The document introduces the concept of the Web of Data, which builds upon linked data principles to publish structured data on the web using URIs, HTTP, and RDF. It describes how linked RDF data allows machines to understand web resources in a way that overcomes the shortcomings of untyped links by defining standardized semantics. Examples are given showing how RDF can represent relationships between resources and expose additional useful information by following the links between interconnected URIs.
The document outlines the 4 steps in Richardson's Maturity Model for evolving a distributed architecture to REST: 1) using RPC over HTTP, 2) exposing resources through URIs and using HTTP verbs, 3) using HTTP as the application protocol, and 4) making resources and services discoverable through hypermedia links. It lists sources for further reading on REST and the Richardson Maturity Model.
The document discusses linked data and its potential impact on libraries. It describes linked data as connecting the world's libraries by publishing structured data about 290 million resources using common schemas, embedding RDFa, and linking to controlled vocabularies. While linked data presents challenges like metadata for different types of materials, it offers opportunities to describe resources as part of the web and link catalog data to related concepts through identifiers.
RDF is a general-purpose language for representing information on the web. It allows for describing resources and the relationships between them using subject-predicate-object expressions called triples. RDF is used as a foundation for the semantic web and allows machines to mechanically process and interpret the logical pieces of meaning in data. While RDF does not define specific properties or vocabularies, it provides mechanisms for describing properties and classes of resources in a human- or machine-readable format.
The document discusses exposing library holdings data on the web using linked data. It notes that OCLC has exposed over 300 million resources using Schema.org, RDFa, and links to controlled vocabularies. The data is available via various formats like RDF/XML, JSON-LD and Turtle. BIBFRAME is presented as the new standard for bibliographic description that allows library data to be shared as part of the web. Libraries are encouraged to make their resources discoverable on the web of data by linking to other institutions and authorities.
This document provides an introduction to the RDF data model. It describes RDF as a data model that represents data as subject-predicate-object triples that can be used to describe resources. These triples form a directed graph. The document provides examples of RDF triples and graphs, and compares the RDF data model to relational and XML data models. It also describes common RDF formats like RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, and how RDF graphs from different sources can be merged.
The document introduces the concept of the Web of Data, which builds upon linked data principles to publish structured data on the web using URIs, HTTP, and RDF. It describes how linked RDF data allows machines to understand web resources in a way that overcomes the shortcomings of untyped links by defining standardized semantics. Examples are given showing how RDF can represent relationships between resources and expose additional useful information by following the links between interconnected URIs.
The document outlines the 4 steps in Richardson's Maturity Model for evolving a distributed architecture to REST: 1) using RPC over HTTP, 2) exposing resources through URIs and using HTTP verbs, 3) using HTTP as the application protocol, and 4) making resources and services discoverable through hypermedia links. It lists sources for further reading on REST and the Richardson Maturity Model.
The document discusses linked data and its potential impact on libraries. It describes linked data as connecting the world's libraries by publishing structured data about 290 million resources using common schemas, embedding RDFa, and linking to controlled vocabularies. While linked data presents challenges like metadata for different types of materials, it offers opportunities to describe resources as part of the web and link catalog data to related concepts through identifiers.
RDF is a general-purpose language for representing information on the web. It allows for describing resources and the relationships between them using subject-predicate-object expressions called triples. RDF is used as a foundation for the semantic web and allows machines to mechanically process and interpret the logical pieces of meaning in data. While RDF does not define specific properties or vocabularies, it provides mechanisms for describing properties and classes of resources in a human- or machine-readable format.
The document discusses exposing library holdings data on the web using linked data. It notes that OCLC has exposed over 300 million resources using Schema.org, RDFa, and links to controlled vocabularies. The data is available via various formats like RDF/XML, JSON-LD and Turtle. BIBFRAME is presented as the new standard for bibliographic description that allows library data to be shared as part of the web. Libraries are encouraged to make their resources discoverable on the web of data by linking to other institutions and authorities.
This document provides an introduction to the RDF data model. It describes RDF as a data model that represents data as subject-predicate-object triples that can be used to describe resources. These triples form a directed graph. The document provides examples of RDF triples and graphs, and compares the RDF data model to relational and XML data models. It also describes common RDF formats like RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, and how RDF graphs from different sources can be merged.
18 ° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Lo stato dell'arte dei Linked Open Data italianiDiego Valerio Camarda
The document discusses the state of Linked Open Data (LOD) in Italy, including an analysis of 11 Italian LOD datasets. It finds that the datasets range in size from a few thousand to tens of millions of triples. The best performing datasets support SPARQL and allow access via standard web protocols and ports. The document encourages publishing LOD for machines rather than humans and demonstrates ways to test the interoperability of LOD datasets.
Lecture at the advanced course on Data Science of the SIKS research school, May 20, 2016, Vught, The Netherlands.
Contents
-Why do we create Linked Open Data? Example questions from the Humanities and Social Sciences
-Introduction into Linked Open Data
-Lessons learned about the creation of Linked Open Data (link discovery, knowledge representation, evaluation).
-Accessing Linked Open Data
The document discusses Linked Open Data APIs and describes how they build upon the web architecture by using URIs to name things and make them accessible through HTTP, representing data using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) model, and linking representations. It provides examples of how RDF data can be queried and returned in different formats like JSON-LD and N3. The document also offers design advice for Linked Data APIs, such as using URIs instead of internal IDs and reusing existing vocabularies and ontologies.
The document discusses the opportunities and challenges of using Linked Data to connect libraries and their resources on the web. It describes what Linked Data is, how libraries can make their data available on the semantic web by following Linked Data principles, and the benefits this could provide including sending users to library resources and providing a richer experience. However, it also notes challenges in getting libraries to make this change and fully participate in the web of data.
An introduction to Semantic Web and Linked DataFabien Gandon
Here are the steps to answer this SPARQL query against the given RDF base:
1. The query asks for all ?name values where there is a triple with predicate "name" and another triple with the same subject and predicate "email".
2. In the base, _:b is the only resource that has both a "name" and "email" triple.
3. _:b has the name "Thomas".
Therefore, the only result of the query is ?name = "Thomas".
So the result of the SPARQL query is:
?name
"Thomas"
This document provides an overview of the RDF data model. It discusses the history and development of RDF standards from 1997 to 2014. It explains that an RDF graph is made up of triples consisting of a subject, predicate, and object. It provides examples of RDF triples and their N-triples representation. It also describes RDF syntaxes like Turtle and features of RDF like literals, blank nodes, and language-tagged strings.
This document discusses different data formats for representing cultural data on the web and their pros and cons, including CSV, RDBMS, XML/SOAP, and JSON/REST. It advocates for using URIs, HTTP, and semantic web standards like RDF and SPARQL to represent cultural data in a way that is distributed, extensible, and links related resources on the web.
RDF is a general method to decompose knowledge into small pieces, with some rules about the semantics or meaning of those pieces. The point is to have a method so simple that it can express any fact, and yet so structured that computer applications can do useful things with knowledge expressed in RDF.
Aplicații Web Semantice - Descriere ProiectVlad Posea
The document outlines the steps for developing a semantic web application, from extracting data from public websites and describing it using ontologies, to linking the data to other datasets and creating a SPARQL endpoint to query the semantic repository. As an example, it describes extracting artist data from the BBC Music website and MusicBrainz to create linked data about artists, songs, and records that can be queried. The goal is to understand the milestones in the semantic web application development process and how each step builds upon the previous ones.
The document discusses data standards for describing cultural collections on the web. It advocates for using URIs, HTTP, and semantic web standards like RDF and SPARQL to provide structured data about cultural objects that is interlinked and can be queried. Alternative approaches like CSV, XML, and relational databases are discussed and their limitations explained. The benefits of a linked data approach for sharing cultural information on the web are emphasized.
This document summarizes Richard Wallis's presentation on connecting the world's libraries from bibliographic records to knowledge graphs. It discusses how libraries have traditionally organized information through card catalogs but are now linking data through WorldCat and using semantic technologies to publish information as linked open data on the web of data. This allows libraries to make their resources more discoverable and take advantage of opportunities to collaborate and assert their role in providing access to all library materials.
The document discusses how libraries can connect their resources and metadata through linked data and BIBFRAME to make their collections discoverable on the web. It notes that libraries currently have over 300 million resources available through linked data, but more participation is needed to fully realize the potential of linked data and reassert libraries' role as a discoverable source for all materials. The presentation was given by Richard Wallis of OCLC on guiding users to library resources through metadata and linked data standards.
Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the WebJulie Allinson
What happens when tens of thousands of archival photos are shared with open licenses, then mashed up with geolocation data and current photos? Or when app developers can freely utilize information and images from millions of books? On this panel, we'll explore the fundamental elements of Linked Open Data and discover how rapidly growing access to metadata within the world's libraries, archives and museums is opening exciting new possibilities for understanding our past, and may help in predicting our future. Our panelists will look into the technological underpinnings of Linked Open Data, demonstrate use cases and applications, and consider the possibilities of such data for scholarly research, preservation, commercial interests, and the future of cultural heritage data.
(Open) Data on the Web, future directions at W3C.Phil Archer
A slidecast repeat of the talk given at SemTechBiz, Monday 3 June 2013 in San Francisco outlining likely future W3C work in the field of data, arising particularly from the workshop held in April this year in London. Hosted and sponsored by Google, along with extra support from Adobe and Microsoft, the event attracted a lot of attention.
2014 CrossRef Workshops Boot Camp: Resources For Small PublishersCrossref
This document provides an overview of tools and services offered by CrossRef, including their web deposit form for depositing DOIs, their metadata search tool, and query tools. It also describes CrossRef affiliates, service providers that can offer additional services to members, as well as sponsoring entities and publishers that can sponsor smaller members.
Carolyn Caizzi and Barbara Rockenbach presentation for the "Collaborative Ventures, Collaborative Gains" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
18 ° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Lo stato dell'arte dei Linked Open Data italianiDiego Valerio Camarda
The document discusses the state of Linked Open Data (LOD) in Italy, including an analysis of 11 Italian LOD datasets. It finds that the datasets range in size from a few thousand to tens of millions of triples. The best performing datasets support SPARQL and allow access via standard web protocols and ports. The document encourages publishing LOD for machines rather than humans and demonstrates ways to test the interoperability of LOD datasets.
Lecture at the advanced course on Data Science of the SIKS research school, May 20, 2016, Vught, The Netherlands.
Contents
-Why do we create Linked Open Data? Example questions from the Humanities and Social Sciences
-Introduction into Linked Open Data
-Lessons learned about the creation of Linked Open Data (link discovery, knowledge representation, evaluation).
-Accessing Linked Open Data
The document discusses Linked Open Data APIs and describes how they build upon the web architecture by using URIs to name things and make them accessible through HTTP, representing data using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) model, and linking representations. It provides examples of how RDF data can be queried and returned in different formats like JSON-LD and N3. The document also offers design advice for Linked Data APIs, such as using URIs instead of internal IDs and reusing existing vocabularies and ontologies.
The document discusses the opportunities and challenges of using Linked Data to connect libraries and their resources on the web. It describes what Linked Data is, how libraries can make their data available on the semantic web by following Linked Data principles, and the benefits this could provide including sending users to library resources and providing a richer experience. However, it also notes challenges in getting libraries to make this change and fully participate in the web of data.
An introduction to Semantic Web and Linked DataFabien Gandon
Here are the steps to answer this SPARQL query against the given RDF base:
1. The query asks for all ?name values where there is a triple with predicate "name" and another triple with the same subject and predicate "email".
2. In the base, _:b is the only resource that has both a "name" and "email" triple.
3. _:b has the name "Thomas".
Therefore, the only result of the query is ?name = "Thomas".
So the result of the SPARQL query is:
?name
"Thomas"
This document provides an overview of the RDF data model. It discusses the history and development of RDF standards from 1997 to 2014. It explains that an RDF graph is made up of triples consisting of a subject, predicate, and object. It provides examples of RDF triples and their N-triples representation. It also describes RDF syntaxes like Turtle and features of RDF like literals, blank nodes, and language-tagged strings.
This document discusses different data formats for representing cultural data on the web and their pros and cons, including CSV, RDBMS, XML/SOAP, and JSON/REST. It advocates for using URIs, HTTP, and semantic web standards like RDF and SPARQL to represent cultural data in a way that is distributed, extensible, and links related resources on the web.
RDF is a general method to decompose knowledge into small pieces, with some rules about the semantics or meaning of those pieces. The point is to have a method so simple that it can express any fact, and yet so structured that computer applications can do useful things with knowledge expressed in RDF.
Aplicații Web Semantice - Descriere ProiectVlad Posea
The document outlines the steps for developing a semantic web application, from extracting data from public websites and describing it using ontologies, to linking the data to other datasets and creating a SPARQL endpoint to query the semantic repository. As an example, it describes extracting artist data from the BBC Music website and MusicBrainz to create linked data about artists, songs, and records that can be queried. The goal is to understand the milestones in the semantic web application development process and how each step builds upon the previous ones.
The document discusses data standards for describing cultural collections on the web. It advocates for using URIs, HTTP, and semantic web standards like RDF and SPARQL to provide structured data about cultural objects that is interlinked and can be queried. Alternative approaches like CSV, XML, and relational databases are discussed and their limitations explained. The benefits of a linked data approach for sharing cultural information on the web are emphasized.
This document summarizes Richard Wallis's presentation on connecting the world's libraries from bibliographic records to knowledge graphs. It discusses how libraries have traditionally organized information through card catalogs but are now linking data through WorldCat and using semantic technologies to publish information as linked open data on the web of data. This allows libraries to make their resources more discoverable and take advantage of opportunities to collaborate and assert their role in providing access to all library materials.
The document discusses how libraries can connect their resources and metadata through linked data and BIBFRAME to make their collections discoverable on the web. It notes that libraries currently have over 300 million resources available through linked data, but more participation is needed to fully realize the potential of linked data and reassert libraries' role as a discoverable source for all materials. The presentation was given by Richard Wallis of OCLC on guiding users to library resources through metadata and linked data standards.
Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the WebJulie Allinson
What happens when tens of thousands of archival photos are shared with open licenses, then mashed up with geolocation data and current photos? Or when app developers can freely utilize information and images from millions of books? On this panel, we'll explore the fundamental elements of Linked Open Data and discover how rapidly growing access to metadata within the world's libraries, archives and museums is opening exciting new possibilities for understanding our past, and may help in predicting our future. Our panelists will look into the technological underpinnings of Linked Open Data, demonstrate use cases and applications, and consider the possibilities of such data for scholarly research, preservation, commercial interests, and the future of cultural heritage data.
(Open) Data on the Web, future directions at W3C.Phil Archer
A slidecast repeat of the talk given at SemTechBiz, Monday 3 June 2013 in San Francisco outlining likely future W3C work in the field of data, arising particularly from the workshop held in April this year in London. Hosted and sponsored by Google, along with extra support from Adobe and Microsoft, the event attracted a lot of attention.
2014 CrossRef Workshops Boot Camp: Resources For Small PublishersCrossref
This document provides an overview of tools and services offered by CrossRef, including their web deposit form for depositing DOIs, their metadata search tool, and query tools. It also describes CrossRef affiliates, service providers that can offer additional services to members, as well as sponsoring entities and publishers that can sponsor smaller members.
Carolyn Caizzi and Barbara Rockenbach presentation for the "Collaborative Ventures, Collaborative Gains" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Jennifer Friedman presentation at the "How do we shelve it? The place for Vendor-provided electronic titles in art and architecture collections" session at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd Joint Conference in Minneapolis, MN.
The document discusses metadata schemas and workflows for cataloging digital assets. It provides examples of metadata schemas including Dublin Core and Photoshop XMP schemas. It also describes different organizations' processes for collecting metadata from faculty and students and integrating it into databases using tools like Photoshop and custom metadata panels. Custom metadata schemas are suggested to better fit specific needs rather than repackaging existing schemas.
Steven Kowalik, Hunter College / CUNY
New York City presentation from VRA 28 Atlanta.
"Transition to Learning Spaces: Redefining Our Space for the Digital World" for the "After the Transition: Planning for Collections Storage & Workspace Changes in the Digital Environment" session.
Karen Kessel presentation for "More Than Meets the Eye? Retrieving Art Images by Subject" session at VRA + ARLIS/NA 2nd joint conference in Minneapolis, MN.
This document discusses Richard Wallis and his work extending the Schema.org vocabulary. It notes that Wallis is an independent consultant who founded Data Liberate and currently works with OCLC and Google. He chairs several W3C community groups focused on extending Schema.org for bibliographic and archive data. The document outlines how Schema.org was created in 2011 as a general purpose vocabulary for describing things on the web and how it can be extended through groups like the Schema Bib Extend community to cover additional domains beyond its original 640 types.
The document discusses Richard Wallis and his work extending Schema.org to better describe bibliographic data. Wallis is an independent consultant who chairs several W3C community groups focused on expanding Schema.org for bibliographic and archives data. He has worked with organizations like OCLC and Google to develop vocabularies that extend Schema.org to describe over 330 million bibliographic resources in linked data.
The document provides an overview of linked data fundamentals, including key concepts like URIs, RDF, ontologies, and the semantic web. It discusses aspects of linked data such as using HTTP URIs to identify resources, representing data as subject-predicate-object triples, and connecting related resources through links. It also covers RDF serialization formats, ontologies like RDFS and OWL, and notable linked open data sources.
This document discusses the Semantic Web and Linked Data. It provides an overview of key Semantic Web technologies like RDF, URIs, and SPARQL. It also describes several popular Linked Data datasets including DBpedia, Freebase, Geonames, and government open data. Finally, it discusses the Yahoo BOSS search API and WebScope data for building search applications.
Building the new open linked library: Theory and PracticeTrish Rose-Sandler
What tools and services are necessary to build an open linked library and how can we move existing digital library content into an open linked data model and use those tools to repurpose our own content?
Year of the Monkey: Lessons from the first year of SearchMonkeyPeter Mika
This document discusses publishing content on the Semantic Web. It introduces basic concepts of RDF and the Semantic Web like resources, literals, and triples. It then describes six main ways to publish RDF data on the web: 1) standalone RDF documents, 2) metadata inside webpages using techniques like RDFa, 3) SPARQL endpoints, 4) feeds, 5) XSLT transformations, and 6) automatic markup tools. Finally, it briefly discusses the history of embedding metadata in HTML and examples of metadata standards.
This document discusses publishing content on the Semantic Web. It introduces basic concepts of RDF and the Semantic Web like resources, literals, and triples. It then describes six main ways to publish RDF data on the web: 1) standalone RDF documents, 2) metadata inside webpages using formats like RDFa, 3) SPARQL endpoints, 4) feeds, 5) XSLT transformations, and 6) automatic markup tools. Finally, it briefly reviews the history of embedding metadata in HTML and examples of formats used.
This document provides an introduction to the semantic web and library linked data. It discusses how library data is currently siloed but moving towards being published as linked open data using semantic web standards. Key points covered include the principles of linked data using URIs and RDF triples, examples of library linked data projects, and how RDA is being developed to support linked data. The goal is to make library data more accessible and useful by integrating it into the larger web of data.
The document discusses using linked open data and linked data principles for libraries. It covers key concepts like URIs, RDF triples, ontologies and vocabularies. It then outlines options for libraries to both consume and publish linked data, such as enriching existing catalog data by linking to external sources, creating new information aggregates, and publishing library holdings and metadata as linked open data. Challenges include a lack of common identifiers, FRBRization of existing data, and the need for content curation and new technical systems to fully realize the benefits of linked open data for libraries.
An introduction to the Joint Information Systems Committee Resource Discovery iKit. Includes a look at controlled vocabularies declared in the Resource Discovery Framework (RDF)/Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) and wikipedia entries. Presented by Tony Ross at the CILIPS Centenary Conference Branch and Group Day which took place 5 Jun 2008.
Presentation given at Barcamp Chiang Mai 4 on the basics of Semantic Web. A simple introduction with examples, aimed for those with a little Web development experience.
Raises questions about the true identity of Tim Berners-Lee.
What is Linked Data, and What Does It Mean for Libraries?Emily Nimsakont
1) The document discusses the concept of Linked Data and how it differs from the traditional web by making relationships between data explicit through the use of URIs and RDF.
2) Linked Data could benefit libraries by allowing library data to be more openly connected and standardized, dissolving the boundaries between individual bibliographic records.
3) There are already some library Linked Data projects underway like the Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies. Linked Data may change library workflows and the role of catalogers.
Presentation at ELAG 2011, European Library Automation Group Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. 25th May 2011
http://elag2011.techlib.cz/en/815-lifting-the-lid-on-linked-data/
Forging New Links: Libraries in the Semantic WebGillian Byrne
This document discusses the potential benefits of applying Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies to libraries. It describes how structured data, controlled vocabularies, and linking of data across systems can help address current issues with library discovery like siloed data and lack of connections between related resources. The document outlines key Semantic Web concepts like RDF, ontologies, and reasoning and provides examples of how libraries can publish and interconnect their metadata as Linked Open Data to enhance discovery and personalization for users. However, it also notes obstacles to library adoption of these approaches like competing vocabularies, issues with identity, trust, preservation and licensing.
This tutorial explains the Data Web vision, some preliminary standards and technologies as well as some tools and technological building blocks developed by AKSW research group from Universität Leipzig.
Richard Wallis from OCLC presented on building a library knowledge graph to improve library workflows like cataloging and discovery. He discussed modeling entities like people, places, concepts and linking them together to form a graph. This knowledge graph could improve data quality, enable point-and-click cataloging, and help libraries better expose their unique content on the web. OCLC's approach involves modeling things of interest and making them available using web-friendly structures.
RDF and Open Linked Data, a first approachhorvadam
This document discusses the potential benefits of libraries publishing their data as linked open data using semantic web technologies. It describes how linked data allows for standardized access to data across the web as a single API. Libraries can make their data more discoverable on the web and searchable by services like Google by publishing it as linked open data. Semantic web technologies like RDF and SPARQL allow for more powerful search capabilities. Several large libraries are already publishing portions of their data as linked open data, including authority files and entire catalogs. The document outlines some semantic web applications libraries could use to enhance discovery and provides examples of vocabularies for describing different types of metadata.
The document discusses several options for publishing data on the Semantic Web. It describes Linked Data as the preferred approach, which involves using URIs to identify things and including links between related data to improve discovery. It also outlines publishing metadata in HTML documents using standards like RDFa and Microdata, as well as exposing SPARQL endpoints and data feeds.
VRA 2023 Collections Management in Fashion and Media session. Presenter: Wen Nie Ng
The goal of the paper is to enhance the metadata standard of fashion collections by expanding the controlled vocabulary and metadata elements for Costume Core, a metadata schema designed specifically for fashion artifacts. Various techniques are employed to achieve this goal, including identifying new descriptors using word embedding similarity measurements and adding new descriptive terms for precise artifact descriptions to use when re-cataloging a university fashion collection in Costume Core. The paper also provides a sneak peek of the Model Output Confirmative Helper Application, which simplifies the vocabulary review process. Additionally, a survey was conducted to collect insights into how other fashion professionals use metadata when describing dress artifacts. The survey results reveal 1) commonly used metadata standards in the historic fashion domain; 2) sample metadata respondents use; and 3) partial potential metadata that can be appended to Costume Core, which is relevant to Virginia Tech's Oris Glisson Historic Costume and Textile Collection. The expanded Costume Core resulting from the project offers a more comprehensive way of describing fashion collection holdings/artifacts. It has the potential to be adopted by the fashion collections to produce metadata that is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
VRA 2023 Adventures in Critical Cataloging session. Presenters: Sara Schumacher and Millicent Fullmer
This paper will cover the results of a research study looking at visual resources professionals' perceptions of the visual canon at their institutions and their actions confronting biases in their visual collections. This research is innovative because the "visual canon" as a concept is often evoked but rarely defined, and there has not been research into perceptions and practices that span different types of cultural heritage institutions. The researchers seek to focus on the role of the visual resources professional as a potential change-maker in confronting bias and transforming the “visual canon.” In our presentation, we will discuss the analysis of our survey and interviews around three key research questions: What barriers do visual resources professionals perceive in remedying the biases in the visual canon? What authorities, past and present, do they identify in shaping the visual canon? How do they approach teaching users to identify and critically confront these issues? We will highlight trends as well as unique concerns and solutions from our research participants and engage our audience with how these issues impact their own collections, policies, and instruction.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: John J. Taormina
The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database project collects historic images of the medieval monuments of South Italy, from the so-called Kingdom of Sicily dating from c. 950 to c. 1430, during the Norman, Hohenstaufen, Angevin, and early Aragonese periods. The project was begun in 2011, as part of a 3-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under project investigators Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University, and William Tronzo, University of California, San Diego.
The site features over 8,000 historical images in a range of media, including drawings, paintings, engravings, photographs, and plans and elevations culled from museums, archives, and libraries in Europe and America, often from the Grand Tour, as well as from available publications. The value of the database lies in making accessible to scholars the visual documentation of changes to historical sites because the medieval monuments of South Italy have been damaged, changed, and restored on many occasions, with tombs and liturgical furnishings often destroyed, dismantled, or removed. In fact, many of the 600 monuments no longer exist, often bombed during World War II or destroyed in earthquakes, or obscured by modern buildings and urban sprawl.
VRA 2023 Archives Tools and Techniques session. Presenters: Maureen Burns and Lavinia Ciuffa
The Ernest Nash collection documents ancient Roman architecture in pre- and post-World War II Italy. What made Nash's work significant, beyond capturing the present state of the ancient Roman monuments at a volatile historical moment, was the primacy of the topographical photography and the systematic order he brought to this subject. The American Academy's Photographic Archive contributed Nash's images to an open access, interactive website called the "Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome." It reveals the city in stunning detail and uses geo-referencing to provide the viewer with a better understanding of the overall contextual and spatial logic. These Nash images and metadata are also IIIF compatible. As the Academy continues to digitize and describe the full collection of about 30,000 images, thanks to the generous support of the Kress Foundation, a new partnership has developed with Archivision and vrcHost. Current high quality digital photographs of the same ancient Roman monuments are being added to compare with the historical images documenting architectural changes--whether conserved, restored, altered, reconstructed, re-sited or destroyed. This presentation will provide a progress report about what it takes to move new digital photography into IIIF and the various tools available for close examination and presentation. Finding ways to provide ready access and juxtapose historic and contemporary photography online, builds upon the legacy of Nash's quality curation and scholarship to create 21st century, accessible, online educational resources of great interest and utility to scholars, students, and a wide audience of ancient Roman enthusiasts.
VRA 2023 Exploring 3D Technologies in the Classroom session. Presenter: Amy McKenna
Amy McKenna (Williams College) discusses her project that uses Photoshop and cardboard 3D glasses to recreate the 19th-century spectacle of a historic glass stereo collection.
VRA 2023 Keynote. Presenter: Melissa Gohlke
A historical record that focuses on white, heteronormative society and events obscures many facets of San Antonio history. Peel back the veneer of normalcy and one can find rich, diverse, and unexpected strands of the city’s past. From female impersonators of the early 1900s to queer life in derelict spaces during the 1960s and finally, gay and lesbian bar culture of the1970s and beyond, the hidden threads of San Antonio’s history reveal themselves. In this presentation, LGBTQ Historian Melissa Gohlke explores these hidden histories and stitches together an alternative interpretation of the city’s historical narrative by examining a wealth of primary sources found in archives and personal collections.
About the speaker:
Melissa Gohlke is an urban historian who specializes in San Antonio LGBTQ+ history. For over a decade, Gohlke has been researching queer history in San Antonio and South Texas and sharing her passion for this history through extensive outreach activities such as presentations, media interactions, exhibits, and written work. Gohlke is the Assistant Archivist for UTSA Libraries Special Collections.
About the VRA:
The Visual Resources Association is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: Mark Pompelia
Material Order is an academic consortium of material sample collections (including wood, metal, glass, ceramic, polymers, plastics, textiles, bio-materials, etc.—any material that might be used in or considered for art, architecture, and design disciplines) founded by the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design and now comprising several more institutions in the US. It provides a community-based approach to management and access to material collections utilizing and developing standards and best practices. Material Order created the Materials Profile that serves as a shared cataloging tool on the LYRASIS CollectionSpace platform and can be further developed as the different needs of consortium members are identified. Open Web searching across all collections occurs via a front-end discovery portal built with Wordpress at materialorder.org.
The Material Order project was born from the acknowledgment that resource sharing and collaborative catalogs are the most promising approach to exploration and implementation. It was always the intent, now actualized, for partner institutions with different mission and scope to compel the project to consider and accommodate criteria such as material health ecologies, fabrication possibilities, and overlap into adjacent fields such as engineering and archeology. Thus, Material Order represents not just items on a shelf but a knowledge-base of compositions, uses, forms, and properties. No longer in its infancy, Material Order provides a shared and adaptable framework for managing collections across the consortium and optimal facilitation of materials-based research and exploration for art, architecture, and design applications.
VRA 2023 New Frontiers in Visual Resources session. Presenters: Meghan Rubenstein and Kate Leonard
The Art Department at Colorado College is piloting a Personal Archiving program in select undergraduate studio courses that combines visual and digital literacy instruction with personal reflection and professional development. Meghan Rubenstein, Curator of Visual Resources, and Kate Leonard, Professor of Art, will discuss the drive behind this initiative to develop student competencies within a liberal arts setting. We will share our ongoing iterative process as well as select student activities and learning outcomes that may be adopted to various institutions.
VRA 2022 Teaching Visual Literacy session. Presenter: Molly Schoen
Our everyday lives are more saturated in images and videos than any other time in human history. This fact alone underscores the need to implement visual literacy skills in all stages of education, from pre-K to post-grad. Learning how to read images with critical, analytical eyes is crucial to understanding the world around us as we see it represented in the news, social media, advertisements, etc. New technologies have exasperated this already urgent need for visual literacy education. Synthetic media, deepfakes, APIs, bot farms, and other forms of artificial intelligence have many innovative uses, but bad actors also use them to fan the flames of disinformation. We have seen the grave consequences from this age of disinformation, from undermining elections to attempts to delegitimize science and doctors, undoubtedly raising the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. What do we need to know about these new forms of altered images made by artificial intelligence? How do we discern between real, human-made content versus fakes made by computers, which are becoming more and more difficult to discern? This paper aims to raise awareness of how new forms of visual media can manipulate and deceive the viewer. Audience participants will learn how to empower themselves and their peers into being more savvy consumers of visual materials by understanding the basics of AI and recognizing the characteristics of faked media.
VRA 2022 Individual Papers Session. Presenter: Malia Van Heukelem
This case study of a large artist archive at a medium sized academic research library will connect the success of the artist serving as his own archivist and the collection's broad research appeal locally, nationally and internationally. Like many artists, there is so much more than his own work represented. There is correspondence, fine art prints, ephemera of other artists and writers hidden in the collection. The foundation of organization is in place; now the focus is on creating online access points through finding aids and image collections. The presentation will explore the use of ArchivesSpace, Omeka, and other software to increase access. It will also demonstrate how a solo archivist can leverage interns, student assistants, and volunteers for collections management projects that benefit both the institutional priorities and desired learning outcomes. This talk will delve into the challenges of 20th century visual resource collections such as copyright and engagement with donors. Featuring a local artist has brought other art and architecture collections to the library, without clear boundaries which has led to questions of sustainability, who and what is collected. There is definitely a need to balance the historical record and yet, there are already more archival collections accessioned than can be responsibly managed by one person. The primary collection does include works by women and artists of color, yet much descriptive work remains to forefront the diversity contained within. As an archivist and librarian at a public university, there are many competing demands for collections management, support of researchers, and instruction plus the added interest for exhibition loans and the desire for other artists and architects to be represented. This artist archive is both interesting and complex.
This document summarizes an art history course titled "Pattern & Representation: Critical Cataloging for a New Perspective on Campus History" taught at Oklahoma State University. The course examines major developments in American art across different media from European contact through the mid-20th century. As part of the course, students are divided into groups to create digital exhibitions cataloging artworks from university newspaper archives between certain years. Students must include contextual information and link their entries to related articles. Their entries and a reflective essay are graded individually based on their work plan. The course introduces the concept of "critical cataloging" to bring social justice perspectives to archival and metadata work.
VRA 2022 session. Organizer/Moderator: Allan T. Kohl. Speakers: Virginia (Macie) Hall, Christina Updike, Marcia Focht, Rebecca Moss, Steven Kowalik, Jenni Rodda
During the past year, the “Great Resignation” (aka. The “Big Quit”) has roiled the world of employment nationwide in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had already caused job losses among our membership. While many institutions and individuals now hope for a “return to normal,” others anticipate that the past two years mark a watershed necessitating further transformational changes in the years ahead. These larger employment trends have come on top of quantum shifts in the visual resources field itself, as traditional tasks give way to new responsibilities, and siloed image collections are replaced by interdisciplinary projects.
For several years, our annual conferences have featured the perspectives of newer professionals in “Stories from the Start.” Looking at the opposite ends of their career arcs, this session brings together the perspectives and experiences of two pre-pandemic retirees, two of our members who made their decisions to retire during the past year, and two currently active professionals whose retirements are pending in the near future. When and why did they make their decisions to retire? What was/is the actual process? Concerns? What comes next after we leave our offices for the last time?
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenters: Melissa Becher and Samuel Sadow
In 2019, the art history program at American University gave its masters students a new option for the capstone project that is the culmination of the degree: create a digital project on an art historical topic using Omeka S or Wordpress. Initially, only a single student chose to complete a digital capstone over a traditional thesis, but within two years there was near parity between the two options, meaning seven digital capstones for the 2021 cohort. To support these projects, a close partnership quickly developed between the University’s library, the visual resources center, and the archives. This session covers how three campus units coordinate that support for these innovative digital humanities projects, including administration of the platforms, instruction, technical support, preservation, and access to the final projects. The session will also showcase examples of student work to demonstrate the variety and creativity of projects that can be accomplished using these platforms, as well as their contributions to the field of art history. The outcome of this initiative is clear: the best of digital humanities, weaving design and technology with rigorous art historical research, and finished projects that have already resulted in successful job applications in the field.
VRA 2022 Material Objects and Special Collections session. Presenters: Allan T. Kohl and Jackie Spafford
Materials-based collections represent a challenging new mode of information management in terms of subject specialization, physical description and accommodation, and institutional mission. Building upon the successful introductory meeting of this Group in Los Angeles at the 2019 Conference, the goal of this SIG is to provide a forum for open discussion of Material and Object Collections and their relationship to various library/visual resources tasks. The Material and Object Collections SIG provides an opportunity for individuals working with a variety of materials and objects collections – including those that support art and art history courses, those that support architecture and design courses, and those in cultural heritage organizations – to share ideas, issues, and potential solutions in regard to tasks similar to common library/visual resources activities (including cataloging, documentation, staffing, outreach), as well as more specialized concerns relating to the management of physical objects (security, storage and retrieval, the design of user spaces, etc.).
By continuing to offer an opportunity for participants to share brief introductions and profiles of their collections, we hope to encourage networking and exchange information about sources for specialized items; to display sample items and share surplus samples with other collections; and to provide examples of successful solutions to typical problems. Our long-range goal is to maintain an ongoing support group that can be of particular benefit to those professionals who are in the beginning stages of building or organizing physical collections.
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Moderator: Otto Luna
Exploration of visualization tools in the Digital Humanities/Digital Art History realm. Presenter: Catherine Adams
Assessing the use of Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS) by Art Historians and Archaeologists. Presenter: Kayla Olson
Supporting Art History Students’ Digital Projects at American University. Presenters: Samuel Sadow and Melissa Becher
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenter: Kayla Olson
This paper discusses a study (completed in the spring of 2021) which explores how common the use of Qualitative Data Analysis software (QDAS) is among two kinds of object-based researchers: art historians and archaeologists. Surveys were disseminated in a snowball fashion and contained open and closed questions. The questions sought to give participants a platform to describe if, why, and how they use programs like Atlas.ti, NVivo, Dedoose, and MAXQDA throughout their research process. While not QDAS, the image management application Tropy was also included. The author hopes that the anonymized responses will prompt discussion among professionals in academic librarianship and visual resources management about the possible impact of these digital tools on researchers in these disciplines. The question remains on whether researchers in art and material culture disciplines would benefit more from QDAS if participants were aware of: 1) Their existence and 2) Their ability to help organize artifact data and to assist in performing image-based analysis.
VRA 2022 Critical Cataloging Conversations in Teaching, Research, and Practice session. Presenter: Ann M. Graf, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, Simmons University
In the field of information science, we strive to provide access to information through the most efficient means possible. This is often done through the use of controlled vocabularies for description of subjects, and, in the case of art objects, for the identification of styles, processes, materials, and types. My research has examined the sufficiency of controlled vocabularies such as the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) for description of graffiti art processes and products. This research is evolving as the AAT is responding to warrant for a broader set of terms to represent outsider art communities such as the graffiti art community. The methods used to study terminological warrant by examining the language of the graffiti art community are helpful to give voice to artists who work outside the traditional art institution, allowing the way that they talk about their work and how they describe it to become part of the common discourse. It is hoped that this research will inspire others who design and supplement controlled vocabularies for use in the arts to give priority in descriptive practice to those who have been historically underrepresented or made invisible by default use of terminology that does not speak to their experiences.
VRA 2022 Session. Presenter: Douglas Peterson
In 2021, the National Archives of Estonia engaged Digital Transitions’ Service division, Pixel Acuity, to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to analyze part of its historic record. The objective was to use this tool to enhance their collection with descriptive metadata that identified persons of interest in a collection of over 8,000 photographic glass plate negatives, a task that would ordinarily take years of human labor. In this presentation, we discuss our approach to accurately detecting and identifying human subjects in transmissive media, our initial findings using commercially available AI models, and the subsequent refinements made to our workflow to generate the most accurate metadata. In addition to working with commercially available AI models, we developed strategies for validation of AI-generated results without additional human supervision, and explored the benefits of building bespoke, heritage-specific AI models. By combining all of these tools, we developed a highly customized solution that greatly expedited accurate metadata generation with minimal human oversight, operated efficiently on large collections, and supported discovery of novel content within the archive.
VRA 2022 Community Building Session. Presenter: Dacia Metes
Queens Memory is an ongoing community archiving program that engages with our local communities in our two-fold mission to (1) push local history collections out to the public through programming and online resources, and (2) pull new materials into our collections from the diverse communities of Queens, NYC. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to close our buildings, cease all in-person work and programming and shift our work to the virtual world. Our team quickly modified our processing workflow and asset tracking with the high volume of crowd-sourced donations coming through new online submission forms, set up in a rapid response to capture the stories coming from the pandemic’s first epicenter in the U.S. In my proposed conference session, I will discuss how we planned and managed the shift to fully online collection development. I will talk about our virtual outreach efforts to engage with the community and get them to contribute their materials, and how we developed the online tools and processes that allowed us to collect photographs, oral history interviews and other audio/visual materials, while also capturing the necessary metadata and consent forms. New internal communications channels, roles for volunteers, and triage processing for publication resulted from these efforts and are now essential parts of the team’s practices.
The document summarizes a workshop on accessibility guidance for digital cultural heritage collections. The workshop consists of two hours which include presentations on accessibility requirements and workflow strategies, a breakout activity where participants practice creating accessible descriptions for images, and a wrap-up discussion. The presentations cover topics such as common barriers to accessibility, guidelines for making images, video, audio and documents accessible, and best practices for incorporating accessibility into workflows. The breakout activity has participants work in groups to write alt-text and accessibility descriptions for sample images from online collections.
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