● 2005: a not-for-profit organisation founded by S.M.A.K., Argos, M HKA and MDD and focussed on the preservation of audiovisual arts

● 2011: ‘Centre of Expertise in Digital Heritage’: development and dissemination of knowledge on and expertise in the digitisation of cultural heritage

● Focus on all aspects of the digitisation process: creation, cataloguing, storage, sharing, exchange and reuse of digital heritage content

● Flemish projects: CEST, Scoremodel Digital Sustainability, TRACKS, VIAA, opencultuurdata.be, Persistent Identification

● European projects: ATHENA, ATHENAplus, PREFORMA, Europeana Space, DCA, Linked Heritage

● Erfgoedstats | SODA | SIP creator

● packed.be | scart.be | projectcest.be | scoremodel.org | projecttracks.org

EVENT-BASED OBJECT IDENTIFICATION

Alina Saenko | PACKED vzw

09.06.2015

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6

PROJECTS

• Persistent identification (2013 - …)• Goals• Results

• Event based object identification (2015)• Concept of an ‘event’• First results

artwork

http://cvg.be/

collectie/work/id/1856

datahttp://

kmska.be/collectie/

work/data/1856

picturehttp://

kmska.be/collectie/

work/representati

on/1856

picturehttp://

lukasweb.be/collectie/work/representation/

1856

datahttp://cvg.be/

collectie/work/data/

1856

creatorhttp://

viaf.org/viaf/

312406452/

typehttp://

vocab.getty.edu/aat/

300033799

DEMONSTRATOR

CLUSTERS

ENRICHEMENT

RESOLVER TOOL

PERSISTENT MUSEUM DATA

API / collectie-beheersysteem

DAM - systeem

resolver

CMS collectiewebsite

user

europeana

mobiele apps

museumwebsite

URI

URL (JPEG) UR

L(X

ML

)

URL (HTML)

UR

I URI

BENEFITSFOR MUSEUMS FOR USERS

• makes registration and online publication of data easier!

• scientific exposure

• more control and user statistics about the online use of collection data

• improves accessibility of internal researches for external audience

• the data published by museums are high in ranking (easier to find for researchers)

• behind the links there is trustworthy information

• the data are rich in contextual info

• museum as a switchboard between different data sources

EVENT BASED OBJECT IDENTIFICATION

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CONTEXTUAL DATA

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EVENTS AND THE LIFECYCLE OF AN ARTWORK

Event 1

Event 2

Event 3

Event 4

Event 5

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Wikidata, VIAF, RKDartists..

Event 1

Event 2

Event 3

Event 4

Event 5

Geonames, TGN …

Wikidata; Worldcat; Amazon api;

Librarything api; LoC CDS; Olid;

Openlibrary.org…

ISO 8601

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Wikidata, VIAF, RKDartists..

Event 1

Event 2

Event 3

Event 4

Event 5

Geonames, TGN …

Wikidata; Worldcat; Amazon api;

Librarything api; LoC CDS; Olid;

Openlibrary.org…

artwork

http://cvg.be/

collectie/work/id/

1856

eventhttp://cvg.be/collectie/work/

event/1856

ISO 8601

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EVENTS

● Creation

● Pedigree (owners)

● Loans

● Exhibitions

● Bibliography and research

● Restorations

● Reproductions

● Iconography

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MORE INFORMATION…

● Persistent identification (2013-2014): http://www.projectcest.be/index.php/Project_Persistente_identificatie

● Follow up (2015):http://www.projectcest.be/index.php/Project_Persistente_Identificatie_II

● Demonstratorhttps://github.com/weopendata/packed-input

● Resolver softwarehttps://github.com/PACKED-vzw/resolver

● Open refinehttp://www.projectcest.be/index.php/Collectiedata_normaliseren_met_Open_Refine

THANK YOU!ALINA@PACKED.BE