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92981 - Knowledge Organization and Cultural Heritage (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2021/2022

                
                        Docente:
                        Francesca Tomasi
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        M-STO/08
                    
                        Language:
                        English
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge (cod. 9224)

                                Also valid for
                                
                                    Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                                    
                                        History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)
                                    
                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

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.

Course contents

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 aggregator in the LOD domain and a conceptual model Europeana Data Model <https://pro.europeana.eu/page/edm-documentation>;
British Library with the British National Bibliography <http://bnb.data.bl.uk/>;
The Reload project <http://labs.regesta.com/progettoReload/en/> for the archival domain;
The Zeri & LODE project <http://data.fondazionezeri.unibo.it/> as a guideline for modelling, cleaning, reconciling, enriching and publishing LOD in the cultural heritage domain (photo archives).

Readings/Bibliography

A list of resources:

A BOOK. Tom Heath and Christian Bizer (2011) Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (1st edition). Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, 1:1, 1-136. Morgan & Claypool. <http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/>;
A GUIDELINE. LiAM. Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook (version 0.99). <http://infomotions.com/sandbox/liam/tmp/guidebook.pdf>;
A PAPER ON KO. Birger Hjørland. Knowledge organization (KO), 2016.
<http://www.isko.org/cyclo/knowledge_organization>;
A PROJECT on LODLAM. 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>.

USEFUL WEB REFERENCES

Jenn Riley, Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe, copy 2009-10 <http://jennriley.com/metadatamap/>;
W3C, Linked data <https://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data>;
ICCD <http://dati.beniculturali.it/descrizione_dataset/>;
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/>.

Teaching methods

The course is composed of traditional lectures and practical exercises.

Some experts will be involved for reflecting on LODLAM.

Assessment methods

The final examination consists in the presentation of an original project related to KO, LOD and GLAM.

The project will be based on specific guidelines that will be presented and discussed during the course.

Some examples of previous projects could be browsed here: <https://projects.dharc.unibo.it/dhdkey/projects> (filter: Knowledge organization course).

Students are asked to organise themselves 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.

Teaching tools

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

Office hours

See the website of Francesca Tomasi