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.
Details
Duration | 01/11/2020 - 31/10/2023 |
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Funding | EU |
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Principle investigator for the project (University for Continuing Education Krems) | Dr. Eva Mayr |
Project members |
Mag. Nicole High-Steskal, Ph.D.
Mag. Dr. Johannes Liem
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Project website | www.intavia.eu |
Publications
Kusnick, J.; Mayr, E.; Seirafi, K.; Beck, S.; Liem, J.; Windhager, F. (2024). Every Thing Can Be a Hero! Narrative Visualization of Person, Object, and Other Biographies. Informatics, 11: 26
Mayr, E.; Schlögl, M.; Windhager, F. (2024). Cultura Ibi Vadis! Zur Rekontextualisierung und Visualisierung kultureller Informationen in InTaVia. In: Weis, J.; Haider, T; Bunout, ., DHd 2024 Quo Vadis DH: 146-149, zenodo, Passau
Windhager F.; Mayr, E.; Liem, J.; Kusnick, J.; Jänicke, S.; Grebe, A. (2024). Traveling with Albrecht Dürer - A Case Study for Uncertainty-Aware Biography Visualization. In: Hyvönen, E.; Koho, M.; Daza, A.; Pobezin, G., Biographical Data in a Digital World 2022 (BD 2022). Workshop, co-located with the Digital Humanities 2022 (DH2022) conference in Tokyo: 114-126, Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Ljubliana
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
Windhager, F.; Mayr, E. (2024). Digital Humanities and Distributed Cognition: From a Lack of Theory to its Visual Augmentation. Journal of Cultural Analytics, 7(4): https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.121866
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
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