TextileBase

Rather than building a new platform or launching a large institutional programme, we focused on a carefully designed, hands-on intervention. The goal was to create a concrete, working example that could be expanded, criticised, reused, and—crucially—taken up by others.

This article introduces TextileBase, a multilingual knowledge graph that connects dispersed data on garments from museums, archives, …

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.

TextileBase helps scholars, museums, and businesses connect, share, and reuse data about textiles and dress history.

The main goal of TextileBase is to help dress history scholars and practitioners by creating a gateway to linked data that have been collected and stored by researchers and memory institutions.