archiefwiki: share & conquer. collaborative success of independent knowledge sharing
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Lecture at the APEx conference "Building infrastructures for archives in a digital world", 28 June 2013 (Trinity College Dublin)TRANSCRIPT
ArchiefWiki: share & conquer
collaborative success of independent knowledge sharing
Tom Cobbaert | APEx Conference | 28 June 2013
Context > “It is I”Archivist / Head of Collections @ ADVN archives and research centre for Flemish
nationalism and national movements in Europe
Archivist @ NISE research platform on national movements in
Europe
Business owner @ ArchivA consultancy and services in bringing small
collections and heritage projects online
Board member @ VVBAD Flemish association for librarians, archivists and
documentalists
Founding member @ Archief 2.0 Dutch-Flemish community of archivists
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Context > Archief 2.0 2007 - “foundation”
online community to share experiences, ideas and knowledge
archivist’s 2.0 manifesto, because web 2.0 is “an attitude rather than technology” (T. O’Reilly) -“turning archival thinking upside down” (T. Thomassen)
2008 - “1st anniversary” reaching 100 members organizing a first succesful conference on web 2.0 in
archives
2009 - “growing up” core members form the Archief 2.0 thinktank
ArchiefWiki: share & conquer | APEx Conference | 28 June 2013
Context > Archief 2.0
ArchiefWiki: share & conquer | APEx Conference | 28 June 2013
Archief 2.0 thinktank in 3 keywords
Context > Archief 2.0 > 3 keywords
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Independent
Context > Archief 2.0 > 3 keywords Independent
Thinktank members have diverse backgrounds public archives, private archives, consultants etc.
but participation is voluntary and individual
Grassroots: you don’t need to be an organization to be organized activities and projects grow out of a loose idea being picked up finances are based on crowd funding or the occasional sponsor
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Context > Archief 2.0 > 3 keywords
ArchiefWiki: share & conquer | APEx Conference | 28 June 2013
Open
Context > Archief 2.0 > 3 keywords Open
Enabling the choice for (r)evolution in archives attitude
2007-2013: different tools social media vs open data, linked data, semantic websame attitude open towards users in sharing information open towards colleagues in sharing knowledge open towards archives/archivists in collaboration
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” (B. Shaw)
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Context > Archief 2.0 > 3 keywords Acting
ArchiefWiki: share & conquer | APEx Conference | 28 June 2013
Context > Archief 2.0 > 3 keywords Acting
Online community: 1500+ members
(Un)conferences: Web 2.0 (2008), Pre-Conference KVAN Days (2010), ArchiveCamp (2012)
Share-and-Play sessions: Webarchiving (2009), Semantic web (2010), Open data (2011), Standards and semantics (2012), EU cookie legislation (2013)
Lectures, courses and articles
Projects: 23 Archive Things training course, ArchivesWiki
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ArchiefWiki > What?
ArchiefWiki: share & conquer | APEx Conference | 28 June 2013
ArchiefWiki > What?
ArchiefWiki: share & conquer | APEx Conference | 28 June 2013
Aims: Digitization of archival reference works and distributing it
as open content for archivists and archives users
Through the development of a digital point of reference, giving new life to and update these ‘classics’
Promote the use of wiki’s as a collaborative tool for archives and exchange best practices and experiences with MediaWiki-software and extensions
5 years of ArchiefWiki in 5 milestones
ArchiefWiki > What? > 5 milestones September 2007: the conception of the idea at
Informatie conference in Ghent (BE)
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ArchiefWiki > What? > 5 milestones Spring 2008: digitization of lexicon
Archiefterminologie Nederland en Vlaanderen
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ArchiefWiki > What? > 5 milestones June 2009: official presentation of ArchiefWiki at
KVAN Dagen (NL) conference
ArchiefWiki: share & conquer | APEx Conference | 28 June 2013
ArchiefWiki > What? > 5 milestones November 2010: 1st ArchiefWiki Input Day
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ArchiefWiki > What? > 5 milestones Spring 2012: ArchiefWiki goes semantic
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ArchiefWiki > What? > Projects Two major projects:
Archival terminology Map and guide to Dutch archives
Hosting collaborative projects: best practices (such as building expertise, open data),
standards, translation of ICA texts etc.
Input: product of a community of many helping hands fostered by annual Input Days professionals as well as archives enthousiasts;
everyone contributes in the way they prefer
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ArchiefWiki > Terminology
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Setup: Making Dutch archival terminology free and online
available for everyone (with an interest in archives) 2008: 183 terms of Archiefterminologie van Nederland
en Vlaanderen (2003) Expanding with other reference works 2013: 724 terms of a dozen sources
Lexicons: Archiefterminologie. Archieftermen voor gebruik in het Rijksarchief (1990), Terminologie voor grafische archivalia (1989), Lexicon van Nederlandse archieftermen (1983) etc.
Manuals: Handleiding voor het ordenen en beschrijven van archieven (1898) etc.
Standards: ISAD(G), NEN-ISO 15489 23081, ReMaNo, ED3 etc. Legislation: Flemish archival decree etc.
ArchiefWiki > Terminology Model:
Description for each lexicon Redirecting synonymous terms Contextual page for each source where all terms
originating from that source are grouped Linking to other existing terms within definitions Basic thesaurus functions (USE/UF, BT, NT, RT) External reference(s) Example image(s) Discussion page per term
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ArchiefWiki > Archives Map Map of archives and organizations in the
Netherlands: Initially based on Almanak van het Nederlands
Archiefwezen (the “yellow pages” of Dutch archives) Digitized, updated and expanded by archives and users 2013: 271 archives and organizations Enhanced:
Mash-up of Google Maps and archives information pages Visualization of geographic work areas Historical context of geographic work areas Social media integration
Increasing requests for re-use of data > going semantic
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ArchiefWiki > Going semantic What?
Semanticizing: give meaning to words by (machine-readable) annotation
Why? Standard wiki:
is no more than plain text connected by hyperlinks is perfect to share and edit information but terrible to manage and control structured data has limited search options (full text)
Semantic wiki: allows complex search queries allows automatic creation of reports allows standardized data structure facilitates re-use: exporting and linking (open) data
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ArchiefWiki > Going semantic How?
Semantic MediaWiki: wiki extension that offers semantic functionalities ≠ auto-semanticizing wiki data
Work plan (2012): Selection of dataset: Archives Map project Standardizing data structure: ISDIAH Definition of datatypes and properties (semantic annotation) Manual conversion of data Re-use testcase: www.OnsDNA.nl
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ArchiefWiki > Future? Plans & Dreams
Expand query options: e.g. on-the-fly map rendering
Expand export facilities: e.g. implementation EAG
Linking existing open data / vocabularies
Semanticizing the terminology project
Internationalization of the terminology project: linking/adding foreign archival terminologies
Etc.
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More information?
mail: [email protected] | twitter: @tomcobbaert
web: www.archiefwiki.org | twitter: @archiefwiki
community: www.archief20.org/group/archiefwiki
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