ROSSIO Infrastructure: A Digital Humanities Platform to Explore the Portuguese Cultural Heritage

Silva, Gonçalo Melo da; Glória, Ana Celeste; Salgueiro, Ângela; Almeida, Bruno; Monteiro, Daniel Macedo Lopes Vasques; Freitas, Marco Roque de; Freire, Nuno

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“…The data model was consolidated with some partners, such as the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and the Digital Public Library of America, which adopted the Europeana Data Model as the basis for their data models (Petras et al, 2017). 21 The more recent infrastructure ROSSIO, 22 ‘a free and open-access platform for aggregating, organizing, and connecting the digital resources in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities provided by Portuguese higher education and cultural institutions’ (Silva et al, 2022: 1), has adopted a Europeana Data Model profile that is capable of representing digital objects from different domains defined by Portuguese academic and cultural heritage institutions.…”

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Cultural heritage on the Semantic Web: The Europeana Data Model

Silva,

Terra

2023

IFLA Journal

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The Semantic Web allows data to be linked on the Web and structures information for use by humans and machines. Furthermore, it makes relationships between data explicit, enabling the creation of Linked Data. Based on a literature review, the principles and technologies underlying Linked Data are presented – namely, the Resource Description Framework and models developed for libraries, archives and museums. Europeana aggregates European institutions’ digital cultural heritage, having developed a model that follows linked-data principles. For a deeper understanding of this model, the Europeana Data Model is presented with examples of two representation approaches and the advantages of metadata enrichment in information discovery. The experience of the University of Coimbra with Europeana is briefly explained. Finally, the authors discuss the challenges that cultural heritage institutions face in adopting these models and freeing their information from the silos it is in, taking advantage of the potential that Linked Data provides.

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Cultural heritage on the Semantic Web: The Europeana Data Model

Silva,

Terra

2023

IFLA Journal

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“…For instance, my recent teaching activities have been shaped by my experience as part of the ROSSIO Infrastructure team, a digital research infrastructure in the social sciences, arts, and humanities, the largest of its kind in Portugal (Silva et al, 2022), where I had the opportunity to develop and curate new public outreach products including digital exhibitions and collections, most of which are related to expressive culture, including music and dance 1 . Following up on this experience, I have already reflected on the perks of adopting storytelling strategies in my teaching in the M.A.…”

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5th Interdisciplinary and Virtual Conference on Arts in Education

Varii¹

2023

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CIVAE 2023 is an international conference whose mission is to provide a platform for collaboration between teachers, researches and artists from different artistic disciplines - music, dance, theater, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, cinema, philology, history, architecture, journalism, literature, philology, language learning... - with the aim to highlight the value of the arts in education and promote their development from an interdisciplinary approach.

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Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures

Humbel,

Nyhan,

Pearlman

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PurposeThis paper aims to explore the accelerations and constraints libraries, archives, museums and heritage organisations (“collections-holding organisations”) face in their role as collection data providers for digital infrastructures. To date, digital infrastructures operate within the cultural heritage domain typically as data aggregation platforms, such as Europeana or Art UK.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews with 18 individuals in 8 UK collections-holding organisations and 2 international aggregators.FindingsDiscussions about digital infrastructure development often lay great emphasis on questions and problems that are technical and legal in nature. As important as technical and legal matters are, more latent, yet potent challenges exist too. Though less discussed in the literature, collections-holding organisations' capacity to participate in digital infrastructures is dependent on a complex interplay of funding allocation across the sector, divergent traditions of collection description and disciplinaries’ idiosyncrasies. Accordingly, we call for better social-cultural and trans-sectoral (collections-holding organisations, universities and technological providers) understandings of collection data infrastructure development.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors recommend developing more understanding of the social-cultural aspects (e.g. disciplinary conventions) and their impact on collection data dissemination. More studies on the impact and opportunities of unified collections for different audiences and collections-holding organisations themselves are required too.Practical implicationsSustainable financial investment across the heritage sector is required to address the discrepancies between different organisation types in their capacity to deliver collection data. Smaller organisations play a vital role in diversifying the (digital) historical canon, but they often struggle to digitise collections and bring catalogues online in the first place. In addition, investment in existing infrastructures for collection data dissemination and unification is necessary, instead of creating new platforms, with various levels of uptake and longevity. Ongoing investments in collections curation and high-quality cataloguing are prerequisites for a sustainable heritage sector and collection data infrastructures. Investments in the sustainability of infrastructures are not a replacement for research and vice versa.Social implicationsThe authors recommend establishing networks where collections-holding organisations, technology providers and users can communicate their experiences and needs in an ongoing way and influence policy.Originality/valueTo date, the research focus on developing collection data infrastructures has tended to be on the drive to adopt specific technological solutions and copyright licensing practices. This paper offers a critical and holistic analysis of the dispersed experience of collections-holding organisations in their role as data providers for digital infrastructures. The paper contributes to the emerging understanding of the latent factors that make infrastructural endeavours in the heritage sector complex undertakings.

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ROSSIO Infrastructure: A Digital Humanities Platform to Explore the Portuguese Cultural Heritage

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Cultural heritage on the Semantic Web: The Europeana Data Model

Cultural heritage on the Semantic Web: The Europeana Data Model

5th Interdisciplinary and Virtual Conference on Arts in Education

Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures

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