Knowledge Design. Data Models, Ontologies & Controlled Vocabularies

Schema

• What is a Dataset?
• Recipient of Knowledge: Relational Databases / Graph Databases
  
• Epistemological Questions: Data Model & Ontologies
  
• Connecting our Data to the World: Controlled Vocabularies
  
• Crafting Data
  
• Data Formats: CSV, JSON, Linked Open Data
  
• Share it!
  
• Current Challenges: Collection Management Systems

Content Summary

The Secret Life of Data: From Real-World Events to Digital Insights

Slides

Resources

• CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance — Global Indigenous Data Alliance

• CIDOC-CRM, Version 7.3 — CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group

• Getty Vocabularies (AAT, ULAN, TGN) — Getty Research Institute

• Linked Art — Linked Art Community

• The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship — Wilkinson et al.

• The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

• Wikidata — A Free and Open Knowledge Base

Selected Bibliography

• Bishop, Claire. “Against Digital Art History.” International Journal for Digital Art History 3 (2018).
  https://doi.org/10.11588/dah.2018.3.49915

• D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. Data Feminism. MIT Press, 2023.
  https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/

• Drucker, J. “Is There a “Digital” Art History?” Visual Resources, 29(1–2) (2013): 5–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2013.761106

• Love, Heather. “Close but Not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn.” New Literary History 41, no. 2 (2010): 371–391.
  http://www.jstor.org/stable/40983827

• Poirier, Lindsay. “Ethnographies of Datasets: Teaching Critical Data Analysis Through R Notebooks.” 2020.
  https://lindsaypoirier.github.io/publication/2020-12-01-Ethnographies-of-Datasets-Teaching-Critical-Data-Analysis-through-R-Notebooks

• Ricaurte, Paola. “Data Epistemologies, the Coloniality of Power, and Resistance.” Television & New Media 20, no. 4 (2019): 350–365.
  https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476419831640

• Rother, Lynn. “Uncanny Provenance: Art History and Its Double / Unheimliche Provenienz: Kunstgeschichte und ihr Doppelgänger.” Texte zur Kunst 32, no. 128 (2022): 84–97.

• Rother, Lynn. “Institutionalisierte Institutionskritik: Lynn Rother über ‘Wege der Kunst’ im Museum Rietberg, Zürich, sowie ‘Zerrissene Moderne’ und ‘Der Sammler Curt Glaser’ im Kunstmuseum Basel.” Texte zur Kunst 33, no. 131 (2023): 214–219.

• Rother, Lynn, Max Koss, and Fabio Mariani. “Taking Care of History: Toward a Politics of Provenance Linked Open Data in Museums.” In Perspectives on Data, edited by Emily Lew Fry and Erin Canning. Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
  https://www.artic.edu/digital-publications/37/perspectives-on-data/25/taking-care-of-history

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