85452 - KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION AND DIGITAL METHODS IN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE DOMAIN (1) (LM)

Anno Accademico 2019/2020

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course aims to introduce the issue of organizing knowledge in archives, libraries and museums. In particular at the end of the course the students will be able to: use the standards of the domain for data description; manage the practices oriented to the enrichment of data through semantic strategies (ontologies and controlled vocabularies); create complex metadata for digital objects in the cultural heritage domain.

Contenuti

The course wants to focus on three strictly related topics:
- the study of international standards in the LAM (Libraries, Archives and Museum) domain (metadata element sets and value vocabularies);
- the reflection on the concept of KO (Knowledge Organization) and in particular on the role of ontologies as conceptual models;
- the analysis of semantic (digital) activities in LAM througt KO methods.

In detail the course will give to students the skills for creating, managing, disseminating and preserving LOD (Linked Open Data) in the LAM domain.

The activities of the three international umbrella organization in LAM that will be discussed are:

• for Library: IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, <https://www.ifla.org/>
• for Archives: ICA - International Council on Archives, <http://www.ica.org/en>
• for Museums: ICOM - The International Council of Museums, <http://icom.museum/>

Some case studies will guide the lessons. In detail:

• Europeana as an aggreagator in the LOD domain (http://labs.europeana.eu/) and a conceptual model (Europeana Data Model, EDM - http://pro.europeana.eu/page/edm-documentation)
• British Museum as a case of excellence (http://collection.britishmuseum.org/) and the British Library with the British National Bibliography (http://bnb.data.bl.uk/)
• The Reload project for the archival domain (http://labs.regesta.com/progettoReload/en/)
• The Zeri Photo Archive (http://data.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/) as a guideline for modeling, cleaning, reconciling, enriching and publishing LOD in the cultural heritage domain.

Testi/Bibliografia

A first list of useful resources:

• Diane M. Zorich, Gunter Waibel, Ricky Erway. Beyond the Silos of the LAMs: Collaboration among libraries, archives and museums. Dublin, OH: OCLC Programs and Research, 2008. <http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2008/2008-05.pdf>
• Jon Voss. Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web, 2012.
  <http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/papers/radically_open_cultural_heritage_data_on_the_w>
• Birger Hjørland. Knowledge organization (KO), 2016.
  <http://www.isko.org/cyclo/knowledge_organization>
• Ciro Mattia Gonano, Francesca Mambelli, Silvio Peroni, Francesca Tomasi and Fabio Vitali. Zeri e LODE: Extracting the Zeri photo archive to linked open data: formalizing the conceptual model. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014). IEEE: Washington, 2008, 289–298. DOI: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970182>
• Marilena Daquino, Francesca Mambelli, Silvio Peroni, Francesca Tomasi, Fabio Vitali. Enhancing semantic expressivity in the cultural heritage domain: exposing the Zeri Photo Archive as Linked Open Data, 2017. <https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01188>

JOURNALS

• Journal of Information Science, <http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jis>
• Knowledge Organization, <http://www.isko.org/ko.html>
• Library and Information Science Research,
  <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07408188>

WEB REFERENCES

• Jenn Riley, Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe, copy 2009-10 <http://jennriley.com/metadatamap/>
• GLAM <https://openglam.org/>
• LODLAM <http://lodlam.net/>
• Linking Open Data cloud diagram <http://lod-cloud.net/>
• Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) <http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/>
• DataHub <https://datahub.io/dataset>
• W3C Incubator Group Report, Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Datasets, Value Vocabularies, and Metadata Element Sets. 25 October 2011, <https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-vocabdataset-20111025/>.

Metodi didattici

The course is composed of classroom lessons, exercises in the laboratory, and the designing of a team project.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The final examination consists of:

• the discussion of a LODLAM resource, by analyzing all the theoretical, methodological and technological features and implications;
• the presentation of an original project related to KO, LOD and GLAM.

Students are asked to organise themself in groups for designing the project. The personal contribution of each member of a group will be assessed during the oral colloquium, when the project will be presented.

The final evaluation of the student is based on the scores gained for each of the aforementioned points. In particular:

• excellent evaluation: reaching an in-depth view of all the course topics by discussing the LODLAM resource with a strong awareness and developing a project following all the principles and guidelines provided to the student during the lectures;
• sufficient evaluation: reaching a partial view of the course topics demonstated with the discussion of the LODLAM resource and providing a minor contribution to the development of the project;
• insufficient evaluation: either not reaching even partial view on the course topics and presenting a resource largely discussed during the course or not providing any contribution to the project.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Classes are held in a classroom equipped with personal computers connected to the Intranet and Internet.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Francesca Tomasi