Johan Oomen Head of Research
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision @johanoomen
THE MANY UNEXPECTED JOYS OF BEING „OUT THERE” examples of user participation in the heritage domain
10-3-2014
SXSW 2014 panel: 100 Years of Oversharing: Tools for Time Travel #timetravel
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1. Tagging and Classification 2. Collection Acquisition 3. Contextualisation 4. Correction and Transcription 5. Co-curation of exhibitions 6. Crowdfunding
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Oomen en Aroyo, 2011
A TYPOLOGY OF USER PARTICIPATION IN A HERITAGE CONTEXT
1. Tagging and Classification 2. Collection Acquisition 3. Contextualisation 4. Correction and Transcription 5. Co-curation 6. Crowdfunding
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VIDEO LABELING GAME
Objective: collect fine-grained tags. Vocabulary used by end-users.
VIDEO LABELING GAME
The game: adding descriptive tags to videos
Match between players within a 10 second time window: ‚SCORE!’
VIDEO LABELING GAME
- Tekst arial 28 - Tekst arial 24
- Tekst 20
Over 240.000 tags to date, 143.000 matches
From the evaluation: „search based solely on user tags is more effective than search based on other types of metadata”
A TYPOLOGY OF USER PARTICIPATION IN A HERITAGE CONTEXT
1. Tagging and Classification 2. Collection Acquisition 3. Contextualisation 4. Correction and Transcription 5. Co-curation 6. Crowdfunding
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SOUND OF THE NETHERLANDS
Step 1: uploading hundreds of high quality, digitized archival sounds to Soundcloud
SOUND OF THE NETHERLANDS
Step 2: placing the sounds on the map & ask the world to contribute
SOUND OF THE NETHERLANDS
Enrichments on Soundcloud
Inserts in Wikipedia pages
App ‚Mix van Nederland’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Goosehttp://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?
https://soundcloud.com/beeldengeluid/commentaar-en-racegeluiden-op
SOUND OF THE NETHERLANDS
Enrichments on Soundcloud
Inserts in Wikipedia pages
App ‚Mix van Nederland’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Goosehttp://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?
https://soundcloud.com/beeldengeluid/commentaar-en-racegeluiden-op
„Sound of the emperor goose”
A TYPOLOGY OF USER PARTICIPATION IN A HERITAGE CONTEXT
1. Tagging and Classification 2. Collection Acquisition 3. Contextualisation 4. Correction and Transcription 5. Co-curation 6. Crowdfunding
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EUROPEANA COLLECTIONS 1914-1918
EUROPEANA COLLECTIONS 1914-1918
http://vimeo.com/65900546
EUROPEANA COLLECTIONS 1914-1918
http://vimeo.com/65900546
ROADSHOWS 1914-1918
ROADSHOWS 1914-1918
In 2012 and 2013: 11 countries, 64.255 contributions 2014: at least 7 additional countries
www.europeana1914-1918.eu
Over 400.000 WWI related items to explore:
~ User Contributions
~ Memory organisations around the world
From the Stewart Library, Weber State University
www.europeana1914-1918.eu
EUROPEANA 1914-1918
Inserts in Wikipedia pages
Live events
IMPORTANT DIVER: „OPEN CULTURE DATA”
FULFILL THEIR PUBLIC MISSION “For content to be truly accessible, it needs to be where the users are,
embedded in their daily networked lives.” (Wabel, 2009) !!
STIMULATING COLLABORATION AND CREATIVITY “No maSer who you are,
most of the smartest people work for someone else.” (Joy’s Law, via Michael Edson)
http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/about/
OPEN CULTUUR DATA: EMPOWERING PROFESSIONALS
Photo:&Olaf&Janssen.&CC&BY3SA&Photo: Olaf Janssen. CC BY-‐SA
http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/about/
OPENGLAM
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Gligorov, Riste, Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lora Aroyo, en Guus Schreiber. 2013. “An evalua]on of labelling-‐game data for video retrieval”. In Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Informa]on Retrieval, 50–61. ECIR’13. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-‐Verlag. !
- Oomen, Johan, en Lora Aroyo. 2011. “Crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage domain: opportuni]es and challenges”. In Proceedings of the 5th Interna]onal Conference on Communi]es and Technologies, 138–49. C&T ’11. New York, NY, USA: ACM. !
- Verwayen, H., Arnoldus, M., & Kaufman, P. B. (2011). The Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid. A Business Model Perspec]ve on Open Metadata. !
- Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage. Editor: Mia Ridge. Ashgate, 2014 (to appear) !- L. B. Baltussen, M.Brinkerink, N.Timmermans, M. Zeinstra, J. Oomen. Open Culture Data: Opening GLAM Data BoSom-‐up. Museums and the Web 2013. hSp://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/open-‐culture-‐data-‐opening-‐glam-‐data-‐boSom-‐up/ !
- Johan Oomen, LoSe Belice Baltussen, Maarten Brinkerink, Thijs van Exel. Sound of the Netherlands: Crowdsourcing the Dutch Soundscape. Museums and the Web 2013, Portland Oregon. hSp://mw2013.museumsandtheweb.com/proposals/with-‐help-‐from-‐the-‐public-‐crowdsourcing-‐sounds-‐and-‐amateur-‐film/ !
- Waibel, Günter and Ricky Erway. 2009. "Think Global, Act Local -‐ Library, Archive and Museum Collabora]on." Museum Management and Curatorship, 24,4.
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POINTERS AND THANKS
- Waisda? Source code: https://github.com/beeldengeluid/waisda - http://www.geluidvannederland.nl - http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Europeana_1914-1918 - http://www.opencultuurdata.nl/about - http://openglam.org/ - !- Many thanks to:
- Maarten Brinkerink ~ @mbrinkerink - Lotte Belice Baltussen ~ @lottebelice - Arnoud Traa ~ @auditievedienst - Alun Edwards ~ @HurricaneAlly - Just Vervaart ~ @Justvervaart - Michael Edson ~ @mpedson - Dutch Ministry of Culture (supporting Open Culture Data)
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MEMORY ORGANISATIONS
http://www.digitalnz.org/make-it-digital/getting-started-with-digitisation
MEMORY ORGANISATIONS
Correction and Transcription
ContextualisationCo-curation
Classification and Tagging
Collection acquisition
Johan Oomen Head of Research
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision @johanoomen
THE MANY UNEXPECTED JOYS OF BEING „OUT THERE” examples of user participation in the heritage domain
SXSW 2014 panel: 100 Years of Oversharing: Tools for Time Travel #timetravel #swsw
10-3-2014