Resources

• Introduction to Cultural Heritage Data

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  This course provides the essential knowledge and skills to understand and efficiently use Cultural Heritage data. Guided by Prof. Lorena, a persona created for the course, participants explore the significance of CH data, its types, and formats. They learn to identify sources for data acquisition and apply techniques to enhance data quality. The course also covers methods for organizing CH data, introduces key metadata standards, and examines current trends and technologies in the field.

• Introduction to Collections as Data

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  The goal of this course is to introduce the Collections as Data principles in the cultural heritage sector to make available a digital collection suitable for computational use. Students will have a fundamental understanding of the complexities of Collections as Data as well as an appreciation of the diversity of the content provided by cultural heritage institutions. This course will be useful for small and medium-sized institutions willing to make available their digital collections suitable for computational use.

• Digitisation Methods for Material Culture

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  This resource is an introduction to Digitisation Methods for Material Culture. The resource explores basic topics with regards to the study of material culture, while also looking at types of media as means to communicate and share information about it, as well as digitisation methods to capture material culture data.

• Creating Stories with 3D Data on the Web

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  This resource provides guidance on how to use digital storytelling, deploying 3D data, annotations and combining media to enable users to access and explore information about digital heritage assets over the web.

• Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) - Where and How to Get Images

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  This tutorial explores where and how to find, create, and collect images of textual material, a crucial initial step in any process using Automatic Text Recognition (ATR).

• Linking Digital Heritage, Games and Virtual Tourism

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  This talk gives an overview over developments in digital cultural heritage in recent decades and explores challenges, and opportunities, in the field. It addresses the importance of open, fair and democratic sharing of cultural data, challenges with sustainability of digital projects and how gaming can be a tool for public engagement.

• Historical Farm and People Registry in Iceland

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  This presentation outlines the aim and scope of the Historical Farm and People Registry project, explains the development process and problems encountered on the way, and demonstrates a use case for the ‘final’ product.

• Making an Interactive Web Application with R and Shiny

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  This lesson demonstrates how to build a basic interactive web application using Shiny, a library (a set of additional functions) for the programming language R. In the lesson, you will design and implement a simple application, consisting of a slider which allows a user to select a date range, which will then trigger some code in R, and display a set of corresponding points on an interactive map.

• Chroma Key Tutorial

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  This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide on using chroma keying, or green screen effects, with the PowerDirector video editing app, showing users how to set up the app, import footage, apply the chroma key effect, and export the final video.

• Scalable Reading of Structured Data

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  In this lesson, you will be introduced to ‘scalable reading’ and how to apply this workflow to your analysis of structured data.

• Introduction to Map Warper

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  This lesson from Programming Historian introduces basic use of Map Warper for historical maps. It guides you from upload to export, demonstrating methods for georeferencing and producing visualizations.

• Diamond Publication and Open Science at ULiège

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  In this video, presented as part of the Friday Frontiers series, Bernard Pochet traces the evolution of Open Science at the University of Liège in the early 2000s, focusing on Open Access and the implementation of a Diamond Open Access journal publishing platform (PoPuPS) and an institutional repository (ORBi).