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Poulovassilis, Alexandra, Larsson, Nick, Candlin, Fiona, Larkin, Jamie and Ballatore, Andrea (2020) Creating a knowledge base to research the history of UK museums through rapid application development. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 12 (4). pp. 1-27. doi:10.1145/3343871 ISSN 1556-4673.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3343871
Abstract
Several studies have highlighted the absence of an integrated comprehensive dataset covering all of the UK’s museums, hence impeding research into the emergence, evolution, and wider impact of the UK’s museums sector. “Mapping Museums” is an interdisciplinary project aiming to develop a comprehensive database of UK museums in existence since 1960, and to use this to undertake an evidence-based analysis of the development of the UK’s museum sector during 1960--2020 and the links to wider cultural, social, and political concerns. A major part of the project has been the iterative, participatory design of a new RDF/S Knowledge Base to store data and metadata relating to the UK’s museums, and a Web Application for the project’s humanities scholars to browse, search, and visualise the data to investigate their research questions. This article presents the challenges we faced in developing the Knowledge Base and Web Application, our methodology and methods, the design and implementation of the system, and the design, outcomes, and implications of a user trial undertaken with a group of experts from the UK’s museums sector.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage | ||||||
Publisher: | Association for Computing Machinery | ||||||
ISSN: | 1556-4673 | ||||||
Official Date: | January 2020 | ||||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-27 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1145/3343871 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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