidelines and responsibilities
- Data management plans (DMP) for the Swiss national Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Data management in practice
- Prerequisites for re-use
- Useful services and tools
- Exchange of experiences, methods and tools
Openness, exchange, FAIR DATA – oh brave new world that has such vision! (Dr....ETH-Bibliothek
Openness, exchange, FAIR data - oh brave new world. For some researchers, this is no longer a vision but already their day-to-day reality. For many others, however, terms like ‘open’, ‘FAIR data’* or ‘data exchange’ pose a challenge. What contribution can we make to ensure that new data comply with the FAIR Data Principles, and how can we measure the FAIRness of existing data? “Trust” is a key aspect: Trust that others interpret ‘your’ data correctly for example, or trust in data repositories.
Digitaler Zugang zu Lesespuren - Das Projekt „Thomas Mann Nachlassbibliothek“...ETH-Bibliothek
Präsentation am Deutschen Bibliothekartag, Juni 2018
1. Das Thomas-Mann-Archiv der ETH Zürich und das Projekt «Thomas Mann Nachlassbibliothek»
Katrin Keller
2. Technische Umsetzung des Projekts
Michael Ehrismann
„Ex meis libris“ - Die Provenienzdatenbank der ETH-Bibliothek ETH-Bibliothek
Präsentation am Deutschen Bibliothekartag, Juni 2018
ETH-Bibliothek: Kurze Geschichte
Die Plattform e-rara.ch
E-Pics: Die Plattform für Bilder und Illustrationen
E-Pics: Alte und Seltene Drucke
E-Pics: Die Provenienzdatenbank
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
The simplified electron and muon model, Oscillating Spacetime: The Foundation...RitikBhardwaj56
Discover the Simplified Electron and Muon Model: A New Wave-Based Approach to Understanding Particles delves into a groundbreaking theory that presents electrons and muons as rotating soliton waves within oscillating spacetime. Geared towards students, researchers, and science buffs, this book breaks down complex ideas into simple explanations. It covers topics such as electron waves, temporal dynamics, and the implications of this model on particle physics. With clear illustrations and easy-to-follow explanations, readers will gain a new outlook on the universe's fundamental nature.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
Delivering Micro-Credentials in Technical and Vocational Education and TrainingAG2 Design
Explore how micro-credentials are transforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with this comprehensive slide deck. Discover what micro-credentials are, their importance in TVET, the advantages they offer, and the insights from industry experts. Additionally, learn about the top software applications available for creating and managing micro-credentials. This presentation also includes valuable resources and a discussion on the future of these specialised certifications.
For more detailed information on delivering micro-credentials in TVET, visit this https://tvettrainer.com/delivering-micro-credentials-in-tvet/
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
Research partnerships, user participation, extended outreach – some of ETH Library’s steps beyond digitization
1. IFLA Satellite Meeting 2017: Digital Humanities, Berlin, 15–17 August 2017
Research partnerships, user participation, extended outreach –
some of ETH Library’s steps beyond digitization
2. || 17 August 2017Michael Gasser 2
From «boutique» to mass digitization
2000 2005 2010 2015
Small scale digital
reproductions on
demand
Dual strategy «Digitale
Bibliothek ETH Zürich»:
e-publications and
digitization
External scanning for
early online platforms
DigiCenter established as
an internal service unit,
~ 600,000 scans p.a.
DigiCenter mass production
rare books: 0.8 mio
journals: 0.3 mio
photographs: 0.1 mio
archival material: 0.5 mio
Total of ~ 1.7 mio. scans p.a.
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(Cooperative) online platforms for digitized content
Rare books
e-rara
Images
e-pics Image Archive
Archival material
e-manuscripta
Journals
e-periodica
~ 57,600 books
(share ETH Library:
~ 14,300 books)
Public Domain Mark
~ 385,000 images
Mostly Public Domain
Mark and CC BY-SA
~ 54,800 sources
(share ETH Library:
~ 13,400 sources)
Mostly Public Domain
Mark
~ 300 journals
(~ 600,000 articles)
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How can we realise the full potential of digitized content?
Research partnerships
User participation
Outreach
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Potential I
Research partnerships
6. ||
Available material: digitized journals as PDFs with OCR in e-periodica
Additional service (aim)
Provide access to the texts in a machine readable format
Text enrichment (named entity recognition)
Test case
Two sample journals (~ 380,000 pages)
Tokenized text-files with OCR results
Aim I: Automatic correction of OCR errors
Aim II: Explore possibilities of automatic text enrichment (recognition and linking of the named
entities [persons] and [place names])
Research partner
Professor Martin Volk (University of Zurich, Institute of Computational Linguistics)
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Providing a machine readable corpus:
Enhancement of OCRed text
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Providing a machine readable corpus:
Enhancement of OCRed text
8. ||
Access to Thomas Mann’s markings in his personal
library
Library is part of the Thomas Mann Archive, ETH Library
Integral digitization of 2,650 books containing handwritten
traces
Transcription of the marginalia
Front-end for searching an displaying markings
(building on e-periodica components)
Project duration: April 2016 to March 2019
Research partners
Professor Andreas Kilcher (ETH Zurich, Chair of Literary
and Cultural Studies)
Funded by Swiss National Science Foundation
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Building on existing solutions:
The “Thomas Mann personal library” project
Marks and annotations by Thomas Mann, dedication, owner mark, expropriation stamp.
Compilation by Thomas Mann Archive
10. ||
Seismograms for seismological research
Series of paper seismograms from 1927 to 1955
Archival description, partial digitization and publication on
e-manuscripa.ch
Partial data extraction by the Swiss Seismological Service at
ETH Zurich
Sunspot drawings for solar research
Sun observation at ETH Zurich from 1884 to 1995
Large series of sunspot drawings, data sheets, and sunspot
statiscs at ETH Zurich University Archives
Archival description, digitization and publication on
e-manuscripa.ch
Data extraction (years 1884–1949) by international solar
researchers
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Providing primary data on demand:
Data extraction from analogue long-term measurement series
Sunspot drawing, 5 April 1894, ETH University Archives, Hs 1304:1572
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Potential II
User participation
12. ||
Online crowdsourcing via E-pics Image Archive Online
Aim: fill the gaps in contemporary descriptions
Step 1: Cooperation with Swissair retirees
Project duration: end of 2009 until end of 2013
Closed group of experts
135 interested volunteers, including:
44 regular users and ½ dozen experts
40,000 images processed
Lessons learned
Importance of personal contacts
Effort involved heavily underestimated
Added value gained: priceless!
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Image Archive: Crowdsourcing to fill patchy image descriptions
Original title: Uniform FA 1960 to 1970
New: Swissair hostesses in the uniform worn from 1970 to 1977
13. ||
Step 2: All volunteers welcome
New comment function online since 9 Dec 2015
Huge reader and media response (newspapers,
radio, TV)
Statistics (1 July 2017)
22,600 pointers received
20,543 description of images improved
798 volunteers (90% men), very active top ten
Ongoing community management
Weblog ETH Bibliothek Crowdsourcing
Videos and events
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Image Archive: Crowdsourcing to fill patchy image descriptions
Original title: Untitled, 17.8.1932
New: Flawil-Gossau, reservoir in Glatt-Tobel near the ruins of Helfenberg Castle,
17.8.1932
14. ||
Project “e-manuscripta full text”
Add transcription module to e-manuscripta.ch
Project duration: September 2016 to November
2017
Cooperative project, lead: Zentralbibliothek
Zürich
Funded by swissuniversities
Functionalities
Extension of existing Visual Library online editor
used by Franckesche Stiftungen
Workflow: registration, transcription, publication
Open to the public – simple transcription
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Archival sources: Crowdsourcing to transcribe manuscripts
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Potential III
Outreach
16. ||
Spreading metadata
locally: ETH Library’s Knowledge Portal also includes data
from archival information systems (e.g. Image Archive, ETH
Zurich Archives) and other sources
internationally: Finding aids of ETH Zurich Archives
harvested by Archives Portal Europe (250 mio. archival units
from serveral hundred archives)
Spreading content
Ongoing upload of digitized images to Wikimedia Commons
(~ 40,000 images so far)
Images used to illustrate Wikipedia articles (e.g. «Mount
Kilimanjaro» article with ~ 100,000 visits per month)
Specialized metrics tool in development (Wikimedia CH)
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Multichannel distribution of metadata and content:
Go where the users are
Gallery with Walter Mittelholzer images, ETH Library, in the article about Sevilla in the
French Wikipedia
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Presenting content in story form
Research combined with storytelling
Visually attractive, using multimedia content
Change of perspective
E.g. scientific plant images in “Mallow, Iris, Orchid”
Link the past (historical holidings) and the present
(modern research, teaching, scientific visualization)
From Renaissance herbal books to 3D-modelling
Combining material from several collections and
archives and
existing scans with new video testimonials
New stories are published regularly
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Presenting content in a new way:
Explora – the new storytelling platform
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Potential Summary Outlook
Research
partnerships
Solid basis:
• Existing platforms with their underlying
processes (indexing, scanning,
presentation, archiving)
• Open data policy with clearly labelled
rights statements
• Further standardization regarding bulk
access (e.g. RDF, IIIF)
• Growing demand for data driven research
• Individual projects demand individual
know-how
• More active role of the library
User participation Crowdsourcing works, but ongoing
community management is key
Use «collective intelligence» for further and
more complex tasks (e.g. to georeference
images)
Outreach • Targeted spreading of metadata and
content increases visability
• Visually attractive platforms reach out to
new users
• Integration of data into link hubs (e.g.
Wikidata)
• Intensify cooperation with experts to
produce content
Summary and outlook
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Thank you very much for your attention!
Michael Gasser
Head Archives, ETH Library
Rämistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zürich
Tel. +41 44 632 21 82
michael.gasser@library.ethz.ch
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