Mester, Anna | Antal Dániel honlapja

TextileBase: Introduction

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:00:00 +0200

The July 10 is a hybrid event that you can attend either in person or online. Please register via the contact form or via email. For those who cannot visit this event, we offer an alternative online webinar. (Please fill out your availability here). The start time is 15.00 Central European Summer Time, 14.00 GMT and 16.00 EET. If you physically attend, please arrive a few minutes early.

We warmly invite colleagues, friends, and stakeholders interested in cultural heritage data, digital humanities, and AI-supported research to a light and lively summer seminar on three interconnected initiatives.

Our main focus is on TextileBase – our linked open data platform for dress history
We show a glimpse of our futuristic multi-modal, multi-language graph with data, images, music, audiovisual Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space, as a way to connect clothing history into a broader regional knowledge platform.
And the Wikimuseum concept for wider impact, co-curated collections and exhibitions.

This informal gathering is not about theoretical publications (although we’re happy to send you preprints!). It’s about showcasing how things actually work, especially when archival depth is shallow and data quality is mixed. There’s a big difference between writing about data integration in a computer lab — and actually building tools that work for researchers and cultural institutions across languages, countries, and platforms.

Topics For Discussion

Each speaker will present a short, live demo or walkthrough (10–12 minutes), followed by Q&A and a casual hybrid meet-up.

Daniel Antal: What is TextileBase? Connecting knowledge across museums, archives, libraries, repositories, Europeana, ECCCH, Wikidata.

Anna Márta Mester: Technical, but not Deep Dive: Using the Wikibase Suite, SPARQL endpoints, and Sampo-UI for comfortable scholarly research.

Ieva Pigozne: Use Case: From years to weeks — how Latgalian data curation paved the way for rapid digitisation of Seto and Livonian datasets. Sneak peek: Finno-Ugric clothing.

Kata Gábor: AI for Cultural Heritage: From multilingual NLP to image annotation and ontology enrichment in noisy or sparse data environments.

Asmah Federico: WikiMuseum: A vision for co-curated, multilingual virtual exhibitions with dispersed physical collections.

Wikibase Interfaces

Entry examples from Linked Open Datasets on Garments from the Latgale Region, from right to left: Q142, Q180, Q179, Q181.

In machine-readable format: https://reprexbase.eu/textilebase/Special:EntityData/Q180.ttl

SPARQL Endpoint

We will place here a few sampe querries:

Latgalian Garments Dataset

Sampo UI

We are going to unveil a similar interactive website on the webinar to the OperaSampo; TextileBase will run on Sampo, following dozens of successful digital humanities projects.

Interoperability of Music Libraries and Archives with Public and Private Music Services

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200

16:00–17:30 Our presentation takes place in the session of Music Libraries of Tomorrow: Reaching out to Wider Audiences at the Mozarteum University E.001 HS Thomas Bernhard room.

We want invite IAML members—national libraries, regional centres, municipal collections, and independent music librarians—to join us in building a federated, decentralised European Music Observatory. 👉 Help Us Build a Truly Inclusive European Music Observatory (invitation blogpost)

Our presentation at IAML 2025 introduces the Slovak Comprehensive Music Database (SKCMDb), a national pilot within Open Music Europe. It offers a pragmatic, scalable solution to a widespread challenge: aligning metadata from libraries, archives, rights organisations, and digital distributors without centralisation or heavy infrastructure.

Built on the European Interoperability Framework, SKCMDb creates a legal, semantic, and organisational bridge between institutions like the Slovak Music Centre, SOZA, and public libraries, while also integrating with global platforms like Wikidata and MusicBrainz. We show how library records, music rights data, and streaming metadata can be reused and enriched across systems—supporting discoverability, legal compliance (like local content quotas), and better access to Slovak music.

This presentation will be especially valuable for professionals working in metadata curation, authority control, and digital service design, and those seeking low-cost, high-impact pathways to public-private interoperability in cultural heritage.

Please visit our poster and talk with our team members, Daniel Antal, Anna Márta Mester (librarian-data steward) and Anna Zilkova (chairperson of IAML Slovakia) on 8 July 2025 10:30–11:00 in the Gallery. You can download our poster in PDF here.

Check out the entry examples related to Albrecht’s: Missa in C (printed, Hudobné centrum) with library and webshop access points, and linked data on the composition itself Q479, linked to its recorded manifestations.

Next steps

The Slovak pilot illustrates how libraries and national music centres can take a central role in a decentralised European Music Observatory that federates with the EU Open Data Portal, Europeana, ECCCH, DARIAH, and Zenodo. This poster accompanies a companion contribution on the Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space, including the LīvMDb (Livonian Music Database), which explores how smaller regional repertoires can be embedded in broader, multimodal cultural graphs—advancing the vision of a European Music Observatory as a complement to the European Cultural Heritage Cloud.

Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0200

We started experimenting with the legal, organisational, semantic and technical challenges of creating a genuinely trustworthy, AI-supported data-sharing space that can find and connect tangible and intangible elements of the Finno-Ugric cultural universes. We were also seeking a better governance model for oversight for the custodians of these endangered, shrinking universes in their language and with little technical knowledge, partly as alternatives to the established Wikipedia to the open knowledge incubation method for small linguistic minorities.

Meet up with some of our team members, Daniel Antal, Britt-Kathleen Mere, Ieva Pigoze, Bogáta Tímár, and Ieva Vīvere during the conference, and do not forget to check out our presentation at the LP05 Session, Digital Insights in Cultural Research, on Mar 6, 2025 10:30 AM — 11:00 AM, or meet up with Kata Gábor and Dániel Antal in Paris, Anna Mester and Mihály Nagy in Budapest in subsequent workshops.

Read more or take a look at our conference poster below:

Download the poster in pdf

See our presentation made in the DNBH 2025 conference in Tartu:

What are the competencies of the system that we are building?

Please check out the demo version of the Finno-Ugric Dataspace or read the long-form project description.

Mester, Anna | Antal Dániel honlapja

TextileBase: Introduction

Topics For Discussion

Wikibase Interfaces

SPARQL Endpoint

Sampo UI

Interoperability of Music Libraries and Archives with Public and Private Music Services

Wikibase Interfaces

SPARQL Endpoint

Sampo Semantic Browser

Next steps

Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space

What are the competencies of the system that we are building?