[open-bibliography] 'Art Meets Astrophysics': Galaxy Zoo and Citizen Science - does this extend to Bibliography?

Fri Oct 1 15:54:07 UTC 2010

Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Some of us in #jiscopenbib have floated the idea with JISC and others of
> citizien bibliographer and bibliography camps. If art can be catalogued in
> this way then so can books, journals etc.

I would be glad to contribute to such efforts.

Open Library is a significant start for books.
Connotea, CiteUlike, BibSonomy, Mendeley, Zotero, Sciplore, ....  are starts in the journal article space. But sofar these are
competing rather then cooperating with each other, and unlike OL the article collections are not available in bulk with suitable
licenses for aggregations to form.

Finding and gaining widespread adoption of a license suitable for bulk exchange and republishing of article metadata seems
like a precondition for the next big step in the article space. With the right license, smaller publishers should
be glad to release their metadata directly to an open aggregation. As this collection grew, some benefits of crowdsourced
cataloging might emerge.  

Another way to start would be to demonstrate the crowdsourced cataloging on currently open data, 
e.g. what can be gained via OAI-PMH. Possibly BASE  http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/en/index.php could play a role in this.
Which makes me wonder, is the BASE metadata collection available in bulk? If so with what license? I could not see quickly from
the site.

--Jim
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> While the immediate context is a specific project in the cataloguing of oil
> paintings, the model of public engagement and research which this project
> brings to bear on its task has much wider implications for research across
> the Arts & Humanities, and across Colleges. Specifically, it is relevant to
> a number of themes and ambitions which we have already identified through
> the Arts Lab research mapping project, and it can be applied to most of the
> emerging themes highlighted by the AHRC.
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>
> Galaxy Zoo is the most high profile and developed example of the methodology
> of Citizen Science and there is much to learn from it and from its
> application in the ‘Your Paintings’ project. Information on Galaxy Zoo can
> be found at http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
>
> For further information on the philosophy and methodology of ‘citizen
> science’ and the Citizen Science Alliance, however, please check out
> http://citizensciencealliance.org/philosophy.html.
>
>
>
> In this context, I hope the ‘Art meets Astrophysics’ seminar will be of
> interest to you.
>
>
>
> Professor John Caughie
> Director, Arts Lab
> College of Arts
>
> http://www.gla.ac.uk/artslab/
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>
>
> Email: john.caughie at glasgow.ac.uk
> Tel.: 0141 330 7383
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>
> P.A.:  Anna Rosenfeldt
> Email: anna.rosenfeldt at glasgow.ac.uk
> Tel.: 0141 330 7382
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>
> You are cordially invited to attend the first seminar of the new Arts Lab &
> HATII Seminar Series: *"New Directions in Digital Humanities"*:
>
>
>
> *(1) ART MEETS ASTROPHYSICS*
> *Applying the Galaxy Zoo model of public engagement to the cataloguing of
> the nation’s oil paintings*
>
>
>
> *7 October 2010 5.15pm*
>
> Main Lecture Theatre - Sir Alexander Stone Building
> 16 University Gardens, Glasgow
>
>
> The Public Catalogue Foundation has been collecting information on the
> 200,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK. Before the Your
> Paintings database is put online to the public by the BBC it needs to be
> made fully searchable by tagging with concepts such as subject, style and
> date.
>
> The enormous task of (reliably and accurately) describing the pictorial
> content of 200,000 paintings requires a revolutionary new approach ... that
> developed by Galaxy Zoo to analyse the structures of galaxies. Galaxy Zoo 2,
> for example, attracted 250,000 amateur participants who made 60 million
> classifications of 250,000 galaxies in 14 months, which, with the
> application of clever statistical algorithms, produced results as accurate
> as professional astronomers would have achieved.
>
> Speakers:
> Andrew Greg
> Director, National Inventory Research Project, History of Art, University of
> Glasgow
> Andrew.Greg at glasgow.ac.uk
>
> Dr Arfon Smith
> Galaxy Zoo Technical Lead, Oxford Astrophysics, University of Oxford
> Arfon.Smith at astro.ox.ac.uk
>
>
>
>
>
> Anna Rosenfeldt
> PA to the Director of Arts Lab
>
> Phone: +44 (0)141 330 7382
> Email: anna.rosenfeldt at glasgow.ac.uk
> Web: www.gla.ac.uk/artslab/
>
> University of Glasgow
> 16 University Gardens
> Glasgow G12 8QL
>
> The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
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>
>
> -- 
> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
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