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Silknow: From Museum Documentation to Digital Data Curation (online, 6 Apr 21)
online / València, Apr 6, 2021 Deadline: Apr 5, 2021
Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Valencia Call for Participation
SILKNOW is a EU-funded research project that tries to improve the knowledge of silk heritage through digital technologies. Part of our goals are the dissemination of open access culture among textile and fashion heritage organizations.
We are preparing a compendium of best practices for the cataloging of textiles, and related digital data management. To this end, we have organized a workshop where heritage professionals are invited to share the challenges they face when inventorying and cataloging their textile holdings, and when sharing openly that information.
It will take place on Tuesday, April 6th, from 3pm to 6pm CET. (A first call was disseminated in February but the event had to be postponed.)
PROGRAMME
3.00 to 4.30 pm CET: From museum documentation to digital data curation. Focusing on the tran- sition from analogue information to digital data management, i.e., how textile collections are being inventoried and cataloged.
4.30 to 6.00 pm CET: Challenges and opportunities for open access. Interoperability, semantic web tools, licenses and institutional requirements.
We ask you to confirm your attendance at info@silknow.eu. If possible, we also ask you to com- plete this short questionnaire, which will help us prepare the workshop sessions:
https://forms.gle/CAEYBZKFBYuRw1rg8
It is not necessary to answer to it before attending the workshop, but we would appreciate it a lot.
SILKNOW has already made public several outcomes: (https://silknow.eu/index.php/our-results/) A virtual loom that serves as a digital memory of historical weaving techniques that, mostly, are only known by artisans who have kept this ancestral knowledge alive. Thanks to its 3D visualiza- tion it shows the warp and weft in depth.
A specialized multilingual thesaurus in silk with more than 800 terms on techniques, materials, machinery, motifs, among others, available in 4 languages (English, French, Spanish and Italian).
An exploratory search engine and a space-time map with about 40,000 records from different museums.
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Kind regards,
Dr. Jorge Sebastián Lozano jorge.sebastian@uv.es http://silknow.eu/
https://uv.academia.edu/JorgeSebastiánLozano
Departamento de Historia del Arte. Universitat de València
Reference:
CFP: Silknow: From Museum Documentation to Digital Data Curation (online, 6 Apr 21). In: ArtHist.net, Mar 17, 2021 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/33602>.
