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Archiving Flickr and Other Websites of Interest to Museums

ryand — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:32:39 +0000

MW2012

Ryan Donahue, George Eastman House and Aaron Straup Cope, General layabout / SBHS

Abstract

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Preserving Flickr and Other Sites of Interest to Museums

Providing Accessible Online Collections

RachaelRainbow — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:22:00 +0000

MW2012

Rachael Rainbow, Alex Morrison, Cogapp, UK; Matt Morgan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections

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Providing accessible online collections

A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks

katetzob — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:33:39 +0000

MW2012

Katerina Tzompanaki, Martin Doerr Institute of Computer Science, F.O.R.T.H. Crete–Greece

http://www.ics.forth.gr/

Abstract

The upcoming large-scale metadata repositories, semantic networks of Resource Description Framework triples integrating large amounts of cultural–historical data, are not easily accessible to global query paradigms, such as “query by example” or keyword search. ISO21127 (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model) is an adequate global schema for such systems, but querying individually hundreds of different kinds of properties leaves a huge recall gap compared to text retrieval, whereas a global restriction to “core metadata,” such as Dublin Core, deprives the systems of any more advanced integration and reasoning capability. We therefore propose and have implemented a new query paradigm: Intuitive “fundamental” categories and relationships, as we are used to from core metadata, are presented to the user as complex deductions from a rich underlying network of more specialized actual metadata, rather than being primary documentation elements. In addition to efficiency, we also provide simplicity, as the user does not need a deep understanding of a complex schema in order to obtain the desired result. Application of the framework can easily be adjusted to many domains and user preferences.

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A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks

Providing accessible online collections

RachaelRainbow — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:57:22 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

Providing Accessible Online Collections

Keywords:

collections

Keywords:

solr

Keywords:

vocabularies

Keywords:

metadata

Abstract:

Feedback from user research for the recently re-launched Metropolitan Museum of Art website made it clear that users need multiple routes into the collections. Visitors want to search across data, on multiple dimensions, and find other artworks that may interest them. To do this with the data available was a huge challenge. Museum collections data is not necessarily structured to support this, especially in a collection as diverse as the Met’s. In this paper we discuss the system we built to enable the Museum to analyse the data and construct rules to support these user journeys. With this system, Museum staff match terms against standard vocabularies (including AAT and TGN), provide contextual interpretation of terms by department, qualify terms such as locations, and define rules for common misspellings. A powerful Solr search system provides the quick and complex search functionality, establishes the relationships between artworks, provides free-text searching, and gives facet counts.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Online finding

Site:

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections

Authors:

Alex Morrison

Rachael Rainbow

Matt Morgan

A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks

katetzob — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:14:45 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

A New Framework for Querying Semantic Networks

Keywords:

Semantic networks

Keywords:

information access

Keywords:

semantic search

Keywords:

metadata

Keywords:

reasoning

Keywords:

query

Abstract:

Repositories of textual content can successfully be accessed by text search engines using combinations of keywords. “Open World” semantic networks of RDF triples however, the core of the Semantic Web and the state-of-the-art of metadata repositories for museum and other cultural information, are not easily accessible by such a global query paradigm. Only a small part of the information can be related to words in labels. Querying individually dozens of different kinds of properties as in ISO21127 (CIDOC CRM), many of which are optional, leaves a huge recall gap compared to text retrieval. On the other hand a global restriction to “core metadata”, to a flat set of very few properties as in Dublin Core or VRA, deprives the systems of the reasoning capability about the integrated knowledge in the semantic network. We propose and have been implementing a new query paradigm: A very small set of “fundamental” categories and relationships, as we are used to from core metadata, are presented to the user in the form of a system of invisible to them complex deductions from a rich underlying network of more specialized actual metadata, rather than being primary documentation elements. Using as schema ISO21127 and specializations (extensions) of it, we are practically able to achieve high recall rates (even 100%) with a compact set of very simple, comprehensive questions in an application comprising general cultural heritage data about museum and archaeological objects and digital provenance data of 3D digitization of the latter. But except from efficiency we also provide simplicity, as the user does not need to be experienced in any way with the concepts of the CIDOC CRM in order to obtain the desired results. Application of the presented framework can easily be adjusted to many other domain ontologies and user preferences.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Online finding

Authors:

Katerina Tzompanaki

Martin Doerr

Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web

jonvoss — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:44:01 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web

Keywords:

Linked Open Data

Keywords:

metadata

Keywords:

Augmented Reality (AR)

Keywords:

crowdsourcing

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Historypin

Keywords:

normalization

Abstract:

What happens when hundreds 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? From augmented reality and crowdsourcing at Historypin to Linked Open Data, we'll look at how developers are leveraging institutional metadata and contributing to a growing ecosystem of open historical data. We'll explore the fundamental elements of Linked Open Data and demonstrate 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. We'll 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.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Open

Site:

http://lod-lam.net

Authors:

Jon Voss

Paula Bray

Building Linked Data For Cultural Information Resources In Japan

Tetsuro Kamura — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:29:59 +0000

MW2011

Tetsuro Kamura, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies; Hideaki Takeda, Ikki Ohmukai and Fumihiro Kato, The National Institute of Informatics; Toru Takahashi, ATR Media Information Science Laboratories; Hiroshi Ueda, ATR-Promotions.inc, JAPAN

http://lod.ac/

Abstract

Museum information in Japan is maintained distributedly and nonuniformly. This leads to difficulty in crossover searching for museum information. The LODAC (Linked Open Data for ACademia) project is building a prototype system (LODAC-Museum) to aggregate information across multiple sources. We identify and associate artists and works from different museum collections to provide integrated views for them. The key technology is Linked Data. All the aggregated data is transformed to the standard metadata schema and linked to each other via generated ID resources.

Keywords: Linked Data, Linked Open Data (LOD), Semantic Web, Metadata, RDF, Museum information

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Building LOD for cultural information resources in Japan

Computational Linguistics in Museums: Applications for Cultural Datasets

schun — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:52:43 +0000

MW2011

Judith Klavans, University of Maryland; Robert Stein, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Susan Chun, Independent Consultant and Researcher; Raul David Guerra, University of Maryland, USA

Abstract

This paper presents work of the T3: Text, Tags, Trust project, an interdisciplinary collaboration of computational linguists, computer scientists, indexing and information retrieval experts, and museum professionals from the University of Maryland and Steve: The Museum Social Tagging Project. The authors define some key problems for managing large-scale datasets, share tools and resources developed for the project, and describe ways that these resources can be deployed by museums without expertise in language processing. In addition, the paper examines some of the ways in which analysis of data collected by the Steve project builds on our understanding of the ways in which users see and describe our collections. The specific challenges of applying batch-processing tools and methods to large, unstructured datasets are addressed, best practices for dealing with a number of sticky issues are shared, and promising applications for future research and promising application areas are considered.

Keywords: computational linguistics, social tagging, steve.museum, collection access, text processing, metadata

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Computational Linguistics in Museums: Applications for Cultural Datasets

Playing with Difficult Objects – Game Designs to Improve Museum Collections

mia — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:38:54 +0000

MW2011

Mia Ridge, Science Museum, United Kingdom

http://museumgam.es/

Abstract

Crowdsourcing the creation, correction or enhancement of data about objects through games is an attractive proposition for museums looking to maximize use of their collections online without committing intensive curatorial resources to enhancing catalogue records. This paper investigates the optimum game designs to encourage participation and the generation of useful data through a case study of the project Museum Metadata Games that successfully designed games that created improved metadata for 'difficult' objects from two science and history museum collections.

Keywords: collections, games, crowdsourcing, objects, metadata, tagging

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Playing with museums - game designs to improve museum collections

Publishing Digital Museum Collections on the Web Using the Metadata Assignment and Search Tool

biblio — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 22:34:46 +0000

Diekema, A., & McCracken N. (2010). Publishing Digital Museum Collections on the Web Using the Metadata Assignment and Search Tool. (Trant, Jennifer, David Bearman, Ed.).Museums and the Web 2010. Proceedings.

Building LOD for cultural information resources in Japan

Tetsuro Kamura — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:21:14 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Building Linked Data For Cultural Information Resources In Japan

Keywords:

metadata

Keywords:

Linked Open Data

Keywords:

LOD

Keywords:

linked data

Keywords:

museum

Keywords:

sematic web

Abstract:

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations III

Site:

http://lod.ac

Authors:

Tetsuro KAMURA

Hideaki TAKEDA

Ikki OHMUKAI

Fumihiro KATO

Toru TAKAHASHI

Hiroshi UEDA

Museum Metadata Exchange

hc11 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:43:53 +0000

MW2011

Keywords:

collection descriptions

Keywords:

metadata

Keywords:

social vocabulary

Keywords:

thesaurus

Keywords:

geospacial

Abstract:

The demonstration will show the newly developed Museum Metadata Exchange (MME) by the Powerhouse Museum for the Council Of Australasian Museum Directors and Museums Australia.

The MME is one of a number of projects leading to the development of a national program to make Australia’s cultural collections systematically discoverable and accessible to both scholarly researchers and the general public.

The Museum Metadata Exchange contains Collection Level Descriptions of cultural and historical collections from 18 Australian museums conforming to the Registry Interchange Format - Collections and Services schema guidelines (RIF-CS schema) for delivery into the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The project was funded to establish new infrastructure and practices of benefit to both researchers and the museums, and even more importantly, provides a space to increase research collaborations between them.

The demonstration will be of the MME, its technical architecture, automated harvesting arrangements, and number of additional services - geospatial, temporal and name authorities - and tools which extend and enhance the data set for researchers. The MME is also intending to pilot a social vocabulary classification service in order to encourage interoperability between collections and the various researcher and user communities. To this end the Powerhouse Musuem’s Object Name Thesaurus is being provided as a base set for forking.

Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations II

Site:

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/museumexchange/

Authors:

Dan Collins

Linked Data

dbear — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:38:29 +0000

Type:

Session

Chair:

Mia Ridge

Programs:

Mixing it up: Experiences of managing and displaying aggregated content from multiple sources, combining editorial selection, subject classification using tagging and automated retrieval.

Automatic Metadata Enrichment and Linking for Event-driven Access to Distributed Collections

Authority Records, Future Computers and Other Unfinished Histories

Date & Time:

April 7, 2011 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Location:

Commonwealth C/D

metadata

Harvesting

linking

distributed content

data formats

metadata enrichment

authority records

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Archives & Museum Informatics EIN: 77-0708617; GST / BN 887978914

Description

Data might want to be free, but we want it to be connected, contextualized, linked to other data, and usable. How do we shape it, enhance it, and conceptualize it, so that our data can be enriched by being linked?

TourML: An Emerging Standard for Museum Mobile Experiences

rjstein — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:22:09 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

TourML: An Emerging Specification for Museum Mobile Experiences

Keywords:

standards

Keywords:

metadata

Keywords:

collaboration

Keywords:

preservation

Keywords:

mobile tours

Keywords:

tourml

Abstract:

The recent explosion of options used by museums to produce mobile experiences is undeniable. In the last 18 months, dozens of new mobile platforms have entered the marketplace as museums are planning, producing, and launching new experiences for visitors on their mobile devices. Besides launching a successful tour, how can museum professionals ensure that the content we create will outlive the technology and vendors we select today?

A successful metadata standard for mobile tours would provide a number of advantages for museums. A mobile standard will allow museums to migrate the content and structure of a tour between the variety of tools available today and tools that may be available in the future. Similarly, a mobile standard would allow the same tour to be used on a number of current and future mobile devices. In addition, museums could choose authoring tools which best fit their staff and workflow needs while still deploying to whatever mobile device is best for their content - even if these tools are provided by different vendors. Perhaps most importantly, a successful mobile standard would ensure that museum content will outlive any particular technology we use today.

The TourML (tûrmoil) specification (http://wiki.museummobile.info/museums-to-go/products-services/tourml) offers a working – but preliminary – example of how such a standard might work. In order to develop a community consensus and to encourage support by commercial vendors, two collaborative mobile summits were held in the fall of 2010. The first occurred in London following the Tate Handheld conference in September (http://wiki.museummobile.info/archives/11005), and a second in Austin, TX during the Museum Computer Network conference in October (http://wiki.museummobile.info/archives/19948). In both meetings a diverse set of participants were gathered including museum professionals, vendors, and academics to review and collaborate together on a set of common semantics and structured descriptions used to author a specification for mobile experiences.

In this Mini-Workshop, the facilitators will review the current state of the TourML draft standard and host a discussion regarding outstanding issues for data modeling and implementation including, but not limited to:

Linking to object collections using existing metadata standards
Ways to use the TourML schema to encode and represent a variety of common tour elements
Design discussions regarding the XMLSchema definitions of the TourML specification
Validation methods for ensuring that instances of a tour are compliant to the standard
Possibilities for integrating mobile tours with mobile web CMS’s

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on TourML

Site:

http://wiki.museummobile.info/standards

Authors:

Robert Stein

Nancy Proctor