Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathons

A project aiming to tell a story (connected facts) using the structured data of wikidata.org

Exploring a water visualisation and sonification remix with Open Data,
to make it accessible for people who don't care about data.

Why water? Water is a open accessible element for life. It
flows like data and everyone should have access to it.

We demand Open Access to data and water.

Join us, we have stickers.

• HTML5, Client Side Javascript, CSS and Cowbells
• Flocking JavaScript audio synthesis framework
• Hugged by stackoverflow

Created by the members of Kollektiv Zoll

• jeredepp
• whitesand
• starfrosch

The goal of the project is to develop an ontology for the performing arts domain that allows to describe the holdings of the Swiss Archives for the Performing Arts (formerly Swiss Theatre Collection and Swiss Dance Collection) and other performing arts related holdings, such as the holdings represented on the Performing Arts Portal of the Specialized Information Services for the Performing Arts (Goethe University Frankfurt).

See also: Project "Linked Open Theatre Data"

2017:

• Draft Version of the Swiss Performing Arts Ontology (Pre-Release, 24 May 2017)

2016:

• Initial Data Modelling Experiments: Swiss Performing Arts Vocabulary (deprecated)

The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HDS) is an academic reference work which documents the most important topics and objects of Swiss history from prehistory up to the present.

The HDS digital edition comprises about 36.000 articles organized in 4 main headword groups:

- Biographies,

- Families,

- Geographical entities and

- Thematical contributions.

Beyond the encyclopaedic description of entities/concepts, each article contains references to primary and secondary sources which supported authors when writing articles.

We have the following data:

* metadata information about HDS articles Historical Dictionary of Switzerland comprising:

• bibliographic references of HDS articles
  
• article titles
  

* Le Temps digital archive for the year 1914

Our projects revolve around linking the HDS to external data and aim at:

1. Entity linking towards HDS
   
   The objective is to link named entity mentions discovered in historical Swiss newspapers to their correspondant HDS articles.
   

1. Exploring reference citation of HDS articles
   
   The objective is to reconcile HDS bibliographic data contained in articles with SwissBib.

We used web-services to annotate text with named entities:

- Dandelion

- Alchemy

- OpenCalais

Named entity mentions (persons and places) are matched against entity labels of HDS entries and directly linked when only one HDS entry exists.

Further developments would includes:

- handling name variants, e.g. 'W.A. Mozart' or 'Mozart' should match 'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart' .

- real disambiguation by comparing the newspaper article context with the HDS article context (a first simple similarity could be tf-idf based)

- working with a more refined NER output which comprises information about name components (first, middle,last names)

We work on the list of references in all articles of the HDS, with three goals:

1. Finding all the sources which are cited in the HDS (several sources are cited multiple times) ;
2. Link all the sources with the SwissBib catalog, if possible ;
3. Interactively explore the citation network of the HDS.

The dataset comes from the HDS metadata. It contains lists of references in every HDS article:

Result of source disambiguation and look-up into SwissBib:

Bibliographic coupling network of the HDS articles (giant component). In Bibliographic coupling two articles are connected if they cite the same source at least once.
Biographies (white), Places (green), Families (blue) and Topics (red):

Ci-citation network of the HDS sources (giant component of degree > 15). In co-citation networks, two sources are connected if they are cited by one or more articles together.
Publications (white), Works of the subject of an article (green), Archival sources (cyan) and Critical editions (grey):

Wir arbeiten mit den Daten zu den Dokumenten von 1848-1975 aus der Datenbank Dodis und nutzen hierfür Nodegoat.

Animation (mit click öffnen):

The Codex Manesse, or «Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift», is an outstanding source of Middle High German Minnesang, a book of songs and poetry the main body of which was written and illustrated between 1250 and 1300 in Zürich, Switzerland. The Codex, produced for the Manesse family, is one of the most beautifully illustrated German manuscripts in history.

The Codex Manesse is an anthology of the works of about 135 Minnesingers of the mid 12th to early 14th century. For each poet, a portrait is shown, followed by the text of their works. The entries are ordered by the social status of the poets, starting with the Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich VI, the kings Konrad IV and Wenzeslaus II, down through dukes, counts and knights, to the commoners.

Page 262v, entitled «Herr Gœli», is named after a member of the Golin family originating from Badenweiler, Germany. «Herr Gœli» may have been identified either as Konrad Golin (or his nephew Diethelm) who were high ranked clergymen in 13th century Basel. The illustration, which is followed by four songs, shows «Herrn Gœli» and a friend playing a game of Backgammon (at that time referred to as «Pasch», «Puff», «Tricktrack», or «Wurfzabel»). The game is in full swing, and the players argue about a specific move.

Join in and start playing a game of backgammon against «Herrn Gœli». But watch out: «Herr Gœli» speaks Middle High German, and despite his respectable age he is quite lucky with the dice!

You control the white stones. The object of the game is to move all your pieces from the top-left corner of the board clockwise to the bottom-left corner and then off the board, while your opponent does the same in the opposite direction. Click on the dice to roll, click on a stone to select it, and again on a game space to move it. Each die result tells you how far you can move one piece, so if you roll a five and a three, you can move one piece five spaces, and another three spaces. Or, you can move the same piece three, then five spaces (or vice versa). Rolling doubles allows you to make four moves instead of two.

Note that you can't move to spaces occupied by two or more of your opponent's pieces, and a single piece without at least another ally is vulnerable to being captured. Therefore it's important to try to keep two or more of your pieces on a space at any time. The strategy comes from attempting to block or capture your opponent's pieces while advancing your own quickly enough to clear the board first.

And don't worry if you don't understand what «Herr Gœli» ist telling you in Middle High German: Point your mouse to his message to get a translation into modern English.

2016/07/01 v1.0: Index page, basic game engine

2016/07/02 v1.1: Translation into Middle High German, responsive design

2016/07/04 v1.11: Minor bug fixes

• Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg: Der Codex Manesse und die Entdeckung der Liebe
• Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg: Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift – Cod. Pal. germ. 848 (Codex Manesse)
• Wikimedia Commons: Codex Manesse
• Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz: Manessische Handschrift
• Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz: Baden, von
• Wörterbuchnetz: Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch von Matthias Lexer