An Embarrassment of Riches: Crowds, Communities, and Curation in Digital Open CultureTimothy Hill | EEXCESS 2016

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Cultural Heritage Aggregation: A Global Perspective (I)

● Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

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Cultural Heritage Aggregation: A Global Perspective (II)

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Metadata flattening: sparse records

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Metadata flattening: three views of inscription Voskos, E28 (Europeana Portal)

Metadata flattening: three views of inscription Voskos, E28 (Aggregator)

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Metadata flattening: three views of inscription Voskos, E28 (Transcription / translation)

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Big Data, Small Data

● “Will the use of digital methods lead to an erosion of our most unique facility in the humanities, the aptitude for fine-grained and careful interpretive observation?”

● “Humanities scholars make theoretical and practical advances … by forwarding carefully observed, exquisitely described jewel-box examples. Our small data add nuance and offer counter-narratives ... The finest contribution of the past several decades of humanities research has been to broaden, contextualize, and challenge canonical collections and privileged views. Scholars do this by elevating instances of neglected or alternate lived experience.”

– Bethany Nowviskie, Capacity Through Care

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Data as document(s)

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Voskos, E38

Subject: Aphrodisia (of Cyprus)

Date: 7th - 6th century BCE

Title: Aphrodisia's Epigram

Findspot: Amathus, Cyprus

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Data as graph ('things not strings')

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Voskos, E38

Start: -750

Title: Aphrodisia's Epigram

Stop: - 600

https://test.perio.do/#m63njp6pz

Label: Cypro Archaic I

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Label: Aphrodisia (of Cyprus)

Object Type: Agent

http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/707462

Label: Amathous, CyprusType: Settlement

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Applying Controlled Vocabularies and NER

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Voskos, E38

Start: -750

Title: Aphrodisia's Epigram

Stop: - 600

https://test.perio.do/#m63njp6pz

Label: Cypro Archaic I

https://base.europeana.eu/agent/123

Label: Aphrodisia (of Cyprus)

Object Type: Agent

http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/707462

Label: Amathous, CyprusType: Settlement

Sex: Female

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User-driven linking (I) – User sets

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An Embarrassment of Riches: Crowds, Communities, and Curation in Digital Open Culture

EP112. Deeds of the Deified Augustus

VC96. Epitaph of Caracalla

EP631. In Memoriam for

Livia

Voskos E38.Aphrodisia's Epigram

Sappho, frag. 94:“Honestly, I wish I were

dead”

Imperial Epitaphs

Women and Mourning

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User-driven linking (II) – Annotations

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An Embarrassment of Riches: Crowds, Communities, and Curation in Digital Open Culture

EP112. Deeds of the Deified Augustus

VC96. Epitaph of Caracalla

EP631. In Memoriam for

Livia

Voskos E38.Aphrodisia's Epigram

Sappho, frag. 94:“Honestly, I wish I were

dead”

Imperial Epitaphs

Women and Mourning

28 April 2016

With input slides from Valentine Charles, Antoine Isaac & Hugo Manguin-has, Europeana R&D team