Bonjour à toutes et à tous, c'est un plaisir de revenir à la HEG, là où j'ai étudié et travailler, pour évoquer la thématique de ma thèse de doctorat. I am now going to switch to English and do the opposite to what Professor Joyeux-Prunel did this morning, so the content will be in French, but I will be speaking English. There is an English version of this slide deck and I can give you the link to this HTML-hosted presentation.

I am doing a PhD in Digital Humanities at the University of Basel on Linked Open Usable Data. Interested by two perspectives...

Interlinking data on the web Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) LUX, Yale Collections Discovery Platform Conclusion

The web was created at CERN in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. The World Wide Web project was based on the idea that most academic information should be freely accessible to everyone.

The Semantic Web is an extension of the World Wide Web, through standards, to make it machine-readable. And it works with standard, and the syntax of it is Resource Description Framework (RDF)

1) publish your data on the Web (in any format) under an open licence 2) publish it as structured data (for example, an Excel document rather than a scanned image of a table) 3) publish it in an open, non-proprietary format (for example, a CSV rather than an Excel) 4) use URIs to refer to things in your data, so that people can make references to them 5) link your data to other data to provide context

The concept was suggested by Robert Sanderson, who has been involved in the design and maintenance of web standards, mainly in the cultural heritage field. LOUD's goal is to achieve the Semantic Web's intent on a global scale in a usable fashion by leveraging community-driven and JSON-LD-based specifications. 5 design principles

Standards that adheres to the design principles. IIIF and Linked Art: communities linked by the presence of shared members providing expertise and leadership

Synergy of effective social and technical integration with an emphasis on usability Collaboration beyond technical boundaries Inclusivity and diversity in participation Openness and friendliness as core values Commitment to transparency Organisation of online and face-to-face meetings

A model for presenting and annotating content A global community that develops shared application programming interfaces (APIs), implements them in software, and exposes interoperable content

Linked Art is a community and a CIDOC (ICOM International Committee for Documentation) Working Group collaborating to define a metadata application profile for describing cultural heritage, and the technical means for conveniently interacting with it (the API).

Here in more detail. What's interesting is that Linked Art is based on the CIDOC-CRM ontology, which is a high-level model, and it's thanks to the Getty's vocabularies that the entities and resources are further defined. Object-based cultural heritage (mainly art museum oriented)

Linked Art from 50k feet

Digital Integration available in Linked Art such as describing IIIF-compliant resources and pointing to their API context and treating this service as something that is semantically relevant .

LUX provides a unified gateway to more than 41 million cultural heritage resources held by Yale's museums, archives and libraries: Yale University Library, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Peabody Museum, Yale University Art Gallery. Widespread technologies: Python, JavaScript, Node.js, React, AWS

Data pipeline. Each institition retain the way they describe cultural objects, they retain teir own practices, but we need somme common denominator and LOUD can serve as that.

Improving Interoperability and Accessibility: Enhances data exchange and access across cultural and scientific datasets using standards like JSON-LD, IIIF, and Linked Art. Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Lowers technical barriers and promotes cooperation among cultural heritage professionals, information scientists, and digital humanities researchers. Enhanced Understanding of Cultural Heritage: Makes heritage data more accessible and understandable, improving cultural sharing and preservation efforts. Improving Research Methods and Data Management: Transforms research approaches and data management in digital humanities and information science towards more user-oriented and explicit management. Promoting Convergence between Digital Humanities and Information Science: Encourages in-depth analysis and interpretation of cultural and historical data, leading to more integrated and innovative studies in these fields.

LOUD is emerging as a key enabler for information science and digital humanities, balancing data completeness, accuracy and accessibility. The approach illustrated by Yale demonstrates the impact of LOUD in improving access to and enhancement of cultural heritage data, marking a significant advance in the field.

Towards collaborative and interoperable convergence Grassroots development of IIIF and Linked Art with collaboration and transparency are one of the key factors, but implementations are needed to be conducted in parallel (specifications versus demonstrability). LOUD standards, when used in conjunction, enhances semantic interoperability, even if it comes at the cost of ontological purity. LOUD practices and standards should serve as common denominators for cultural heritage institutions, public bodies as well as research projects.