22-24 October for the newest academic and professional developments in museum big data!

The conference main theme this year is MUSEUMS ON LOCKDOWN: UNLEASHING NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR CREATIVITY AND EXPERIMENTATION WITH BIG DATA. It is co-organised by UCL Qatar and The Cyprus Institute and will be held on 22-24 October 2020, Nicosia, Cyprus and online. For those joining online here is how to participate:

Connection URL Day 1 (22 Oct 2020): https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/579002621

Connection URL Day 2 (23 Oct 2020): https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/222194005

Program

10.00 – 10.15	Welcome and Announcements	Dr Sam Evans, UCL Qatar Director Assoc. Prof. G. Papaioannou, MBD Conferences Chair
10.15 – 10.30	Welcome	Professor. Thilo Rehren, Director, Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center A.G. Leventis Chair in Archaeological Sciences The Cyprus Institute   Assoc. Professor Nikolas Bakirtzis, Director, Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories The Cyprus Institute
10:30 – 11:15	Opening Keynote Not Business as Usual: Museums, Data and Post-Lockdown Realities	Dr Rebecca Kahn, Associate Researcher, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany
11.15 – 11.30	Discussion
11.30 – 12.00	Coffee break
Session 2.	The Covid-19 pandemic as a driver for innovation [Chair: Dr Georgios Papaioannou]

12.00 – 12.20	Museums and the COVID-19 pandemic: researching data and experiences	Chiara Zuanni, University of Graz, Austria
12.20 – 12.40	Digital Media as Communication Tools for Cultural Organizations Related to Music in the Covid-19 age	Ofilia Psomadaki, University of Macedonia, Greece
12.40 – 13.00	Closed Museum – Open Broadcast. An Analysis of Museum YouTube Channels During the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic	Franziska Nober, Institute of Ancient History and Epigraphy at Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany
13.00 – 13.15	Discussion
13.15-14.00	Lunch
Session 3	Texts as big data [Chair: Dr Georgios Papaioannou]

14.00 – 14.20	Mining Big Data for Agile Narratives	Susan Hazan, CEO, Israel Consortium Digital Culture (ICDC), at Digital Heritage, Israel
14.20 – 14.40	The Detective Section: On Machine Learning and Local Knowledge Processes in A Recently Initiated Handwritten Text Recognition and Citizen Science Project	Karl-Magnus Johansson, Swedish National Archives in Gothenburg, Sweden   Mats Jönsson, University of Gothenburg (UGOT), Sweden
14.40 – 15.00	Visiting a Museum through the Authors’ Words: the case of Nikos Kazantzakis	Nikos Mathioudakis, Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas, Granada, Spain
15.00 – 15.15	Discussion
15.15-15.45	Coffee break
Session 4.	Impact and reuse [Chair: Dr Georgios Papaioannou]

15.45 – 16.05		A review of South Africa’s extracted heritage site data from grey literature related to the impact assessment process	Nicholas Wiltshire, OpenHeritage NPC, South Africa   Clinton Jackson, The South African Heritage Resources Agency, South Africa
16.05 – 16.25		From a small Brick to the Big (wall of) Data: Reusable Human and Machine-Understandable Content Models	Avgoustinos Avgousti, Georgios Papaioannou, Nikolas Bakirtzis, Sorin Hermon, Christina Roditou, UCL, Qatar & The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
Session 6.		Data and models [Chair: Dr Georgios Papaioannou]

9.30 – 10.00	Special guest: Digitization of documentary heritage & UNESCO Memory of the World Programme	Kate Lee, ICDH, Republic of Korea
10.00 – 10.20	Big Data, FAIR data – opportunities and challenges	Sorin Hermon, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
	in sharing museum-digital data	Franco Niccolucci, PIN, VAST-LAB, Prato, Italy
10.20 – 10.40	Between written and visual communication: a CIDOC CRM ontology for Medieval and Modern graffiti	Mia Trentin, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus Achille Felicetti, PIN, VAST-LAB, Prato, Italy
10.40 – 11.00	Big, Bold, and Beautiful: Contemporary Art Museums as a Big Museum Data Case Study	Georgina Portelli, MICAS, Malta and Milena Dobreva, UCL Qatar
11.00 – 11.15	Discussion
11.15 -11.30	Coffee Break
Session 7.	Digital Transformation and New Tools [Chair: Dr Georgios Papaioannou]
11.30 – 11.50	Serverless Computing For Bulk Analysis Of Museum Images	Tristan Roddis, Cogapp, United Kingdom
11.50 – 12.10	Utilising Big Data for Procedurally Generating Digital Games for Museums	Owen Sacco, Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology (MCAST), Malta Georgios N. Yannakakis, Institute of Digital Games, University of Malta, Malta Milena Dobreva, UCL Qatar, Qatar
12.10 – 12.30	Digital transformation at Utrecht University Library, The Netherlands	Puck Wildschut, Iris van der Knaap, Utrecht University Library, Netherlands
12.30 – 12.45	Discussion
12:45-13.30	Lunch break
Session 8.	Museums on the Web [Chair: Dr Georgios Papaioannou]

13.30 – 13.50	LinkGate: Visualizing a Museum of the Web	Mohammed Elfarargy, Youssef Eldakar, Amr Morad, Amr Rizq, Mohammed Elsayyed, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
13.50 – 14.10	Museum Web-History & Museum Data: Changing the role through the past	Nadezhda Povroznik, Perm State University, Russia
14.10 – 14.30	Smart cities, cultural heritage, and big data	Milena Dobreva, UCL Qatar, Qatar
14.30 – 14.45	Discussion
14.45 – 15.00	Coffee break
Session 9.	3D Visualisation [Chair: Dr Georgios Papaioannou]
15.00 – 15.20	3D Spatial Data in the Museum: the case of the Interactive Visualisation of Historic Nicosia	Georgios Artopoulos, Nicolas Loucas, Mohammed Rafat-Saleh, Marissia Deligiorgi, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
15.20 – 15.40	Real-Time Interactive Visualisation of 3D Spatial Data of Archaeological Sites in the Museum: Khirokitia VR	Spyridoula Magoula, Nicolas Loucas, Mohammed Rafat-Saleh, Georgios Artopoulos, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
15.50 – 16.00	Extending the Capabilities of Cultural Visitor Management with Big-Data: The example of “Hologrammatic Corfu”	Sofia Maria Poulimenou, Ioannis Deliyannis, Ionian University, Greece
16.00 – 16.15	Discussion
16.15 -16.30	Coffee Break
Session 10.	Metadata and data management [Chair: Dr Georgios Papaioannou]
16.30 – 16.50	Development of an information infrastructure for metadata interoperability of Brazilian museums: the case of the analytical dashboard of the Brazilian Museum Institute	Dalton Martins, University of Brasília, Brazil Luciana Conrado, Federal University of Piauí, Brazil Luís Felipe Rosa, University of Brasília, Brazil

16.50 – 17.10	Supporting Broad Data Management and Sharing with the Clowder Framework	Luigi Marini, Colter Wehmeier, Kajetan Hass, Sandeep Puthanveetil Satheesan, Marcus Slavenas, Kenton McHenry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
17.10 -17.30	Coffee Break
Session 11.	Closing session [Chair: Dr Georgios Papaioannou]
17.30 – 18.15	Closing keynote Data Mining and Knowledge Representation Techniques for Museums	Dr. Claudia Marinica Assistant Professor at Polytech’Nantes, University of Nantes / LS2N Research lab, France