Landscape Data Art & Models as Linked Open Data

Image: courtesy Mafkereseb Bekele, PhD student, Curtin University (Augmented Reality Landscapes)

Thanks to a Pelagios 2018 Working Group grant we are hosting this one day Digital Humanities event on Linked Open Data for Australia, at the HIVE, Curtin University, Bentley Campus, Perth.

The speakers, from across Australia, will explain their mapping and cultural collections projects, and discuss how Linked Open Data may help create more useful and reusable cultural content and research between humanities, IT and the GLAM sector in Australia.

From philosophical questions such as recalibrating ontologies and technologies to more appropriately address local and specific Aboriginal ways of describing, navigating and experiencing the landscapes, to current Australian Digital Humanities projects of maps, data, landscapes, 3D models, digital art, and collections, we will present and display landscape data, historical mapping and visualisation displays, demonstrate the usefulness of mixed reality headsets, investigate related cultural artefact knowledge (Indigenous and colonial), and lead the discussion towards the integration of linked open data and 3D models.

Venue: The HIVE (inside John Curtin Gallery), Curtin University

Speakers (alphabetical order, program later), with provisional title and topic

• Erik Champion, Curtin (chair/MC), Linking Cultural Heritage in Australia
• Ikrom Nishanbaev, Curtin PhD student, LOD-3D schema for Australian virtual heritage
• Susan Fayad, Ballarat City, Historic Urban Landscape
• Katrina Grant, ANU, Art Data and geodata
• Mafkereseb Bekele, Curtin PhD student, HoloRecogito: Integrating Recogito and Mixed Reality (via a HoloLens)
• David McMeekin, Curtin, Semantic Web/LOD
• Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, ANU, Linked Open Data
• Sven Ouzman, Discipline Chair, Archaeology, UWA, The art of using maps to get lost: God’s eye views and pedestrian speech acts from Indigenous and archaeological contexts in Australia and southern Africa
• Bill Pascoe, University of Newcastle, The Colonial Massacres Project
• Vanessa Russ, Associate Director, Berndt Museum, UWA (tbc)
• Tim Sherratt, University of Canberra, LODbooks
• Rainer Simon, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Recogito and Pelagios (skype, TBC)
• Conal Tuohy, GLAM consultant, National Museum of Australia Collections
• Andrew Woods, The HIVE, Curtin, Historic panoramas and geolocation

Please note, if you do not know what RDF, Semantic Web, or Linked Open Data is, we will have an intro workshop on this (and current Digital Humanities projects including Virtual Reality) in the Curtin Library Makerspace, Level 5, 2-4:30PM 26 July 2018. The working title is Linked Open Data but a link to the free workshop will be provided from this page.