Art Information Commons

Environmental Scan

Purpose

The Environmental Scan is an ongoing activity for this initiative. It helps us remain aware of the information, projects, people, tools and resources that reflect explorations and innovations throughout the cultural heritage community as well as in other commercial sectors. We use the environment scan to:

1. Learn lessons that have been documented elsewhere
2. Keep an eye on metadata/technology standards initiatives
3. Identify technologies that we may want to try out or assess
4. Communicate with other projects that are pursuing useful outcomes
5. Identify possible guest speakers, trainers, and collaborators

Approach

The format for the display of this information is as an inventory. Only loose categorization is applied, which serves to filter the information using basic descriptors. Resources have been gathered from a variety of sources, including but not limited to professional organizations, websites, journal articles, blogs, twitter feeds, and personal experience. If you would like more information about each resource listed below you can find it in the spreadsheet linked here. This information will include people involved, summaries, additional links, and focus areas of study. This document is now static, and was last updated February 2020.

Call to Action

There is a wide range of expertise in our cultural heritage community and we welcome additions and updates to the scan. To add to projects, sources, readings, professional development opportunities and other related topics email the details to Bree.Midavaine@philamuseum.org with the subject line "Environmental Scan Addition".

Include your name and preferred method of contact if you feel comfortable being contacted for more information regarding your submission.

Projects, Collectives, and Collaborations

• African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities
  Brings African American studies and digital humanities together in order to support scholars and expand upon both fields, making digital humanties more inclusive of African American history and culture and enriching African American studies research with digital methods, archives, and tools.


• American Art Collaborative
  The AAC is a consortium of 14 institutions in the United States committed to establishing a critical mass of linked open data on the semantic web


• AriadnePlus
  Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaelogical Data Networking in Europe


• ArtLens App
  Contains interpretive content for every work of art on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art


• ArtTracks
  Art Tracks is an initiative of the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) that aims to turn provenance in to structured data by building a suite of open source software tools. These tools transform traditional written provenenance records into searchable data.


• Baseball Hall of Fame DAMS project
  Moving from a single DAMS system to a set of tools which works for the needs of all departments.


• BIBFLOW
  A research project which investigated the future of library technical services, in light of modern technology infrastructure such as the Web and new data models, and formats such as Resource Description and Access and BIBFRAME.


• BIBFRAME Initiative
  The foundation for the future of bibliographic description that happens on the web and in the networked world. It is designed to integrate with and engage in the wider information community and still serve the very specific needs of libraries.


• Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis
  The country’s largest regional online collection of medieval manuscripts; fifteen libraries will create images and descriptions for 160,000 manuscript pages.


• The British Library Collection Metadata Strategy
  Roadmap for the Library's vision, that by 2023 the collection's metadata assets will be unified on a single, sustainable, standards-based infrastructure offering improved options for access, collaboration and open reuse.


• British Museum ResearchSpace Projects
  Details of projects collaborating with the ResearchSpace Project Team. Other tabs include related publications and events.


• Canadian Heritage Information Network
  CHIN assists Canadian museums in documenting, managing, and sharing information about their collections, which in turn ensures that this information is accessible now and in the future.


• Carnegie Mellon: Emerging Technology Center
  A division of the Software Engineering Institute involved with advanced computing, applied artifical intelligence, machine learning, and human-machine interaction.


• CLARIAH
  Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and the Humanities


• code4lib
  A volunteer-driven collective of hackers, designers, architects, curators, catalogers, artists, and instigators from around the world, who largely work for and with libraries, archives, and museums on technology initiatives.


• Cogapp
  IIIF project with a fully-hosted, specialised search and image platform, delivering digital solutions to the world’s cultural institutions.


• Collections as Data
  2016-2018 Always Already Computational documented, iterated, and shared approaches to developing cultural heritage collections that support computationally-driven research and teaching.


• Consortium for Open Research Data in the Humanities
  The website outlines modeling choices in relation to diverse entities described in the Consortium's data. The modeling is provided, whenever possible, using CIDOC-CRM.


• Creation of Gothic Architecture
  Survey of the creation of the Gothic style before 1250 CE explores all 1,600 churches that remain in the limestone region of the Paris Basin.


• Cultural Heritage Standards Toolkit
  CEST started in 2010 and has been implemented by PACKED and eDAVID. It aims to familiarize Flemish heritage institutions with the use of standards in the creation, management, and accessibility of digital collections.


• Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal
  Protoype web-portal and analysis-engine to provide access to archival material related to the development of the iconic, multi-disciplinary field of cybernetics.


• Data for History
  Built on CIDOC-CRM and the Symogih.org project, this international consortium aims to improve geo-historical data interoperability in the semantic web.


• Digital Humanities Anti-Slavery Manuscripts project
  Boston Public Library Archives crowdsourced transcription project.


• Digital Public Library of America projects
  DPLA projects including Advancing Ebooks, Educational Uses, Getting it Right on Rights, Hydra-in-a-Box, News on the Margins, and Public Library Partnerships Projects.


• DISCO
  Data Integration for Conservation Science seeks to improve the ways scientific and technical studies contribute to the conservation and understanding of works of art through the development of open-source software that will integrate conservation science data by facilitating better management, extraction and sharing practices.


• DLF AIG Metadata Application Profile Clearinghouse Project
  A collection of 26 application profiles for digital collections provided by 18 institutions, gathered by the Digital Library Federation. Below is an example.
  NYARC Application Profile
  NYARC's current practice of describing websites; specifies core elements recommended for websites both live and archived, especially in the context of bibliographic description.


• DLF Metadata Assessment Survey
  Survey to investigate metadata quality and how it is measured in libraries, archives, and museums.


• Drawings of Florentine Painters by Bernard Berenson
  This project began by converting the content of Berenson’s publications into a linked open dataset, and providing a search interface that will support resource discovery and data analysis.


• dSharp
  Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences team dedicated to advancing research and teaching, involving digital tools, methods, and sources. Build websites, databases, data analysis pipe lines, research projects, and digital scholarship education.


• Enslaved: People of the Atlantic Slave Trade
  A large collection of freedom narratives.
  Freedom Narratives
  A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery


• UMMA Exchange
  University of Michigan Museum of Art explore their collections, create-your-own virtual exhibitions, presentations, and more using UMMA objects, web resources, and Collections and Learning resources created and housed in the Exchange.


• Humanities Commons
  Network for people working in the humanties to discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials and make interdisciplinary connections by sharing through this repository.


• Linked Conservation Data
  Improving access to conservation documentation records through linked data. Includes links to readings and vocabularies.


• LINCS Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship
  This project will convert large datasets into an organized, interconnected, machine-processable set of resources for Canadian cultural research. It aims to provide context for the cultural material that currently floats around online, interlink it, ground it in its sources, and help to make the World Wide Web a trusted resource for scholarly knowledge production.
  LINCS Infrastructure Implementation Timeline


• Linked Art
  Linked Art Data Model is an application profile that can be used to describe cultural heritage resources with a focus on artworks and museum-oriented activities, using CIDOC-CRM, Getty vocabularies, and JSON-LD as a starting point.


• Lyrasis 2019 Catalyst Fund Projects
  Information on the following projects: "My Upload: Engaging Library Users in Digital Collections," "Conversational Artificial Intelligence: Bringing the Library to Your Living Room," "AI for Archives: Using Facial Recognition to Enhance Metadata," "Using Linked Open Data for Georgia's Natural, Cultural and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response," and "Open Data Toolkit Based on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access Principles."


• Making African Connections Digital Archive
  An interactive digital archive linking objects to contextual information and different interpretations. A Wikimedian-in-residence will enable interaction with global publics via the world’s foremost media repository. Creating these intersections will maximize new opportunities for knowledge exchange and greater cultural, historical and political understanding.


• Mapping Manuscript Migrations
  A project linking disparate datasets from Europe and North America to provide an international view of the history and provenance of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.


• Mapping Open Source in Museums project
  Focuses on exploring code written by museums and used by other museums. Last updated 2019.


• Mapping Titian
  Focusing on the artist Titian, this site offers a searchable provenance index of his attributed pictures and allows users to create customizable collections of paintings and customizable maps that show the movement of the pictures over time and space with the application of various filters.


• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science: Digital Research Infrastructure for the Humanties
  Current projects of the Research IT group to develop instruments adapted to exploit the potential of the digital world for both research and for academic publishing.
  SWIB19 Presentation
  Presentation given by Esther Chen and Florian Kräutli at the Semantic Web in Libraries Conference 2019 on the infrastructure and workflow for making sure digital research outputs can be discovered, accessed, and reused, using a Knowledge Graph, CIDOC-CRM, ResearchSpace, Metaphactory, and other tools.


• Mellon-funded Integration Projects
  Listen to the MCN 2019 Conference presentation "Negotiating collaboration: Four case studies from grant-funded GLAM projects" given by the J. Willard Marriot Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smith College Libraries, and the Snite Museum of Art.
  Conference slides


• MetCollects
  Online series that celebrates works of art that are new to the Museum's collection. Looking at the object through the eyes of photographers, curators, scholars, and living artists.


• MetPublications
  Portal to The Met's comprehensive publishing program linked to works of art from the collection, the library catalogues on WATSON, which can be previewed and fully searched online.


• Metadata 2020
  A collaboration that advocates for richer, connected, resuable, open metadata for all research outputs.


• Milwaukee Art Museum: Mellon Grant Museum Knowledge Management Infrastructure
  The museum will evaluate ways information can be shared publicly and determine how to most effectively connect collection information, taking digitization needs, archive materials, visitory and academic uses, as well as industry best practices into consideration.


• Mirador
  IIIF viewer developed by the Art Institute of Chicago


• The Morten Arboretum: General Project
  Focus on design thinking and collaboration. Podcaset with the Head of Knowledge Management Carissa Dougherty.


• Netwert Oorlogsbronnen: Western Democracies
  Dutch network for WWII War collection .


• Northbrook Provenance Research Site
  Project which attempts to reconstruct the provenance of all paintings owned by the Earls of Northbrook and their predecessors at one time.


• OCLC Linked Data Survey
  The survey has been repeated 3 times between 2014-2018 to assess how many linked data projects there were and their status over time.


• Oregon Digital
  The collections are comprised of unique digitized and born-digital materials including photographs, articles, sheet music, manuscripts, ephemera, and more.


• OSCI Reports
  Digitizing museum catalogs by 8 insitutions working independently.


• Oxford e-Research Centre
  Connect disciplines, applications, and computation to accelerate research and collaboration. They also apply innovative computational and information technology in both academic research and industrial applications.


• Penn's digital collections and projects
  Digital collections and projects feature unique, primary-source materials for teaching, research, and discovery drawn from the Penn Libraries' signature collections or from our collaborations with the Penn community and with cultural heritage institutions.


• PHAROS
  International consortium of photo archives committed to creating a digital research platform allowing for comprehensive consolidated access to photo archive images and their associated scholarly documentation.


• Pre-Raphaelites Online
  Network bringing together UK and US galleries and museums with significant Pre-Raphaelite collections, scholars, and the COVE collective.


• Princeton Museum and Library: Integrated Search
  Integrated discovery capability allowing users to search both institutions' collections from a unified location.


• Project Passage
  OCLC linked data prototype using Mediawiki/Wikibase and Wikidata.
  SWIB19 presentation
  OCLC: Linked Data Wikibase Prototype


• Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
  Create websites and open-source digital tools to preserve and present the past, transform scholarship across the humanities, advance history education and historical understanding, and encourage popular participation in the practice of history.


• Science Stories
  Web application that leverages linked open data, IIIF, the Wikidata knowledge base and semantic web technologies to demonstrate a vision of what getting scientific work products and scientific information into social spaces can do.


• Semantic Lab at Pratt: DADAlytics
  Testbed and incubator for the development of novel methodologies and tools for the application of semantic technologies to libraries, archives, and museums.


• Send Me SFMoMA
  Each text message sent via the app returns an image from their collection based on keywords, colors, and emojis.


• SFMoMA MediaWiki project
  Article on SFMoMA's use of MediaWiki as a hub for curated information for time-based media and other complex artworks.
  Art Wiki at SFMoMA MCN 2018 presentation information


• Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
  Network visualization of the social network for Francis Bacon.


• Smithsonian Institution: Open Access
  Open Access initiative released 2.8 million images into the public domain, includes access to Smithsonian API and GitHub, 3D Voyager, Smithsonian Learning Lab, and Smithsonian Figshare.


• Smithsonian Learning Lab
  Created to inspire the discovery and creative use of its rich digital materials.


• Steve Museum Project
  Collaboration effort to improve public access to and engagement with US art museum collections, exploring the possibilities of user-generated descriptions of works of art known as a folksonomy.


• Strategies for Advancing Hidden Collections
  CLIR Cataloging Hidden Collections program and the Mellon Foundation supported a number of institutions to catalog their collections of rare and unique materials.


• Time Machine Project
  Distributed digital information system mapping the European social, cultural, and geographical evolution across time.


• Torn Apart: Separados
  Data visualization of territory, finances, and infrastructure of ICE in the US.


• United Kingdom: Culture is Digital
  Broad look at the UK cultural heritage sector and its impact. Report on key initiatives from UK Digital Strategy.


• University of Virginia Press: Rotunda publications
  Digital publications


• University of Rochester: Digital Scholarship Lab
  Specializes in the creation of digital tools and resources, including GIS, TEI, RTI, 3D modeling, and more.


• Victoria and Albert Museum Online Collections Redesign
  V&A Blog: Redesigning the V&A's collections online and relevant blog posts
  Designing a minimum viable experience
  Redesign Process Update: How are the V&A's online collections used?
  IIIF, Wordpress and Shakespeare too


• Virtual Custom Philadelphia Museum of Art Tour App
  Created by Fred Behnke and Nick Alzepeidi for the Power of Art Hackathon hosted by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2018


• Vlaamsekunstcollectie
  The Flemish Art Collection using IIIF and PACKED


• Western Name Authority File Project
  A toolkit for libraries taking the first step into linked open data, completed in 2018. Explored creating a regional vocabulary in an open and shareable format, using a process that can be replicated at other institutions.


• The Whitney Museum: Time-Based Media Preservation Initiative
  Mellon-funded project to implement a holistic preservation framework for time-based media art works in the museum's permanent collection.

Resources: Standards and Schema

• a.k.a. by synercon taxonomies
  Licensened taxonomies.


• CAMEO project
  Conservation and Art Material Encyclopedia Online by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


• CDWA
  Categories for the Description of Works of Art maintained by the Getty Vocabulary Program


• CHIN Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging
  A structured and controlled list of object terms organized in a classification system to provide a basis for indexing and cataloging collections of human-made objects.


• CIDOC-CRM
  International Council of Museums: International Committee for Documentation Conceptual Reference Model


• Descriptive Terminology for Works of Art on Paper
  A multi-institutional project developed to address need for more accurate and consistent documentation of materials and techniques used to create works of art on paper.


• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
  DCMI work on architecture and modeling, discussion and collaborative work within the DCMI community, conferences, meetings, workshops, and education efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and best practices.


• Gale Thesauri
  Licensed taxonomies and thesauri.


• IIIF
  International Image Interoperability Framework


• Linked Conservation Data Vocabulary
  List of conservation controlled vocabularies.


• SPAR Ontologies
  Semantic Publishing and References Ontologies is a suite of orthogonal and complementary OWL2 ontologies that enable all aspects of the publishing process to be described in machine readable metadata statements, encoded using RDF. For example, CiTO: Citation Typing Ontology


• Taxonomy Warehouse
  List of taxonomies both open source and available through licensing.


• UCLA Library: Semantic Web and Linked Data
  Provides Semantic Web and Linked Data resources to use and assist in implementing this technology


• W3C Open Annotation
  Structured model and format to enable annotations to be shared and resued across different hardware and software platforms.

Tools: Platforms and Systems

• Amalgame
  AMsterdam ALignment GenerAtion MEtatool is a tool for finding, evaluating and managing vocabulary alignments.


• Annif
  Natural Language Processing tool that can tag text based on an uploaded controlled vocabulary.


• Archivematica
  Open source preservation tool.


• ArchivesSpace
  Web-based archives information management system.


• Atomgraph
  The Knowledge Graph Management System: Linked data hub is an open source platform for publishing data that works as a layer on top of a Knowledge Graph. Publish RDF graph data, build and deploy data driven apps and APIs, create custom views and visualization of your information.
  Blog post about the knowledge graph management system
  Linked Data Hub: Getting started documentation


• ClioPatria
  Prolog framework to construct semantic web applications


• Cocoda
  Web based tool for creating mappings between knowledge organization systems.


• CollectiveAccess
  Open source software for managing and publishing museum and archival collections.


• Collection Space
  Web based open source collection management software for museums.


• Conciliator
  OpenRefine reconciliation services for VIAF, ORCID, and Open Library + framework for creating more.


• ConservationSpace
  Web based digital document management system developed specifically for conservation.


• Conservation Studio: TMS
  TMS Conservation module.


• Controlled Vocabulary Manager
  Rails application with Blazegraph for managing controlled vocabularies in RDF.


• CultuurLINK
  Developed for Dutch cultural heritage institutions to help them link their vocabularies with the Dutch cultural heritage Hub.


• Digital Library Cloud Services: Digerati
  An open source cloud based platform for hosting and delivering interoperable digitized content following common open standards.


• Europeana Labs
  Practical resources to start building with cultural collections using European open source resources, datasets, and free APIs.


• embARC
  Metadata Embedded for Archival Content: Audio Visual
  embARC User Guide


• Exhibite
  Exhibition information management.


• Explorit!
  Provide integrated access for quickly prototyping data/content integration approaches.


• Fluent Editor
  Open source ontology management tool which can work along side Protoge


• Fedora Commons
  Open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content.


• Google Culture Institute
  Build free tools and technologies for the cultural sector to showcase and share their collections with a global audience.


• HyLighter
  Text and comment analysis for determining content.


• Hypothes.is
  Annotation on top of news, scientific articles, books, terms of service, etc.


• Imatag
  Invisible watermarking.


• Islandora
  Open source software framework designed to help institutions collaboratively manage and discover their digital assets.


• iQvoc
  Vocabulary management system for the semantic web.


• Knowledge Integration: K-Int
  Targeted for GLAM, it can extract data from and synchronize data between back office systems, acts as the information broker between data, staff, and the public to disseminate, share, synchronize, and visualize content.


• Lucidea
  Integrated library system and knowledge management system.


• Metaphacts
  End to end knowledge management platform for knowledge graph management and rapid application development on top of Amazon Neptune.


• NetX
  DAMS


• OntoME
  ONtology Management Environment to build, manage, and align your ontology.


• Ontotext and GraphDB
  Organize your information and documents into enterprise knowledge graphs. GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Blog post: Crafting a Knowledge Graph


• OpenRefine
  Vocabulary reconciliation tool. As of 2019, Getty has been integrated and can now be used for reconciliation within the tool.


• Packed
  Open source metadata aggregator for GLAMs. Cultural heritage standards toolbox and knowledge platform.


• Pelagios Commons
  Recognito: TOOL that makes it easy to identify, record and export as LOD the places referred to in historical texts, maps, and tables. Peripleo: SEARCH SERVICE that allows you to find community curated content related to specific places. Pelagios Map Tiles: SET OF RESOURCES that allow you to project data onto dynamic maps dedicated to different historical periods.


• PoolParty
  Ontology management tool.


• Protoge
  Stanford open source taxonomy management tool which can work with Fluent Editor.
  Web Protoge


• Quire
  Uses markdown and plain text encoding for easy content management.


• ResearchSpace
  British Museum project that uses semantic web technology to support collaborative cultural heritage research.


• ResourceSpace
  DAMS


• Samvera
  Fedora repository software, Solr indexes, Blacklight integrate to form a complete, flexible, and extensible digital repository.


• Scalar
  Open source scholarly publishing platform.


• SEED
  Decentralized marketplace for developers of CUIs which are similar to chatbots, tools and a network for deploying front ends to AI technologies. Uses blockchain to authenticate.


• Semantic MediaWiki
  Open source extention of MediaWiki.
  Semantic MediaWiki: Help Using SPARQL and RDF stores


• Sinequa
  Search platform.


• SmartLogic: Semaphore
  Ontology management tool.


• Spinque
  Design environment for search platforms.


• Synaptica
  Ontology management tool.


• ThManager
  Open source tool for creating and visualizing SKOS RDF vocabularies.


• Thematix
  Ontology management tool.


• UK: Audience Finder data set
  Open data source or registry of audience information, research, and case studies from participating institutions across the UK.


• User Testing


• Universal Viewer
  IIIF Viewer


• VoxBench
  Web based, multilingual, collaborative platform for managing OWL ontologies, SKOS thesauri, Ontolex-lemon lexicons, and generic RDF. datasets.


• Wikibase
  Open source software that enables MediaWiki to store structured data or access data that is stored in a structured data repository.
  Wikibase Manual

Bibliography

• ARL White Paper on Wikidata
  Variety of ways for librarians and others to use the open knowledge base in advancing global discovery of their collections, faculty, and institutions.


• ASIS&T: A Linked Data Competency Framework for Educators and Learners
  Free for members.


• ASIS&T: Exploring the challenges and uses of linked open data for digitized special collections
  Free for members.


• ASIS&T: From digital library to digital archive, implementing digital preservation efforts
  Free for members.


• ASIS&T: How to design and build semantic applications with linked data
  Free for members.


• ASIS&T: Lightweight Methodology and Tools for Developing Ontology Networks
  Free for members.


• ASIS&T: Meet the author of Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners implementing PREMIS
  Free for members.


• ASIS&T: Meet the author of Library Linked Data From Proof of Concept to Action
  Free for members.


• ASIS&T: Meet the author of Taxonomy Fundamentals
  Free for members.


• ASIS&T: Spotlighting research data
  Free for members.


• ASIS&T: Understanding and testing models
  Free for members.


• Availability of Cultural Heritage Structured Metadata in the World Wide Web
  Nuno Freire, Pavel Calado, and Bruno Martins. 2019.


• Awesome IIIF
  International Image Interoperability Framework awesome list of image viewers, image servers, implementation demos, and more.


• Build APIs You Won’t Hate: Everyone and Their Dog Wants an API, so You Should Probably Learn How to Build Them
  Philip Sturgeon. 2015.


• Building a Data Hub: Microservices, APIs, and System Integration at the Art Institute of Chicago
  Illya Moskvin and nikhil trivedi at the Art Institute of Chicago. 2019.


• CIDOC Tutorial


• Classification of Things in DBpedia Using Deep Neural Networks
  Rahul Parundekar. 2018.


• Collections Management Software Criteria Checklist
  Government of Canada. 2012.


• The Collection Management System Collection
  Ashley Blewer. 2017.
  Crowd-sourced list of digital repository options


• Connecting theory and practice in digital humanities information work
  ASIS&T. 2017.


• Conway’s Law
  Melvin E. Conway. 1968.


• CostumeCore: Metadata for Historic Clothing
  Arden Kirkland, 2019.


• Curation of Digital Museum Content: Teachers Discover, Create, and Share in the Smithsonian Learning Lab
  Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, with the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. 2018.


• Culture for a Digital Age
  Julie Goran, Laura LeBarge, and Ramesh Srinivasan. 2017


• Data Lakes, Data Hubs, Federation: Which One Is Best?
  Damon Feldman. 2018.


• Data Lakes v Data Hubs
  Neil Fagan. 2017.


• Data processing and Sustainability with a large scale aggregator: The UK Archives Hub
  Jane Stevenson. 2019.


• Developing a Graphical User Interface for Generating Wikipedia Lists with Wikidata
  Jakob Warkotsch. 2018.


• Digital Is More Than a Department, It Is a Collective Responsibility
  Loic Tallon. 2017.


• Don’t Be Ransacked: Securing Your Elasticsearch Cluster Properly
  Itamar Syn-Hershko. 2017.


• Do We Still Need Collections Online?
  Adam Moriarty. 2019.


• The Drawings of Florentine Painters: From Print Catalog to Linked Open Data
  Lukas Klic, Matt Miller, Jonathan K. Nelson, Cristina Pattuelli, and Alexandra Provo. 2017.


• Florentine Renaissance Drawings: A Linked Catalog for the Semantic Web
  Lukas Klic, Jonathan K. Nelson, Cristina Pattuelli, and Alexandra Provo. 2018.


• From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation: The Conservator as an Editor
  Dusan Barok, Julia Noordegraaf, and Arjen P. de Vries. 2019.


• GLAM flavoured Semantic Web List
  Curated list of various semantic web and linked data resources for heritage, humanities, and art history practitioners.
  Nicola Carboni. 2020.


• Hic sunt dracones: Improving knowledge exchange in the Semantic Web with Linked Open and FAIR data
  Florian Thiery, Martina Tognitz, and Ethan Gruber. 2019.


• How to Facilitate Cooperation between Humanities Researchers and Cultural Heritage Institutions: Guidelines
  Georgia A., Karolina B., David B., Vera C., Joris C., Judith F-M., Klaudia G., Vaness H., Natalie H., Freja H-M., Maria I., Wojciech K., Magdalena K., Antonio Gabriel, L. G., Maciej, M. Sanita r., Natalia S., Mark S., Kamil S., Marcin W., with editors Maciej M. and Klaudio G. 2019.


• Hub and Spoke or Zen and the Art of Message Broker Maintenance
  Gregor Hohpe. 2003.


• Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web
  Juan F. Sequeda. 2017.


• An Introduction to Digital Strategies for Museums
  Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf. 2003.


• Making Digital Work: Digital Toolkit for Arts and Culture
  UK Arts Council. 2017.


• Many faces of Wikibase: Rhizome's archive of born-digital art and digital preservation
  Sandra Fauconnier. 2018.
  Research & Design: Lozana Rossenova


• MITH research
  Maryland Insitute for Technology in the Humanties projects: DocNow, Digital Dialogues, Unlocking the Airwaves, African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanties, Vintage Computers, Bill Bly Collection of Electronic Literature, and more


• Museum Metadata Survey
  Survey of 13 museums on their metadata practices. 2018.


• Museums and Digital Strategy Today Alliance Labs
  Rob Stein. 2017.


• Open a GLAM Lab
  M. Mahey, A. Al-Abdulla, S. Ames, P. Bray, G. Candela, S. Chambers, C. Derven, M. Dobreva-McPherson, K. Gasser, S. Karner, K. Kokegei, D. Laursen, A. Potter, A. Straube, S-C. Wagner, and L. Wilms with forewords by: T. A. Al-Emadi, J. Broady-Preston, P. Landry, and G. Papaioannou. 2019.


• Persistent identifiers for heritage objects
  Lukas Koster. February 2020.


• Recommendations for Open Data Portals from setup to sustainability
  Europeana Data Portal. 2017.


• Request for Proposals for a Collections Management System Toolkit
  Government of Canada. 2018.


• Sustainable and FAIR data Sharing in the Humanities: Recommendations of the ALLEA Working Group E-Humanities
  N. Harrower, M. Maryl, T. Biro, B, Immenhauser, and ALLEA Working Group E-Humanities. February 2020.


• Tate Digital Strategy 2013–15: Digital as a Dimension of Everything
  John Stack. 2013.


• Taxonomies vs. Ontologies
  Kurt Cagle. 2019.


• Using Wikidata and Metaphactory to Underpin an Integrated Flora of Canada
  J. Sachs, J. Pender, B. Lujan-Toro, J. Macklin, P. Haase, and R. Malik. 2019.


• What and Where Is Digital? Conversations between Douglas Hegley and Brad Dunn
  Douglas Hegley and Brad Dunn. 2017.


• When Graphs Collide: The Coming Merger Of Property And Semantic Graphs
  Kurt Cagle. 2019.


• Wikidata tutorial: An Introduction to Wikidata
  Beginners Guide to utilizing Wikimedia’s linked open data platform.


• Wikimedia and Libraries User Group/Resources
  Overview of Wikimedia projects and Wikidata resources.

Conferences

• ARLIS/NA Annual
  Art Libraries Society of North America


• ASIS&T annual
  Association for Information Science & Tehnology


• Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
  CAA aims to encourage communication between archaeologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists.
  CAA Oxford April 14-17, 2020: Inside Information Conference Sessions List


• CIDOC annual


• Code4Lib


• Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies


• Creative Commons Global Summit


• DCMI annual
  Dublin Core Metadata Initiative


• Digital Humanities annual


• Dream Lab at Penn
  Digital Humanities Training Institute


• Frick Symposia
  The Symposium on the History of Art


• KM World
  Knowledge Management


• LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries


• LINCS at University of Guelph: "Making Links: Connections, Culture, Context"
  Covering all aspects of linked data in the Canadian context and beyond.
  Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship


• LODLAM annunal unconference
  Linked Open Data Libraries Archives Museums


• Metadata Anonymous Series
  by PA Digital


• Metis: Annual Demystifying Data Science


• Museum Computer Network
  MCN advancing digital transformation in museums.


• Museum Next
  Sparking positive change in museums.


• MuseWeb
  Museums on the Web to support, catalyze, and undertake innovative projects that transform the buisness of culture, helping the cultural sector become more sustainable, accessible, and relevant.


• NASKO bi annual
  North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization


• NEDCC Annual
  Northeast Document Conservation Center: Digital Directions


• Schoenberg Symposium


• Semantics Conference annual


• SWIB annual
  Semantic Web in Libraries


• VRA Foundation: Regional Workshops

Resources: Companies and Knowledgable People

• David Nuñez: Twitter feed


• DAHS: Neal Stimlers Twitter thread on open source Catalogue Raisonne
  Digital Art History Society Google Group


• The Management Center
  Project management.

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