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
https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=386234
1–2 Research engineers/data scientists with AI/ML competence
https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=385760
1–2 Research engineers/system developers, with a focus on GIS/Data Management development and curation
https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=386243
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.
Time: March 16 @ 10 am (Tuesday)
Place: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64735625753
Title: “Why digital? Museums Digitisation and its use for Stakeholders.”
Abstract: During the last decade there has been huge digitisation projects at museums. This lecture will problematise around these undertakings and reflect upon what its good for and more importantly for whom. Who are the stakeholders and are museums making societal good by digitising its collections and making them public?
Bio:
Fredrik is an archaeologist at Kalmar County Museum and a PhD student at the research school GRASCA at Linnaeus University. His research is focused on how digitalisation can contribute to making Swedish contract archaeology socially relevant in new ways. I investigate how archaeological knowledge production is created in the digital environment. This is achieved by understanding how knowledge production and communication of results is carried out within contract archaeology. The goal is to create new knowledge about how contract archaeology can increase its ability to produce relevant knowledge for authorities, researchers and the general public.
Research profile: https://lnu.se/en/staff/fredrik.gunnarsson/
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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
Time: 4 March, 9am
Location: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64735625753
On the “Art of Losing”—Some Notes on Digitization, Copying, and Cultural Heritage
Copying is a creative “art of losing” that sustains culture and lends substance to heritage. This talk will aim to unpack the meaning of this statement and unravel some of the many paradoxes inherent in copying what has been inherited as culture using digital technologies. How is it that cultural reproduction and representation always entail loss while also always perpetuate things and ideas valued as culture and as heritage? What kinds of loss do digital technologies ensure? In what ways do new digital technologies sustain culture and enable heritage to persist? Attempting to unravel some of the conceptual and practical knots that formulate riddles like these, the first half of the talk will investigate a few key terms—copying, culture, and heritage. It will also survey a few of the important technologies used to copy texts in East Asia and on the Korean peninsula—brushes, bamboo slips, paper, woodblocks, new and old forms of movable metal type, photography and various forms of lithography, digital imaging, encoding schema, and forms of machine learning. This brief survey will help to situate a discussion in the second half of the talk about the current state of our creative “arts of loss” as they concern creating digital copies of cultural heritage objects. To suggest the current state of our arts, two research projects will be introduced. The first is an effort by nuns at the Taiwanese Buddhist Temple Fo Guang Shan to create an accurate digital transcription of every historical instantiation of the massive Buddhist canon. Their aim is to help ensure Buddhist heritage. The second is an effort by the National Library of Korea to make more of Korea’s textual heritage available to its patrons as digital transcriptions by using deep learning to overcome long-standing difficulties associated with the automated transcription of Korean texts. The American poet Elizabeth Bishop suggests in her poem “One Art” that “the art of losing is not hard to master.” This talk will suggest that Bishop’s poetic insight is helpful for thinking about digitization and cultural heritage. Loss is inevitable when reproducing cultural heritage by means of digital technologies. These losses are not necessarily a disaster. Each copy makes what has been inherited available again to new places and times. But how we practice this “art of losing” is important to consider since how we copy with our digital tools formulates what is inherited as cultural heritage.
Wayne de Fremery is an associate professor in the School of Media, Arts, and Science at Sogang University in Seoul and Director of the Korea Text Initiative at the Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea in Cambridge, Massachusetts (http://www.koreatext.org/). He also currently represents the Korean National Body at ISO as Convener of a working group on document description, processing languages, and semantic metadata (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 WG 9). Wayne’s research integrates approaches from literary studies, bibliography, and design, as well as information science and artificial intelligence. Recent articles and book chapters by Wayne have appeared in The Materiality of Reading (Aarhus University Press, 2020), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature (Ken Seigneurie ed., 2020), and Library Hi-Tech (2020). Wayne’s bibliographical study of Chindallaekkot (Azaleas), a canonical book of modern Korean poetry, appeared in 2014 from Somyŏng Publishing. In 2011, his book-length translation of poetry by Jeongrye Choi, Instances, appeared from Parlor Press. Books designed and produced by Wayne have appeared from the Korea Institute at Harvard University, the University of Washington Press, and Tamal Vista Publications, an award-winning press he ran before joining the faculty of Sogang University. Some of his recent research projects have concerned the use of deep learning to improve Korean optical character recognition (funded by the National Library of Korea), technology and literary translation (paper forthcoming from Translation Review), and “copy theory” (paper under review). Wayne’s degrees are from Whitman College, Seoul National University, and Harvard.
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
Dear all,
below pls find info on the webinar we are organizing.
Talk Summary
Join Natalie Milbrodt, Director of the Queens Memory Project, a community archiving program celebrating a decade of collecting oral histories and hosting public events and exhibitions on local history topics in the borough of Queens in New York City. Milbrodt will discuss the program’s origins and development through a variety of partnerships. She will also delve into how a sprawling team of staff, students and volunteers across Queens engage community in the work of historical research and documentation with the aim of complicating the historical record with a diversity of lived experience that, together, tell a fuller story of life in New York City.
Full Bio
Natalie Milbrodt is an information professional and content developer with 20 years of experience working in small business, academic, cultural heritage and library settings. She currently manages the Metadata Services Division within the Queens Public Library's Technical Services Department in New York City. In this role, she oversees archival digitization and the creation and management of metadata for the library's physical and digital collections. This includes the preservation of local history on behalf of the library's community archiving initiative, the Queens Memory Project. Milbrodt founded Queens Memory in 2010, which was honored in 2012 by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services with an Outstanding Collaboration Citation, in 2014 by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York with an Educational Use of Archives Award and in 2019 by the New York State Archives for Excellence in Documenting New York’s History. Milbrodt holds a Masters degree in Library and Information Studies with a concentration in Archives and Cultural Heritage from Queens College, CUNY. Milbrodt graduated in 2000 from Michigan State University with a BA in Interdisciplinary Humanities and a Specialization in Film Studies. Before joining the library profession, she worked for film production, design and marketing firms in both creative and management roles. Milbrodt is a founding member of Global Grand Central, a methods sharing platform for measuring and extending the impact of funding granted to cultural practitioners working in local contexts around the world. She is also a founding member of the Design Dream Lab, developing socially engaged services and products like the Memory Kaleidoscope game. Milbrodt serves on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Task Force and as an advisory board member for the New York State Archives, Urban Archive and Wikitongues.
Short Bio
Natalie Milbrodt leads the Queens Public Library’s Metadata Services Division, responsible for the library’s oral history and community archiving program, digitization, and cataloging. She serves on the Oral History Association’s Metadata Task Force and as an advisory board member for Global Grand Central, Urban Archive, the New York State Archives and Wikitongues.
Zoom meeting
Time: Feb 26, 2021 02:30 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
Join Zoom Meeting: https://lnu-se.zoom.us/j/64735625753
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
Have you ever created or used archaeological data?
Participate in a survey at https://sunet.artologik.net/uu/Survey/271 to make a push towards easier-to-use archaeological data by telling us what you need to know about data to be able to (re)use it effectively.
The survey is carried out as a part of the CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE) research project. CAPTURE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 818210).
CAPTURE investigates what information about the creation and use of archaeological research data ( 'paradata') that is needed to make the research data reusable in the future, and how to capture enough of that information. More information about the project can be found at www.uu.se/en/research/capture
You are kindly invited you to share your experience and your views in this survey if you have ever used and/or created and deposited archaeological data (understood broadly, ranging from digital data to finds collections).
The aim of this survey is to identify
• what information archaeologists who are or have been using different types of data need to know about the data to (re)use it effectively, and
• what archaeologists who have produced consider it to be important for others to know about their data.
Participating in the survey takes approximately 20 minutes.
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FYI
From: Koraljka Golub <koraljka.golub at lnu.se>
Date: Tuesday, 29 December 2020 at 16:00
To: Dighum <dighum-bounces at lists.sunet.se>
Subject: FW: Call for Papers - Digital Humanities Congress
Dear colleague,
I would be grateful if you could circulate this information around your networks.
Call for Papers for the Digital Humanities Congress 2021 which will be held at the University of Sheffield, 22nd – 24th July 2021.
This will be a physical conference unless prevented by the Covid-19 situation.
This is a supplementary call for papers. Anyone who submitted a paper for the cancelled DHC2020 has automatically been included in the new programme.
Submission deadline: 31st January
Our three keynote speakers will be:
1. Professor Ruth Ahnert (Professor of Literary History and Digital Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London)
2. Professor Marc Alexander (Professor of English Linguistics, University of Glasgow)
3. Professor Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Media, Copenhagen Business School)
We welcome proposals for individual papers and sessions on all aspects of Digital Humanities research, teaching, and infrastructure. More information can be found here:
https://www.dhi.ac.uk/dhc2021
Best wishes
Mike
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Michael Pidd
Director
The Digital Humanities Institute
University of Sheffield
34 Gell Street
Sheffield S3 7QY
telephone: 0114 222 6113
email: m.pidd at sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:m.pidd at sheffield.ac.uk>
web: http://www.dhi.ac.uk<http://www.dhi.ac.uk/>
twitter: @dhishef
Dear all,
FYI: the Digital Humanities Institute at Sheffield is launching two new MA degree programs in September 2021 in digital culture and cultural data:
1. MA in Cultural Data Management and Communication
2. MA in Digital Culture and Communication
More information can be found here, including application details:
https://www.dhi.ac.uk/study/
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
