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Hack.GLAM.Opendata.ch\r\n\r\n# Recordings\r\n\r\n[](https://youtube.com/live/Xwv8qflwVU8?feature=share)\r\n\r\n- Friday: [\u23ef\ufe0f Introduction](https://youtube.com/live/r-6z5s8zNfA?feature=share)\r\n- Friday: [\u23ef\ufe0f Challenge pitches](https://youtube.com/live/cG_hSP2_aSM?feature=share) \r\n- Saturday: [\u23ef\ufe0f Final presentations](https://youtube.com/live/Xwv8qflwVU8?feature=share)\r\n\r\n","ends_at":"2023-09-30T15:30","gallery_url":"https://opendata.ch/wordpress/files/2023/02/034815_kleiner-1024x488.jpg","has_finished":true,"has_started":false,"hashtags":"#glamhack23","hostname":"Mus\u00e9e d\u2019ethnographie de Gen\u00e8ve","id":10,"instruction":"- [\ud83c\udfb4 Intro presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRVgeCO_IOAjKUPfUPvSLTzfKppKuvH_h40KDLUwtySPgdPHo7XzNWrZ7FAnhfN8A/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000) (Google Slides)\r\n- [\ud83c\udf38 Outro and projects](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRLpqVigM0wQkDsNP6NFc7uQ-fE1BJVUC-vBzX0OfxjauZVL_H_HKohkWd1lAZb8w/pub) (Google Slides)","location":"Geneva","location_lat":46.19764,"location_lon":6.13707,"logo_url":"https://opendata.ch/wordpress/files/2023/02/034815_kleiner-1024x488.jpg","name":"GLAMhack 2023","starts_at":"2023-09-29T09:00","summary":"Colonial collections, provenance research and the application of the FAIR and CARE principles in data governance!","webpage_url":"https://opendata.ch/events/glamhack2023/"}],"name":"events"},{"data":[{"autotext":"In this repository, created at the [GLAMhack 2023](https://opendata.ch/events/glamhack2023/) event in Geneva, we are creating a digital interactive exhibition installation on slavery for the online platform of the exhibition \u2018Memories'.\r\n\r\n# Results\r\n\r\n- [Web site prototype](https://colonialgeneva.ch/threads2/)\r\n- [GLAMhack 2023 project page](https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/201)\r\n- [Sketch made with \ud83c\udff4\u200d\u2620\ufe0f code](https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2026003) (`sketch.js` in this repo) - [Preview](https://glamhack23.colonialgeneva.ch/threads/)\r\n- [Sketch made with \ud83e\udd16 GPT](https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2026567) (`GPT_p5.js`) - [Preview](https://glamhack23.colonialgeneva.ch/threads/index-gpt.html)\r\n- [Penpot user interface mockup](https://design.penpot.app/#/view/1c096c09-a10e-80c0-8003-33a9f0727eb9?page-id=1c096c09-a10e-80c0-8003-33a9f0727eba§ion=interactions&index=0&share-id=1c096c09-a10e-80c0-8003-349ca531e470) (`mockup` folder)\r\n- [Online form for data collection](https://glamhack23.colonialgeneva.ch/formtools/modules/form_builder/published/threadsform.php)\r\n\r\nWe built this project using the open source [P5.js](https://p5js.org/), with [OpenProcessing](https://openprocessing.org) and [OpenAI](https://chat.openai.com/) to accelerate the process. \r\n\r\nOur inspirations included:\r\n\r\n- [Force-directed D3 graph](https://observablehq.com/@d3/disjoint-force-directed-graph/2?intent=fork) - thanks Valerio!\r\n- [Connecting-Dots](https://github.com/ThugRaven/Connecting_Dots/tree/master) by Kamil Weso\u0142owski\r\n- [To Me America Is](https://bucketeer-036aa605-c047-4623-8610-f1764b90cf98.s3.amazonaws.com/glamhack/11558/4L01LZC4G41VN0UK8B3I354P/Image2.jpg) on Instagram by @Lille\r\n\r\n# Merci\r\n\r\n\ud83e\uddb8 [Gr\u00e9goire](https://www.geneve.ch/fr/autorites-administration/administration-municipale/annuaire-ville-geneve/ceuninck-gregoire) et \ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83c\udfa8 [Valerio](https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/valerio.bozzolan/)","autotext_url":"https://codeberg.org/OpenGLAM-CH/threads","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"https://glamhackchworkspace.slack.com/archives/C05UC6MG62F","created_at":"2023-09-28T12:56","download_url":"","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"https://vimeo.com/874712104\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n# Challenge\r\n\r\nAs part of the MEG's upcoming temporary exhibition, 'Memories. Geneva in the Colonial World', the interpretation team and Ivonne Gonzales, has designed a physical participative installation on the topic of slavery. The installation\u2019s aim is to encourage the visitors to move beyond a solely intellectual (and thus distant) understanding of the transatlantic trade and its devasting consequences. Instead, the installation will ask the public to po...","hashtag":"14","id":201,"ident":"","image_url":"https://bucketeer-036aa605-c047-4623-8610-f1764b90cf98.s3.amazonaws.com/glamhack/11558/1KLW3DLLBRZC8HUINGQTVBN4/kalonji_m\u00e9diation.jpg","is_challenge":false,"is_webembed":true,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"https://vimeo.com/874712104\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n# Challenge\r\n\r\nAs part of the MEG's upcoming temporary exhibition, 'Memories. Geneva in the Colonial World', the interpretation team and Ivonne Gonzales, has designed a physical participative installation on the topic of slavery. The installation\u2019s aim is to encourage the visitors to move beyond a solely intellectual (and thus distant) understanding of the transatlantic trade and its devasting consequences. Instead, the installation will ask the public to position themselves emotionally and intellectually vis-\u00e0-vis this tragic chapter of our common history.\r\n\r\nWe now need your help to carry out its digital creation.\r\n\r\nYou're also more then welcome to contribute with feedback on the physical installation!\r\n\r\nCONTEXT:\r\n\r\nThe physical hands-on interactive installation will be situated in the physical exhibition\u2019s section on the transatlantic trade and Geneva\u2019s links to it, next to a mural designed by Kalonji (Genevan artist) which emphasises the fact that slavery is a chapter of our common history.A digital platform is being developed along the exhibition, which will mirror the exhibition. It is important for us that the analogue hands-on installation on slavery has a digital pendant. That would enable us to collect data on how the audiences relate to and position themselves regarding this history. It will also enable those who don\u2019t have access to the physical exhibition to participate.\r\n\r\nEXPLAINATIONS\r\n\r\nThe physical version of the installation will work as follow:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nVisitors will have to pick a pre-cut thread from five boxes. Each box contains threads of a specific colour and corresponds to one of the following affirmations:\r\nMy ancestors were enslaved\r\nMy ancestors participated or benefited directly or indirectly from slavery\r\nI am not directly concerned by slavery\r\nMy country benefited directly or indirectly from slavery\r\nI don't know what my links to slavery are\r\n\r\nThen, the visitor faces an oval mural on which 15 words are written. In very close proximity (immediately above or under or next to) each word there\u2019s a nail.\r\nThe visitor is invited to tie their thread around the different nails that correspond to the words or word they most identify with.\r\nThe words are as follow:\r\n\r\n1. Ignorance\r\n2. Anger\r\n3. Hatred / Rage\r\n4. Impotence\r\n5. Disgust\r\n6. Humiliation\r\n7. Shame\r\n8. Suffering\r\n9. Courage\r\n10. Empathy\r\n11. Indifference\r\n12. Discomfort\r\n13. To know more\r\n14. Solidarity\r\n15. Need for reparation\r\n\r\nOPTIONS: Justice / Activism\r\n\r\nThe idea is therefore that each person creates a \u2018path of resonance\u2019 on the tapestry that maps the collective relationship \u2018we\u2019 have with the transatlantic slave trade.\r\n\r\nA few things to keep in mind:\r\n\r\nThe tapestry must remain oval-shaped.\r\nAs data/paths accumulate, it is important that the categories remain visible/readable.\r\nThe categories may change and evolve - so the digital installation must be easy for the museum team to update!\r\n\r\nINSPIRATION\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTECH PLAN\r\n\r\n ","maintainer":"EmilieThvenoz","name":"A thread to position myself","phase":"Sketching","progress":20,"score":61,"source_url":"https://codeberg.org/OpenGLAM-CH/threads","stats":{"commits":9,"during":30,"people":5,"sizepitch":3459,"sizetotal":5490,"total":38,"updates":31},"summary":"Help create a digital interactive exhibition installation on slavery for the online platform of the exhibition \u2018Memories'","team":"EmilieThvenoz, loleg, Giuachin, erica_brztg, Iris_Terradura","team_count":5,"updated_at":"2024-05-02T23:57","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/201","webpage_url":"https://opendata.utou.ch/threads/"},{"autotext":"# Challenge\r\n\r\n**Identifying colonial traces in early modern travelogues**\r\n\r\n## Description\r\n\r\nZentralbibliothek Z\u00fcrich provides a [text corpus of printed travelogues](https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/gedruckte-reiseberichte-des-16-bis-19-jh) from the 16th to 19th century. Can you identify and extract colonial traces in these French and German texts? For instance, you could try describe the gaze on the \"other\" by tracking down mentions of geographic regions, different languages, certain ethnicities or one of the following semantic fields with NLP methods:\r\n\r\n- the concept of the \"noble savage\"\r\n- slavery\r\n- representation of dominance\r\n- hierarchies and structures of control \r\n\r\nFor instance, the last field could be looked at from an economic, military, cultural or political perspective. Starting from a military perspective, word clusters like \"Truppe \u2013 Fortifikation \u2013 Kriegszug - verfolgt \u2013 Beute \u2013 Treueeid \u2013 schw\u00f6ren \u2013 Vasall \u2013 kniend - Tribut\" could be interesting to search for inside the German texts.","autotext_url":"https://github.com/annalauraw/colonial-traces-in-travelogues","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"https://glamhackchworkspace.slack.com/archives/C05UC55KTGT","created_at":"2023-09-22T07:15","download_url":"https://github.com/annalauraw/glamhack23_challege_travelogues/releases","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"## Challenge\r\n\r\nZentralbibliothek Z\u00fcrich provides a [text corpus of printed travelogues](https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/gedruckte-reiseberichte-des-16-bis-19-jh) from the 16th to 19th century. Can you identify and extract colonial traces in these French and German texts? For instance, you could try describe the gaze on the \"other\" by tracking down mentions of geographic regions, different languages, certain ethnicities or one of the following semantic fields with NLP methods:\r\n\r\n* the concept...","hashtag":"05","id":191,"ident":"","image_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44520920?v=4","is_challenge":false,"is_webembed":true,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"## Challenge\r\n\r\nZentralbibliothek Z\u00fcrich provides a [text corpus of printed travelogues](https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/gedruckte-reiseberichte-des-16-bis-19-jh) from the 16th to 19th century. Can you identify and extract colonial traces in these French and German texts? For instance, you could try describe the gaze on the \"other\" by tracking down mentions of geographic regions, different languages, certain ethnicities or one of the following semantic fields with NLP methods:\r\n\r\n* the concept of the \"noble savage\"\r\n* slavery\r\n* representation of dominance\r\n* hierarchies and structures of control\r\n\r\nFor instance, the last field could be looked at from an economic, military, cultural or political perspective. Starting from a military perspective, word clusters like \"Truppe \u2013 Fortifikation \u2013 Kriegszug - verfolgt \u2013 Beute \u2013 Treueeid \u2013 schw\u00f6ren \u2013 Vasall \u2013 kniend - Tribut\" could be interesting to search for inside the German texts.\r\n\r\nChallenge: Accessibility of Cultural Events
The Opendata.ch association, in cooperation with several event data platform providers, is in the process of setting up a new working group on Open Event Data. One of the principles of the proposed Open Event Data Manifesto\u00a0addressed at event producers and organizers as well as intermediaries providing data-related services reads as follows:
Promote the accessibility of your events by making accessibility-related information about the venues and the events themselves available in a standard format.
This greatly facilitates the orientation for people with special needs (physical, cognitive, mental health related, etc.) and allows them to more widely participate in social activities, thus contributing to a more inclusive society.
We suggest taking this as a starting point to reflect on different approaches to improve the information about the accessibility and inclusiveness of cultural events in Switzerland. Eventually, the goal will be to develop best practices and a roadmap for standardization and technical implementation that facilitate the dissemination of accessibility-related information pertaining to events.
Some initial ideas what could be worked on:
Author of the challenge:
Visualizing Collections & Enabling Collaborations
Zurich Ethnographic Museum
This challenge is based on a very practical real-life problem: we want to develop collaborative provenance research projects with concerned communities - but the collections at the Ethnographic Museum in Zurich are currently not accessible online
This means external partners both here in Switzerland and abroad are unable to look up what is currently held in the museum. To find out about the collection they have to email a member of staff.
Sharing data - sharing stories: provenance research as a broker for new collaborative endeavors. Visit of delegation from Nigeria to the Zurich Ethnographic Museum
The museum is currently addressing this and has decided to make its database accessible online. \u00a0But it is early days, and this will most probably require us shifting to a new collection management software and will take time and resources.
In the meantime, having recently joined the institution as the museum\u2019s provenance researcher, I would like to have a quick and creative solution that communicates to the general public where our collections come from and during which period they arrived in the museum.
Engaging the general public in provenance research
Photo Caroline Krajcir
This prototype does not need to communicate all of the information that one would normally find in a museum database but should provide a basic overview, ideally in the form of a visualization, or mapping so that external partners get a good sense of what is in the collection.
The intention is that making this data available in a user-friendly format could foster further collaborations between concerned communities and the museum. This would fill an important gap whilst the collection is still off-line. \u00a0
Inspiration: Cartography of Heritage from Cameroun in Europe -
Source Atlas der Abwesenheit Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland - 2023\u00a0
Difficulties: Whilst the geographical regions have pre-defined country and area codes, the provenance data when available is in an open text schema. Actors names from acquisitions over the last 30 years would need to be protected.
Outlook:\u00a0Such a prototype could be the start of a collaboration with hackathon participants, which based on available resources could be further developed together. It could even be that the prototype inspires us to adopt certain principles and creative solutions as we work on putting the full database online.
We hope you are willing to jump on board and with your tools and skills set help us develop a solution to this challenge!
Inspirations:
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Atlas der Abwesenheit \u2013 Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland
Mapping Philippine Material Culture
Africa Art Archive\u00a0
Past GlamHack projects
The spatial evolvement of a Museums\u2019 collection - GLAMhack 2021 (opendata.ch)
Data:
Data storage: Data will be available as an excel file on the UZH Switch Drive \u2013 available through a password protected link.
Data fields: The data fields would be the object name, inventory number, continent, region and country, and then the date of entry and provenance actors. \u00a0
Karteikarte: Name Objekt, Inventar-Nr, Kontinent, Weltregion, Land, Geographische Region. History: Eingangsdatum, Von, Sammler, Provenienz
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Most of these letters have been digitized. By linking the objects to the corresponding letters, the information about the provenance of the objects could be improved.\r\n\r\n# Datasets\r\n\r\n* [Metadata of Mus\u00e9e d'Ethnographie de Gen\u00e8ve (MEG) collections](https://opendata.swiss/dataset/metadata-meg-collections)\r\n* [Index g\u00e9n\u00e9ral ...","hashtag":"08","id":188,"ident":"","image_url":"https://bucketeer-036aa605-c047-4623-8610-f1764b90cf98.s3.amazonaws.com/glamhack/11532/32KQ1L0LCDVB82RPR315YXO5/Capture.JPG","is_challenge":false,"is_webembed":true,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"https://vimeo.com/873253026\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nIn the archives of the City of Geneva, there are a lot of letters from the MEG or to the MEG which include information about MEG Objects. Most of these letters have been digitized. By linking the objects to the corresponding letters, the information about the provenance of the objects could be improved.\r\n\r\n# Datasets\r\n\r\n* [Metadata of Mus\u00e9e d'Ethnographie de Gen\u00e8ve (MEG) collections](https://opendata.swiss/dataset/metadata-meg-collections)\r\n* [Index g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la correspondance du Mus\u00e9e d'Ethnographie (1900-1952)](https://opendata.swiss/dataset/index-general-de-la-correspondance-du-musee-d-ethnographie-1900-1952). The letters themselves will be available during the hackathon, but they are not openly licensed\r\n\r\n# Idea on How to proceed\r\n\r\nFor this object [https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=040434](https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=040434)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThere is a mention of J. Debarge in the field \"Collection particuli\u00e8re\".\r\n\r\nIn the index of letters, there are a couple of letters from Josette Debarge originating from Cameroun in \\~1931\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHere is a letter about this object.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBut the letter is sent to Mos\u00e9 Y\u00e9yap which is mentioned in the old inventory [https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/musimages/registres/Registres_tapuscrits/40434.pdf](https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/musimages/registres/Registres_tapuscrits/40434.pdf)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n# Challenges\r\n\r\n* The names are not written in the same way (see above : J. Debarge in the MEG Metadata and DEBARGE, Josette, Dr in the index of the letters\r\n* There are a lot of letters, so it is not easy to guess which one has relevant information (maybe the date of the letter and the date of the entry of the object in the collection could help)\r\n\r\n# Possible Outputs\r\n\r\n* A small website which could display the objects and the relevant letters (and link them). Maybe with some additional information about the persons who wrote the letters\r\n* A data table with the possible links\r\n* An extraction of the letters which have information about objects\r\n* ...","maintainer":"liowalter","name":"Link MEG Letters and Objects","phase":"Research","progress":10,"score":31,"source_url":"","stats":{"commits":0,"during":6,"people":5,"sizepitch":3018,"sizetotal":3098,"total":19,"updates":13},"summary":"Link MEG Objects and the corresponding letters to improve provenance information","team":"liowalter, floriane_morin, EmmaRoberjot, marina_berazategui, dsievi, thomas_kerboul","team_count":5,"updated_at":"2024-05-03T00:06","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/188","webpage_url":"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRLpqVigM0wQkDsNP6NFc7uQ-fE1BJVUC-vBzX0OfxjauZVL_H_HKohkWd1lAZb8w/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.g2862d187a34_0_2"},{"autotext":"","autotext_url":"","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"https://glamhackchworkspace.slack.com/archives/C05UC5VMRQT","created_at":"2023-07-20T06:48","download_url":"","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"The first inventories of the collection of MEG are old handwritten inventory books. These books contain some very important information regarding the objects and their provenance. Not only do they inform about the date at which the object was collected or about the name of the person who collected it. They also provide sometimes some very useful contextualizing information about the biography of the object. Plus, they show how the objects were used by European institutions to produce colonial kn...","hashtag":"10","id":181,"ident":"","image_url":"https://bucketeer-036aa605-c047-4623-8610-f1764b90cf98.s3.amazonaws.com/glamhack/11532/BXPXJQBWSZRSBDXOBI0WPBC0/Inventorybook_11_pp_12.JPG","is_challenge":false,"is_webembed":true,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"The first inventories of the collection of MEG are old handwritten inventory books. These books contain some very important information regarding the objects and their provenance. Not only do they inform about the date at which the object was collected or about the name of the person who collected it. They also provide sometimes some very useful contextualizing information about the biography of the object. Plus, they show how the objects were used by European institutions to produce colonial knowledge on colonized people and their material heritage.\r\n\r\nThe information provided by these documents hasn\u2019t always been transferred to the digital database. Thus, curators and researchers spend a lot of time searching the old inventories to potentially find some more information on the objects they\u2019re working on. Such a program would be really helpful for all (provenance) research to be done in the future on the MEG objects.\r\n\r\n## Traces of colonial knowledge production\r\n\r\nThe City of Geneva's ethnography collection was brought together in 1901 in a single exhibition site, which became the Mus\u00e9e d'ethnographie. The collection is made up of several collections from different public and private museums, including the Mus\u00e9e des missions and the Mus\u00e9e arch\u00e9ologique. These collections are described in original handwritten inventories, with specific numbering. When the Mus\u00e9e d'ethnographie was created, a new inventory grouping together the various collections was handwritten until 1973. Between 1973 and 1993, the continuation of this register was typed. At the same time, to facilitate consultation and protect the handwritten registers, the entire MEG inventory register (1901-1971) was also typed. The paper registers were subsequently replaced by computerised systems.\r\n\r\nExample:\r\n\r\nThe inventory entry of the object [ETHAF 034815, Victory at the Battle of Adwa (1896)](http://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=034815) is linked with two inventory book (see bottom of the inventory page).\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe first inventory [Copie dactylographi\u00e9e en 13 volumes de l'Inventaire original MEG manuscrit](http://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/musimages/registres/Registres_inventaire_dactylographie/3399.pdf) (which is a typed copy of the other one) was digitized with an OCR system. So, in this case, it was possible to link the exact page of the inventory related to this object.\r\n\r\nWhen you click on the link, you access the corresponding inventory entry:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe handwritten inventories however wasn't yet digitized with an OCR system. Thus, the link leads [to the whole handwritten inventory book](http://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/doc/Registre_17_034278_035177.pdf).\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nInstead of leading to the whole inventory book, we'd like the link to lead to the corresponding page of the inventory:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe idea of this challenge would thus be\r\n\r\n* to create a program to read and transcribe the handwritten MEG inventories\r\n* to link the page containing an inventory entry with the corresponding object page in the museum database.\r\n\r\nOne problem case to be faced during the challenge: The inventory sheet of the number 025988 extends overs five pages of the register. (See inventory book number 11, page 12.\r\n","maintainer":"marina_berazategui","name":"OCR and linking of MEG inventories","phase":"Research","progress":10,"score":31,"source_url":"","stats":{"commits":0,"during":3,"people":7,"sizepitch":3925,"sizetotal":4045,"total":19,"updates":11},"summary":"Create a program to read and transcribe the handwritten MEG inventories and link the corresponding pages to the database","team":"marina_berazategui, floriane_morin, Gregoire_de_Ceuninck, liowalter, timtom, speytrignet, Hugo","team_count":7,"updated_at":"2024-08-12T07:54","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/181","webpage_url":"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRLpqVigM0wQkDsNP6NFc7uQ-fE1BJVUC-vBzX0OfxjauZVL_H_HKohkWd1lAZb8w/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.g2862d187a34_4_1"},{"autotext":"","autotext_url":"","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"https://glamhackchworkspace.slack.com/archives/C05UQRXD5FT","created_at":"2023-07-19T16:09","download_url":"","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"https://vimeo.com/872600339\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n# Challenge\r\n\r\nDATASETS:\r\nDatabase derived from the report \u201cTemps, espaces et histoires; Monuments et h\u00e9ritage raciste et colonial dans l\u2019espace public genevois : \u00e9tat des lieux historique\u201d by Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamedou et Davide Rodogno\r\n\r\nEXPLICATION: The idea is to create an application to visualize the \"Time, Space, History\" report in map form in order to make its content accessible to a wider audience. The aim of this project is to enable the residents o...","hashtag":"01","id":180,"ident":"","image_url":"https://bucketeer-036aa605-c047-4623-8610-f1764b90cf98.s3.amazonaws.com/glamhack/11532/55J9QCZFAT9ICBPRWXFMUI0Q/Capture.JPG","is_challenge":false,"is_webembed":true,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"https://vimeo.com/872600339\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n# Challenge\r\n\r\nDATASETS:\r\nDatabase derived from the report \u201cTemps, espaces et histoires; Monuments et h\u00e9ritage raciste et colonial dans l\u2019espace public genevois : \u00e9tat des lieux historique\u201d by Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamedou et Davide Rodogno\r\n\r\nEXPLICATION: The idea is to create an application to visualize the \"Time, Space, History\" report in map form in order to make its content accessible to a wider audience. The aim of this project is to enable the residents of Geneva to re-consider the city's urban space from the perspective of its colonial and racist heritage. This application is an essential tool for making the data in the report accessible to people who are unfamiliar with this theme in urban space.\r\n\r\nThe challenge is to make the data attractive and arouse the public's curiosity and desire to consult it. Visuals, illustrations and user-friendliness are central to the success of this application.\r\n\r\nEach monument or street mentioned in the report would be represented by a dot on the map of Geneva. It would then be possible to zoom in on the map to discover a particular area. When you click on a monument or street name, a historical note opens with the text of the report and historical information.\r\n\r\nIn the report, the monuments are classified according to different keywords. It would be possible to reflect these categories using a colour code on the map, or to allow monuments to be 'sorted' by keyword.\r\n\r\nWe'd like to add images of the different locations to the historical notices. We could perhaps use Wikipedia/Wikimedia images for that.\r\n\r\nThis map will be shown on a touch station in the central area of the next temporary exhibition at MEG \"Remembering. Geneva in the colonial world\" (03.05.2024-01.05.2025). The map would also be accessible online on the colonialgeneva.ch digital platform (the digital version of the physical exhibition) and on the City of Geneva project website \"Monuments and racist heritage in public areas\" (www.geneve.ch/heritage-raciste)\r\n\r\nINSPIRATION:\r\nThe website \u201cbern-kolonial\u201d: https://bern-kolonial.ch/wilkommen\r\n\r\nSOURCES:\r\nMohamed Mahmoud Mohamedou et Davide Rodogno\r\nTemps, espaces et histoires\r\nMonuments et h\u00e9ritage raciste et colonial dans l\u2019espace public genevois :\r\n\u00e9tat des lieux historique\r\n\r\nCONTACT:\r\nMarina Berazategui (MEG)\r\n\r\n[Click here to access the report in pdf format](https://www.geneve.ch/sites/default/files/2022-03/monuments-heritage-raciste-colonial-espace-public-etude-2022-ville-geneve.pdf)\r\n\r\n[Click here to access the report in word format](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eAqngqAvWnVprocT6269sq79AbbBuhXf/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113831577923411545324&rtpof=true&sd=true)\r\n\r\n[Click here to access the excel database extracted from the report](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DVC6uX653xEKe2wX5WBo5dA6BJLNQ2HWlaSAGkNCSso/edit#gid=0)\r\n\r\nMonuments et h\u00e9ritage raciste dans l\u2019espace public : [www.geneve.ch/heritage-raciste](www.geneve.ch/heritage-raciste)\r\n\r\nSlack: https://glamhackchworkspace.slack.com/archives/C05UQRXD5FT","maintainer":"marina_berazategui","name":"Tracking down colonial and racist traces in Geneva","phase":"Project","progress":5,"score":30,"source_url":"","stats":{"commits":0,"during":5,"people":7,"sizepitch":3062,"sizetotal":3164,"total":27,"updates":19},"summary":"create an interactive map of Geneva to track down the racist and colonial traces in the city of Geneva","team":"marina_berazategui, liowalter, floriane_morin, Gregoire_de_Ceuninck, Bertrand_Cassegrain, Can, FlorMchainWMCH","team_count":7,"updated_at":"2024-05-02T23:59","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/180","webpage_url":"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mhfl22MhAQ6f1WnMPMIvSRMsgojYmyf3/preview"},{"autotext":"# Visualize Lucerne Portrait Gallery\r\n\r\n## Description\r\n\r\n### Gallery of remarkable people of Lucerne\r\n\r\nIn the library hall of the ZHB Lucerne you find 260 painted portraits (oil on canvas) owned by the \"Korporation Luzern\" about remarkable persons of the history of Lucerne (the so called \"merkw\u00fcrdige Luzernerinnen und Luzerner\") The portraits are digitized and open access available via ZentralGut.ch, the repository for the digital cultural heritage of Central Switzerland hosted by ZHB Lucerne. 240 portraits are already available under public domain, 21 portraits are still under copyright and only available at ZentralGut. \r\n\r\n### Biographies about the \"merkw\u00fcrdige Luzerner:innen\"\r\n\r\nAlong the portraits the library has a collection of short biographical notes about each portraited person. The so called \"Kurze Lebens-Notizen zu der Portrait-Gallerie merkw\u00fcrdiger Luzerner auf der B\u00fcrgerbibliothek in Luzern\" are digital available at ZentralGut(https://n2t.net/ark:/63274/zhb1309s) but furthermore we made a double-checked [fulltext transcript using WikiSource](https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Kurze_Lebens-Notizen_zu_der_Portrait-Gallerie_merkw%C3%BCrdiger_Luzerner_auf_der_B%C3%BCrgerbibliothek_in_Luzern) as crowdsourcing platform. These corrected biographical notes are stored also in the portraits metadata at ZentralGut and made the portraits a little bit more retrievable. \r\n\r\n### Wikidata-fication of the potrait gallery\r\n\r\nEvery portraited person has already its own Wikidata-Item. These items has different statements, according to the data already stated in wikidata or available using different sources, starting with the short biographical notes. The following [Query](https://w.wiki/7Q73) returns all biographical items, with image and URL into the Wikisource transcript of the biographical note. \r\n\r\n### Portraits uploaded to Wikimedia Commons\r\n\r\nThe 240 portraits under public domain are already uploaded to [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Portr%C3%A4tgalerie_der_merkw%C3%BCrdigen_Luzernerinnen_und_Luzerner) and linked to the wikidata item of the described person, unless there was already a satisfied image stated. The addition or exchange of images in different Wikipedias is a currently ongoing task (2023-09).\r\n\r\n## Challenges\r\n\r\nZHB Luzern provides a more or less fully \"wikified\" dataset of biographical information, a digitized biographical source, interoperable and linked biographical items and decent portaits of the so-called remarkable people from Lucerne. According to the different statements avaialble in Wikidata a lot of different queries could be build and those group of people therefore analyzed. E.g. search for relative, people became the same political position, member of the same religious order enz.\r\n\r\n* Buidling a variety of analysis (and visualisations) on the biographical informations of the portraited persons\r\n* Add more granular information about differnet people (e.g. political parties, religion, relatives) or links to external sources\r\n* Think about a (3-d) virtual visualization of the library hall and its portrait gallery.\r\n\r\n## Links\r\n\r\n* [Portrait Gallery at ZentralGut](https://zentralgut.ch/merkwuerdige_Luzerner/)\r\n* [Kurze Lebensnotizen... at ZentralGut](https://n2t.net/ark:/63274/zhb1309s) = [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurze_Lebens-Notizen_zu_der_Portrait-Gallerie_merkw%C3%BCrdiger_Luzerner_auf_der_B%C3%BCrgerbibliothek_in_Luzern.pdf) = [Wikisource](https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Kurze_Lebens-Notizen_zu_der_Portrait-Gallerie_merkw%C3%BCrdiger_Luzerner_auf_der_B%C3%BCrgerbibliothek_in_Luzern)\r\n* [Wikidata - Potr\u00e4tgalerie - Project Overview](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:ZentralGut/Portr%C3%A4tgalerie)\r\n* [Wikidata Query with images and link to Wikisource biographical note](https://w.wiki/7Q73)\r\n* [Wikimedia Commons Category:Portr\u00e4tgalerie der merkw\u00fcridgen...](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Portr%C3%A4tgalerie_der_merkw%C3%BCrdigen_Luzernerinnen_und_Luzerner)","autotext_url":"https://gitlab.com/zhbluzern/visualize_portrait_gallery","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"https://glamhackchworkspace.slack.com/archives/C05UC69BEJX","created_at":"2023-09-28T09:34","download_url":"","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"https://vimeo.com/873323770\r\n\r\nPhoto credits: [lequipe-visuelle.ch](https://lequipe-visuelle.ch/projekte/signaletik-zhb-luzern)","hashtag":"13","id":198,"ident":"","image_url":"https://bucketeer-036aa605-c047-4623-8610-f1764b90cf98.s3.amazonaws.com/glamhack/1/CYO2EE0IC775FA4RL12QJZ8E/equipevisuelleluzernemmenbrueckeagentursignaletikgrafikzhbzentralundhochschulbibliothek2021.jpg","is_challenge":false,"is_webembed":true,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"https://vimeo.com/873323770\r\n\r\nPhoto credits: [lequipe-visuelle.ch](https://lequipe-visuelle.ch/projekte/signaletik-zhb-luzern)","maintainer":"LibrErli","name":"Visualize Portrait Gallery","phase":"Project","progress":5,"score":23,"source_url":"https://gitlab.com/zhbluzern/visualize_portrait_gallery","stats":{"commits":0,"during":0,"people":0,"sizepitch":127,"sizetotal":4156,"total":4,"updates":3},"summary":"","team":"LibrErli","team_count":0,"updated_at":"2024-05-03T00:07","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/198","webpage_url":"https://visualize-portrait-gallery-zhbluzern-33d2b4c7506284a907344ee898.gitlab.io/src/index.html"},{"autotext":"","autotext_url":"","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"","created_at":"2023-09-28T20:33","download_url":"","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"https://vimeo.com/873705622\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**[Traditional Knowledge labels](https://localcontexts.org/labels/traditional-knowledge-labels/) (TK Labels)** are an initiative for Indigenous communities and local organizations that allows them to express conditions for sharing their materials and engage in research in ways that respect community rules, governance and protocols for using, sharing and circulating knowledge and data.\r\n\r\nThe set of tools for communities includes additionally **[Biocultural (...","hashtag":"18","id":202,"ident":"","image_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/WikimediaMosaicCapture.png/600px-WikimediaMosaicCapture.jpg","is_challenge":false,"is_webembed":true,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"https://vimeo.com/873705622\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\n**[Traditional Knowledge labels](https://localcontexts.org/labels/traditional-knowledge-labels/) (TK Labels)** are an initiative for Indigenous communities and local organizations that allows them to express conditions for sharing their materials and engage in research in ways that respect community rules, governance and protocols for using, sharing and circulating knowledge and data.\r\n\r\nThe set of tools for communities includes additionally **[Biocultural (BC) Labels](https://localcontexts.org/labels/biocultural-labels/)** that are used to define expectations about appropriate use of biocultural collections and data.\r\n\r\nThe **[Notices](https://localcontexts.org/notices/aboutnotices/)** are tools for institutions and researchers to identify Indigenous collections and data and recognize Indigenous rights and interests.\r\n\r\nHow can these labels be used on Wikimedia Commons? How would adding them be administered? Who can add a label? How is adding them managed in practice?\r\n\r\nCorrie Roe from Local Contexts can join the discussion on Friday at 15:00 or 16:00 CEST.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[Result presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t98D03kJQpsnKed0wYp-EkcvjZNtAIt6O7HLRJar8AY/edit?usp=sharing)","maintainer":"Susannans","name":"Add Traditional Knowledge labels to Wikimedia Commons","phase":"Project","progress":5,"score":22,"source_url":"","stats":{"commits":0,"during":4,"people":3,"sizepitch":1377,"sizetotal":1497,"total":10,"updates":5},"summary":"Can Traditional Knowledge labels be added to Wikimedia Commons? What are the challenges? Let's work with Local Contexts!","team":"Susannans, corrieroe, Sadike25","team_count":3,"updated_at":"2024-05-03T00:00","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/202","webpage_url":"https://bucketeer-036aa605-c047-4623-8610-f1764b90cf98.s3.amazonaws.com/glamhack/1/4II3DKIYV7OG0OVZIKD58TXT/Local_Contexts_on_Wikimedia_Commons.pdf"},{"autotext":"","autotext_url":"","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"","created_at":"2023-09-30T14:43","download_url":"","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"https://vimeo.com/873684702\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nProject by Sandra Becker, MEG","hashtag":"","id":205,"ident":"","image_url":"","is_challenge":false,"is_webembed":true,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"https://vimeo.com/873684702\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nProject by Sandra Becker, MEG","maintainer":"","name":"Audio2Commons","phase":"Project","progress":5,"score":8,"source_url":"","stats":{"commits":0,"during":0,"people":0,"sizepitch":67,"sizetotal":114,"total":0,"updates":0},"summary":"Decolonizing objects using audio on wiki comons","team":"","team_count":0,"updated_at":"2024-05-03T00:00","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/205","webpage_url":"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRLpqVigM0wQkDsNP6NFc7uQ-fE1BJVUC-vBzX0OfxjauZVL_H_HKohkWd1lAZb8w/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000#slide=id.g2862d187a34_2_3426"},{"autotext":"","autotext_url":"","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"https://glamhackchworkspace.slack.com/archives/C05UC59CU9H","created_at":"2023-08-22T09:43","download_url":"","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"The terminology used to designate Indigenous Peoples in museum catalogs must reflect the principle of self-determination, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In contrast to the names imposed by the colonists, ethnonyms chosen by First Peoples should be used in metadatas. For example, instead of \u201cEskimo\u201d, Inuit should be used or \u201cIroquois\u201d, Haudenosaunee. And this is the case for a lot of ethnic groups. With this challenge, we would like to improve th...","hashtag":"06","id":183,"ident":null,"image_url":"","is_challenge":true,"is_webembed":false,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"The terminology used to designate Indigenous Peoples in museum catalogs must reflect the principle of self-determination, as set out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In contrast to the names imposed by the colonists, ethnonyms chosen by First Peoples should be used in metadatas. For example, instead of \u201cEskimo\u201d, Inuit should be used or \u201cIroquois\u201d, Haudenosaunee. And this is the case for a lot of ethnic groups. With this challenge, we would like to improve this by linking the ethnic groups with other sources (especially wikidata / wikipedia).\r\n\r\nWith the participation of Docip, the Indigenous peoples\u2019 centre for documentation, research and information, the aim of this challenge is to familiarize participants with the tools available online. For example, by linking the museum catalog with wikidata, the name of the ethnic group coming from wikidata could be used. That would allow the Indigenous Peoples to define themselves what name should appear in museum online catalogs.\r\n\r\n## Sources\r\n\r\n* [Metadata of Mus\u00e9e d'Ethnographie de Gen\u00e8ve (MEG) collections](https://opendata.swiss/dataset/metadata-meg-collections)\r\n* [List of Ethnic groups used in MEG Metadata](https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_liste.php?champ=lbl_ethnie&dpt=)\r\n* [Ethnic groups of Africa on french Wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_groupes_ethniques_d'Afrique)\r\n* [Indigeneous World 2023 Publication](https://www.iwgia.org/en/resources/indigenous-world)\r\n* [Ethnic groups in wikidata](https://w.wiki/7JWg)\r\n* [Ethnographic names in GND](https://explore.gnd.network/en/search?f.entitycode=sie&f.entitycode.limit=40&rows=25)\r\n* [Ethnologue Database (non-open)](https://www.ethnologue.com/)\r\n* [Statements made by Indigenous Peoples that refer to their People name using the correct denomination](https://cendoc.docip.org/cgi-bin/library.cgi?e=p-00000-00---off-0--00-----0-10-0---0---0direct-10----4-------0-1l--10-fr-50---20-home---0--1-00-10--4----0-0-01-00-0utfZz-8-00&a=p&p=about&c=cendocdo)\r\n\r\n## Challenges\r\n\r\n* No single source of Truth for Ethnic groups\r\n* In the museum catalogs, Ethnic groups are defined in very multiple ways (different languages, different names, ...)\r\n* Ethnic groups are not often clearly defined (parent group, subgroup, ...)\r\n\r\n## Example\r\n\r\nFor example, this object\r\n\r\n[https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=050907](https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=050907)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nmentions the Iroquois ethnic group. But they prefer to be referred as Haudenosaunee. Maybe wikidata could help https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q68518 for this process ?\r\n\r\nAs another example : this object [https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=034815](https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/musinfo_public.php?id=034815)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nmentions three ethnic groups : Amhara, Oromo, Tigr\u00e9ens. They could be linked to wikidata\r\n\r\n- Amhara [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464237](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464237)\r\n- Oromo [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318674](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q318674)\r\n- Tigr\u00e9ens [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q427036](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q427036)\r\n\r\nBy linking museums \"ethnic group\" entries with wikidata, it could give an opportunity for indigeneous people to define in wikidata the label they would like.\r\n\r\n## Possible steps\r\n\r\n* check what would be good sources for ethnic groups (wikidata, others...)\r\n* compare the content of MEG Metadata with this external sources\r\n* check if it possible to link both sources\r\n* suggest improvements for MEG Metadata\r\n","maintainer":"liowalter","name":"Indigenous Peoples in museum catalogs","phase":"Challenge","progress":-100,"score":6,"source_url":"","stats":{"commits":0,"during":1,"people":7,"sizepitch":3915,"sizetotal":3915,"total":18,"updates":10},"summary":"","team":"liowalter, SaraPetrella, Stephenhart8, RmiO, timtom, floriane_morin, EmmaRoberjot","team_count":7,"updated_at":"2023-09-29T08:41","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/183","webpage_url":""},{"autotext":"","autotext_url":"","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"https://glamhackchworkspace.slack.com/archives/C05UEN9H98U","created_at":"2023-09-26T19:57","download_url":"","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"During his fieldwork in Vanuatu (1910-1912), the ethnologist Felix Speiser (1880-1949) was using different formats of notebooks to collect data. After returning to Basel, he spent years to manage this data and allocate it to museum categories. His huge collection of objects and photographs is well known as well as his publications. Browsing his notebooks, however, one can find a wild assemblage of different genres, from names of people and places, to anthropometric calculations, from cartoons to...","hashtag":"12","id":193,"ident":null,"image_url":"https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/31378328223_3.jpg","is_challenge":true,"is_webembed":true,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"During his fieldwork in Vanuatu (1910-1912), the ethnologist Felix Speiser (1880-1949) was using different formats of notebooks to collect data. After returning to Basel, he spent years to manage this data and allocate it to museum categories. His huge collection of objects and photographs is well known as well as his publications. Browsing his notebooks, however, one can find a wild assemblage of different genres, from names of people and places, to anthropometric calculations, from cartoons to true to detail drawings, from detailed observations to strands of thoughts. As this material is so extensive and on top, his handwriting is very hard to read, this data seems to refuse access and analyzation.\r\n\r\nHaving the colonial burden of museum categories in mind, our project seeks not to use those categories again, but to find alternative ways to make the Felix Speiser archive accessible. Although the archive should be open to the public, we want to reach out to communities from Vanuatu and other stakeholders to work with the Felix Speiser archive and the Museum der Kulturen Basel as an institution. How can this extensive material be tamed, and its mostly unknown content be made accessible so that not only the museum can work with it but people around the world?\r\n\r\nTo achieve more accessibility, we would be very interested in being able to search Speiser notebooks for certain key terms. Toponyms, people names or travel routes, that are dispersed in different formats of notebooks, could be particularly valuable. Or data on objects, certain cluster of words, colonial content or architectural features to name a few examples. In shifting the focus, we hope to reconsider and finally decolonize Felix Speiser\u2019s legacy.\r\n\r\nImage source: [abebooks](https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Two-Years-Natives-Western-Pacific-Felix/31378328223/bd)","maintainer":"MauriceBonvin","name":"Telling a different story: a new reading of subalternity in notebooks","phase":"Challenge","progress":0,"score":3,"source_url":"","stats":{"commits":0,"during":0,"people":3,"sizepitch":1860,"sizetotal":1860,"total":7,"updates":3},"summary":"","team":"MauriceBonvin, piloublan, Basil","team_count":3,"updated_at":"2023-09-29T07:54","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/193","webpage_url":"https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRVgeCO_IOAjKUPfUPvSLTzfKppKuvH_h40KDLUwtySPgdPHo7XzNWrZ7FAnhfN8A/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.g285a610f7bf_1_11"},{"autotext":"","autotext_url":"","category_id":"","category_name":"","contact_url":"https://glamhackchworkspace.slack.com/archives/C05V55PSZGQ","created_at":"2023-09-28T20:36","download_url":"","event_name":"GLAMhack 2023","event_url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/event/10","excerpt":"The crossbow collection is very well documented and it is situated in the Grandson Castle. Is there a way to make this wast amount of information accessible more attractively to an audience beyond crossbow specialists? Is there even an innovative way to combine it with the 3d model of the castle?\r\n\r\nThe outcome of this challenge could be:\r\n\r\n* a web app that uses the crossbow information combined with interactive storytelling techniques, or\r\n* a serious game that plays in and around the castle, ...","hashtag":"19","id":203,"ident":null,"image_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Castle_grandson.jpg","is_challenge":true,"is_webembed":false,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"The crossbow collection is very well documented and it is situated in the Grandson Castle. Is there a way to make this wast amount of information accessible more attractively to an audience beyond crossbow specialists? Is there even an innovative way to combine it with the 3d model of the castle?\r\n\r\nThe outcome of this challenge could be:\r\n\r\n* a web app that uses the crossbow information combined with interactive storytelling techniques, or\r\n* a serious game that plays in and around the castle, or\r\n* a generative data visualization, or\r\n* an approach to an artistic use of the data\r\n* etc.\r\n\r\nIdeas for a fresh approach to the cultural heritage data of the crossbow collection and/or a use of the 3d model of the castle are welcome. There is no existing team yet. Everyone who is interested, has programming skills, experience with 3d software such as Blender or WebGL, with AR/VR, or is data scientist, a crossbow specialist, a humanities scholar, a museum or GLAM professional, mediator or media designer is welcome to join the group.\r\n\r\nChallenge: Linked data approach for the (decentralized and pluralist) description of heritage collections
Over the past years, a methodology has been proposed, tested, and further elaborated that allows for a decentralized and pluralist description of heritage collections. It is \u201cdecentralized\u201d in the sense that it does not rely on one specific authority (typically the holding institution) to describe a given collection. It is however \u201ccentralized\u201d in the sense that it proposes to maintain the respective data on Wikidata, which facilitates its use. The approach relies on the use of \u201carchives at\u201d, \u201cdocumentation files at\u201d, \u201cobject collection at\u201d, etc. properties on Wikidata as seen on the screenshot below.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Referencing_archival_fonds_in_Wikidata.png
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Authors: Bolliger, Stephanie; Br\u00fcderlin, Brigitte; Gasser, Michael; Lyskawa, Julia; Maier, Petra; Schmitt, Lothar
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The approach can be used in a straightforward, incremental manner, which allows for the progressive interlinking of the data. It relies on current infrastructures and technologies, in a way that is scalable and can be used by institutions and research communities around the world starting today, independently of their resource situation, making use of infrastructures and tools that are accessible to all and are in line with the Digital Public Goods Standard[1]. Furthermore, the approach allows for a pluralist take on the description of heritage holdings, based on an open collaborative approach, independently from the processes in place at individual institutions. \u00a0
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As regards references to, and the description of heritage collections, based on Wikidata, the approach has been concretized and documented for the field of the performing arts[2], but is extensible to any field and all types of heritage collections. So far, most of the data entered on Wikidata concern archival holdings about persons. Further entities to be linked to may include organizations, places/venues, creative works, (cultural) events, etc. Research has been carried out to study data modeling practices, resulting in recommendations for best practices[3]. Approaches to add statements based on existing collection metadata have successfully been tested[4].
The flexibility of Wikidata allows almost everything (or even \u201ethe sum of the human knowledge\u201c) to be described in its knowlegde graph. The area of event data\u00a0is has so far only sparsely been covered in authority files. Only about 9 % \u00a0of the data stored in the \u201eGemeinsame Normdatei\u201d (GND) is about events[5]. At the same time, the materials stored and catalogued in heritage institutions are full of (hidden) relations to events, mentioned either in the finding aids/catalogues or in the content itself. Thus, by providing more precise event (authority) data, the retrieval of those materials would be made much more effective. Such events may occur in any domain, such as political events (elections, polls), artistic events, sport events, or any other occurrence where something could be linked to a date or time period, linked with place(s), and possibly persons related to those events[6].
In addition to ingesting the data into Wikidata, it is important to develop applications making use of the data thus made available. First applications exist for the referencing of archival holdings about persons (e.g. infoboxes on French Wikipedia). Furthermore, a pilot application has been developed in the course of a Hackathon Series among Swiss Research Libraries that integrates the approach in a Library Discovery System[7].
A\u00a0dialogue with the ETH Library, SWITCH, and SLSP, in view of the integration of such data in the online discovery service of the Swiss libraries, Swisscovery, as well as into the SWITCH Research Data Connectome[8], is currently taking place.
A general search application exploiting both the \u201carchives at\u201d, \u201cdocumentation files at\u201d, etc. statements on Wikidata in all their combinations with different types of entities as well as \u201cdepicts\u201d statements on Wikimedia Commons, is currently missing.\u00a0
Author of the challenge:
[1]\u00a0https://digitalpublicgoods.net/standard/\u00a0
\r\n[2]\u00a0https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Performing_arts/Typologies#Artefacts_Documenting_Activities_Related_to_the_Performing_Arts\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\r\n[3]\u00a0\"archives at\" Statements - Towards a Best Practice
\r\n[4]\u00a0Estermann, B. (2020):\u00a0Wikidata for Libraries Hackday Series, This Month in GLAM, 10(1), January 2020.
\r\n[5]\u00a0https://lobid.org/gnd/search?q=\u00a0 An overall search in lobid.org/gnd results in a filter list of all top level entities, from where it appears that about 880.000 entries are classified as \u201eVeranstaltung\u201c, compared to over 6,000,000 entries describing persons.
\r\n[6]\u00a0During the cataloging and structuring of articles of the Lucerne journal \u201eGasseZiitig\u201c, ZHB Luzern is creating Wikidata items for several Swiss federal initiatives like the one about drug policy in 1998 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119139925). Such items are typically \u201eevents\u201c and can serve as a showcase to demonstrate the flexibility of the Wikidata data schema in describing each event within its own purpose. It is now possible to search for exactly that \u201eevent\u201c in ZentralGut:\u00a0https://t.ly/_kkMS\u00a0using the Wikidata QID.
\r\n[7]\u00a0Estermann, B. (2020):\u00a0Wikidata for Libraries Hackday Series, This Month in GLAM, 10(1), January 2020.
\r\n[8]\u00a0https://www.switch.ch/connectome/
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\r\nThe challenge consists in parsing provenance texts into machine-r...","hashtag":"09","id":187,"ident":null,"image_url":"","is_challenge":true,"is_webembed":false,"logo_color":"","logo_icon":"","longtext":"In many cases, provenance data is not machine-readable. The provenance texts that are digitally recorded in museums\u2019 databases are sometimes only available in string format. The data is often incomplete, inconsistently formatted, and contains additional notes. This is usually not a problem for humans \u2014 while computers cannot rely on precise structures and separators to translate the text into clean, machine-readable data.\r\n\r\n
\r\nThe challenge consists in parsing provenance texts into machine-readable formats. This could be done with the support of already available machine learning algorithms, to be trained with provenance data from various sources.\r\n\r\n
\r\nLevel 1: Parse\r\nThe provenance texts should be split into the separate transaction events. Each entry related to a transaction should contain metadata such as the time range and location, transaction type, as well as the involved actors (previous owner, new owner, as well as transaction facilitators like auction houses). This step will need comparison with dictionaries and other authority files to correctly parse the provenance information. And can it handle texts in different languages (English, German, French, \u2026)?\r\n\r\n
\r\nLevel 2: Link\r\nGet additional information from Wikidata to fill in gaps. This comes in handy when e.g. only the name of an art trader or institution is available, but related geodata is missing. This could save quite some future research time if scaled up properly! Optional: expand data gathering to other authority files like e.g. GND.\r\n\r\n
\r\nLevel 3: Gamify\r\n(guess maybe this part is for the next hackathon\u2026) Make it interactive! Turn it into a web-based tool that can be used by any provenance researchers without programming knowledge, which will in return train the tool by telling it if it correctly parsed the provenance information.\r\n\r\n
\r\nDatasets:\r\n\u2014 (still needed) provenance data samples from participating museums in DE + FR (for example from MEG, MKB, MRZ, VMZ, \u2026)\r\n\u2014 Zuckerman, Laurel (2022): \"Replication Data for: artwork provenances NEPIP\",\u00a0[https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LIRCGI](https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LIRCGI), Harvard Dataverse, CC0 1.0\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nChatGPT already does the job quite well (but still mismatches data to the wrong fields), so this could be a start to work on and expand the available information with the support of Wikidata. A free alternative AI tool should be used though.\r\n\r\n\r\n","maintainer":"jonaslendenmann","name":"Make provenance data machine-readable with AI & expand knowledge with Wikidata","phase":"Challenge","progress":-100,"score":0,"source_url":"","stats":{"commits":0,"during":1,"people":1,"sizepitch":2768,"sizetotal":2768,"total":3,"updates":1},"summary":"","team":"jonaslendenmann","team_count":1,"updated_at":"2023-09-29T08:45","url":"https://hack.glam.opendata.ch/project/187","webpage_url":""}],"name":"projects"}],"sources":[{"path":"https://dribdat.cc","title":"dribdat"}],"title":"GLAMhack 2023","version":"0.2.0"}
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