publications about Collections as data

[Gustavo Candela]

Dear All,

I just wanted to share with you some publications related to Collections as data that we recently published as open access, one of them as part of the work performed in collaboration with the International GLAM Labas Community. I hope you find them interesting :)

• Gustavo Candela. 2024. Browsing Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage: a shareable visual configuration approach. J. Comput. Cult. Herit. Just Accepted (December 2024). https://doi.org/10.1145/3707647
• Candela, G., Holownia, O., Odsbjerg, M., Cuper, M., Gabriëls, N., Hofmann, K., Gray, E.J., Chambers, S. and Mahey, M. (2025) ‘Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case’, Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11(1), p. 7. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.261.
• Dişli, M. and Candela, G. (2025) ‘Copyright and Licencing for Cultural Heritage Collections As Data’, Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11(1), p. 11. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.263.

With many thanks and best wishes,

Gustavo

[Eric Lease Morgan]

> * Gustavo Candela. 2024. Browsing Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage: a shareable visual configuration approach. J. Comput. Cult. Herit. Just Accepted (December 2024). https://doi.org/10.1145/3707647
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> * Candela, G., Holownia, O., Odsbjerg, M., Cuper, M., Gabriëls, N., Hofmann, K., Gray, E.J., Chambers, S. and Mahey, M. (2025) ‘Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case’, Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11(1), p. 7. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.261.
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> * Dişli, M. and Candela, G. (2025) ‘Copyright and Licencing for Cultural Heritage Collections As Data’, Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11(1), p. 11. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.263


Gustavo, thank you for this.

Given the articles listed above, I took it upon myself to apply a collections as data approach to this small collection. I did my reading/analysis and informally published my result. From the summary:

I sincerely believe the concept of collections as data is sound;
given the ubiquity of computers and the abundance of digitized
text it is increasingly possible to use computers to read/analyze
text. After all, I use my glasses to facilitate reading. I use a
pencil to facilitate reading. Books and articles come with
running section headings and page numbers of facilitate reading.
Why not use computers? At the same time, we must conceded that
using computers to do reading is a supplemental process not a
replacement.

I used computers to read a very small collection of text -- only
three items. It took me about five minutes to create a data set,
another thirty minutes to do analysis, and about ninety minutes
to actually write this missive. At that rate, applying the
traditional reading process to the collection would have been
more efficient. But this process is scalable; I could have done
this exact same process with one hundred articles, and in the
end, the process would have been more efficient.

For more detail, see: https://bit.ly/3QcZZIH

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Eric Morgan
Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship
Hesburgh Libraries
University of Notre Dame