A node for cultural heritage standards

1. CoReWIKI and Semantic Web
A node for cultural heritage standards
Thomas Tunsch

2. Stewardship and Cultural Memory
Organizations in the Digital Age (Sep 12, 2008)
 Notes & remarks (MuseumsWiki)
– cf. Google search (“Stewardship…”)
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3. History, Heritage, and
Cultural Memory Organizations I
 “It is useful to distinguish between
– the past, what happened;
– history, accounts of the past; and
– heritage, which consists of those parts of the past that affect
us in the present. […]
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4. History, Heritage, and
Cultural Memory Organizations II
 Histories are always multiple and and incomplete […]
 Included in our cultural, intellectual, and professional heritage
are the historical narratives we know and we accept and which
help shape our sense of identity.”
– Buckland, M. K. (2006). Emanuel Goldberg and his
knowledge machine information, invention, and political
forces. New directions in information management.
Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, pp. 254, 255
 Dynamic character of heritage and the role of cultural memory
organizations
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5. Complex cultural context
Robert L. Stevenson
The Bottle Imp
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Honolulu
Ballroom
Heinrich Berger
Letters
Royal Hawaiian Band
“Thither he went, because he feared to
be alone; and there, among happy faces,
walked to and fro, and heard the tunes
go up and down, and saw Berger beat
the measure, and all the while he heard
the flames crackle, and saw the red fire
burning in the bottomless pit.”
Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
King Kalākaua
Molokaʻi
Leprosy
Leper colony
Father Damien
Hoʻokena
Haole
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Literature
Music
History
Geography
Language
Wikipedia:
“The Bottle Imp”
Historical and
cultural background
Kōkua
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6. Which web is what?
 "the semantic web is never going to get here. Instead
we'll pour more semanticness into the existing web"
– http://twitter.com/dmje/statuses/785062078, referring to
Weaving a Web of Data (MW2008 workshop)
 “The web has immense semantic value already.
However, for a specific purpose the correlative
semantic relations have to be extracted from the
surrounding noise and to be expressed in a formal
structure or model.”
– http://museums.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Jpbowen#Semantic
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7. Standards for cultural heritage information
 Museums as example
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documentation
procedures
data structure
terminology
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 different
– cultures
– levels
– scopes
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8. CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
 CIDOC: International Committee on Documentation,
International Council of Museums
 International standard (ISO 21127:2006)
– controlled exchange of cultural heritage information
– formal ontology for archives, libraries and museums
– implementations and utilizations still rare
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9. Collaborative communities
 Content
– Terms
– Definitions
– Links (+ Semantic MediaWiki)
– Media
– Categories
– Portals
 Contributors & communities
– People
– Projects
– Institutions
– Initiatives
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10. Beauty and the Beast
 Standards
– Authority
– Hierarchy
– Institution
Archives
Libraries
Museums
Intangible
heritage
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precision
 Wiki
– Community
flexibility
– Network
– Individual
CoReWIKI
Semantic Web
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11. Content & instruments
 Concepts (theory)
– Standards
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Vocabularies
Formats
Methods
Implementations
 Projects & experiences
(practice)
 Connections
 Repository for
– Documentations
– Publications
– References
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Communication (forum, talk)
Collaboration
Description
Reference
– internal
• CoRe
• other parts
• Semantic links
– external
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12. Function, role, task
 Language
– Type
• Lingua franca
• Standard
• Regional
– Function
• Communicate
• Collaborate
• Exchange
 CoReWIKI
– Types and levels of
expert knowledge
– Communicate,
collaborate & exchange
information
– Flexible tool
– Dynamics
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13. Example
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14. Benefits and needs
 Efficient node and repository
 Flexible and extendable
knowledge base
 Combines restrictions and
accuracy of standards with
collaborative environment
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Individual commitment
Institutional care and support
Publicity
Resources
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15. Thank you
Comments and collaboration welcome
Thomas Tunsch

16. See also
 New York Semantic Web Meetup
at the Museum 2008
– CoReWIKI and Semantic Web: A node for cultural heritage s
 MuseumsWiki
Semantic Web and Wikis
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17. Contact
 MuseumsWiki
http://museums.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Tunsch
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– http://www.linkedin.com/in/tunsch
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