A Web 3.0 approach to building an online digital archive of architectural practice in post-War Queensland

Hunter, Jane; Macarthur, John; Plaat, Deborah van der; Gosseye, Janina; Wilson, Andrew; Muys, Andrae; Bannerman, Gavin

doi:10.3828/comma.2012.2.5

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“…As part of the PhD project, data (interviews and materials) collected were added to the Digital Archive of Queensland Architecture (DAQA), launched in 2014 by the University of Queensland (UQ). 1 DAQA is an open access interactive online database, initially conceived to share oral histories of architects in postwar Queensland and connect these to other tangible resources. 2 Now expanding to include architects of the postmodern period, it aims to stimulate global interest in sharing and learning Australian historical knowledge.…”

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Shifting Focus from Architecture to Heritage: Stories of Three Australian Women Architects

Kwabi

2023

Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.

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This paper considers the stories (oral histories) of three Queensland women architects: Fiona Gardiner, Helen Wilson and Ruth Woods. Studying architecture in the 1970s and working in architecture from 1980 to the present, each story reveals new insights into the experiences of women architects in Queensland at a time when women were achieving parity in architectural education and greater representation within the profession. A focus of the paper will be the move made by each to the new and emerging discipline of heritage and conservation in Queensland in the 1980 and 1990s. Revealing new histories of the heritage movement in Queensland, it will be argued that the value of their stories also lies in the “benefits” they felt heritage work offered women architects practising in Queensland. These include the chance to establish sole practices (together with the flexibility this offered) and the opportunity to escape the traditional hierarchies of mainstream (private) practice.

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Shifting Focus from Architecture to Heritage: Stories of Three Australian Women Architects

Kwabi

2023

Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.

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Archives, linked data and the digital humanities: increasing access to digitised and born-digital archives via the semantic web

Hawkins

2021

Arch Sci

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Mass digitisation and the exponential growth of born-digital archives over the past two decades have resulted in an enormous volume of archives and archival data being available digitally. This has produced a valuable but under-utilised source of large-scale digital data ripe for interrogation by scholars and practitioners in the Digital Humanities. However, current digitisation approaches fall short of the requirements of digital humanists for structured, integrated, interoperable, and interrogable data. Linked Data provides a viable means of producing such data, creating machine-readable archival data suited to analysis using digital humanities research methods. While a growing body of archival scholarship and praxis has explored Linked Data, its potential to open up digitised and born-digital archives to the Digital Humanities is under-examined. This article approaches Archival Linked Data from the perspective of the Digital Humanities, extrapolating from both archival and digital humanities Linked Data scholarship to identify the benefits to digital humanists of the production and provision of access to Archival Linked Data. It will consider some of the current barriers preventing digital humanists from being able to experience the benefits of Archival Linked Data evidenced, and to fully utilise archives which have been made available digitally. The article argues for increased collaboration between the two disciplines, challenges individuals and institutions to engage with Linked Data, and suggests the incorporation of AI and low-barrier tools such as Wikidata into the Linked Data production workflow in order to scale up the production of Archival Linked Data as a means of increasing access to and utilisation of digitised and born-digital archives.

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Extending RiC-O to Model Historical Architectural Archives: The ITDT Ontology

Mikhaylova

Metilli

2023

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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Historical architectural archives enjoy attention from diverse audiences, acting as a primary source of information for architects, historians, public authorities, and common citizens alike. In Italy, the interest in architectural archives has grown slowly but steadily for the last 20 years. However, architectural archives do not generally follow the trend common for museums and galleries in publishing digitized materials and providing standard metadata for individual records. The information that is available online usually includes only an archival finding aid, instead of metadata about the individual records, or fully digital versions of the records. While cataloguing standards for archival descriptions of architectural records have existed at least since the 1980s, the rise of Linked Open Data as a framework for publishing cultural heritage data has allowed archivists to enhance these archival descriptions with richer contextual information and links to external knowledge bases. In this paper we present the ITDT ontology, an extension of the Records in Contexts Ontology that facilitates the representation of architectural records and of the context related to architectural projects, its process, and participating entities. We discuss the application of the ontology to the project files of Italian architect and engineer Dino Tamburini (1924–2011), and the creation of a digital archive offering multiple perspectives over the records.

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A Web 3.0 approach to building an online digital archive of architectural practice in post-War Queensland

Cited by 3 publications

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Shifting Focus from Architecture to Heritage: Stories of Three Australian Women Architects

Shifting Focus from Architecture to Heritage: Stories of Three Australian Women Architects

Archives, linked data and the digital humanities: increasing access to digitised and born-digital archives via the semantic web

Extending RiC-O to Model Historical Architectural Archives: The ITDT Ontology

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