Title: Linked Open Cultural Heritage Data
When: 12 April, 10-11 hrs
Where: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/63997061802
Abstract: Henrik Summanen and Marcus Smith from the Swedish National Heritage Board will present the case for linked open data as an important paradigm within digital cultural heritage, and the benefits of applying these technologies in light of increased digitisation and online publication of heritage resources. They will then give examples of how this has been implemented from the Swedish national aggregator SOCH (Swedish Open Cultural Heritage) and Europeana, as well as examples of ontologies and vocabularies relevant for heritage data.
Henrik Summanen works since 2001 with digital cultural heritage, and since 2017 at the Swedish National Heritage Board, the DIGISAM secretariat. He primarily focuses on issues such as the difference between a traditional cultural heritage business and a new, digital pradigm. Marcus Smith has a background in archaeological information systems, and has previously worked at the Archaeology Data Service and the Council for British Archaeology. Since 2012 he has been based at the at the Swedish National Heritage Board in Visby, where he works with the SOCH linked open data platform, digital fieldwork documentation, and the digitisation of runic inscriptions.
Welcome!
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Kora
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Professor Koraljka Golub
Head of iInstitute, http://lnu.se/en//iinstitute/<http://lnu.se/en/iinstitute/>
Digital Humanities co-leader
Linnaeus University
Sweden
Title: Beyond Wikipedia: cultural heritage and LOD on the Wikimedia platforms
When: 1 April 10-11hrs
Where: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/61500624350
Abstract: Over the last 20 years, the Wikimedia platforms have evolved from an encyclopedia in English to a multilingual ecosystem of open knowledge, consisting of millions of articles, images and data items. What has remained unchanged is that the content is available for free, and that anyone can contribute.
In this lecture, Alicia Fagerving (they/them), a developer at the non-profit organization Wikimedia Sverige, will outline how cultural heritage institutions, researchers and volunteers all work together to represent the world's cultural heritage on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. The development of Wikidata has made it possible to utilize the power of Linked Open Data to make connections that have not been made before while inspiring the users to take the step from consuming content to contributing to it actively.
We will be taking a look at institutions around the world that have welcomed the Wikimedia platforms as a first-class citizen in their LOD work, as well as at applications and projects by volunteer developers and editors that showcase their possibilities. All with an eye on what the future holds and what you too could do.
Med vänliga hälsningar,
Kora
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Professor Koraljka Golub
Head of iInstitute, http://lnu.se/en//iinstitute/<http://lnu.se/en/iinstitute/>
Digital Humanities co-leader
Linnaeus University
Sweden
Vidarebefordrat mejl:
Från: Anna Foka <anna.foka at abm.uu.se<mailto:anna.foka at abm.uu.se>>
Ämne: Research Engineer Posts at CDHU/ALM
Datum: 11 mars 2021 09:32:41 EET
Dear all,
We are advertising 3-6 permanent research engineering posts at the Centre for Digital Humanities Uppsala/ALM
Please help us spread the word to your relevant contacts and lists- so as to find suitable candidates!
1–2 Research engineers/system developers with a focus on humanities digital research infrastructure development and curation
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1–2 Research engineers/data scientists with AI/ML competence
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1–2 Research engineers/system developers, with a focus on GIS/Data Management development and curation
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With kind regards,
Anna Foka (on behalf of CDHU)
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Dr. Anna Foka
Associate Professor in Digital Humanities
Director: Centre for Digital Humanities
Department of ALM
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Date: Wednesday, 24 March⋅11:00 – 12:00
Zoom: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64735625753
Title: Urgent images: Temporal engagements with images of violence by Nina Grønlykke Mollerup, University of Copenhagen
Abstract The past decade witnessed historic uprisings against Middle Eastern dictatorships. The violence that followed has been visually documented to an unprecedented extent. In this talk, I will draw on previous and ongoing ethnographic fieldworks with Egyptian and Syrian activists, photographers, journalists and archivists as well as NGO-workers, who have all contributed to the documentation, sharing and preservation of images of often state-sanctioned violence over the past decade in the two countries. At the time of documentation, many of these images were urgent. During the early years and months of street protests and clashes, images would be shared promptly, encouraging people to join ongoing protests and battles and demanding political responses. Protests in Egyptian and Syrian streets have largely been eradicated by a restoration of military dictatorship (in the case of Egypt) and a prolonged war with international involvement (in the case of Syria). Meanwhile the urgency of the present shifted towards temporal orientations towards the future and the past through archiving, making these images available for justice processes and collective memory-making. I propose that examining the temporality of images, not only through their immediate or most prominent uses, but also through later re-uses, re-circulations and re-significations, will allow us to move beyond understandings of images as political, emotional or aesthetic. I thus seek to illuminate the social life of images by exploring how images engage both urgently and latently in the present, how they reach into the past and how they enable orientations towards the future.
Short bio
Nina Grønlykke Mollerup is Associate Professor in Ethnology and at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) in the Saxo Department, University of Copenhagen. She was trained as an anthropologist and holds a PhD in communication. She has done substantial ethnographic research with Egyptian and Syrian activists, photographers and journalists over the past 13 years. Her research revolves around visual documentation of conflict and related claims to knowledge. She participates in the research project, Archiving the future: Re-collections of Syria in war and peace<https://ccrs.ku.dk/research/cross-cultural-studies/archiving-the-future/>. She has published in Social Analysis, Journalism and International Journal of Communication, among others.
