Director for Cultural Heritage Data at Yale University; all opinions my own. Also: boardgames, roleplaying games. Ex NZ, UK.
Nov 21, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As an experiment, I looked at the description of the J Paul Getty Trust in wikidata. 4/11 assertions were wrong (business type, inception date, subsidiary, legal form), 1 meaningless (category), 1 redundant (LA is in USA). Description was very poor, and empty labels (Galician).
I corrected the data, but there’s no way to know if someone reverts my corrections. There’s no way to know if someone adds in more incorrect data. Not sure what the purpose of wikidata is - large amounts of inaccurate and incomplete data, that hasn’t adopted standard vocabularies
Oct 10, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Digital cultural heritage is not digital resources imbued with cultural value, but networked access to usable digital representations of tangible, intangible and natural cultural heritage. Digital is a means, not an end.
The intrinsic value of the representation is from the heritage, with a limiting factor of its fitness-for-purpose or usability. The actual value is only realized through interaction, and resulting experiential impact.
