Collections as Data : interdisciplinary experiments with KBR’s digitised historical newspapers : a Belgian case study
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- Sally Chambers (UGent) , Frédéric Lemmers, Thuy-An Pham, Julie M. Birkholz (UGent) , Vincent Ducatteeuw (UGent) , Antoine Jacquet, Wout Dillen, Dilawar Ali (UGent) , Kenzo Milleville (UGent) and Steven Verstockt (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Digital cultural heritage collections in libraries, archives, and museums are increasingly being used for digital humanities research. However, traditional ways of providing access to such collections, for example through digital library interfaces, are less than ideal for researchers who are looking to build datasets around specific research questions. Inspired by the ‘Collections as Data’ movement as an approach for cultural heritage institutions to prepare their digital 1 collections for analysis using digital methods, KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium, has embarked on a 24 month project called DATA-KBR-BE (2020-2022) to facilitate data-level access to its 2 digitised and born-digital collections for digital humanities research. This paper will: a) introduce the concept of ‘Collections as Data’ while exploring the opportunities and challenges for cultural heritage institutions; b) outline the DATA-KBR-BE project and the methodology for piloting ‘Collections as Data’ at KBR; and c) present the preliminary results of initial experiments to extract thematic datasets in support of digital humanities research scenarios as a first step towards designing a sustainable data extraction workflow for KBR.
- Keywords
- Collections as Data, Digital Cultural Heritage, Digital Humanities Datasets, Data-level access, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data, Open Science
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8712404
- MLA
- Chambers, Sally, et al. “Collections as Data : Interdisciplinary Experiments with KBR’s Digitised Historical Newspapers : A Belgian Case Study.” DH Benelux 2021, Abstracts, 2021.
- APA
- Chambers, S., Lemmers, F., Pham, T.-A., Birkholz, J. M., Ducatteeuw, V., Jacquet, A., … Verstockt, S. (2021). Collections as Data : interdisciplinary experiments with KBR’s digitised historical newspapers : a Belgian case study. DH Benelux 2021, Abstracts. Presented at the 7th DH Benelux : The Humanities in a Digital World (DH Benelux 2021), Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Chicago author-date
- Chambers, Sally, Frédéric Lemmers, Thuy-An Pham, Julie M. Birkholz, Vincent Ducatteeuw, Antoine Jacquet, Wout Dillen, Dilawar Ali, Kenzo Milleville, and Steven Verstockt. 2021. “Collections as Data : Interdisciplinary Experiments with KBR’s Digitised Historical Newspapers : A Belgian Case Study.” In DH Benelux 2021, Abstracts.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Chambers, Sally, Frédéric Lemmers, Thuy-An Pham, Julie M. Birkholz, Vincent Ducatteeuw, Antoine Jacquet, Wout Dillen, Dilawar Ali, Kenzo Milleville, and Steven Verstockt. 2021. “Collections as Data : Interdisciplinary Experiments with KBR’s Digitised Historical Newspapers : A Belgian Case Study.” In DH Benelux 2021, Abstracts.
- Vancouver
- 1.Chambers S, Lemmers F, Pham T-A, Birkholz JM, Ducatteeuw V, Jacquet A, et al. Collections as Data : interdisciplinary experiments with KBR’s digitised historical newspapers : a Belgian case study. In: DH Benelux 2021, Abstracts. 2021.
- IEEE
- [1]S. Chambers et al., “Collections as Data : interdisciplinary experiments with KBR’s digitised historical newspapers : a Belgian case study,” in DH Benelux 2021, Abstracts, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2021.
@inproceedings{8712404,
abstract = {{Digital cultural heritage collections in libraries, archives, and museums are increasingly being used for digital humanities research. However, traditional ways of providing access to such collections, for example through digital library interfaces, are less than ideal for researchers who are looking to build datasets around specific research questions. Inspired by the ‘Collections as Data’ movement as an approach for cultural heritage institutions to prepare their digital 1 collections for analysis using digital methods, KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium, has embarked on a 24 month project called DATA-KBR-BE (2020-2022) to facilitate data-level access to its 2 digitised and born-digital collections for digital humanities research.
This paper will: a) introduce the concept of ‘Collections as Data’ while exploring the opportunities and challenges for cultural heritage institutions; b) outline the DATA-KBR-BE project and the methodology for piloting ‘Collections as Data’ at KBR; and c) present the preliminary results of initial experiments to extract thematic datasets in support of digital humanities research scenarios as a first step towards designing a sustainable data extraction workflow for KBR.}},
author = {{Chambers, Sally and Lemmers, Frédéric and Pham, Thuy-An and Birkholz, Julie M. and Ducatteeuw, Vincent and Jacquet, Antoine and Dillen, Wout and Ali, Dilawar and Milleville, Kenzo and Verstockt, Steven}},
booktitle = {{DH Benelux 2021, Abstracts}},
keywords = {{Collections as Data,Digital Cultural Heritage,Digital Humanities Datasets,Data-level access,FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable) data,Open Science}},
language = {{eng}},
location = {{Leiden, The Netherlands}},
pages = {{3}},
title = {{Collections as Data : interdisciplinary experiments with KBR’s digitised historical newspapers : a Belgian case study}},
url = {{https://2021.dhbenelux.org/home/abstracts/}},
year = {{2021}},
}