Presentation at Erasmus University Library 11-12-2012.
For the most part a combination of slides from previous presentations, mostly from http://www.slideshare.net/MaxKemman/mapping-the-use-of-digital-sources-amongst-humanities-scholars-in-the-netherlands
Semantic web in Cultural Heritage and ArchaeologyMonika Solanki
The document outlines Monika Solanki's presentation on applying semantic web technologies to cultural heritage and archaeology. It introduces key concepts like the semantic web, ontologies, and examples like CIDOC CRM and GeoNames. The presentation covers how the semantic web can help cultural heritage organizations provide access to collections and help different types of users.
The document discusses how semantic technologies can be applied to cultural heritage applications. It provides an overview of semantic web concepts like linked open data and describes standards for representing cultural heritage data like Europeana Data Model. Examples of related European Union and Bulgarian projects involving cultural heritage and semantic technologies are also presented.
The document discusses open source enterprise content management and how it can be enhanced by integrating semantic web technologies. It describes how semantic technologies can help extract meaning from unstructured content, connect information to form knowledge, reason about the knowledge, and present it in an actionable way. The document also provides an overview of Nuxeo's work on semantic ECM through various research projects and their semantic engine which extracts metadata from content.
Mapping Digital Humanities projects. A pilot of a DH project registry for The...Andrea Scharnhorst
Mapping Digital Humanities projects - A pilot of a DH project registry for The Netherlands
Presentation given at the DH Benelux Antwerp June 8-9, 2015
Stef Scagliola, Barbara Safradin, Almila Akdag, Hendrik Smeer, Linda Reijnhoudt, Sally Wyatt, Andrea Scharnhorst
The Agora project is a collaboration between the History and Computer Science departments at the VU University Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Dutch national audiovisual archive Beeld en Geluid. The aim of Agora is to develop a social platform in which museum objects can be placed into an explicit (art)historic context. Through the (art)historic context, objects from highly diverse museum collections can be related, resulting in a more complete and illustrated description of historical events. End-users will also be allowed to create their own personal narratives which will lead to theoretical reflection on the meaning of digitally mediated public history in contemporary society.
Check out our website http://agora.cs.vu.nl/ and our twitter feed @agora_project
Presentation of the project "Mapping historical networks . Building the Biographical / prosopographical Information System (APIS)" at the congress Europa baut auf Biographien in Wien / Vienna.
Semantic web in Cultural Heritage and ArchaeologyMonika Solanki
The document outlines Monika Solanki's presentation on applying semantic web technologies to cultural heritage and archaeology. It introduces key concepts like the semantic web, ontologies, and examples like CIDOC CRM and GeoNames. The presentation covers how the semantic web can help cultural heritage organizations provide access to collections and help different types of users.
The document discusses how semantic technologies can be applied to cultural heritage applications. It provides an overview of semantic web concepts like linked open data and describes standards for representing cultural heritage data like Europeana Data Model. Examples of related European Union and Bulgarian projects involving cultural heritage and semantic technologies are also presented.
The document discusses open source enterprise content management and how it can be enhanced by integrating semantic web technologies. It describes how semantic technologies can help extract meaning from unstructured content, connect information to form knowledge, reason about the knowledge, and present it in an actionable way. The document also provides an overview of Nuxeo's work on semantic ECM through various research projects and their semantic engine which extracts metadata from content.
Mapping Digital Humanities projects. A pilot of a DH project registry for The...Andrea Scharnhorst
Mapping Digital Humanities projects - A pilot of a DH project registry for The Netherlands
Presentation given at the DH Benelux Antwerp June 8-9, 2015
Stef Scagliola, Barbara Safradin, Almila Akdag, Hendrik Smeer, Linda Reijnhoudt, Sally Wyatt, Andrea Scharnhorst
The Agora project is a collaboration between the History and Computer Science departments at the VU University Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Dutch national audiovisual archive Beeld en Geluid. The aim of Agora is to develop a social platform in which museum objects can be placed into an explicit (art)historic context. Through the (art)historic context, objects from highly diverse museum collections can be related, resulting in a more complete and illustrated description of historical events. End-users will also be allowed to create their own personal narratives which will lead to theoretical reflection on the meaning of digitally mediated public history in contemporary society.
Check out our website http://agora.cs.vu.nl/ and our twitter feed @agora_project
Presentation of the project "Mapping historical networks . Building the Biographical / prosopographical Information System (APIS)" at the congress Europa baut auf Biographien in Wien / Vienna.
Overview of the ITS department's projects, services, and staff. A look at our areas, including IT infrastructure, eresources management, digital library services, and admin & communication.
SOFTWIN is a Romanian IT company founded in 1990 with 237 employees. It has completed over 12,000 projects worldwide for 250 corporate clients. The company has three business lines: PAXATO for contact centers, INTUITEXT for ePublishing, eLearning, and digital content, and SOFTWIN R&D for product development. INTUITEXT offers solutions for publishing, authoring, conversion, and digitization of content. It has major customers in Europe and North America across various industries.
From Catalogue 2.0 to the digital humanities: exploring the future of librari...Sally Chambers
This document discusses the evolving role of libraries and librarians in supporting digital scholarship and the digital humanities. It describes how traditional cataloguing tools like MARC are changing to incorporate new metadata standards and linked data. Research libraries' engagement with research infrastructures has been low but is increasing as opportunities arise in areas like research data management, digital repositories, and scholarly communication. The document argues libraries have important roles to play in discovery, data management, and as embedded partners supporting digital humanities researchers and their evolving needs. Collaboration between libraries and digital humanities centers is highlighted as a way to advance both fields.
This document provides an overview of the digitization of Dutch museums over the past 40 years. It began in the 1950s-60s with experiments using computers for collection administration and data exchange. Government support increased adoption through national programs. In the 1970s-80s, standards and data sharing networks emerged. Supporting organizations coordinated best practices and advocacy. By the 1990s, collection information itself was recognized as a valuable asset, and digitization had become an area of specialization within museums.
PATHS at the Language Technology Group, Computer Science and Software Enginee...pathsproject
Presentation given by Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, at the Language Technology Group, Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Melbourne University.
Project "The Digital City Revives, A Case Study of Web Archaeology"Tjarda de Haan
Presentation at the iPRES 2016, 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation. Bern, October 3-6, 2016
By Tjarda de Haan, guest e-curator & web archaeologist at the Amsterdam Museum
Partners:
National Coalition Digital Preservation, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Old inhabitants, (ex) DDS employees and DDS affiliated web-archeologists, UvA Faculty of Science and Waag Society
Visit:
http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/latest-news/1777-qthe-digital-city-revivesq-a-case-study-of-web-archaeology
http://hart.amsterdammuseum.nl/re-dds
http://www.bitsandbytesunited.com/?portfolio=publication-the-reconstruction-of-the-digital-city-a-case-study-of-web-archaeology
This document summarizes a presentation about the future of libraries. It discusses how libraries are changing and expanding their roles from traditional book lending to becoming community centers that provide learning resources, technology access, collaboration spaces, and cultural programming. It provides examples of new library services like laptop lending, 3D printing, and mobile apps. It also highlights strategies libraries are using to engage diverse groups and address issues like digital inclusion. Overall, the presentation envisions libraries transforming into vibrant public spaces and ecosystems that facilitate knowledge sharing, community building, and lifelong learning.
CHIP Project: Personalized Museum Tour with Real-Time Adaptation on a Mobile ...Lora Aroyo
This document summarizes a master's thesis on developing a personalized mobile museum tour with real-time adaptation. The thesis aimed to improve on an existing offline personalized tour system by enabling real-time user positioning and tour adaptation based on time constraints, artwork preferences, and spatial information within the museum. It investigated using WiFi radio frequency fingerprinting for real-time localization, which achieved accuracy within 1.25 meters. The mobile tour system was designed to adapt the recommended artworks and tour pathing in real-time based on the user's profile and detected location within the museum.
This document provides an overview of libraries and their evolving role. It discusses how libraries are transforming from traditional spaces focused on physical collections to becoming more community-centered places that facilitate knowledge creation, learning, and social interaction. The document highlights several trends driving this change, such as new technologies that expand access to information but also risk exacerbating inequality, the rise of online education, evolving conceptions of privacy, and empowerment of new voices. It also shares examples of innovative library programs and services that exemplify this transition, from mobile libraries and 3D printing to collaborative workspaces. The overall message is that libraries continue to play an important role in society but must adapt to remain relevant by becoming more open, people-oriented institutions that see
The document discusses the transition of the intranet of the State Museums Berlin from a traditional linear structure maintained by one editor to a collaborative wiki platform. It describes the goals of facilitating collaboration, sharing of all types of information, and blurred roles between content creators and recipients. Statistics are provided showing growth in page counts, edits, and users since implementing the new intranet in 2007 based on MediaWiki software. Challenges in transitioning from traditional curatorial models to a collaborative wiki approach are also outlined.
Netari.fi is a national multi-professional online youth work project in Finland. It aims to provide social and health services to youth through popular internet environments. Over 78 youth workers from 27 municipalities work online in environments like Habbo Hotel, IRC-Galleria, Facebook and more. The workers engage in discussion on topics like family, school, leisure activities and more. Netari.fi seeks to develop online youth work through training, research and new initiatives like Netari-TV and a Facebook page. It had over 159,000 visitors and 10,000 discussions in 2009.
DH Benelux 2017 Panel: A Pragmatic Approach to Understanding and Utilising Ev...Lora Aroyo
Lora Aroyo, Chiel van den Akker, Marnix van Berchum, Lodewijk
Petram, Gerard Kuys, Tommaso Caselli, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Victor de Boer, Sabrina Sauer, Berber Hagedoorn
A presentation about DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) given as a digital humanities (DH) showcase at the LibraryLab of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Library, Ghent University on 2 April 2015
The document discusses opportunities for collaboration between museums and Wikipedia. It notes that while museums and Wikipedia may seem like different worlds, they both involve collecting and documenting information for public access. The document outlines how scholars can contribute their expertise to Wikipedia articles and help ensure accuracy. It also explores tools that could facilitate use of Wikipedia in museums and mutual exchange of content between the two communities.
The document discusses how Infosys Technologies creates an environment to retain talented employees in India through consistent learning opportunities, encouragement and recognition, and new impressive facilities. It also notes the importance Infosys places on employee satisfaction and different cultural factors that can motivate workers, such as a relationship with an employee's family. The campus in Mysore, India is used as an example of Infosys' efforts to keep skilled minds within the country.
1) The PoliMedia project aims to link multimedia sources like newspaper articles and radio bulletins to discussions in the Dutch parliament to allow for better analysis of how media covered political debates.
2) It extracts structure and named entities from parliamentary debates and uses dates, topics, entities and speakers to automatically query media archives.
3) The current approach links debates to media coverage within a one-month period by searching archives for mentions of entities from each debate. This allows insight into how different media portrayed the same political discussions and events.
Talking With Scholars - Developing a Research Environment for Oral History Co...MaxKemman
Max Kemman discusses developing a research environment for oral history collections. He outlines four stages of research that scholars may go through: exploration and selection of collections, exploration and investigation of materials, presentation of results, and data curation. The system was evaluated in multiple cycles with scholars and is meant to provide search, filtering, bookmarking, and sharing capabilities for oral history collections.
User Required? On the Value of User Research in the Digital HumanitiesMaxKemman
This document discusses the value of user research in developing digital tools for humanities research. It describes user research conducted for two tools: PoliMedia, which links Dutch parliamentary debates to media items, and Oral History Today, a search interface for oral histories. The research identified user requirements for both tools, though some requirements were deemed out of scope. Common requirements included searching by time period and names/roles of people. The discussion concludes that while generalizing requirements is difficult, user research helps ensure tools are usable and support researchers' broader workflows.
Building the PoliMedia search system; data- and user-drivenMaxKemman
Presentation at eHumanities group at Meerten's Institute (Amsterdam) on Thursday 18 April 2013.
Analysing media coverage across several types of media-outlets is a challenging task for (media) historians. A specific example of media coverage research investigates the coverage of political debates and how the representation of topics and people change over time. The PoliMedia project (http://www.polimedia.nl) aims to showcase the potential of cross-media analysis for research in the humanities, by 1) curating automatically detected semantic links between four data sets of different media types, and 2) developing a demonstrator application that allows researchers to deploy such an interlinked collection for quantitative and qualitative analysis of media coverage of debates in the Dutch parliament.
These two goals reflect the two perspectives on the development of a search system such as PoliMedia; data- and user-driven. In this presentation, Laura Hollink (VU) will present the data-driven perspective of linking between different datasets and the research questions that arise in achieving this linkage: how to combine different types of datasets and what kind of research questions are made possible by the data? Max Kemman (EUR) will present the user-driven perspective: which benefits can scholars have from linking of these datasets? What are the user requirements for the PoliMedia search system and how was the system evaluated with scholars in an eye tracking study?
The document discusses a research project called PoliMedia that aims to analyze media coverage of political debates in the Dutch parliament from 1956 to 1995. The project will link multimedia sources like newspapers, television, and radio to provide insight into how different media covered topics and people over time. By connecting these sources through a portal, researchers can more easily browse and search debates and gain a better understanding of the relationships between media items. The project seeks collaboration to build structured datasets and a virtual workspace to support academic research.
Overview of the ITS department's projects, services, and staff. A look at our areas, including IT infrastructure, eresources management, digital library services, and admin & communication.
SOFTWIN is a Romanian IT company founded in 1990 with 237 employees. It has completed over 12,000 projects worldwide for 250 corporate clients. The company has three business lines: PAXATO for contact centers, INTUITEXT for ePublishing, eLearning, and digital content, and SOFTWIN R&D for product development. INTUITEXT offers solutions for publishing, authoring, conversion, and digitization of content. It has major customers in Europe and North America across various industries.
From Catalogue 2.0 to the digital humanities: exploring the future of librari...Sally Chambers
This document discusses the evolving role of libraries and librarians in supporting digital scholarship and the digital humanities. It describes how traditional cataloguing tools like MARC are changing to incorporate new metadata standards and linked data. Research libraries' engagement with research infrastructures has been low but is increasing as opportunities arise in areas like research data management, digital repositories, and scholarly communication. The document argues libraries have important roles to play in discovery, data management, and as embedded partners supporting digital humanities researchers and their evolving needs. Collaboration between libraries and digital humanities centers is highlighted as a way to advance both fields.
This document provides an overview of the digitization of Dutch museums over the past 40 years. It began in the 1950s-60s with experiments using computers for collection administration and data exchange. Government support increased adoption through national programs. In the 1970s-80s, standards and data sharing networks emerged. Supporting organizations coordinated best practices and advocacy. By the 1990s, collection information itself was recognized as a valuable asset, and digitization had become an area of specialization within museums.
PATHS at the Language Technology Group, Computer Science and Software Enginee...pathsproject
Presentation given by Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, at the Language Technology Group, Computer Science and Software Engineering Department, Melbourne University.
Project "The Digital City Revives, A Case Study of Web Archaeology"Tjarda de Haan
Presentation at the iPRES 2016, 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation. Bern, October 3-6, 2016
By Tjarda de Haan, guest e-curator & web archaeologist at the Amsterdam Museum
Partners:
National Coalition Digital Preservation, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Old inhabitants, (ex) DDS employees and DDS affiliated web-archeologists, UvA Faculty of Science and Waag Society
Visit:
http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/latest-news/1777-qthe-digital-city-revivesq-a-case-study-of-web-archaeology
http://hart.amsterdammuseum.nl/re-dds
http://www.bitsandbytesunited.com/?portfolio=publication-the-reconstruction-of-the-digital-city-a-case-study-of-web-archaeology
This document summarizes a presentation about the future of libraries. It discusses how libraries are changing and expanding their roles from traditional book lending to becoming community centers that provide learning resources, technology access, collaboration spaces, and cultural programming. It provides examples of new library services like laptop lending, 3D printing, and mobile apps. It also highlights strategies libraries are using to engage diverse groups and address issues like digital inclusion. Overall, the presentation envisions libraries transforming into vibrant public spaces and ecosystems that facilitate knowledge sharing, community building, and lifelong learning.
CHIP Project: Personalized Museum Tour with Real-Time Adaptation on a Mobile ...Lora Aroyo
This document summarizes a master's thesis on developing a personalized mobile museum tour with real-time adaptation. The thesis aimed to improve on an existing offline personalized tour system by enabling real-time user positioning and tour adaptation based on time constraints, artwork preferences, and spatial information within the museum. It investigated using WiFi radio frequency fingerprinting for real-time localization, which achieved accuracy within 1.25 meters. The mobile tour system was designed to adapt the recommended artworks and tour pathing in real-time based on the user's profile and detected location within the museum.
This document provides an overview of libraries and their evolving role. It discusses how libraries are transforming from traditional spaces focused on physical collections to becoming more community-centered places that facilitate knowledge creation, learning, and social interaction. The document highlights several trends driving this change, such as new technologies that expand access to information but also risk exacerbating inequality, the rise of online education, evolving conceptions of privacy, and empowerment of new voices. It also shares examples of innovative library programs and services that exemplify this transition, from mobile libraries and 3D printing to collaborative workspaces. The overall message is that libraries continue to play an important role in society but must adapt to remain relevant by becoming more open, people-oriented institutions that see
The document discusses the transition of the intranet of the State Museums Berlin from a traditional linear structure maintained by one editor to a collaborative wiki platform. It describes the goals of facilitating collaboration, sharing of all types of information, and blurred roles between content creators and recipients. Statistics are provided showing growth in page counts, edits, and users since implementing the new intranet in 2007 based on MediaWiki software. Challenges in transitioning from traditional curatorial models to a collaborative wiki approach are also outlined.
Netari.fi is a national multi-professional online youth work project in Finland. It aims to provide social and health services to youth through popular internet environments. Over 78 youth workers from 27 municipalities work online in environments like Habbo Hotel, IRC-Galleria, Facebook and more. The workers engage in discussion on topics like family, school, leisure activities and more. Netari.fi seeks to develop online youth work through training, research and new initiatives like Netari-TV and a Facebook page. It had over 159,000 visitors and 10,000 discussions in 2009.
DH Benelux 2017 Panel: A Pragmatic Approach to Understanding and Utilising Ev...Lora Aroyo
Lora Aroyo, Chiel van den Akker, Marnix van Berchum, Lodewijk
Petram, Gerard Kuys, Tommaso Caselli, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Victor de Boer, Sabrina Sauer, Berber Hagedoorn
A presentation about DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) given as a digital humanities (DH) showcase at the LibraryLab of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Library, Ghent University on 2 April 2015
The document discusses opportunities for collaboration between museums and Wikipedia. It notes that while museums and Wikipedia may seem like different worlds, they both involve collecting and documenting information for public access. The document outlines how scholars can contribute their expertise to Wikipedia articles and help ensure accuracy. It also explores tools that could facilitate use of Wikipedia in museums and mutual exchange of content between the two communities.
The document discusses how Infosys Technologies creates an environment to retain talented employees in India through consistent learning opportunities, encouragement and recognition, and new impressive facilities. It also notes the importance Infosys places on employee satisfaction and different cultural factors that can motivate workers, such as a relationship with an employee's family. The campus in Mysore, India is used as an example of Infosys' efforts to keep skilled minds within the country.
1) The PoliMedia project aims to link multimedia sources like newspaper articles and radio bulletins to discussions in the Dutch parliament to allow for better analysis of how media covered political debates.
2) It extracts structure and named entities from parliamentary debates and uses dates, topics, entities and speakers to automatically query media archives.
3) The current approach links debates to media coverage within a one-month period by searching archives for mentions of entities from each debate. This allows insight into how different media portrayed the same political discussions and events.
Talking With Scholars - Developing a Research Environment for Oral History Co...MaxKemman
Max Kemman discusses developing a research environment for oral history collections. He outlines four stages of research that scholars may go through: exploration and selection of collections, exploration and investigation of materials, presentation of results, and data curation. The system was evaluated in multiple cycles with scholars and is meant to provide search, filtering, bookmarking, and sharing capabilities for oral history collections.
User Required? On the Value of User Research in the Digital HumanitiesMaxKemman
This document discusses the value of user research in developing digital tools for humanities research. It describes user research conducted for two tools: PoliMedia, which links Dutch parliamentary debates to media items, and Oral History Today, a search interface for oral histories. The research identified user requirements for both tools, though some requirements were deemed out of scope. Common requirements included searching by time period and names/roles of people. The discussion concludes that while generalizing requirements is difficult, user research helps ensure tools are usable and support researchers' broader workflows.
Building the PoliMedia search system; data- and user-drivenMaxKemman
Presentation at eHumanities group at Meerten's Institute (Amsterdam) on Thursday 18 April 2013.
Analysing media coverage across several types of media-outlets is a challenging task for (media) historians. A specific example of media coverage research investigates the coverage of political debates and how the representation of topics and people change over time. The PoliMedia project (http://www.polimedia.nl) aims to showcase the potential of cross-media analysis for research in the humanities, by 1) curating automatically detected semantic links between four data sets of different media types, and 2) developing a demonstrator application that allows researchers to deploy such an interlinked collection for quantitative and qualitative analysis of media coverage of debates in the Dutch parliament.
These two goals reflect the two perspectives on the development of a search system such as PoliMedia; data- and user-driven. In this presentation, Laura Hollink (VU) will present the data-driven perspective of linking between different datasets and the research questions that arise in achieving this linkage: how to combine different types of datasets and what kind of research questions are made possible by the data? Max Kemman (EUR) will present the user-driven perspective: which benefits can scholars have from linking of these datasets? What are the user requirements for the PoliMedia search system and how was the system evaluated with scholars in an eye tracking study?
The document discusses a research project called PoliMedia that aims to analyze media coverage of political debates in the Dutch parliament from 1956 to 1995. The project will link multimedia sources like newspapers, television, and radio to provide insight into how different media covered topics and people over time. By connecting these sources through a portal, researchers can more easily browse and search debates and gain a better understanding of the relationships between media items. The project seeks collaboration to build structured datasets and a virtual workspace to support academic research.
Too Many Varied User Requirements for Digital Humanities ProjectsMaxKemman
The document discusses two digital humanities projects that developed tools for scholars: PoliMedia and Oral History Today. User requirements were collected from scholars through interviews and evaluations. For both projects, there was a small overlap between user requirements and the project goals. Many requirements were deemed out of scope. This suggests that while scholars have clear ideas for their own research, their tool requirements are too varied for single projects to address. The conclusion is that repurposing data and tools in new ways may better meet scholars' diverse needs.
This document discusses political risk management strategies for multinational corporations operating abroad. It covers Freeport-McMoRan's operations in Indonesia which face high political risk. It also discusses macro and micro political risks faced by MNCs and how unstable governments and changing policies can constrain foreign investments and trade. Finally, it outlines techniques for MNCs to manage political risks, including relative bargaining power analysis, integrative and defensive strategies, and proactive political engagement.
Mapping the use of digital sources amongst Humanities scholars in the Netherl...MaxKemman
1) The document reports on a survey of 294 Dutch and Belgian academics regarding their use of digital sources and databases.
2) It finds that text is the most commonly used digital medium, and Google is the dominant search tool and platform. Younger academics are more confident in using audiovisual search tools.
3) Disciplines like history and literature most commonly use images and digitized objects, while fields like social studies and linguistics make more use of video, audio, and statistical data.
4) The study has implications for how to increase awareness, appeal and adoption of digital humanities approaches through user-focused design and inclusion in education.
This document provides a mini tutorial on the present simple tense and subject-verb agreement in English. It covers:
1) The forms of verbs in the present simple tense, including affirmative, negative, and question forms.
2) Spelling rules for verbs ending in consonant + y, vowel + y, -s, -z, -ch, or -x in the third person singular.
3) The importance of subject-verb agreement and examples showing correct and incorrect agreement.
4) A recommendation to practice making sentences with links provided.
This document provides a summary of the present simple and present continuous tenses in English. It explains that the present simple tense is used to describe permanent or regular situations, while the present continuous tense describes temporary or ongoing actions. It provides examples of how each tense is formed and used, guidelines for spelling verbs in the present simple, and when each tense is appropriate.
Oral History Today - Search Interface for Oral History Research
Presented at CLARIAH meeting 11 September 2013 by Roeland Ordelman (NISV) and Max Kemman (EUR)
Slides in Dutch, slide notes in English
This document discusses the field of web science and issues related to applying it to digital heritage collections. It defines web science as the interdisciplinary study of social behavior on the web, the technologies that enable it, and their interactions. Key topics covered include social computing, privacy, economics, universal access, and technical challenges like information retrieval and vocabulary alignment. The document also outlines the author's work applying semantic web and linked data principles to improve access to cultural heritage collections on the digital web.
MOVING presentation at the Course in Open Education Design, July 2018, SloveniaMOVING Project
The aim of the course was to equip the participants with basic knowledge, practical advice and hands-on experience to prepare them for their own design of Open Educational Resources (OER).
Audiovisual archives and digital humanitiesJohan Oomen
Contribution to the 'Opening up speech archives' conference, February 7, 2013.
By Johan Oomen, Roeland Ordelman, Erwin Verbruggen
Context: http://lukemckernan.com/2013/02/05/opening-up-speech-archives/
Research and Development at Sound and Vision Victor de Boer
Slides for guest lecture about R&D at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision for the lecture series "Introduction to IMM" at VU Amsterdam.
With slides by Lotte Belice Baltussen, Maarten Brinkerink, Johan Oomen, Bouke Huurnink and Victor de Boer
This talk showcases PACKED vzw's linked open data-projects on persistent identification, opening up data, data enrichment and the potential of the Wikimedia ecosystem BUT also the areas where the Wikimedia platforms and its present tools could be improved. We make an argument for attracting more people with an IT background in the cultural sector, better open infrastructures and tools that make linked open data publishing and reuse possible: resolvers, datahubs, api tools - tools for publication of data and images: specific tools for mix’n match, tools which can deal with what heritage professionals have already produced (excel files). Lastly we encourage the public to solicit the heritage sector and create demand for LOD services ‘as if’ you already live in a society where citizens can take access to digital cultural resources for granted and as if you have no idea about the contradictions that cause institutions to delay opening up their collections.
Presentation by Alina Saenko and Sam Donvil at Open Belgium 2018 -
http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/linked-open-data-limbo-co-creation-catalyst-cultural-heritage-resources
This talk showcases PACKED vzw's linked open data-projects on persistent identification, opening up data, data enrichment and the potential of the Wikimedia ecosystem BUT also the areas where the Wikimedia platforms and its present tools could be improved. We make an argument for attracting more people with an IT background in the cultural sector, better open infrastructures and tools that make linked open data publishing and reuse possible: resolvers, datahubs, api tools - tools for publication of data and images: specific tools for mix’n match, tools which can deal with what heritage professionals have already produced (excel files). Lastly we encourage the public to solicit the heritage sector and create demand for LOD services ‘as if’ you already live in a society where citizens can take access to digital cultural resources for granted and as if you have no idea about the contradictions that cause institutions to delay opening up their collections.
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for linked open data in cultural heritage institutions. It summarizes that while many institutions have digitized collections and data, their "digital mindset" and outdated systems have limited data sharing and reuse. The document outlines recent and ongoing projects by PACKED to address this, such as developing tools to publish structured data on Wikimedia platforms, and a "datahub" and "resolver tool" to facilitate internal data management and linking to external references. Next steps include expanding these projects and conducting a survey to understand demand for cultural heritage data. The overall aim is to make institutions' data and collections more accessible and reusable on the web.
The document discusses the vision and challenges of e-humanities, particularly in Germany. It outlines views from different academic disciplines on how digital tools and data-driven scholarship are developing. Key points include the potential of open access and data sharing, the heterogeneity of humanities data, and the need for international cooperation on standards and best practices. Challenges addressed include copyright issues, integrating new approaches into research, and rethinking roles and careers to support e-humanities.
Work Package 4 focuses on community building and dissemination activities around open metadata and Europeana. Key objectives include:
1. Engaging content holders, metadata experts, and technologists to strengthen existing networks and involve new stakeholders in Europeana.
2. Encouraging content holders to contribute new material to Europeana through hands-on workshops and documentation on tools.
3. Identifying and supporting open metadata "evangelists" to raise awareness of best practices.
4. Facilitating conversations between technologists and humanities researchers through events and an online contest.
The research group Agile Knowledge Engineering & Semantic Web (AKSW) was founded in 2006 and is now part of the Institute for Applied Informatics at the University of Leipzig. The AKSW aims to advance semantic web, knowledge engineering, and software engineering science and also bridges the gap between research results and applications. The AKSW team actively works on several funded projects involving knowledge management, semantic collaboration platforms, and applying semantic web technologies to applications like tourism information and requirements engineering.
Kick-off meeting on February 24th 2017 for the Linkflows project, a collaboration between the Web & Media Sciences Group, Computer Science Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, IOS Press and Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
1. The Netherlands Institute for Sounds and Vision is the largest audiovisual archive in the Netherlands, with over 800,000 hours of content including 2 million pictures and 20,000 objects.
2. It has been digitizing its collections and making some content openly available on platforms like Open Images since 2008 as part of its mission to preserve Dutch cultural heritage and enable public access and reuse.
3. The Institute aims to further connect its open data to other cultural and external datasets to stimulate new applications and unexpected reuse, though currently only a small portion of its collection is openly available.
Europeana as a Linked Data (Quality) caseAntoine Isaac
Presentation for the 3rd Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web (WHiSe), co-located with the 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020)
June 2, 2020, online
http://whise.cc/2020/
Facilitating digital research in the humanities: from local services to Europ...Sally Chambers
This presentation was given as part of the 'Séminaire Européen de l’Ecole doctorale' on 'Les Infrastructures de la recherché, quels enjeux pour les humanités numériques ?' held at the University of Lille on 3 March 2016, see:
http://geriico.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/index.php?page=annee-2015---2016
Sharing cultural heritage the linked open data way: why you should sign up Johan Oomen
This document summarizes a presentation about sharing cultural heritage data using linked open data. It discusses initiatives by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision to digitize and share cultural heritage resources openly online to promote reuse. This includes the Images for the Future digitization project and advocacy work through Open Cultural Data. It also describes the Agora project linking museum objects to historical events. Benefits mentioned are increased participation, visibility, and opportunities for third-party applications. Examples highlighted are datasets shared via Europeana and new metrics needed to measure outcomes of open sharing.
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4. How do we search for images?
By using words!
(your own & someone else’s)
New possibilities:
Speech- & Image recognition
AXES:
Access to Audiovisual Archives
www.axes-project.eu
5. Developing tools providing
new engaging ways to interact
with audiovisual libraries…
Not just search:
Browse Explore Experience
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6. ... for a multitude of end users...
Broadcast professionals
Academics
Home users
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9. PoliMedia research question
What choices do different media make in the coverage
of people and topics while reporting on debates in the
Dutch parliament since the first televised evening news
in 1956 until 1995?
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10. Issues with current approach
Media analysis
+ = Too much
work
Limited
material
+ = and
different
systems
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11. PoliMedia approach
PoliMedia
Newspapers
Portal
KB
Staten
- Browse:
Generaal Television
debate and
Digitaal Sound and Vision
date
KB
- Search:
debate and Radio
person KB
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13. Our research agenda
• Possibilities of eHumanities for research and
education
• How and what do people search in our digital
heritage collections?
– Requirements
– Testing
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14. User research
• Understanding the user
– Acceptance
– Performance
– Capabilities
– Weaknesses
• Goal
– Creating systems that are intuitive and helpful to
the users
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15. Who are the users?
• We can distinguish groups, using
classifications of
– Roles (e.g., by occupation)
– Demographic characteristics (e.g., age, gender)
• In AXES, we distinguish by role
– Broadcast Professional
– Academics (teachers, researchers, students)
– Home users
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16. Getting to know the users
• Prior research
– StatCounter, other literature
• Asking potential users
– Interviews
– Focus groups
– Surveys
• Experiments
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17. The more, the merrier?
PhD student, History, 24
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18. The more, the merrier?
“If there is an easier way, I will
do it another way. So I won’t
go on the Internet to search.
There’s so much, there is so
much information. So you can
better call someone who
knows than search it for
yourself.”
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19. Academic user research
• Interviews
• Survey
– Netherlands and Belgium
– Online
– N=294
– 15-20 minutes
– Lots of data (250 variables in SPSS)
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20. Who did the survey?
• Position
– Largest group: PhD student
– But good distribution over
other positions
• Age
– Largest group: 25-34
– But good distribution over
other age groups
• Discipline
– Largest group: History
– Other disciplines: Social Studies, Mass Communications,
Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy
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21. Research questions
1. To what extent are online databases used?
2. Which subdisciplines use digital sources
more and which less?
3. Which search techniques are applied?
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22. Which of the following digital data do
you use professionally?
Very often
Often
Text (books, news, etc.)
Scholarly publications
Regularly
Statistical data
Sometimes
Numerical
Digitized
objects
Images
Never
Audio
Video
data
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23. Differences between disciplines
‘Traditional’ digital data Modern digital data
Images: Literature, History Video: Mass Communications
Digitized objects: Literature, History, Audio: Linguistics
Philosophy
Numerical data: Social Studies, Linguistics
Statistical data: Social Studies, Mass
Communications, Linguistics
Overall: Literature, History, Philosophy Overall: Mass Communications,
Linguistics, Social Studies
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24. Don’t
Sometimes
Very often
Often
Regularly
Never
know it
Google
Google Images
Google Scholar
YouTube
JSTOR
Uitzending Gemist
KB
Flickr
EBSCO
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Nationaal Archief
Web of Knowledge
Yahoo!
Bing
Academia.nl
or databases do you use?
Europeana
Scopus
Microsoft Academic Search
Which of the following search engines
EUscreen
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Arkyves
25. What about sEURch?
• 31 respondents from EUR
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26. When do you trust a search engine or
database?
250
Number of participants
200
150
100
50
0
Experienced Expertise High quality Understand Heard about Broad range Read about
it behind it selection its inner it of results it online
workings
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27. Research questions
1. To what extent are online databases used?
– Mostly text-based data usage, followed by images
– Google dominant in every way
– Trust is based mostly on experience
2. Which subdisciplines use digital sources more and
which less?
– ‘Traditional’ digital data (Images, Digitized objects):
• Literature, History and Philosophy
– ‘Modern’ digital data (Video, Audio, Statistical and
Numerical data)
• Social studies, Mass Communications, Linguistics
3. Which search techniques are applied?
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29. (Audiovisual) search behaviour
• Academics are “surfers” with a non-specific
goal in mind
• Academics are positively confident in their
ability to use search tools
– Respondents below 45 years are more confident
than those above 45 years
Presentation UB - 11-12-2012
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30. Research questions
1. To what extent are online databases used?
2. Which subdisciplines use digital sources
more and which less?
3. Which search techniques are applied?
– Most important are ease and speed
– Search behaviour: younger academics (below 45
years) are more confident in their use of
(audiovisual) search tools
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31. Survey conclusion
• We see that
– Text is the dominant medium
– Google is the dominant search system
– Google dominates search techniques
– Trust in a search engine or database is based
primarily on experience
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33. Consequences
• How do we use this information in our search
system development?
• How to make new search systems desirable?
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35. Influence of usability
“I think it’s very
important to have a good
and workable interface
for these objects. That’s
why I used a paper
catalogue, because the
interface and the way to
search these objects is
not ideal”
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36. Consequences
• Making new search systems desirable by
incorporating user-centred design
• Basing system design on findings from user
studies
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37. AXES search wireframe
• Clear and
immediate
keyword-search
• Separate
advanced-search
• Support for
Booleans
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38. PoliMedia search wireframe
• Clear and
immediate
keyword-search
• Separate
advanced-search
• Support for
Booleans and
(some) Google-
search operators
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40. PoliMedia browsing wireframe
• Keywords-search
remains
prominent
• Easy access to
related material
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41. Consequences
• Making new search systems desirable by
incorporating user-centred design
• Basing system design on findings from user
studies
• Relevancy for UB?
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42. Thank you for you attention!
Martijn Kleppe
kleppe@eshcc.eur.nl
L2-47
Max Kemman
kemman@eshcc.eur.nl
L2-47
www.axes-project.eu
www.polimedia.nl
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Editor's Notes
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