Prepare data theme: Cultural Heritage data

[pwalsh]

Description

Prepare some material that participants can dive into.

The output should be that we have a nice set of materials for exploring a data themes, and some particular ideas that people could work towards if they want.

Tasks

• [x] Identify core and interesting datasets that can be wrangled
  • [x] Prepare a document/list of them
• [x] Identify core and interesting things that can be done with this data
  • [x] Prepare a document/list of them
• [x] Identify possible contextual datasets that can be used with this data
  • [x] Prepare a document/list of them
• [x] Identify open source platforms and tools that already are designed around this data
  • [x] Prepare a document/list of them

[danfowler]

Dropping this here for inspiration. It is a FiveThirtyEight piece that takes the recently released Metropolitan Museum of Art dataset and pulls out some interesting insights:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-excavation-of-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-art-collections/

Lots of stuff about vases 🏺⚱️🏺

[thomasgpadilla]

This is awesome! One small suggestion, maybe re-title the theme "cultural heritage data"? Or "museum, library, and archive data"? Bigger bucket might pull more folks and encourage cross institutional collaboration.

[danfowler]

@thomasgpadilla yes, I was thinking the same!

[danfowler]

Also this: https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/20/europeana-search/

[thomasgpadilla]

a couple of more examples:

National Library of the Netherlands https://www.kb.nl/bronnen-zoekwijzers/dataservices-en-apis

University of Pennsylvania http://openn.library.upenn.edu/

British Library http://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/datasets-for-content-mining http://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/datasets-for-image-analysis

Tate Modern https://github.com/tategallery/collection

University of Miami https://github.com/UMiamiLibraries/collections-as-data

[danfowler]

👍