Hosting Dr. Anne Chen & Kunika Kono –> Jan Ainali
This coming Friday, March 27th, we’ll be meeting at 15:00 UK time for our monthly AI-BRIDGES Open Forum meeting.
In the coming meeting, we will be hosting two presenter, Dr. Anne Chen and Kunika Kono (below are some details about both), followed by an intro to the framework developed by Wikimedia Brasil, which will inform our design of the pipeline / workflow for institutional data donation. our presenters.
If you haven’t yet, here is a link to a calendar invite.
See you all Friday,
Shani.
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1) Dr. Anne Chen:
Anne specializes in the art and archaeology of the globally-connected Roman world, and is committed to exploring how low-barrier Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) can be harnessed not only to provide more equitable access to archaeological data in the digital realm, but also to empower stakeholder audiences as collaborative curators. She is the founder and co-director of the NEH-funded International Digital Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA), an archaeological data accessibility project whose documentation efforts are aimed at sharing-out workflows that help to overcome disciplinary data silos and work to dislodge enduring impacts of colonialism.
2) Kunika Kono:
Kunika is my colleague at the Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She has varying expertise and is passionate about Open Knowledge, specifically Wikidata and Wikibases. In this meeting, she’ll be sharing details on her involvement in the Congruence Engine Data Register: Building Community-Driven Heritage Infrastructure with Wikibase.
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Meeting Summary
Thanks to everyone who were able to join our March Open Meeting, especially our presenters, Dr. Anne Chen,and Jan Ainali, who has gracefully stepped forward instead of Kunika, who has fallen ill, and will present in the coming months.
A recording is available below, as well as a link to the playlist that hosts all meetings.
The AI Bridges Open Forum meeting focused on presenting two institutional knowledge projects and discussing pipeline design for making institutional data more accessible through Wikidata and Wikibase.
Dr. Anne Chen presented her International Digital Daring Europos Archive project, which uses Wikidata to connect fragmented archaeological collections from a site in eastern Syria, including both physical artifacts and archival photographs, while incorporating multilingual labels and local community knowledge.
Jan Ainali presented the GovDirectory project, which aims to create a comprehensive collection of public organizations worldwide using Wikidata, with full coverage in Sweden and partial coverage in other countries like the Netherlands. The conversation ended with a discussion of Wikimedia Brazil’s framework for working with GLAM institutions, which includes four phases: political, legal, technical, and dissemination, with participants discussing how this framework could inform the development of an AI-powered pipeline to help institutions contribute their knowledge to Wikidata more effectively.