Hi!
Me

Jacob Riddersholm Wang
Head of IT-development at Odense City Museums
@jacob_wang // jacobwang.wordpress.com // blog.historiskatlas.dk
Introduction
Sustainability in digital heritage projects
- And the ”why”s and ”how”s of sharing



                              Sharing is caring, 11th november, DR Byen
!!! Why share data? !!!


      Why share data?
      A story…
Deep Blue




Kasparov vs Deep Blue (1997)
Watson Intro 01




 Watson (2011)
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 Intro 02
Watson was not connected to the Internet during the game.”


                                                                           - Wikipedia




                                              The stuff of libraries, archives and museums!
Content
Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, newswire articles,
literary works, databases, taxonomies, ontologies
Watson Video




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

            http://goo.gl/SuJ9D
Watson IRL?
                              Watson 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 IRL!
                              Watson 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 cultural heritage?!
           Watson in digital 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 = the power of BIG DATA



Watson in 2020? in 2020?
             Watson
                                         You in 2020?
Consumer technology (Siri already is!)   Will you have content ready for Watson?
In our pockets
Internet connected
Faster, better, smarter, easier to use
Odense City Museums
Archaeology
History
Arts
       Odense City Museums + IT-
Hans Christian Andersen
Carl Nielsen
            development

                          IT-development
                          2 x developers
                          2 x general IT-workers
                          1 x fundraiser, projectdeveloper/manager (me)
Odense City Museums, digitally
224,336 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
5,895
        Odense City Museums collection
         works of art
         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?
Project oriented culture

       !!! Challenges sharing data !!!
Political climate
Core activities
Organization
Business models
Technology and tech trends
We need to remember HISTORY!
Challenges sharing data?


Project oriented culture
Political climate
Core activities
                  Project oriented culture
Organization
Business models
Technology and tech trends
                               New stuff = $$
We need to remember HISTORY!
                               Everybody can’t do new stuff


                               We (ervrybody!) do old + new stuff together
                               We are progressing
Challenges sharing data?
Project oriented culture


Political climate
Core activities
                           Political climate
Organization
Business models
Technology and tech trends
                                     Experience economy
We need to remember HISTORY!
                                     Focus on users


                                     Sharing data = building foundations for
                                     future user-oriented activities
Challenges sharing data?
  Project oriented culture
  Political climate


  Core activities
  Organization
  Business models
  Technology and tech trends
  We need to remember HISTORY!




Core activities
Challenges sharing data?
Project oriented culture
Political climate
Core activities
                             Organization
Organization
Business models
Technology and tech trends
                                     Who?
We need to remember HISTORY!
                                     How to work together?
                                     Open projects with open doors
                                     Open project management
                                     Decentralization
Challenges sharing data?
 Project oriented culture
 Political climate              1. What are we offering?

 Core activities                2. Who wants our stuff?

 Organization                   3. How will they get it?
                                4. Who will pay and how much?
 Business models                5. What activities are needed to deliver?
                                6. How do we get people to know about this?
 Technology and tech trends
                                7. Who to work with?
 We need to remember HISTORY!
                                8. What will it cost?




Business models
1st order
                                                                Social Media
                                                                Mobile Media
                                                                Location services
Challenges sharing data?
Project oriented culture
                                                                2nd order
Political climate
                                                                Mashups
Core activities
          Technology and tech trends
Organization
                                                                Augmented Reality
                                                                Linked Open Data
Business models

                                                                3rd order
Technology and tech trends                                      Semantic web
We need to remember HISTORY!                                    Crowdsourcing
                                                                New Interfaces




 Linked Open Data, Metadata standards, Webservices + APIs, URIs, RDF / SparQL
Challenges sharing data?
Project oriented culture
Political climate
Core activities
Organization        We forget HISTORY! 01
Business models
Technology and tech trends


We need to remember HISTORY!
Frontend
                                                             Frontend
                               Frontend

            Frontend                              Frontend
Content
                                                              Content
                                Content

            Content                                Content
                       We forget HISTORY! 02



 Frontend                   Frontend

                                                             Frontend

            Frontend                           Frontend
  Content                    Content

                                                             Content

             Content                           Content
Frontend
                                                             Frontend
                               Frontend

            Frontend                              Frontend
Content
                                                              Content
                                Content

            Content                                Content
                       We forget HISTORY! 03



 Frontend                   Frontend

                                                             Frontend

            Frontend                           Frontend
  Content                    Content

                                                             Content

             Content                           Content
Collective musem web knowledge?
                              We forget HISTORY! 04
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!!!
Web apps
                       We forget HISTORY! 05




  1001     Historisk   Historiske    Flickr    Youtube   Wikipedia
 Stories     Atlas      Billeder
We forget HISTORY! 06
Things to remember!
Big data is BOSS
                             Summary
Comply with metadata standards
Open APIs
Mashups
Crowdsourcing
Hire your own developers. You WILL LOVE THEM!!!
!!! The End !!!



Thank you!
General important questions
Why share data?

                     Key questions
Challenges doing it? (how to do it?)
How will sharing change LAMs?
How will it change the usage of cultural heritage resources?
Key questions to me
Important questions to me
What 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?
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
Historisk Atlas Video
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects
IT-development projects

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Sustainability in digital heritage projects

  • 1. Hi!
  • 2. Me Jacob Riddersholm Wang Head of IT-development at Odense City Museums @jacob_wang // jacobwang.wordpress.com // blog.historiskatlas.dk
  • 3. Introduction Sustainability in digital heritage projects - And the ”why”s and ”how”s of sharing Sharing is caring, 11th november, DR Byen
  • 4. !!! Why share data? !!! Why share data? A story…
  • 5. Deep Blue Kasparov vs Deep Blue (1997)
  • 6. Watson Intro 01 Watson (2011)
  • 7. 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 Intro 02 Watson was not connected to the Internet during the game.” - Wikipedia The stuff of libraries, archives and museums! Content Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, newswire articles, literary works, databases, taxonomies, ontologies
  • 9. Watson IRL? Watson 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
  • 10. Watson IRL! Watson 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
  • 11. Watson in cultural heritage?! Watson in digital 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
  • 12. Watson = the power of BIG DATA Watson in 2020? in 2020? Watson You in 2020? Consumer technology (Siri already is!) Will you have content ready for Watson? In our pockets Internet connected Faster, better, smarter, easier to use
  • 13. Odense City Museums Archaeology History Arts Odense City Museums + IT- Hans Christian Andersen Carl Nielsen development IT-development 2 x developers 2 x general IT-workers 1 x fundraiser, projectdeveloper/manager (me)
  • 14. Odense City Museums, digitally 224,336 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 5,895 Odense City Museums collection works of art 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
  • 15. Challenges sharing data? Project oriented culture !!! Challenges sharing data !!! Political climate Core activities Organization Business models Technology and tech trends We need to remember HISTORY!
  • 16. Challenges sharing data? Project oriented culture Political climate Core activities Project oriented culture Organization Business models Technology and tech trends New stuff = $$ We need to remember HISTORY! Everybody can’t do new stuff We (ervrybody!) do old + new stuff together We are progressing
  • 17. Challenges sharing data? Project oriented culture Political climate Core activities Political climate Organization Business models Technology and tech trends Experience economy We need to remember HISTORY! Focus on users Sharing data = building foundations for future user-oriented activities
  • 18. Challenges sharing data? Project oriented culture Political climate Core activities Organization Business models Technology and tech trends We need to remember HISTORY! Core activities
  • 19. Challenges sharing data? Project oriented culture Political climate Core activities Organization Organization Business models Technology and tech trends Who? We need to remember HISTORY! How to work together? Open projects with open doors Open project management Decentralization
  • 20. Challenges sharing data? Project oriented culture Political climate 1. What are we offering? Core activities 2. Who wants our stuff? Organization 3. How will they get it? 4. Who will pay and how much? Business models 5. What activities are needed to deliver? 6. How do we get people to know about this? Technology and tech trends 7. Who to work with? We need to remember HISTORY! 8. What will it cost? Business models
  • 21. 1st order Social Media Mobile Media Location services Challenges sharing data? Project oriented culture 2nd order Political climate Mashups Core activities Technology and tech trends Organization Augmented Reality Linked Open Data Business models 3rd order Technology and tech trends Semantic web We need to remember HISTORY! Crowdsourcing New Interfaces Linked Open Data, Metadata standards, Webservices + APIs, URIs, RDF / SparQL
  • 22. Challenges sharing data? Project oriented culture Political climate Core activities Organization We forget HISTORY! 01 Business models Technology and tech trends We need to remember HISTORY!
  • 23. Frontend Frontend Frontend Frontend Frontend Content Content Content Content Content We forget HISTORY! 02 Frontend Frontend Frontend Frontend Frontend Content Content Content Content Content
  • 24. Frontend Frontend Frontend Frontend Frontend Content Content Content Content Content We forget HISTORY! 03 Frontend Frontend Frontend Frontend Frontend Content Content Content Content Content
  • 25. Collective musem web knowledge? We forget HISTORY! 04 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!!!
  • 26. Web apps We forget HISTORY! 05 1001 Historisk Historiske Flickr Youtube Wikipedia Stories Atlas Billeder
  • 28. Things to remember! Big data is BOSS Summary Comply with metadata standards Open APIs Mashups Crowdsourcing Hire your own developers. You WILL LOVE THEM!!!
  • 29. !!! The End !!! Thank you!
  • 30. General important questions Why share data? Key questions Challenges doing it? (how to do it?) How will sharing change LAMs? How will it change the usage of cultural heritage resources?
  • 31. Key questions to me Important questions to me What 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?