In/Tangible European Heritage - Visual Analysis, Curation and Communication

Due to a wide range of digitization initiatives, cultural heritage (CH) databases have greatly enhanced access to cultural and historical data across Europe. On the one hand, tangible cultural objects from museums, archives, and libraries have become accessible online and aggregated transnationally by platforms such as Europeana. On the other hand, intangible assets—such as narrative accounts on the lives of artists—have been organized and shared as biographical databases on a national level. While these developments provide an excellent basis for the enhanced reception, utilization, and promotion of European CH, various restrictions prevent the exploitation of the existing data. The InTaVia project aims to overcome some of these barriers with a deliberate combination of research and development objectives. Firstly, it will draw together tangible and intangible assets of European heritage to enable their mutual contextualization. Secondly, it will develop new means of data creation, curation, and transnational integration. Thirdly, it will develop a visual analytics studio to help CH experts and the interested public to better access, analyze, and communicate cultural collections and related biographical and contextual knowledge. Thereby, InTaVia will develop an information portal for the visual analysis and communication of tangible and intangible cultural assets, supporting the synoptic sensemaking and storytelling about European cultural heritage with implications for research, pedagogy, journalism, cultural consumption, and Europe’s self-description in a global context. The transdisciplinary project consortium extends existing work and collaborations in European research infrastructures and national digital humanities projects. The InTaVia team is composed of computer scientists specialized in visualization and computational linguists, digital humanists, social scientists, cognitive science researchers, and historians.

 

Website

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Details

Projektzeitraum 01.11.2020 - 31.10.2023
Fördergeber EU
Förderprogramm
Logo - Europäische Union
Department

Department für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften

Projekt­verantwortung (Universität für Weiterbildung Krems) Dr. Eva Mayr
Projekt­mitarbeit
Mag. Nicole High-Steskal, Ph.D.
Mag. Dr. Johannes Liem
Projektwebsite www.intavia.eu

Publikationen

Windhager, F.; Salisu, S.; Liem, J.; Mayr, E. (2024). The Knowledge Graph as a Data Sculpture: Visualizing Arts and Humanities Data with Maps, Graphs, and Sets over Time. In: Geographical Research in the Digital Humanities. Spatial Concepts, Approaches and Methods: https://doi.org/10., Bielefeld University Press, Bielefeld

Liem, J.; Kusnick, J.; Beck, S.; Windhager, F.; Mayr, E. (2023). A Workflow Approach to Visualization-Based Storytelling with Cultural Heritage Data. In: 2023 IEEE 8th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH): https://doi.org/10.1109/VIS4DH60378.2023.00008, IEEE, Melbourne

Windhager, F.; Mayr, E. (2023). Mental Models and Visualization. In: Albers Szafir, D., Borgo, R., Chen, M., Edwards, D.J., Fisher, B., Padilla, L., Visualization Psychology: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34738-2_3, Springer, Cham

Mayr, E., Pobežin, G., Schlögl, M., Liem, J., & Windhager, F. (2023). Linking and visualizing cultural heritage data for humanities research. DARIAH, Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data? - DARIAH Annual Event 2023, Budapest

Windhager, F.; Rühse, V.; Smuc, M. (2023). Monster in a Snow Globe: Biographies as Data Physicalizations. IEEE VISAP 2023, IEEE VISAP 2023 – Perpetual Presence: 28-29, IEEE VISAP, Melbourne

Bentz, I.; Gfrereis, H.; Hildenbrandt, V.; Mayr, E.; Offenberg, E.; Tropper, E.; Windhager, F. (2022). Daten im Raum - Visualisierungen und Physikalisierungen im Medium Ausstellung. In: DHd 2022 Kulturen Des Digitalen Gedächtnisses. 8. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2022): Tagungsband, Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, Potsdam

Mayr, E.; Liem, J.; High-Steskal, N.; Grebe, A.; Windhager, F. (2022). Leben, Werke und Datensilos - Zur Verknüpfung und Visualisierung von im/materiellen Komponenten des kulturellen Erbes. In: DHd 2022 Kulturen Des Digitalen Gedächtnisses. 8. Tagung des Verbands “Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum” (DHd 2022): 10.5281/zenodo.6328091, Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum, Potsdam

Mayr, E.; Liem, J.; Windhager, F. (2022). Reasoning with Knowledge Graph Visualizations – A Mental Models Perspective. In: Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022: https://graphentechnologien.hypotheses.org/files/2022/01/Reasoning_with_Knowledge_Graph_Visualizations_A_Mental_Models_e, AG Graphen & Netzwerke der dhd, Amsterdam

Mayr, E.; Windhager, F.; Liem, J.; Beck, S.; Koch, S.; Kusnick, J.; Jänicke, S. (2022). The Multiple Faces of Cultural Heritage: Towards an Integrated Visualization Platform for Tangible and Intangible Cultural Assets. In: IEEE, Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (vis4dh), 7th workshop xplore: 10.1109/VIS4DH57440.2022.00008, IEEE, Oklahoma

Windhager, F.; Mayr, E.; Schlögl, M.; Kaiser, M. (2022). Visuelle Analyse und Kuratierung von Biographiedaten. In: K. D. Döring, S. Haas, M. König und J. Wettlaufer, Digital History: 137-150, DeGruyter, Oldenbourg

High-Steskal, N.; Liem, J.; Mayr, E.; Windhager, F. (2021). Zur Nachhaltigkeit von Visualisierungen in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften. Helling, Patrick; Speer, Andreas; Eide, Øyvind, FORGE 2021: Forschungsdaten in den Geisteswissenschaften - Mapping the Landscape - Geisteswissenschaftliches Forschungsdatenmanagement zwischen lokalen und globalen, generischen und spezifischen Lösungen (FORGE2021), Köln

Team

Vorträge

INTAVIA: In/Tangible European Heritage – Digitale Vermittlung von Kulturerbe-Daten

#digiRoundtable V – Projektreigen, Status und Zukunft, 22.11.2023

Monster in a Snow Globe. Biographies as Data Physicalizations

IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), 26.10.2023

A Workflow Approach to Visualization-Based Storytelling with Cultural Heritage Data

8th IEEE Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH), 23.10.2023

Smashing the Silos - Integrating Multiple Databases in the InTaVia Knowledge Graph

CaTCH – Capturing the IntAngible of Cultural Heritage, 23.10.2023

There's history in all (wo)men's lives

There’s History in All Men’s Lives, 25.09.2023

Connecting Data Silos, DH Teams & Cultural Heritage Institutions

Smashing the Silos! The Future of Cultural Heritage Information and Visualization, 09.07.2023

Drawing Together Work & Life

Smashing the Silos! The Future of Cultural Heritage Information and Visualization, 09.07.2023

Narrative Visualization of Cultural Information

Smashing the Silos! The Future of Cultural Heritage Information and Visualization, 09.07.2023

Linking and visualizing cultural heritage data for humanities research

Cultural Heritage Data as Humanities Research Data? - DARIAH Annual Event 2023, 06.06.2023

E pluribus unum: Neue Wege zur Visualisierung von Leben und Werk

22. Workshop des Netzwerks Biografieforschung: “Biografieforschung und -vermittlung im digitalen Raum”, 05.05.2023

Designing Distant Views for Cultural Collections

Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT), 10.11.2022

The Multiple Faces of Cultural Heritage: Towards an Integrated Visualization Platform for Tangible and Intangible Cultural Assets

7th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (vis4dh), 16.10.2022

Europas Kultur auf der Spur: Neue Zugänge zu Europas komplexer Kulturgeschichte.

Euorpean Researchers Night, 30.09.2022

Visually Analyzing Cultural Information - The Case of Albrecht Dürer’s Journey to the Netherlands

22. Vernetzungstreffen DArtHist Austria, 27.09.2022

Traveling with Albrecht Dürer - A Case Study for Uncertainty-Aware Biography Visualization

Biographical Data in a Digital World (BD`22), 25.07.2022

Daten im Raum – Visualisierungen und Physikalisierungen im Medium Ausstellung

DHd2022, 10.03.2022

Leben, Werke und Datensilos - Zur Verknüpfung und Visualisierung von im/materiellen Komponenten des kulturellen Erbes

DHd2022, 10.03.2022

Zur Visualisierung und Physikalisierung kultureller Objekt- & Biographiedaten

DHd2022, 10.03.2022

Reasoning with Knowledge Graph Visualizations – A Mental Models Perspective

Graphs and Networks in the Humanities 2022. Technologies, Models, Analyses, and Visualizations., 04.02.2022

Es war einmal ein Archiv. Strategien der Narrativierung und Visualisierung

Alte und Neue Archive. Sammeln und Archivieren im Postdigitalen Zeitalter., 03.12.2021

Uncertain, ambivalent and sketchy? On data quality issues in a linked in/tangible cultural heritage database

Digital Material. Digitized collections in cultural heritage institutions, 16.09.2021

Zur Nachhaltigkeit von Visualisierungen in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften

FORGE 2021, 09.09.2021

Europäische „Silodarität“: Zur Harmonisierung und Visualisierung von immateriellem und materiellem Kulturerbe

Vernetzungstreffen DArtHist Austria, 14.06.2021

A Synoptic Approach to Modelling and Visualizing Arts and Humanities Topics

Geography meets Digital Humanities – Neuere Ansätze raumbezogener Modellierung, 13.04.2021

Visuelle Analyse und Kuratierung von Biographiedaten

Digital History. Konzepte, Methoden und Kritiken digitaler Geschichtswissenschaften, 02.03.2021

Life after New Criticism. Zur biographischen Kontextualisierung kultureller Objekte im Netz der Daten

Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter, 15.01.2021

Disruption im Archiv – Neue Techniken der Visualisierung von kunst- und kulturhistorischen Daten

Kulturerbe und Digitalisierung. Neue Chancen für Bildung und Vermittlung, 11.11.2020

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