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May 23, 2014December 26, 2023

CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowship: 'Bridging collections with a participatory Commons: a pilot with World War One archives'

I've been awarded a CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin for a project called 'Bridging collections with a participatory Commons: a pilot with World War One archives'. Here's Trinity's page about my Fellowship, which runs until mid-December. I've decided to be brave and share my thoughts and actions throughout the process, so I thought I'd start as I mean to go on and post my proposal (1500 words, below). CENDARI is a 'research infrastructure project aimed at integrating digital archives for the medieval and World War One eras' which 'aims to leverage innovative technologies to provide historians with the tools by which to contextualise, customise and share their research' (source) so this research fellowship very neatly complements my PhD research.

You can contact me by leaving a comment below, or via my contact page. If you'd like to follow my progress, you can sign up for (very infrequent) updates at MailChimp: http://eepurl.com/VUXEL or keep an eye out for posts tagged 'CENDARI Fellowship' on my blog, Open Objects.

Updates so far:

my first update was 'Defining the scope: week one as a CENDARI Fellow' (September 26);
my second was 'Linking lived experiences of WWI through battalions?' and the related post 'Private Albert Henry Bailey, service number 13/970a' (October 10).
I've also posted 'Linking lived experiences of the First World War': possible goals and a bunch of technical questions' (October 15) and the related 'In which I am awed by the generosity of others, and have some worthy goals' (October 17)
'Moving forward: modelling and indexing WWI battalions' (October 31)
I gave a keynote at New Zealand's National Digital Forum conference on 'Collaborative collections through a participatory commons'; the video gives a lot of background to the project
'Three ways you can help with 'In their own words: collecting experiences of the First World War' (and a CENDARI project update)' (December 4) summarised a few weeks' work and decisions
I gave a lecture at Trinity College Dublin on ‘A pilot with public participation in historical research: linking lived experiences of the First World War’
I set up a wiki to link personal accounts to specific military units: http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne – this is where most of my work happened in the last month or so of the project

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April 1, 2014February 5, 2015

Keynote 'Enriching cultural heritage collections through a Participatory Commons' at Sharing is Caring

Photo of glider plane against blue sky — Image: Library of Congress

I was invited to Copenhagen to talk about my research on crowdsourcing in cultural heritage at the 3rd international Sharing is Caring seminar on April 1. I've posted my notes on Open Objects: Enriching cultural heritage collections through a Participatory Commons platform: a provocation about collaborating with users.

Much of this comes from my PhD research and my previous work in museums, and I'm grateful to everyone who's commented in person or on twitter so far, particularly as it helps me understand the best ways to explain the Participatory Commons and the research underlying it for different audiences.

April 13, 2013February 5, 2015

Keynote: 'A Brief History of Open Cultural Data'

I was invited to give a talk (which seemed to turn into a plenary then a keynote along the way) for the GLAM-Wiki 2013 conference. I thought it might be useful to put current discussions around opening cultural data for use on Wikipedia and other projects that require content to be licensed for re-use in context (for the museum, library and archive professionals in the audience) and some of the contradictory instructions issued to institutions with cultural, scientific or historical content (for the Wikipedians in the audience, though of course there was a huge overlap between those groups).

I've blogged my talk notes as 'An (even briefer) history of open cultural data' at GLAM-Wiki 2013 at Open Objects or there's a video of my talk.

March 2, 2013January 17, 2020

Paper: Where next for open cultural data in museums?

My latest article for Museum Identity magazine, Where next for open cultural data in museums?, is now live online and in the current print issue of Museum-iD 13.

Site abstract: "Museums have increasingly been joining the global movement for open data by opening up their databases, sharing their images and releasing their knowledge. Mia Ridge presents a brief history of open cultural data projects, explores some reasons why some data is relatively under-used and looks to the future of open cultural data".

October 13, 2012December 26, 2023

Keynote: Global communities and open cultural data: movements towards linked open data in libraries, archives and museums

I was invited to Taipei, Taiwan for the 'eCulture & Open Cultural Data Forum' by TELDAP (Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Programs), MCN Taiwan and Culturemondo Asia Pacific. Many thanks to my hosts and organisers for their hospitality, for the meetings they organised with various national museums and for the opportunity to discuss open cultural data with staff from Taiwanese museums, libraries and archives.

As well as my keynote on 'Global communities and open cultural data: movements towards linked open data in libraries, archives and museums', I lead a further day and a half of seminars with Shih-Chieh Ilya Li at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan on:

eCulture, Data Immersion & Open Cultural Data
Why Open Cultural Data?
What is Linked Open Data (LOD) ?
Strategy and Planning Open Cultural Data
Technologies, standards and licenses for Linked Open Data
How to open your cultural Data
Group exercise: planning LOD projects