Forward Linking
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- 16 Feb 2024
Mobilizing Research Cluster
Lead: Kim Martin
This cluster moves researcher LOD into new contexts within the cultural ecosystem, developing and building on respectful relationships, to foster communities of practice. This cluster’s participants are from the academic and library spheres, and the GLAM sector, who come together on three pilot projects.
Design frolics: Design frolics unearth implicit expectations of an interface (broadly conceived as a space of contact, involving processes as well as devices) to tap into users’ tacit design knowledge. Frolics are a central tool for iteratively testing interface design, to ensure that interfaces and processes meet the needs of users with a broad range of technical, cultural, and institutional backgrounds, and, furthermore, serve to build relationships within and beyond the team. Led by Kim Martin (UofGuelph) and Robin Bergart (UofGuelph Library) at Forward Linking and LINCS workshops and events, frolic-backed research involves all partnership members, as well as interested participants beyond the partnership.
Context Explorer extension: The LINCS Context Explorer contextualizes content users encounter across the web and brings LOD about cultural objects to data-holders’ websites for an enhanced reading experience without requiring any modification of the institution’s data, workflows, or website. It has the potential to provide the kind of context essential to remediating problematic data online, including the legacies of colonialism, slavery, racism, and sexism. Susan Brown (UGuelph) and Caitlin Horrall and team (LAC) will ensure the plugin is accessible and bilingual, and adapt it to work in an LAC-branded version with their collections.
Leveraging LOD in publishing: This pilot tests the Context Explorer extension as an aid to cultural scholarly dissemination in a DH project website about the Palatine Anthology; the open-access journal Sens Public; and an open-access monograph on art, j. moore and Christelle Proulx’s L’agir en condition hyperconnectée: Art et images à l’œuvre from the series Ateliers de Sens Public et Parcours numériques (Presses of l’Université de Montréal). Collecting prosopographical linked data of those people referenced in these works will allow editors Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Michael Eberle Sinatra (UdeMontréal) to reflect on ethnocentric, sexist, or racist biases and to redirect editorial policies accordingly.