DIVE+: Explorative Search for Digital Humanities in CLARIAH Media Suite

1. DIVE+: Explorative Search for
Digital Humanities in CLARIAH
Media Suite
Oana Inel, Lora Aroyo, Jaap Blom, Victor de Boer, Werner
Helmich, Liliana Melgar, Carlos Martinez Ortiz, Johan Oomen

2. • Event-centric browser for linked historical data
- linking objects to events and entities
- building automatic storylines (narratives) around
topics or objects
• Integrated access to cultural heritage
heterogeneous collections
DIVE+

3. OPENIMAGES.EU
• 3,220 news broadcasts
• Sound & Vision
• GTAA
DELPHER.NL
• 197,199 Scans of
Radio bulletins
• 1937 – 1984
• GTAA
AMSTERDAM MUSEUM
• 73,447 images
• AM Thesaurus
TROPENMUSEUM
• 78,270 images
• SVNC
Data sources and Vocabularies

4. Crowdsourcing for Text & Video Analysis
http://lora-aroyo.org ◆ http://slideshare.net/laroyo ◆@laroyo
CrowdTruth.org

5. DIVE:MEDIA OBJECT SEM:EVENT
SEM:PLACE
SEM:TIME
SEM:ACTOR
SKOS:CONCEPT
OA:ANNOTATION
Integration of Heterogeneous Collections

6. ● KB News bulletins - 5.3 Million triples
● Tropenmuseum - 1.9 Million triples
● Amsterdam Museum - 5.7 Million triples
● OpenImages - 103K triples
+ Metadata, including annotations, provenance, imag
+ Thesauri (GTAA, SVCN, Amsterdam Museum)
+ Alignments
Total 15,472,887 triples (and growing)

9. • Virtual research environment for conducting
humanities & social sciences research, providing
easy access to digital tools & data
• CLARIAH MediaSuite provides special focus on
media collections & media research
DIVE+ Part of CLARIAH

10. • Exploratory UI for Media Professionals & Digital
Humanities Scholars
• Integrating Heterogeneous Collections through
Linked Open Data
• Enriching Collection Metadata with Historical Events
• Collecting Perspectives from the Crowd
• Aggregated views over the collection
• Support for automatic narratives generation
DIVE+

11. http://diveplus.beeldengeluid.nl
http://www.clariah.nl/
http://crowdtruth.org
http://diveplus.frontwise.nl