Presentation about INVENiT project: Helping Humanities Scholars to Search the Rijksmuseum Prints Online Collection

1. INVENiT
Helping Humanities Scholars to Search the
Rijksmuseum Prints Online Collection
Academy Assistants
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Wesley ter Weele
Supervisors
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Department of History
VU University Amsterdam
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Thijs van Beek
Department of Computer Science
VU University Amsterdam
Inger Leemans
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Department of History
VU University Amsterdam
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Lora Aroyo
Department of Computer Science
VU University Amsterdam
Chris Dijkshoorn
Department of Computer Science
VU University Amsterdam
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Lizzy Jongma
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

2. Our mission
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Network Institute Academy Assistant project
2 student research assistants: 2014
Collaboration:
○ Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
○ VU Amsterdam (Computer Science)
○ VU Amsterdam (History)
Helping Humanities Scholars to
Search the Rijksmuseum Prints
Online Collection

3. Now at PK Online
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1.000.000 items in collection
850.000 prints
7 annotators x 30 items/day
200-300 annotation fields
180.000 prints done, 670.000 more
to go by ~2027

4. Typical problems
● Incomplete data

5. Typical problems
● Incomplete data
● Incorrect data

6. Typical problems
● Incomplete data
● Incorrect data
● No shared semantics, e.
g. LOD and missing links

7. Typical problems
● Incomplete data
● Incorrect data
● No shared semantics, e.g.
LOD and missing links
● No external sources

8. Typical problems
● Incomplete data
● Incorrect data
● No shared semantics,
e.g. LOD and missing
links
● No external sources
● No grouping

9. Contribution of INVENiT
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Support PK Online annotators:
○ with links to external sources
○ with shared vocabularies

10. Contribution of INVENiT
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Support PK Online annotators:
○ with links to external sources
○ with shared vocabularies
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Provide large amount of annotations:
○ with crowd annotations

11. For more information check
http://invenit.wmprojects.nl
Thank you for your attention
Contact us at w2.weele@student.vu.nl or t.van.beek@student.vu.nl