To use the dataset to map the images, I needed coordinates for each image. Once I had done basic data cleaning and transforming, I began to enrich the data with the location information. I also chose to do the data cleaning in OpenRefine since it is a free, open source tool that easily lets users clean and transform data. For a more detailed explanation, give Mariana’s blog post a read. Thanks to Mariana’s work on the pilot study, I was able to follow many of her steps for the data cleaning, transforming and refining. In this blog post, I will explain the steps I took to achieve these goals. Concretely, this took the form of creating an online, interactive map of Leuven through the centuries. The second goal was to creatively reuse this data to show an example of what can be done when cultural heritage institutions share their collections as open data. The first was to create another machine-actionable dataset to share on the Library’s GitHub account, using the pilot study as a starting point. In my internship, I had two main objectives. With the Library’s recent move to adopt an open data policy for its digitized collections and a previous intern’s work on a pilot study to share the collections as computationally amenable data, I built upon this foundation.
During my internship at KU Leuven Libraries, I worked with the digitized Views of Leuven collection from the library’s Digital Heritage Online collection, a collection that contains 352 images of Leuven and the surrounding areas dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries. We were delighted she took to the challenge of working creatively with one of our open data collections. Time to introduce you to the work of Allison Bearly! Allison spent the spring 2020 semester working as an intern for the Special Collections and Digitisation Departments of KU Leuven Libraries, as part of her Advanced Master’s in Digital Humanities programme. Opening up a little… on Large-scale high-end digitisat… Mind the gap? Open A… on On target, the ColorChecker SG… Open Access spectral… on Mind the gap? Open Access spec… Views of Louvain: th… on We are OPEN! Share and reuse o… Views of Louvain: th… on Opening up a little more: a mi… Opening up a little more: a minimal-computing approach for developing Git and machine-actionable GLAM open data.Launch pixel+ viewer: New dimensions take a deeper look at heritage.Data-level access to Belgian historical censuses.Mind the gap? Open Access spectral data for documentary heritage digitisation.Views of Louvain: the making of an interactive map.
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