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.
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1. Linked Open Data
in limbo
Co-creation as a catalyst for
open cultural heritage resources
Open Belgium 12.03.2018
Sam Donvil Alina Saenko
sam@packed.be alina@packed.be
@PACKEDvzw
2. • 2006 - 2010: Platform for Archiving and Conservation of Art on Electronic
and Digital Media
• 2011 - present: Centre of Expertise Digital Heritage
• Flemish, Belgian and European projects
• Support for ICT-processes at heritage and arts organisations (o.a.
creating, storage, cataloguing, online access, exchange and reuse) and
policy thereof
• Central concern: sustainability (digital heritage is vulnerable)
3. The museum as a changing concept: antiquity >
museion
Role: scholarship
Audience: research
community
4. The museum as a changing concept: renaissance >
cabinet of curiosities
Role: prestige, display of ‘all’
objects
Audience: privileged visitors,
courtiers
5. The museum as a changing concept: enlightenment
and modern era > birth of the modern museum
Role: scholarship & caretaking of objects, not
necessarily display
Audience: research community & privileged
visitors
Role: scholarship & caretaking of objects, national
prestige
Audience: research community, large middle class
audiences
6. The museum as a changing concept: contemporary
era > changing consumer demands
7. The museum as a changing concept: contemporary
era > memory institution as an online knowledge
source
Future
interpretation:
-Share
-Contextualise
-Coordinate
-Facilitate
Conventional
interpretation:
-Control quality
-Control access
Current ICOM definition:
A museum is a non-profit, permanent
institution in the service of society and
its development, open to the public,
which acquires, conserves, researches,
communicates and exhibits the tangible
and intangible heritage of humanity and
its environment for the purposes of
education, study and enjoyment.
9. Back-office:
- Not a ‘popular’ topic to invest in
- Often no ‘digital mindset’ inside the institutions > external IT services
Data
- Messy and not complete, but a lot of potential knowledge
- Captured on different carriers (systems, digital and analogue files)
- Often closed (and obsolete) software
Audio-visual material
- Different tools and DAMs, but not good enough
- ‘Analogue mindset’: distributed versions and copies
The situation in the Flemish artmuseums
14. Enrichment of data via external authorities
External authorities:
- Wikidata, VIAF, RKDartists, ODIS,
Geonames, AAT (Getty Vocabularies),
Iconclass
https://www.projectcest.be/wiki/Publicatie:Project_Persiste
nte_identificatie
15. Visualisations with internally shared data
Acquisition source:
From which source did a museum
acquire artworks? (5 museums)
- Private
- Artist
- Gallery
- Government
- The Monarchy
- The Church
20. Open data on Wikimedia platforms
Why Wikimedia?
● visibility
● reuse
● engagement
21. Wikidata
○ Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (7.798 artworks)
○ Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (6.973 artworks)
○ Groeningemuseum Brugge (2.858 artworks)
○ M - Museum Leuven (3.137 artworks)
○ Mu.ZEE (3.979 artworks)
○ S.M.A.K. (2.579 artworks)
31. Why Linked Open Data in Limbo?
digital movement <> no digital mindset
reducing costs <> out-of-control IT-budgets
new ‘digital’ audiences <> losing ‘traditional’ audiences
showing off with fancy tools <> locked up in obsolete technology
engaging with the ‘crowd’ <> abandoned web portals
32. - More IT profiles in the cultural heritage sector and less dependence on the providers
- More freedom to play around and test things out
- Better open infrastructures and tools that make better internal workflows and LOD
possible:
- Back office tools: Collection Management Systems, DAMs , Datahubs…
- Publishing online tools: Resolvers, API’s...
- Reusing: Wikimedia art viewers, apps...
- etc...
- Vocal and demanding audience:
- (examples of) reuse
- curating/enriching data
Wishlist
33. - Datahub project fase 2 en 3
- Resolver-tool on Open Summer of Code 2018
- Wikimedia projects:
- Public Domain publication
- Publishing images and more structured data
- Reusing in Wikipedia-articles and outside of the platform
- Networked cultural data
- survey on the current demand for cultural heritage data by various
sectors
Do you see yourself contributing to one of the projects or to the wishlist?
Idea’s or feedback? Please contact us!
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