Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case
Over the last decade, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) institutions have been exploring new ways to make their content available. Recent initiatives such as GLAM Labs and Collections as data promote the reuse of and computational access to digital collections. Low barrier-to-entry t...
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| author | Gustavo Candela Olga Holownia Max Odsbjerg Mirjam Cuper Nele Gabriëls Katrine Hofmann Edward J. Gray Sally Chambers Mahendra Mahey |
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| description | Over the last decade, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) institutions have been exploring new ways to make their content available. Recent initiatives such as GLAM Labs and Collections as data promote the reuse of and computational access to digital collections. Low barrier-to-entry tools, such as the web-based interactive computing platform Jupyter Notebooks have been gradually gaining popularity among users who want to explore digital collections and GLAM institutions that want to provide access to them. This paper is an extension of the workshop focusing on computational access at GLAM institutions delivered at the 2024 edition of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) Conference.1 This paper aims to provide a framework for creating a collection of Jupyter Notebooks using GLAM digital collections following best practices and guidelines and as part of a Collections as data publication workflow. The intended audience is Digital Humanities researchers and GLAM professionals interested in exploring the computational reuse of digital collections. The main contributions of this work are: (a) a framework for creating a collection of Jupyter Notebooks in the GLAM domain, (b) the reproducible code and examples of use, and (c) the results obtained after its application. These contributions are intended to foster responsible computational access to collections in the GLAM sector. The framework was applied to a relevant dataset derived from Timarit.is, a digitised collection of newspapers and periodicals from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. We identified common features and best practices and we provide a detailed analysis that can be useful for organisations interested in publishing reproducible code combined with documentation such as Jupyter Notebooks. We also outline open issues that require further work. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d5ae4823729648ecbb0634b33f2da4c12025-02-11T05:37:28ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Open Humanities Data2059-481X2025-01-01117710.5334/johd.261261Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use CaseGustavo Candela0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6122-0777Olga Holownia1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1800-6526Max Odsbjerg2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9215-5605Mirjam Cuper3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0187-9873Nele Gabriëls4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0325-3228Katrine Hofmann5Edward J. Gray6https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5201-1014Sally Chambers7https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2430-475XMahendra Mahey8https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7608-6152University of AlicanteInternational Internet Preservation ConsortiumRoyal Danish LibraryNational Library of the NetherlandsKU LeuvenRoyal Danish LibraryIR* Huma-Num (CNRS); DARIAH-EUDARIAH-EU, FR; British LibraryTallinn UniversityOver the last decade, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) institutions have been exploring new ways to make their content available. Recent initiatives such as GLAM Labs and Collections as data promote the reuse of and computational access to digital collections. Low barrier-to-entry tools, such as the web-based interactive computing platform Jupyter Notebooks have been gradually gaining popularity among users who want to explore digital collections and GLAM institutions that want to provide access to them. This paper is an extension of the workshop focusing on computational access at GLAM institutions delivered at the 2024 edition of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) Conference.1 This paper aims to provide a framework for creating a collection of Jupyter Notebooks using GLAM digital collections following best practices and guidelines and as part of a Collections as data publication workflow. The intended audience is Digital Humanities researchers and GLAM professionals interested in exploring the computational reuse of digital collections. The main contributions of this work are: (a) a framework for creating a collection of Jupyter Notebooks in the GLAM domain, (b) the reproducible code and examples of use, and (c) the results obtained after its application. These contributions are intended to foster responsible computational access to collections in the GLAM sector. The framework was applied to a relevant dataset derived from Timarit.is, a digitised collection of newspapers and periodicals from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. We identified common features and best practices and we provide a detailed analysis that can be useful for organisations interested in publishing reproducible code combined with documentation such as Jupyter Notebooks. We also outline open issues that require further work.https://account.openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/index.php/up-j-johd/article/view/261glam labscollections as datacomputational accessdigital collectionsdigital cultural heritage |
| spellingShingle | Gustavo Candela Olga Holownia Max Odsbjerg Mirjam Cuper Nele Gabriëls Katrine Hofmann Edward J. Gray Sally Chambers Mahendra Mahey Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case Journal of Open Humanities Data glam labs collections as data computational access digital collections digital cultural heritage |
| title | Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case |
| title_full | Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case |
| title_fullStr | Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case |
| title_short | Promoting Computational Access to Digital Collections in the Nordic and Baltic Countries: An Icelandic Use Case |
| title_sort | promoting computational access to digital collections in the nordic and baltic countries an icelandic use case |
| topic | glam labs collections as data computational access digital collections digital cultural heritage |
| url | https://account.openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/index.php/up-j-johd/article/view/261 |
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