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A recent study from the Cultural AI Lab demonstrates that contentious terms about people and cultures occur frequently in datasets commonly used in the cultural sector. Andrei Nestorov tells us about the study, and shares reflections from the recent ‘AI and heritage’ conference in the Netherlands on how the sector can approach the issue.
Seeking to address one of the principles of the Enrichments Policy for the common European data space for cultural heritage, the Europeana Foundation R&D team has created a first version of a methodology for evaluating and validating the results of (automatic) enrichment efforts.
Aggregating linked data has the potential to improve data interoperability at global scale. A linked data pilot, developed as part of the Europeana Common Culture project, has investigated this potential, and in this post we take a look at what it achieved.
Thanks to crowdsourcing, researchers, experts and cultural heritage professionals from across the globe can now add to RKDartists&, one of the largest art databases in the world. In this post, Edda Japing, Digitisation Process Coordinator at the RKD, tells us about the Artists4All app which makes this possible, and how crowdsourcing can be an important element in research.
The language you speak shouldn’t be a barrier to finding what you want on Europeana Collections but right now, it might be. Find out what we’re doing to put that right.
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Conference audience at Open GLAM México, 5-6 September 2018
After last month's Open GLAM México event, and with a national digital repository in development, these are exciting times in the Mexican cultural sector. Douglas McCarthy spoke with Agenda Digital de Cultura’s Vania Ramírez Islas to get the inside story.
