Presentation by Bert Lemmens on transforming living heritage into data at the Conference 'Plans for the future: ICH included' on 24 September 2021

1. Transforming living heritage into data
A test case digital registration & ICH - Bert Lemmens

2. Issue?
Museums
how does ICH fit in my CMS?
object properties
experts
How to record Immaterial Cultural Heritage along Material Cultural
Heritage?
Communities
Am I properly represented
by the data?
object usage / context
practitioners

3. Find a common vocabulary
Graphs?

4. Graphs and Ontologies
OSLO Application Profile for Heritage Objects / Events
CIDOC-CRM and FRBRoo Domain Ontologies

5. Workshops
Workshop 1: brainstorm
● terminology (entities?)
● notability (relevance?)
● cataloguing environment (tools?)
Workshop 2
● introduce a draft model
● collect feedback from museum workers
Workshop 3
● 2nd iteration of the draft model - introducing standard OSLO concepts
● test the draft model with real life data

6. Brainstorm
Practical Problems:
● What is the minimum standard for recording ICH?
● How to deal with privacy sensitive information?
● How to record ‘documentation’ about ICH practices?
Conceptual Problems:
● Objects <> ‘Stories’ <> ICH Practices
● How to record changes in ICH Practices?
● Which information qualifies as open data? (= can be easily shared)

7. story
(event)
ICH practice
(activity)
item
(thing)
person of
group
(actor)
assurance
practice
(activity)
captation
(document)
was present at
is depicted by
represents
is depicted by is depicted by
is safeguarded
by
was present at
has produced
was present at
is used in
Draft model v1 - ‘local’ vocabulary

8. story
(event)
ICH practice
(activity)
item
(thing)
person of
group
(actor)
assurance
practice
(activity)
captation
(document)
was present at
is depicted by
represents
is depicted by is depicted by
is safeguarded
by
was present at
has produced
was present at
is used in
biographies
legends
Draft model v1 - ‘local’ vocabulary

9. story
(event)
Draft model v1 - using ‘local’ vocabulary
ICH practice
(activity)
item
(thing)
person of
group
(actor)
assurance
practice
(activity)
captation
(document)
was present at
is depicted by
represents
is depicted by is depicted by
is safeguarded
by
was present at
has produced
was present at
is used in
item =
captation

10. Draft model v2 - using ‘OSLO’ vocabulary
performance
(activity)
concept/idea
(conceptual
thing)
performance
plan
(information
object)
person/
group
(actor)
assurance
practice
(activity)
expression
(information
object)
carries
ICE practice
(activity)
content
(information
object)
item
(human-made
object)
collection
(conceptual
thing)
location
(place)
date
(date & time)
documents
realises
executes
safeguards
realized by
follows
documents carries
realized by
curated
by
represents

11. Real life data - religious procession

12. Real life data - ‘social’ practices

13. Real life data - crafts

14. Next Steps
> We defined a common vocabulary (linking object properties to object usage)
> (First) 14 user cases recording Immaterial & Material CH in one datamodel
Now:
● develop minimum cataloguing guidelines for use in CMS
● explore implementations of the complete graph in a system:
○ graph based system?
○ shared system?
○ integration with collection and content management systems?

15. Any
Questions
?