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The John Latham Archive: an on-line implementation using Drupal
Full text linkThis article is an account of the online presentation of the personal papers of the late British artist John Latham. The John Latham Archive online follows the proposal of creative archiving and has been implemented using the Drupal content management system. The author begins with a summary of the ideas of creative archiving and explains how these depend on recent innovations of online software. The article continues by highlighting the potential of Drupal as an archiving tool for creative archiving. An example implementation of the John Latham Archive online is described by relating the cosmological ideas of the artist with practical software tools which have been used to model them. The author concludes with some remarks on the capacity of the recommended software tools for creative archiving
Bookbinding descriptions in a linked data world: How the CIDOC-CRM can improve research in bookbinding history
No full textBeyond databases: Linked open data for bookbinding descriptions
No full textHistorical methodologies rely on evidence in order to support hypotheses. Bookbindings can play a key role in supporting hypotheses because they offer a plethora of physical evidence of materials and techniques. Publishing this evidence online may showcase a specific collection but it does not make the records re-usable by researchers without time-consuming work. In this paper I am looking into recent developments of the semantic web technologies which refer to re-usable data as “Linked Open Data” and examine how it is possible to employ these technologies in historical bookbinding research
Beyond databases: Linked open data for bookbinding descriptions
Full text linkHistorical methodologies rely on evidence in order to support hypotheses. Bookbindings can play a key role in supporting hypotheses because they offer a plethora of physical evidence of materials and techniques. Publishing this evidence online may showcase a specific collection but it does not make the records re-usable by researchers without time-consuming work. In this paper I am looking into recent developments of the semantic web technologies which refer to re-usable data as “Linked Open Data” and examine how it is possible to employ these technologies in historical bookbinding research
Issue 530: Bias in data structure
Full text linkPresentation to the CIDOC-CRM Special Interest Group on the issues raised from the Worlding Public Cultures project and how to approach them
Creative Archiving: A Case Study from the John Latham Archive
Full text linkThis article looks at the history of the archive profession and emphasises the perceived role of the archivist as the keeper of truth. It focuses on the recent developments in archival practice with the adoption of post-modern thinking and its implementation with open-access archives online. Following a discussion of that approach, it introduces the concept of creative archiving as an alternative approach to archival practice and continues with the presentation of a case study from the John Latham Archive. It concludes with a discussion of the main pros and cons of creative archiving
Online event-based conservation documentation: A case study from the IIC website
Full text linkThere is a wealth of conservation-related resources that are published online on institutional and personal websites. There is value in searching across these websites, but this is currently impossible because the published data do not conform to any universal standard. This paper begins with a review of the types of classifications employed for conservation content in several conservation websites. It continues with an analysis of these classifications and it identifies some of their limitations that are related to the lack of conceptual basis of the classification terms used. The paper then draws parallels with similar problems in other professional fields and investigates the technologies used to resolve them. Solutions developed in the fields of computer science and knowledge organization are then described. The paper continues with the survey of two important resources in cultural heritage: the ICOM-CIDOC-CRM and the Getty vocabularies and it explains how these resources can be combined in the field of conservation documentation to assist the implementation of a common publication framework across different resources. A case study for the proposed implementation is then presented based on recent work on the IIC website. The paper concludes with a summary of the benefits of the recommended approach. An appendix with a selection of classification terms with reasonable coverage for conservation content is included
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