oxford digital cultural heritage - china
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Opening Linking Sharing DataDigital Cultural Heritage, China30 September – 2 October 2015
China CentreDominic OldmanResearchSpace
1st October 2015
Metaphacts
Fixed Models & Comprehensive Models
CLAROS
• Pioneering System created in 2011.• Demonstrated contextual data
harmonisation in a user friendly platform.• Provided inspiration for other
projects like ResearchSpace.• Collaboration a natural
consequence.
How can we meaningfully publish and integrate Cultural Heritage
resources?1. How do you publish internal data so external
audiences can understand it, use it, enjoy it… 2. Cultural heritage data isn’t static – how to you
keep open data up to date? What happens when something changes?
3. How do you integrate data (enrich) while maintaining local meaning and context?
4. How do we derive new knowledge and preserve it?5. How can you fulfil the requirements of a wide
range of audiences?6. How do you provide stable and sustainable
platforms for creating robust user applications?
CHOPAC
Public Engagement
Research Education
Problem 1The Problem with Raw Data
People (Experts)Fill in the gaps
User Interface
Business Rules
Database
“The majority are seeking a known object, and utilise discipline specific search terms, showing goal-driven intent and a detailed
prior knowledge of the museum.”[Scholarly Information Seeking Behaviour in the British Museum Online Collection, (2011), Terras, Ross]
Language
“…browsing in a museum environment is somewhat
problematic as users have to be fairly linear in their search
strategies with little satisfaction when searching broadly or
browsing.”[Scholarly Information Seeking Behaviour in the British Museum Online
Collection, (2011), Terras, Ross]
Linear Search
Representing Culture
• Takes a long time to prepare an exhibition.• Things are arranged in very deliberate
ways to illustrate concepts.• Often need objects from other institutions
to complete the narratives.• Builds an understanding of the subject
using context.• Its asks question about relevance and
significance.
“…the information explosion, far from serving the needs of the burgeoning knowledge economy, intensifies the need for quality information and expertise that libraries and librarians provide”.Beyond the Book - Schnapp & Battles
We need to stop seeing data as a second class citizen
The Problem of Uninteresting Universals
Adjectives & Substantives
• “a pot” • “embossed”
Verbs and Proposition
• ‘carried’ out by• ‘motivated’ by• “Forms part of”
We need to get subject experts to represent their knowledge
So what are we doing?
Type
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tcAppellations
Provide names for real things
ActorsPeople and Groups
Who
Pers
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EventsTemporal
ThingsPhysical and Conceptual
ThingsPhysical and Conceptual
EventsTemporal
Putting context and meaning back into data
Object type: tanto; short sword-sheath; menuki; kozuka; hilt; fuchi-kashira; blade Museum number: 1992,0523.2Description: Sword blade (tanto); with mounting (short sword-sheath; kozuka; hilt; menuki; fuchi-kashira). Blade: made of steel; signed. Sheath: made of black lacquered wood. Hilt: with gold mekugi; made of wood and skin (ray). Kozuka: crane in high-relief coloured metal inlay on silver ground; inscribed. Menuki: in shape of corn?; made of gilded metal. Fuchi-kashira: made of black lacquered metal. Soshu school blade and Goto school metal fittings.Producer name: Made by: Goto Ichijo (metal fittings); Made by: Shintogo Kunimitsu (blade) Culture/period: Meiji Era (metal fittings); Kamakura Period (blade) Date: 14thC (early; blade); 19thC (late; metal fittings)Production place: Made in: Japan (Asia,Japan)Materials: wood; steel; silver; ray skin; metal; lacquer; gold Technique: lacquered; inlaid ; high relief; gilded; colour Inscriptions:Inscription Type: signatureInscription Script: JapaneseInscription Position: blade, tang, obverseInscription Content: 国光 ; Inscription Transliteration; Kunimitsu, etcCurator's comments: Harris 2005 - 'Hira zukuri' tanto blade with the slight 'uchizori' curve of the late Kamakura period. The blade has 'itame' with 'mokume' grain with 'jifu utsuri' and much 'chikei'. The 'suguha hamon' is of fine 'nie' with 'kinsuji'. The maker, Shintogo Kunimitsu, is feted as the founder of the Soshu tradition at Kamakura in the late Kamakura period.Bibliography: Harris 2005 fig. 11, col. pl. 11, 12 bibliographic detailsLocation: G93/case10Exhibition historyExhibited: 2006 Oct 13-, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'Subjects: arms/armour term details;Acquisition name: Purchased through: Eskenazi Ltd biography; Purchased from: Christie's biography; Previous owner/ex-collection: Dr Walter A Compton biographyAcquisition date: 1992Acquisition notes: Bought at Christie's (lot 226) by Eskanazi Ltd at the BM's request. Former collection of Walter A Compton.Department: AsiaRegistration number: 1992,0523.2
Production(Event)
Inscription(Event)
Authoring(Event)
Exhibition(Event)
Things
Types
Information Objects
Expressions
Works
Places
Existence(Event)
Destruction(Event)
Appellation
Acquisition(Event)
Actors
Visual Items
This context is easy for subject experts to add!
Knowledge Transfer
PerspectiveVocabularies
PeoplePlacesTime
Semantic Alignment
RelationshipsConnectionsSimilarities
PerspectiveVocabularies
PeoplePlacesTime
ProductionEvents
InscriptionsEvents
Dimensions
AuthoringEvents
Things
Publishing Events
Images
Relationships
Relationships
Subjects
AcquisitionEvents
Relationships
Relationships
Relationships Relationships
ProductionEvents
InscriptionsEvents
Dimensions
AuthoringEvents
Things
Publishing Events
Images
Relationships
Relationships
Subjects
AcquisitionEvents
Relationships
Relationships
Relationships Relationships
Object CollectionsCIDOC CRM
Immoveable Object Photographic Archive CIDOC CRMCRMDig
Bibliographic CIDOC CRM FRBRoo
Building non-technical mapping tools
Digital Argument Requires Context
• Digital representation – Should not be a poor surrogate of reality. • Rather a platform for the externalisation
of argument.Observation
Belief
Proposition Belief Value
Concluded that
that Hold to be
Belief Adoption
adopted
InferenceMaking
Used as a Premise
This isn’t a belief of the original organisations
