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From Data Spaces to Collections as Data: bridging the gap between large-scale initiatives and day-to-day practices

Sally Chambers, KBR, Royal Library of Belgium,

Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities and DARIAH-EU

University of Oslo Library

24th October 2023

Bruxelles,

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From large-scale initiatives to day-to-day practice

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Introducing the common

European data space for cultural heritage

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DATA SPACE for CULTURAL HERITAGE FACTSHEET

Currently being deployed by a Consortium led by the Europeana Initiative together with 18 partners.

A flagship initiative of the EU to support the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector, funded under the Digital Europe programme. It is one of 14 data spaces in strategic sectors and domains of public interest.

Will be the main access point to cultural heritage data, with a focus on reuse and discovery purposes within and across sectors.

Building on and expanding Europeana’s accomplishments over the past 15 years

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60+ staff (EF)

4,200+ members from all countries of Europe (ENA)

40 regional, national, domain and thematic aggregators (EAF)

4,000 museums, libraries and archives (Content providers)

27 Member States (CEDCHE)

European Commission

EUROPEANA INITIATIVE

Europeana Initiative

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Europeana Data Model (EDM)

https://pro.europeana.eu/page/edm-documentation

Licence: Alexrk2 CC BY-SA 3.0

Europe’s national libraries are as varied and diverse as the nations whose memories they hold.

The Conference of European National Librarians (short ‘CENL’) is a network of 46 national libraries in 45 European countries and brings these great institutions together to celebrate and promote the importance of national libraries across the continent, creating opportunities to meet and work together to exchange knowledge, foster professional excellence and build mutual understanding.

Members of the CENL are national librarians of the member states of the Council of Europe.

Strategic plan

1 Support national libraries to increase their impact and to be strong organisations across a wide range of activities including; custodianship of collections, education, research, culture and heritage.

2 Develop national library services to meet the evolving needs of our diverse audiences including; the general public, learners, researchers and cultural visitors.

3 Develop as memory institutions to improve standards of stewardship and access to our physical and digital collections.

4 Strengthen CENL as a community in order to further support its members.

CENL Dialogue Forum: New format launched in March 2022

We are happy to announce the launch of a new format for CENL members to get in touch with other groups and stakeholders. The new CENL Dialogue Forum shall be an informal forum where CENL members can meet with representatives of other interest groups or organisations to discuss topics of mutual interest.

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Europeana.eu

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Capacity Building & Reuse

Data Quality

Digital Services for the public

Infrastructure

https://pro.europeana.eu/page/common-european-data-space-for-cultural-heritage

European data space for cultural heritage

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https://pro.europeana.eu/post/what-is-a-dataset-share-your-thoughts

What is a dataset?

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Towards a Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage

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Towards an interconnected ecosystem of cultural heritage data …

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European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation,Report on a European collaborative cloud for cultural heritage : ex – ante impact assessment, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/64014

European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Stakeholders’ survey on a European collaborative cloud for cultural heritage: report on the online survey results, Publications Office of the European Union, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/691331

European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH)

A European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage: HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-01
Innovative tools for digitising cultural heritage objects: HORIZON-CL2-2023-HERITAGE-ECCCH-01-02

Licence: Alexrk2 CC BY-SA 3.0

Europe’s national libraries are as varied and diverse as the nations whose memories they hold.

The Conference of European National Librarians (short ‘CENL’) is a network of 46 national libraries in 45 European countries and brings these great institutions together to celebrate and promote the importance of national libraries across the continent, creating opportunities to meet and work together to exchange knowledge, foster professional excellence and build mutual understanding.

Members of the CENL are national librarians of the member states of the Council of Europe.

Strategic plan

1 Support national libraries to increase their impact and to be strong organisations across a wide range of activities including; custodianship of collections, education, research, culture and heritage.

2 Develop national library services to meet the evolving needs of our diverse audiences including; the general public, learners, researchers and cultural visitors.

3 Develop as memory institutions to improve standards of stewardship and access to our physical and digital collections.

4 Strengthen CENL as a community in order to further support its members.

CENL Dialogue Forum: New format launched in March 2022

We are happy to announce the launch of a new format for CENL members to get in touch with other groups and stakeholders. The new CENL Dialogue Forum shall be an informal forum where CENL members can meet with representatives of other interest groups or organisations to discuss topics of mutual interest.

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Towards digital twins of heritage objects. Moving from fragmented and episodic digitisations to "permanent" digital counterparts of heritage objects

Towards a digital continuum of activities. Moving from the amount of non-memorized daily activities on Cultural Heritage objects (and related data) produced by curation or study activities of several actors, to a digital continuum, which is able to ensure their traceability and interoperability with the heritage object's digital twin.

Towards a digital ecosystem interconnecting actors, activities and heritage objects. Moving from fragmented and individual data production and curation, to a sophisticated socio-technical system progressively built as a distributed, adaptable and open platform.

European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECCCH)

Licence: Alexrk2 CC BY-SA 3.0

Europe’s national libraries are as varied and diverse as the nations whose memories they hold.

The Conference of European National Librarians (short ‘CENL’) is a network of 46 national libraries in 45 European countries and brings these great institutions together to celebrate and promote the importance of national libraries across the continent, creating opportunities to meet and work together to exchange knowledge, foster professional excellence and build mutual understanding.

Members of the CENL are national librarians of the member states of the Council of Europe.

Strategic plan

1 Support national libraries to increase their impact and to be strong organisations across a wide range of activities including; custodianship of collections, education, research, culture and heritage.

2 Develop national library services to meet the evolving needs of our diverse audiences including; the general public, learners, researchers and cultural visitors.

3 Develop as memory institutions to improve standards of stewardship and access to our physical and digital collections.

4 Strengthen CENL as a community in order to further support its members.

CENL Dialogue Forum: New format launched in March 2022

We are happy to announce the launch of a new format for CENL members to get in touch with other groups and stakeholders. The new CENL Dialogue Forum shall be an informal forum where CENL members can meet with representatives of other interest groups or organisations to discuss topics of mutual interest.

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https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/a-digital-twin-for-notre-dame

Licence: Alexrk2 CC BY-SA 3.0

Europe’s national libraries are as varied and diverse as the nations whose memories they hold.

The Conference of European National Librarians (short ‘CENL’) is a network of 46 national libraries in 45 European countries and brings these great institutions together to celebrate and promote the importance of national libraries across the continent, creating opportunities to meet and work together to exchange knowledge, foster professional excellence and build mutual understanding.

Members of the CENL are national librarians of the member states of the Council of Europe.

Strategic plan

1 Support national libraries to increase their impact and to be strong organisations across a wide range of activities including; custodianship of collections, education, research, culture and heritage.

2 Develop national library services to meet the evolving needs of our diverse audiences including; the general public, learners, researchers and cultural visitors.

3 Develop as memory institutions to improve standards of stewardship and access to our physical and digital collections.

4 Strengthen CENL as a community in order to further support its members.

CENL Dialogue Forum: New format launched in March 2022

We are happy to announce the launch of a new format for CENL members to get in touch with other groups and stakeholders. The new CENL Dialogue Forum shall be an informal forum where CENL members can meet with representatives of other interest groups or organisations to discuss topics of mutual interest.

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Linking cultural heritage data with research data

https://www.ghentcdh.ugent.be/projects/madoc-iiif-annotation-and-crowdsource-platform

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Introducing Collections as Data

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Collections as Data: “Always Already Computational”

Padilla, Thomas, Allen, Laurie, Frost, Hannah, Potvin, Sarah, Russey Roke, Elizabeth, & Varner, Stewart. (2019, May 22). Final Report --- Always Already Computational: Collections as Data (Version 1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3152935

Always Already Computational: Collections as Data final report and project deliverables: https://osf.io/mx6uk/wiki/home/

… and “Part to Whole”

https://collectionsasdata.github.io/part2whole/

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Collections as Data: State of the Field and Future Directions

https://collectionsasdata.github.io/part2whole/recap/

“The Vancouver Statement suggests a set of principles for thinking through questions that collections-as-data work produces, as part of an expanding global, interprofessional, and interdisciplinary effort to empower memory, knowledge, and data stewards (e.g., practitioners and scholars) who aim to support responsible development and computational use of collections as data. This stewardship role only grows in importance as artificial intelligence applications, trained on vast amounts of data, including collections as data, impact our lives ever more pervasively.”

https://collectionsasdata.github.io/part2whole/vancouver/

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Digitised Historical Newspapers as Data

https://collectionsasdata.github.io

Providing data-level access to the underlying files of digitised and born-digital cultural heritage resources to facilitate data analysis by means of tools and methods developed in the field of digital humanities

https://www.kbr.be/en/projects/data-kbr-be /

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Newspapers as Data

https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/

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National Library of Scotland: Data Foundry

https://data.nls.uk

Ames, S. (2021) “Transparency, Provenance and Collections as Data: The National Library of Scotland’s Data Foundry.” LIBER Quarterly 31 (1): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.18352/lq.10371.

https://data.nls.uk/download/national-library-of-scotland-open-data-publication-plan.pdf

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Digital Library of the Caribbean as Data

https://dataverse.fiu.edu/dataverse/dloc-as-data

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CLARIN Resource Families

https://www.clarin.eu/resource-families/newspaper-corpora

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https://glamlabs.io/books/

Chapter: Rethinking Collections as Data: https://glamlabs.pubpub.org/pub/urhm68yr/release/1

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A Collections as Data Checklist

https://glamlabs.io/checklist/ & https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02603

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Cultural Heritage Data as

Humanities Research Data

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Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data

Tasovac, T., Chambers, S. and Tóth-Czifra, E. (2020) Cultural Heritage Data from a Humanities Research Perspective: A DARIAH Position Paper. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02961317

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Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data

https://www.dariah.eu/2023/07/07/recap-of-the-annual-event-2023-cultural-heritage-data-as-humanities-research-data/

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Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data

https://youtu.be/jvEMFY6b4mA

https://youtu.be/o2HUKWBCTvM

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Introducing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)

https://search.marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/search/all?q=*

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Cultural Heritage Data in the EOSC Marketplace?

https://search.marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/search/all?q=*

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Cultural Heritage Data in EOSC?

https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/eosc.europeana.europeana_apis

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Cultural Heritage Data in EOSC? - Europeana

https://zenodo.org/communities/europeana/

https://marketplace.eosc-portal.eu/services/eosc.europeana.europeana_apis

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Cultural Heritage Data in EOSC? - Europeana

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/training-material/duVII1

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Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu

3 Guiding Principles:

Contextualisation
Curation
Community

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Cultural Heritage in the SSH Open Marketplace

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/search?q=iiif

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Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu

This project is funded from the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (2014-2020) under Grant Agreement No. 823782

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A Collections as Data Workflow on the

SSH Open Marketplace

Many thanks to: Dr. Gustavo Candela

Licence: Alexrk2 CC BY-SA 3.0

Europe’s national libraries are as varied and diverse as the nations whose memories they hold.

The Conference of European National Librarians (short ‘CENL’) is a network of 46 national libraries in 45 European countries and brings these great institutions together to celebrate and promote the importance of national libraries across the continent, creating opportunities to meet and work together to exchange knowledge, foster professional excellence and build mutual understanding.

Members of the CENL are national librarians of the member states of the Council of Europe.

Strategic plan

1 Support national libraries to increase their impact and to be strong organisations across a wide range of activities including; custodianship of collections, education, research, culture and heritage.

2 Develop national library services to meet the evolving needs of our diverse audiences including; the general public, learners, researchers and cultural visitors.

3 Develop as memory institutions to improve standards of stewardship and access to our physical and digital collections.

4 Strengthen CENL as a community in order to further support its members.

CENL Dialogue Forum: New format launched in March 2022

We are happy to announce the launch of a new format for CENL members to get in touch with other groups and stakeholders. The new CENL Dialogue Forum shall be an informal forum where CENL members can meet with representatives of other interest groups or organisations to discuss topics of mutual interest.

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A Collections as Data Workflow - 10 Steps

https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/workflow/I3JvP6

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European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and Libraries

Presentation: https://eoscfuture.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/ProviderDays_Libraries_Presentation2Inge_clean.pdf

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vxHJNU78Pw

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https://eoscfuture.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/EOSC_Libraries_FINAL_0623.pdf

Europe’s national libraries are as varied and diverse as the nations whose memories they hold.

The Conference of European National Librarians (short ‘CENL’) is a network of 46 national libraries in 45 European countries and brings these great institutions together to celebrate and promote the importance of national libraries across the continent, creating opportunities to meet and work together to exchange knowledge, foster professional excellence and build mutual understanding.

Members of the CENL are national librarians of the member states of the Council of Europe.

Strategic plan

1 Support national libraries to increase their impact and to be strong organisations across a wide range of activities including; custodianship of collections, education, research, culture and heritage.

2 Develop national library services to meet the evolving needs of our diverse audiences including; the general public, learners, researchers and cultural visitors.

3 Develop as memory institutions to improve standards of stewardship and access to our physical and digital collections.

4 Strengthen CENL as a community in order to further support its members.

CENL Dialogue Forum: New format launched in March 2022

We are happy to announce the launch of a new format for CENL members to get in touch with other groups and stakeholders. The new CENL Dialogue Forum shall be an informal forum where CENL members can meet with representatives of other interest groups or organisations to discuss topics of mutual interest.

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https://www.rd-alliance.org/why-arent-we-talking-about-collections-data

Collaborative Session Notes: https://bit.ly/45uS1zR

Europe’s national libraries are as varied and diverse as the nations whose memories they hold.

The Conference of European National Librarians (short ‘CENL’) is a network of 46 national libraries in 45 European countries and brings these great institutions together to celebrate and promote the importance of national libraries across the continent, creating opportunities to meet and work together to exchange knowledge, foster professional excellence and build mutual understanding.

Members of the CENL are national librarians of the member states of the Council of Europe.

Strategic plan

1 Support national libraries to increase their impact and to be strong organisations across a wide range of activities including; custodianship of collections, education, research, culture and heritage.

2 Develop national library services to meet the evolving needs of our diverse audiences including; the general public, learners, researchers and cultural visitors.

3 Develop as memory institutions to improve standards of stewardship and access to our physical and digital collections.

4 Strengthen CENL as a community in order to further support its members.

CENL Dialogue Forum: New format launched in March 2022

We are happy to announce the launch of a new format for CENL members to get in touch with other groups and stakeholders. The new CENL Dialogue Forum shall be an informal forum where CENL members can meet with representatives of other interest groups or organisations to discuss topics of mutual interest.