Questionable South Tyrolean Cultural Open Data?
summary
Two datasets run by the province: a museum directory of 160 museums published since 2016 and a collections catalog with 310,000 object records from ~50 institutions in a shared Axial collection system; records are multilingual, link to authority files like ulan and g&D, and hide internal fields (condition, value, location). Data comes from imports, card inventories and 20-year-old preview images; cleaning uses OpenRefine and an exploratory text-enrichment study with company XL. The core tension is publishing imperfect, decontextualized open data versus acting as gatekeepers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:02Open data infrastructure overview
- 3:32Data quality and challenges
- 6:24Questionable data realities
- 9:34AI tools and data cleanup
- 10:36Open data approach debate
- 12:10Audience discussion and Q&A
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