Enhancing Exhibition Scholarship:�Reconciling Knowledge Graphs and Social Media from Newspaper Articles to Twitter

Clare Llewellyn

Lecturer in Governance, Technology and Data

University of Edinburgh

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Trans-Atlantic Partnership

Library Science

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Art Scholarship

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Artificial Intelligence

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Metadata Standards

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• 1:00 Introduction to the Enriching Scholarship Project (Clare)
• 1:30 Introduction to Linked Data/Art (Rob)
• 2:00 Fantasy data breakout (Kevin)
• 2:45-3:00 Break
• 3:00 Presentation on Data Sources (Aruna, Andrew)
• 3:20 Break out 2: barriers to data (Kayla)
• 4:05 - 4:20 Break
• 4:20 Break out 3: Usage Scenarios (Aruna, Andrew)
• 5:15 - 5:30 Summary for Day

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Thursday

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• 9:30am: Coffee and Cake

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• 10am: Introduction to Enriching Exhibition Scholarship and Linked Data

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• 11am: Discussion on Usage and Research Ideas - interest, utility, feasibility, new ideas

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• Noon: Lunch

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The Team

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University of Edinburgh

Clare Llewellyn

University of Oxford

Kevin Page�

Aruna Bhaugeerutty

Andrew Shapland�

Chris Powell�

Peter Leonard

Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass

Yale University

Robert Sanderson

Kayla Shipp

Kelly Davis

Yer Vang-Cohen

Jenny Le

PDRA TBD

Funding

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Supporting Institutions

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Goals

• Produce and publish high quality metadata about art exhibitions and objects, based on text mining and graph analysis, through reconciliation of the objects, people and events;

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• Demonstrate the value of the extracted and combined knowledge in terms of new understandings of transmission of artistic styles, trends in international, institutional collaborations, and the changing reactions of audiences over time to artworks;

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• Produce and publish well-documented, usable toolchains and process descriptions for the extraction and reconciliation of exhibition information for other institutions to replicate the results with their own data;

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Goals

• Research and demonstrate the extent to which relevant textual sources, from newspaper archives to social media at contemporary exhibitions, can be used to directly enrich descriptions of exhibitions, with a focus on identifying the exhibited objects, via exhibitions at partner institutions;
• Examine the extent to which image content from social media and computer vision techniques can be used to identify exhibited objects, and link those objects to more detailed metadata;
• Experiment with the tools and subsequent analysis techniques at the forthcoming Knossos: Looking for the Labyrinth exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum and thereby encourage visitor engagement;
• Demonstrate a paradigm of connected art historical knowledge being used to further research and user engagement.

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The audience

I. the general populace looking to engage with art exhibitions;

II. art history researchers looking to study the movement of objects for exhibitions;

III. museum collections access professionals looking to improve their descriptions of exhibitions.

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Work Package 1: Data Collection and Structuring

Work package 2: Data Processing, Annotation and Analysis

Work Package 3: Exhibitions with Social Media Analysis

Work Package 4: Workshops and Research Exploration

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Art Travels

• John Constable, 1776–1837, British
• Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames—Morning after a Stormy Night, 1829, Oil on canvas,
• Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.42

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24 Exhibitions

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10 - 1983-02)

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (New York Public Library, 1987-10 - 1988-01

Constable - The Great Landscapes (National Gallery of Art, 2006-10 - 2007-01)

John Constable: The Late work (Royal Academy of Arts, 2021-10-30 - 2022-02-13)

Thomas Cole's Journey - Atlantic Crossings (National Gallery, London, 2018-06-13 - 2018-10-07)

Thomas Cole's Journey - Atlantic Crossings (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018-01-29 - 2018-05-13)

Yale University Art Gallery 2015 - 2016 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-07-27 - 2015-01-05)

The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

Constable - The Great Landscapes (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2007-02 - 2007-04-08)

Constable - The Great Landscapes (Tate Britain, 2006-06-01 - 2006-08-28)

Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24)

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The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29)

Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2002-02-01 - 2002-05-05)

Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-12-30)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Chicago Historical Society, 1988-04-06 - 1988-06-05)

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Indiana University Art Museum, 1988-01-27 - 1988-03-06)

Constable's England (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983-04-13 - 1983-09-04)

John Constable - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1969-04-30 - 1969-11-01)

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)

Damien Hirst

• Damien Hirst's In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays), 1991, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, B1997.

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4908

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Damien Hirst, born 1965, British, In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays), 1991, Eight paintings, household paint on canvas with butterflies; four boxes; one table, formica top on steel base; four glass ashtrays filled with cigarette butts, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, B1997.

This has been in 5 exhibitions since 2000

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Catalogue

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Example

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Example

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Exhibition Catalogue

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Exhibition Catalogue

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News Coverage

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Newspaper Coverage

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Social Media

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Social Media

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To inspire curiosity

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You can find me at:

• @clarellewellyn
• Clare.Llewellyn@ed.ac.uk
• https://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/neuropolitics/

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