digital heritage - principles, tactics, trends and perspectives

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Digital HeritagePrinciples, tactics, trends and perspectives

Jacob R. Wang, CARARE Final policy Conference

8-9 November 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark

The National Museum of DenmarkEstablished 1807

550 employees | 1 million hours | 35 million Euro

MISSIONThe National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for

everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history

Zuse Z3 (1943)

1950s - Invented and developed

1990s - Commercially available

2000s - Exponential growth all over

We’re here

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Newsocial, communication, learning, creation, sharing

mechanics

Social Local Mobile Web 2.0

Semantic Web, Internet of things, Singularity

Built for the early web + broadcast

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What to do?

The strategist”I will predict the future, and use this to

carefully plan our work in the years to come!”

Strategi & Vision

WHAT’S IN THE CRYSTAL BALL?Relevant trends and disruptive tools

Further SoLoMo, Semantic Web, Internet of things,

Natural interfaces, Image recognition, Augmented

Reality, Embedded Sensors, Artificial Intelligence

WHAT CAN WE DO NOW?Pick principles and tactics + do stuff

Government 2.0, Linked Open Data, Copyright

Policy, Infrastructure, Digitisation, Metadata

production, Devops, Lean Startup methodologies

An example…

Augmented Reality

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MissionThe National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for

everyone to achieve insight in cultural heritage

MissionThe National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for

everyone to achieve insight in cultural heritage

Painting the world with the past

Seamless Augmented Reality

Geotagging content

Another example…

Artificial intelligence

Kasparov vs Deep Blue (1997)

Deep Blue

Watson Intro 01

Human race vs Watson (2011)

Link

Watson Intro 02

WATSONWatson is an artificial intelligence computer system capable

of answering questions posed in natural language (…)

Watson has access to 200 million pages of structured and

unstructured content (…) including the full text of

Wikipedia.

Paraphrase based on Wikipedia

CONTENT?Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, newswire articles, literary

works, databases, taxonomies, ontologies

In the future

we’ll have Watson in our pockets!

So what to do now?

MISSIONThe National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for

everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history

MISSIONThe National Museum embody and develop the prerequisites for

everyone to be able to gain insight into cultural history

”Cultural Heritage Watson”

in your pocket

Digitalisation

THE DIGITAL NATIONAL MUSEUMOpenness, Accessibility, Transparency

Digital workspace development

Digital literacy

We’re putting the pedal to the metal!

THE DIGITAL NATIONAL MUSEUMFull digitisation and accessibility (by 2020)

Massive representation in Europeana

Infrastructure development

Collection crowdsourcing

...and many other things!

Thank you!