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Webinar

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Enriching Film Heritage Data with OpenRefine

July 5, 2023

11am (CEST), Zoom

Speaker: Kristina Rose, DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum

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The European Film Gateway and Europeana

  • The European Film Gateway …
    • … showcases publicly available digital collections of European film heritage institutions
    • … is the film heritage aggregator for Europeana
    • … can be accessed via: https://europeanfilmgateway.eu/

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  • Europeana
    • … showcases publicly available digital collections of European cultural heritage institutions
    • … is organised by the Europeana Foundation, the Europeana Aggregators‘ Forum and the Europeana Network Association*
    • … deploys the European Data Space for Cultural Heritage together with 18 partners (DFF, who operates the EFG is one of them): Data space - deployment | Europeana PRO

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*if you aren‘t a member yet, you can join here: https://pro.europeana.eu/europeana-network-association/about-the-network

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Reconciling and enriching data

  • fix spelling or variations in proper names
  • link your data to an existing dataset like Wikidata
  • Identify URIs for entities to ease data exchange with other institutions or detect duplicates in your own database.
  • enrich your data with values from external data sources

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Find the handout with all videos, notes and links here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17XNUdIVbGkJNT_jEDifWt0I1ZnNcjtrEkWnptRKbo9k/edit?usp=sharing

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The webinar will demonstrate how to …

  • … upload and prepare data in OpenRefine
  • … get a first overview of how film works are described in Wikidata
  • … use the reconciliation functionality in OpenRefine
  • … fetch data from reconciled values
  • … export data using the templating functionality

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Import, preparation, reconciliation & export

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Opportunities for film heritage

  • What other public data sources for film (heritage) data do you know?
  • Which other entities could profit from reconciliation options
    • Manifestations, …?
    • Controlled vocabularies with URIs for colour techniques, gauge, base …?
  • What kind of data would you like to share with others?

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Thank you for attending!

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me (Kristina Rose) at rose@dff.film