[open-heritage] Getting started with new Working Group on Open Data in Cultural Heritage

Mon Jun 28 07:48:42 UTC 2010

Hi all,

I'm Titti Cimmino. I'm e-Learning consultant, Math trainer at
INVALSI<http://www.invalsi.it/invalsi/index.php>and at Higher School.
I got involved in Open Data project by italian Radical
Party team . I'm interested in Linked Open Data and I want to share common
interest in heritage matters with a view to involve the Rome Semantic Web
Meetup group working on  Linked  Open Data in collaboration with STLab-CNR.

I believe that heritage matters represent a unique domain to explore
fundamental human values, including remembering,
being a community, and coming together as a society through separate
understandings and attachments to artifacts, places and events.

Heritage is lived and practiced within situations that are “personal and yet
social,” “private and yet public,” “of the present
and yet of the past and the future” and for this reason Open Data approach
offers extraordinary opportunities for the future design of interactive
systems.

My hug.

Titti

2010/6/25 Alexandra M M Eveleigh <alexandra.eveleigh.09 at ucl.ac.uk>

> Dear all
>
> Sorry to take so long to introduce myself, I've been busy at a conference
> in the U.S. this week.
>
> I'm Alexandra Eveleigh.  I'm an archivist with a background working in
> local authority record offices in the UK, but am currently a PhD student at
> UCL researching the impact of user participation on archival theory and
> practice.  I'm particularly interested in the use of web technologies to
> facilitate users' participation in archival description, and to promote
> access to and the re-use of archival material beyond traditional historical
> research domains.
>
> I also have a very specific concern at present with the dominant
> digitisation business model in UK archives, whereby popular materials for
> genealogical research (one of our most important, and largest, user
> community) are being digitised by commercial companies who restrict the use
> and re-use of metadata associated with the digitised documents.  I'm
> particularly interested in exploring ways to encourage smaller, local
> archives to open up data in archives, and across the cultural heritage
> domains.
>
> Alexandra
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