GLAM – Digital Humanities Now

Editors’ Choice: Roundtable Recap: How to digitise a physical archive to work strategically with AI?

Editors’ Summary: This roundtable, hosted by Open Knowledge Foundation in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences in Guatemala, fills a key gap in digital archives by focusing on how archives and museums in the Global South or regions experiencing political or social instability can effectively engage with digital or AI tools […]

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Editors’ Choice: From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships: When the Semantic Web Redesigns Cultural Narratives

Editors’ Summary: Tiziana Pascuito’s “From Rigid Taxonomies to Networks of Relationships” uses a case study of Arabic manuscripts to highlight the utility of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, a cultural heritage ontology that allows for dynamic networks. The author demonstrates how traditional approaches classify documents into separate compartments, such as “Astronomy.” Using an ontology based […]