Join the 2nd International Conference on Museum Big Data – register free here.
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 |
18.15 – 18.30 | Closure: special issue and the 3rd MBD Conference | Dr Georgios Papaioannou & Dr Milena Dobreva (UCL Qatar) |
19:00 onwards | DINNER | |
24 October 2020 | Visits to museums for onsite participants |