Linking Islands of Data
“Linking Islands of Data” will create a research network
based around centres of excellence that study the Classical World. This
network will focus on classics, archaeology, epigraphy and museology and
create a variety of digital and analogue outputs - including an
application programming interface (API), documentation and guidance for
best practice in the use of Linked Open Data and high resolution
document handling - using established and emergent technological methods
and communities of practice based around 3 workshops held at the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Brown University and Open Context.
The outputs of this networked activity will build upon the extremely
strong collective outputs that were generated at the National Endowment
for the Humanities funded Linked Ancient World Data Institute held at
New York and Drew Universities in 2012 and 2013. The PI and Co-I were
both members of faculty for the Institute and this project will draw on
the experience of our American partners (Institute for the Study of the
Ancient World, Brown, Iowa, Open Context, New York University, American
Numismatic Society, the Getty) to inform and develop this network to be
inclusive, open and ultimately of academic and public value. This
network will address the paucity of exemplars, guidance and
documentation that exists within the museum and digital humanities
sector about integrating multiple digital approaches into a coherent and
sustainable exhibition framework. Worldwide, there are beacons of
brilliance in individual areas but lack of face to face time and funding
makes it hard to coalesce this knowledge into something tangible. This
project provides this opportunity and will build on the USA
institutional partners’ track records of building digital tools that
become infrastructure or software as a service platforms (SaaS).
Our proposed network draws on a wide array of partners and
collaborators with specialist experience in all of the key museological
areas, including Epigraphy (Brown), Linked Open Data (the Getty,
American Numismatics Society, Pelagios, Portable Antiquities Scheme,
British Museum, Open Context, Kerameikos), the use and implementation of
IIIF (American Numismatics Society, Cambridge University, J. Paul Getty
Trust), 3D technologies which include replication, printing, Augmented
Reality, and Virtual Reality (Fitzwilliam Museum and University of
London) and Crowdsourcing (Fitzwilliam Museum and British Museum). Our
network is also based around long term and proven excellence and uses
the expertise of its team. For example, PI Pett on the British Museum’s
Portable Antiquities Scheme and MicroPasts and 3D technologies, Vitale
on Classical Archaeology and the Pelagios project, Co-I Barker on the
Pelagios project, University of Virginia and the American Numismatic
Society on Keramikos and numismatics projects respectively, Open
Context’s extensive specialist knowledge of publishing digital data from
archaeology and related fields, ISAW’s Pleiades network which is now
seen as digital infrastructure for a wide variety of projects, Kings
College London’s Historic Gazetteer of Cyprus, Brown University’s work
on epigraphy, the Getty’s work on conceptual modelling, IIIF and
metadata as a service, the scholarly network of Cambridge University’s
museums and Classical Archaeology department.
This project which is generously funded by the
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and can be found under grant number AH/S012478/1.
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