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Album amicorum Jacob Heyblocq edit

Project description/rationale edit

This project shows the huge added values of putting combined images + metadata of digitised KB collection highlights into the Wikimedia infrastructure (Wikidata for metadata, Wikimedia Commons for images and Wikipedia for contextual stories), using the collection highlight Album amicorum of Jacob Heyblocq as a demonstrator.

By comparing how visible, searchable, discoverable, sharable, reusable and linkable the digitised album was before the project against those criteria after the project, it will become very clear that using the Wikimedia services and communities is both a very effective and efficient way to amplify the impact of cultural heritage. It will show innovative ways to search, discover, curate, describe, interact, share, link, download and build upon the album, not possible before.

About Jacobus Heiblocq and the album edit

Jacobus Heiblocq (1623-1690) was a poet and rector of the Latin grammar school in Amsterdam. He is best known for the Album amicorum that he put together during his lifetime.

In this album Heyblocq collected contributions from many important figures from the Dutch Golden Age, including the painters Rembrandt, Govert Flinck and Jan de Bray, poets such as Joost van den Vondel, Jacob Cats and Constantijn Huygens, and scholars including Gerardus Vossius and Anna Maria van Schurman, and many others, as further detailed below.

Available building blocks before the project edit

Offline edit

Obviously, there is the original album itself, shelfnumber 131 H 26 in the collection of the KB
A facsimile + catalogue, The Album Amicorum of Jacob Heyblocq, Introduction, Transcriptions, Paraphrases and Notes to the Facsimile, Edited by Kees Thomassen and J.A. Gruys, Zwolle: Waanders, 1998, ISBN 13: 9789040092046. For each page of the album the catalog provides the text of the inscription(s), their translation into English and typically some annotations. See the image to get a proper impression. This publication is available from the KB or antiquarian booksellers.

Online edit

At the start of this project the album's images, texts (album inscriptions, their translations & annotations) and metadata descriptions were available online

Via KB services edit

On the KB website

Full album presentation. This is the best online way to get a good impression of the album. This viewer allows for leafing through the album and provides all inscriptions, their translations & annotations in the collapsible sidebar on the right.
Context to this presentation is available on this page, with at the bottom a
Page index of contributors. Very nice to have, but only browsing, no search functionalities are provided.

Metadata descriptions are provided in the KB catalogue

Both the album as a whole, as well as
all individual contributions, e.g. the contribution by Constantijn Huygens

This metadata in reusable format is provided via the KB APIs

Individual XML file for contributions, eg. the above contribution by Constantijn Huygens via an OAI-PMH request
Full XML record tree for all contributions via a SRU request

The individual images via the KB resolver

All page scans available from the KB resolver service, e.g. page 7, page 61 or page 220

Author thesuarus NTA

Inf o bout contributors via NTA, proividing extran IDS for contributors

Via external services edit

In OCLC/Worldcat - the OCLC number proividing an extranal IDS for contributions

both for album and the individual contributions

In Europeana

individual contributions

this album was digitlised as part of EuropreanaTravel * https://www.europeana.eu/portal/nl/search?q=europeana_collectionName%3A(92065_Ag_EU_TEL_a0445_ETravel)&qf%5B%5D=heyblocq&view=grid

In the World Digital Library

https://www.wdl.org/en/item/14421/
https://www.wdl.org/en/item/14421/view/1/2/ etc. -->
https://projectmirador.org/demo/
is that image viewer IIIF-driven? Extract manifests from there? --> Look into this via http://api.wdl.org/#iiif and https://content.wdl.org/14421/service/thumbnail/1430183445/256x256/1/1.jpg etc

Ecartico - VERDER UITZOEKEN

One might think, these building blocks are enough, but realti is... far from that. there can ve improved A LOIT!! --> In summary: The project created this SO LETS CREATE THIS!!

Newly Created materials edit

https://github.com/ookgezellig/AlbumAmicorumJacobHeyblocq
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q72752496
Newly ceated item Q82260552 about The Album Amicorum of Jacob Heyblocq, Introduction, Transcriptions, Paraphrases and Notes to the Facsimile, Edited by Kees Thomassen and J.A. Gruys, Zwolle: Waanders, 1998, ISBN 13: 9789040092046 https://www.dewitteganzenveer.nl/boeken/products-page/nederlands/the-album-amicorum-of-jacob-heyblocq/

Discovery options for the album & its contributors edit

Newly created in the project edit

Wikipedia

Article on the album on WP:NL + WP:NL --> To make
Articles about the (most important) contributors
Category:Contributors to the album amicorum Jacobus Heyblocq‎ (WP:EN) Categorie:Bijdragers aan Vriendenboek JH (WP:NL) --> To make
Via the Wikipedia API --> To explore
Via Wikipedia Searchbox --> and thus via Google Search & Images

Commons

Image uploads to Commons: the mere action of uploading the images to WMC (+ descriptive metadata) means that the scans are brought from a library-oriented, Netherlands-oriented, 'text-first, visual-second', non-Google indexed, monolingual, hard-to-reuse, catalogue-centered environment (=OPC4) into an international, wider (than library) oriented, 'visual-first, text-second', Google indexed, multilingual, easy-to-resue (eg via Wikipeda), image-platform-centered environment (=WMC). The AAJH in Europeana and in Worldcat are somehere between these 2 extremes
WMC search box
Metadata description for each album image
SDoC for each album image (LOD) For non-textual images: add P180 values to enable searching on the visual content of an image. For instance:

Categories: (=image curation)

Category:Album amicorum van Jacobus Heyblocq and its subcats

All images have been categorized in the appropriate creator categories, eg. Category:Lambert_Barlaeus

WMC API --> To explore

Wikidata

Q-items for contributors and contributions
SPARQL-queries (LOD)
Wikidata API --> Both as URL-cll to the API, and calling the API via a (Pyton) script --> To explore both
Genarate raw datadump of all AAJH Q-items via https://tools.wmflabs.org/wdumps/
This project page

Github/PAWS

Python code + Notebooks (to make)
XML/JSON/Excel/csv/tsv files used/created during the project

IIIF

First look into WDL, see below
See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:International_Image_Interoperability_Framework#IIIF_tools_and_software_for_Wikimedia_projects
Make IIIF manifests for the images (and their makers) (based on the WMC API??), so that the images (both contributions and their contributors) can be included in IIIF compatible viewers

External apps/visualisations

To make: usage of the AAJH data in external apps, like a temporal-spatila visualisation
Build alternative front-end to the AAJH Topstuk, based on WMC and WD

Process, steps taken edit

See the slidedeck De bevrijding van Q72752496 & de Wikidata-activiteiten van de KB (from slide 38 onwards, in Dutch) to get an overview of all the steps taken so far (dd 2 april 2020). This overview is not yet complete, as the project is still work in progress, and will be updated in due time / once the project is completed.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bGaMlAVgunkhW1CQGw5_ezu4_X1igpAJnCgWAaq3-lg/edit# for a written out version of this slidedeck

Other pages - to process edit

Dutch Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Koninklijke_Bibliotheek_en_Nationaal_Archief/Topstukken/Hergebruik/Voorbeelden/Smoelenboek_bijdragers_AAJH
Github: https://github.com/KBNLwikimedia/AlbumAmicorumJacobHeyblocq (general) + https://github.com/KBNLwikimedia/kbnlwikimedia.github.io/tree/master/AlbaAmicorum/AlbumAmicorumJacobHeyblocq/reuse (section on reuse)
Article, with a central role for the AAJH: What we learned from preparing for a Linked Open Data hackathon, June 2022

Wikidata:WikiProject Alba amicorum National Library of the Netherlands/Jacob Heyblocq

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