Sustainability in digital heritage projects

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Me

Jacob Riddersholm WangHead of IT-development at Odense City Museums

@jacob_wang // jacobwang.wordpress.com // blog.historiskatlas.dk

IntroductionSustainability in digital heritage projects- And the ”why”s and ”how”s of sharing

Sharing is caring, 11th november, DR Byen

Why share data?A story…

!!! Why share data? !!!

Kasparov vs Deep Blue (1997)

Deep Blue

Watson Intro 01

Watson (2011)

Watson Intro 02

Watson “Watson is an artificial intelligence computer system capable of answering questions

posed in natural language (…) Watson had access to 200 million pages of structured

and unstructured content (…) including the full text of Wikipedia.

Watson was not connected to the Internet during the game.”

- Wikipedia

ContentEncyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, newswire articles,

literary works, databases, taxonomies, ontologies

The stuff of libraries, archives and museums!

Watson Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE

http://goo.gl/SuJ9D

Watson IRLWatson IRL?“IBM and Nuance Communications Inc. are partnering for the research project

to develop a commercial product during the next 18 to 24 months

that will exploit Watson’s capabilities as a clinical decision support system 

to aid the diagnosis and treatment of patients.”

- Wikipedia

Watson IRLWatson IRL!“IBM and Nuance Communications Inc. are partnering for the research project

to develop a commercial product during the next 18 to 24 months

that will exploit Watson’s capabilities as a clinical decision support system 

to aid the diagnosis and treatment of patients.”

- Wikipedia

Watson in digital heritageWatson in cultural heritage?!“IBM and some cool people are partnering for the research project

to develop an open source product during the next 18 to 24 months

that will exploit Watson’s capabilities as a cultural heritage answering system 

to aid the education and general historical conscience of the public.”

- Wikipedia

Watson in 2020?Watson in 2020?Consumer technology (Siri already is!)

In our pockets

Internet connected

Faster, better, smarter, easier to use

You in 2020?Will you have content ready for Watson?

Watson = the power of BIG DATA

Odense City Museums + IT-development

Odense City MuseumsArchaeology

History

Arts

Hans Christian Andersen

Carl Nielsen

IT-development2 x developers

2 x general IT-workers

1 x fundraiser, projectdeveloper/manager (me)

Odense City Museums collection

Odense City Museums, digitally224,336 museum objects total

102,813 archaeological objects

62,147 cultural heritage objects

30,945 Hans Christian Andersen objects (more like ~10,000 REAL museum objects)

14,209 coins and medals

6,599 works of art

5,895 Carl Nielsen objects

1,728 Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen objects

814 artists

97095 images (broad collection; objects, people, places, projects, documentation)

184 films

49 maps

35 websites (main site, subsites, collections online, social media sites/pages/channels)

1 map engine

!!! Challenges sharing data !!!

Challenges sharing data?Project oriented culture

Political climate

Core activities

Organization

Business models

Technology and tech trends

We need to remember HISTORY!

Project oriented culture

New stuff = $$

Everybody can’t do new stuff

We (ervrybody!) do old + new stuff together

We are progressing

Challenges sharing data?

Project oriented culturePolitical climate

Core activities

Organization

Business models

Technology and tech trends

We need to remember HISTORY!

Experience economy

Focus on users

Sharing data = building foundations for

future user-oriented activities

Political climate

Challenges sharing data?

Project oriented culture

Political climateCore activities

Organization

Business models

Technology and tech trends

We need to remember HISTORY!

Core activities

Challenges sharing data?

Project oriented culture

Political climate

Core activitiesOrganization

Business models

Technology and tech trends

We need to remember HISTORY!

Who?

How to work together?

Open projects with open doors

Open project management

Decentralization

Organization

Challenges sharing data?

Project oriented culture

Political climate

Core activities

OrganizationBusiness models

Technology and tech trends

We need to remember HISTORY!

Business models

1. What are we offering?

2. Who wants our stuff?

3. How will they get it?

4. Who will pay and how much?

5. What activities are needed to deliver?

6. How do we get people to know about this?

7. Who to work with?

8. What will it cost?

Challenges sharing data?

Project oriented culture

Political climate

Core activities

Organization

Business modelsTechnology and tech trends

We need to remember HISTORY!

Technology and tech trends

1st order

Social Media

Mobile Media

Location services

2nd order

Mashups

Augmented Reality 

Linked Open Data

3rd order

Semantic web

Crowdsourcing

New Interfaces

Linked Open Data, Metadata standards, Webservices + APIs, URIs, RDF / SparQL

Challenges sharing data?

Project oriented culture

Political climate

Core activities

Organization

Business models

Technology and tech trendsWe need to remember HISTORY!

We forget HISTORY! 01

Challenges sharing data?

Project oriented culture

Political climate

Core activities

Organization

Business models

Technology and tech trends

We need to remember HISTORY!

We forget HISTORY! 02Content

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We forget HISTORY! 03Content

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We forget HISTORY! 04Collective musem web knowledge?Existing platforms are BOSS

Use 50% of webproject funds on content creation

50% on APIs and frontends

Digital presence is better than portals

This counts for mobile web and apps too!!!

We forget HISTORY! 05

FlickrHistorisk Atlas

Youtube

Web apps

Wikipedia1001 Stories

Historiske Billeder

We forget HISTORY! 06

SummaryThings to remember!Big data is BOSS

Comply with metadata standards

Open APIs

Mashups

Crowdsourcing

Hire your own developers. You WILL LOVE THEM!!!

!!! The End !!!

Thank you!

Key questions

General important questionsWhy share data?

Challenges doing it? (how to do it?)

How will sharing change LAMs?

How will it change the usage of cultural heritage resources?

Important questions to meWhat characterizes a sustainable digital project?

How do we create projects that aligns with our core acitivities?

How should we act in the midst of tech hype?

What is the "cemetary of dead frontends“?

How to prepare for digital heritage sharing and collaboration beyond the 2010's?

Key questions to me

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