Open heritage data : an introduction to research, publishing and programming with open data in the heritage sector / Henriette Roued-Cunliffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roued-Cunliffe, Henriette, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copyright--Electronic information resources.

Copyright.

Cultural property--Electronic information resources.

Cultural property.

Open access publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 147 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Facet, 2020.

Summary:

<div>This book combines current research in open data practices in the heritage sector with technical step-by-step guides on how to work with heritage data for visualisation, mapping, and mining.</div><div><br></div><div>The book begins with an overview of the extent of open heritage data, a thorough review of the current literature and original case studies from practitioners at Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America, fx. Rijksmuseum, the National Gallery of Denmark and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.</div><div><br></div><div>The second part of the book puts the theory into practice with a series of step-by-step guides that take the reader through creating, publishing, using and reusing open heritage data.</div><div><br></div><div>The book covers:</div><div><ul><li>copyright and licensing for digitised and born-digital heritage material</li><li>publishing different data types as open data (images, maps, structured data)</li><li>finding open data with a guide to using APIs</li><li>visualizing open data</li><li>mapping open data</li><li>mining open data</li><li>the use of open data with examples of how to reuse, remix, hack and mashup open data.</li></ul></div><div><i>Open Heritage Data</i> will be useful reading for practitioners working in libraries, museums, archives, historical societies as well as researchers, educators and students in digital humanities, information science, computer science, heritage studies, archaeology, history and related fields.</div>

Contents:

Endorsement

Title page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1 Openness in heritage

Heritage amateurs

Organising heritage in institutions

Physical access

Online access

Data access

Summary

2 Sharing legally

Heritage laws

Data protection law

Copyright law

3 Publishing open data

Galleries/art museums

Libraries

Archives

Museums

GLAM

4 Using and reusing open data

Use and users

Technical skills

Authority

Heritage hackathons

Wikipedians

Education and youth

Apps

DIY and maker culture

Portals

Tools

5 Visualising open data

Basic data reuse

Images

Maps

Charts

6 Combining open data

Combining art

Combining archaeological records

Combining newspapers

7 Open data for research

Basic data collection

Data cleaning

Descriptive statistics

Timeline analysis

Appendix A: Examples used in the book

Appendix B: Introduction to coding

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

JSON

PHP

Python

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2020).

ISBN:

9781783303618

1783303611