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10:45am EDT

Lightning Talks 4

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT

Morning session with five short talks + questions and answers. Please click on the links to the fuller descriptions of each talk for more details.

10:45AM-10:55AM: Shape Expressions for Rhizome's ArtBase
MSLIS Candidate at Pratt Institute | Preservation Intern at Rhizome

10:55AM-11:05AM: Toward Interconnected Object Histories: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Provenance Linked Open Data
Lynn Rother, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Fabio Mariani, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Max Koss, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

11:05AM-11:15AM: Conoshing the Connoisseurs: A Joint Bibliography of Bernard and Mary Berenson
Alexandra Alisa Provo, Research Curation Librarian, and Research Fellow, Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute, New York University

11:15AM-11:25AM: Building a database on colonial Mexican painters: reflections on LOD and digital scarcity
Maria Laura Flores Barba, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies, Western University, Department of Languages and Cultures

11:25AM-11:35AM: Building a Framework for Diverse Ecologies: Transforming Research Data into Linked Open Data
Bárbara Romero Ferrón, Data Consultant, Digital Humanities Specialist, Utrecht University Library
Lena Thöle, Universiteit Utrecht

11:35AM-12:00PM: Questions and discussion

Speakers

Maria Laura Flores Barba

PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies, Western University, Department of Languages and Cultures

I'm an art historian wrapping up my PhD in Hispanic Studies at Western University (Ontario, Canada). My thesis project is the design of a database about painters in Colonial Mexico, which can produce data for social network analysis. Most recently, I have been working with a multidisciplinary... Read More →

Alexandra Alisa Provo

Research Curation Librarian, and Research Fellow, Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute, New York University

Bárbara Romero Ferrón

Data Consultant, Digital Humanities Specialist, Utrecht University Library

Lena Thöle

Universiteit Utrecht

Lynn Rother

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Xavi Danto

MSLIS Candidate at Pratt Institute | Preservation Intern at Rhizome

Fabio Mariani

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Max Koss

Research Associate, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
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10:46am EDT

Shape Expressions for Rhizome's ArtBase

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:46am - 10:55am EDT

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This lightning talk will feature a brief introduction to Shape Expressions (ShEx) and its significance for Linked Open Data (LOD), using the development of ShEx for Rhizome’s Wikibase (ArtBase) as a case study. ShEx is a schema language used to validate RDF data, ensuring it conforms to specific user-defined rules. Although the usage and development of ShEx is relatively new, the ability to validate data is increasingly vital to this institution and others using Wikibase, where datasets must adhere to consistent standards for interoperability. In this instance, the significance and potentiality of Rhizome's ShEx schemas stretches beyond interoperability and data accuracy, with the additional goal to provide a more supportive user interface for internal, institutional usage. Likewise, this session will focus on leveraging resources from shex.io and community contributions while discussing the current state of validation tools accessible to Wikibase instances.

Speakers

Xavi Danto

MSLIS Candidate at Pratt Institute | Preservation Intern at Rhizome

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:46am - 10:55am EDT
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10:55am EDT

Toward Interconnected Object Histories: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Provenance Linked Open Data

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:55am - 11:05am EDT

Zoom

The provenance of an artwork documents its ownership and socio-economic custody changes. Provenance records usually contain information on auction houses, collectors, dealers, galleries, and other art market participants, which is often relevant to the history of several artworks in different museum collections (Rother, Koss, Mariani 2022). With the extensive production of increasingly detailed provenance texts in museums in recent decades, creating provenance linked open data (PLOD) thus offers new avenues for collaborative research within and across institutions. PLOD makes it possible to break down the data silos in which provenance data is stored in most museums. It elevates provenance from a difficult-to-access specialist resource to a widely available and contributable resource for historical research of different kinds.
The creation of PLOD in museums necessitates the transformation of large quantities of unstructured textual information to become fully machine-readable. By addressing natural language processing challenges, AI can assist with the laborious and resource-intensive work of structuring provenance data (Rother, Mariani, Koss 2024). However, the research and documentation complexities of provenance records require human intervention. This lightning talk showcases the application of artificial intelligence combined with a human-in-the-loop approach to create and unlock the potential of provenance linked open data.

Speakers

Lynn Rother

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Fabio Mariani

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Max Koss

Research Associate, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:55am - 11:05am EDT
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11:05am EDT

Conoshing the Connoisseurs: A Joint Bibliography of Bernard and Mary Berenson

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:05am - 11:15am EDT

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This lightning talk will give an overview of a joint bibliography, implemented in Wikidata, of the early published writings of art historians Bernard and Mary Berenson. The Berensons were key figures in art criticism and the art market in the last decade of the 19th century and in the early 20th century. The rationale for this joint bibliography project is to address the collaborative nature of Bernard and Mary Bereson’s scholarship, bring more visibility to Mary, and engage in feminist art historiography and the broadening of focus from attributional art criticism to “cultures” of connoisseurship.

This talk will focus on the process of the project, which may be applicable to others embarking on similar projects as digital humanities researchers or on behalf of cultural heritage institutions seeking to donate their metadata to public platforms like Wikidata. One major topic of the presentation will be data modeling, particularly the granularity of the metadata available in shared library catalogs versus the needs of a scholar-specific bibliography. The presentation will suggest ways Wikidata can be used as a bridge to connect institutional metadata with metadata generated by scholarly research. Other topics covered will include data preparation workflows and tools, preliminary visualizations, and reflections on how communities of practice have facilitated work on this project.

Speakers

Alexandra Alisa Provo

Research Curation Librarian, and Research Fellow, Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute, New York University

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:05am - 11:15am EDT
Zoom

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11:15am EDT

Building a database on colonial Mexican painters: reflections on LOD and digital scarcity

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:15am - 11:25am EDT

Zoom

At the beginning of my PhD journey about colonial Mexican painters, I had research questions that I couldn't answer using available digital collections or datasets. Moreso, the available linked data that I was able to access did not cover the actors, places, and temporality I wanted to study. This scarcity constrained me to create my own datasets and focus on a methodological problem instead: the creation of a database using printed sources. In ths presentation, I will explain how I created this database and datasets, but I will also reflect on the digital scarcity of sources in Spanish and about historical actors from the peripheries.

Speakers

Maria Laura Flores Barba

PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies, Western University, Department of Languages and Cultures

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:15am - 11:25am EDT
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11:25am EDT

Building a Framework for Diverse Ecologies: Transforming Research Data into Linked Open Data

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:25am - 11:35am EDT

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In this lightning talk, we will share part of our project focused on transforming research data into LOD and developing a reproducible framework for LOD projects. The Utrecht University Library securely stores and archives hundreds of thousands of datasets from various research projects, which, according to university policy, must be preserved for at least ten to fifteen years.
A key objective of our project is to make this vast collection of data both accessible and interconnected as linked data while also creating a framework that can be replicated in future LOD projects involving research data. Given the diverse landscape of data types, models, and academic fields, we designed a project where each faculty formed a small subgroup of graduate students, researchers, and other interested parties. These subgroups are tasked with gathering information, researching data models and ontologies, and developing small projects to link pre-existing data.
However, reaching this significant goal requires including a series of workshops and sessions in the framework, aimed not only at raising awareness but also at guiding researchers through the data process. These sessions cover topics such as data models, ontologies, and linked data.

Speakers

Bárbara Romero Ferrón

Data Consultant, Digital Humanities Specialist, Utrecht University Library

Lena Thöle

Universiteit Utrecht

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:25am - 11:35am EDT
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LD4 2024 Conference