8. “Enabling anything like seamless access to the cultural record will require
developing tools to navigate among vast catalogs of born-digital and
digitized materials […] The return on this investment will be a humanities
and social science cyberinfrastructure that will allow new questions to be
asked, new patterns and relations to be discerned, and deep structures in
language, society, and culture to be exposed and explored.”
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9. we need a shift from:
Museums & Archives as Inventories of the World
André Malraux, The Imaginary Museum of World Sculpture, 1953
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25. diversity of opinions from the crowd
collected in a decentralized way
Independent machine-generated narratives
aggregated views over the collection
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support for perspectives
26. Digital Submarine UI
Infinity of Exploration
Linking Objects through Events
Collecting Perspectives from
the Crowd
Linked (Open) Data
28. around the Web
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Hi my name is Oana Inel
Unfortunately, Lora Aroyo was not able to present today
So, I am going to tell you about our journey with DIVE+ towards the new cultural comments
One of the main characteristics of today is the massive, overwhelming amount of information around us
This is especially remarkable in terms of cultural heritage content online
Think of all the videos, images and the infinite amount of web pages that you get as search results when you want to learn about a given artist, period or an historic event
However ….
However, this unconceivable amount of information ‘looks all the same’ to the poor users
when they are not able to consume it properly, e.g.
When they don’t know where to start, what to search for, and typically getting lost in very specialized art-historic explanations
As a result of this ‘we’ as audiences feel disconnected and lost in this vast information sea
So, what can we do to bring the users of cultural heritage online back in the driver seat
How can we empower the audiences and help them overcome the sense of overwhelming
In this case we focus specifically on the Digital Humanities scholars
To help them find what they search for
To help them understand what they found
To help them make serendipitous links between cultural heritage objects
Some refer to the solution as “Cultural Commonwealth”
In other words, making Online Cultural Heritage smarter, more open and more connected.
And I mean Smart Cultural Heritage in terms of
Using new technologies for indexing, retrieval and linking
Providing content over various platforms
Getting inspired In collaboration with creative industries
Also Open Cultural Heritage in terms of
Content being within the reach of both end users and other organization
And finally, Connected Cultural Heritage in terms of
Connected to the users, and knowing their wishes and context of use
Connected to other collections with a complimentary role
Providing your content in a distributed fashion – over different platforms
This would mean: (1) linking Humanities and CS and (2) in this way help redefining the research questions in both fields
And (3) in this way also stimulate the thinking out of the box in both fields;
And ultimately, give much richer relevance of the results, by putting them in the perspective of Web Science and eScience
[[Alternatively - read out the quote from the report of the Americal Council of Learned Societies Commission…]]]
So, what does need to happen to achieve this cultural commonwealth?
First we need to make a shift in the way we think
Museums are not just inventories of the world’s knowledge
They should be places where people can engage with the world
And to be able to do this
We need to teach our tools to understand ‘perspectives’, i.e.
- to be able to identify, present and support a multitude of perspectives over the same information space
And in this way allow them
to DIVE in the sea of information
And being able to explore it
in a pleasant and informative way
And we did build a tool for this – and we call it DIVE
an event-centric browser for digital humanities
After the successful completion of DIVE with our success at the International Semantic Web Conference
We continued working together with eScience Center on DIVE+
Here you can see the main elements of the DIVE interaction
Relationships between objects of different types, e.g. events, people, locations
And you can experience the infinity of the DIVING through continuously choosing elements to explore and getting related elements through events, locations, people or times ..
Here we see only the event selection of the previous search result
So, we started with two collections (1) 3000 news broadcasts from Sound and Vision & (2) Radio bulletins from the Dutch Royal Library (in the period of 1937 and 1984)
In 2015 are adding more, (1) the online collection of objects from the Amsterdam Museum as well as (2) the Tropenmuseum collection
The underlying approach of DIVE is based on using open Web standards (such as SKOS and OpenAnnottion) and state-of-the-art for linked data
So, we use the Simple Event Model as the central knowledge representation in DIVE
Additionally, we also DIVE knowledge base with links to external sources, such as Europeana and DBPedia
All this results in a very rich knowledge graph of events, entities participating in those events and diverse links between all of them
This results of very rich representation of all the collection objects in a large knowledge graph, where every object is related to others through events or entities depicted in it
But the events data is very scarce
So, to fill this rich knowledge graph with events data, we employed crowdsourcing for video analysis – to identify all the events and related entities depicted in each video
And also for text analysis - to identify all the events and related entities depicted in each text
Through the use of the simple event model we are able to generate automatically diverse ‘narratives’ or storylines through the integrated collections
This allows users to explore them by diving into the numerous relations between events and their participating entities
All this – brings us back where we started – we wanted to provide support for perspectives
And the event-based narratives provide with this.
Through the crowd we are able to collect in a decetralized way a huge amount of diverse opinions
Through the event model we are able to generate numerous narratives through the collection
And through the novel DIVE interface we provide an aggregated view of the whole collection
In summary,
DIVE – implements a Digital Submarine User Interface for Exploration
DIVE – integrates Linked Open Data, Web Standards, Event Modeling & Crowd perspectives
This is our multidisciplinary team consisting of
Cultural heritage professionals
Interaction Designers
Historians
And computer Scientists
For more information you can explore some of those links
