IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1523: Entanglements across Medieval Space, Objects, and Data, I

Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	bITEM Project (Beyond the Item)
Organiser:	Stefan Eichert, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 1523-a	Beyond the Item: Object Biographies and Their Entanglement in a CIDOC CRM-Based Network (Language: English) Nina Brundke, Institut für Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie, Universität Wien Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Computing in Medieval Studies, Technology
Paper 1523-b	bITEM: An Open Source Web Application for the Visualisation of Object Biographies (Language: English) Stefan Eichert, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Computing in Medieval Studies, Technology
Paper 1523-c	Creating Digital Twins of Cultural Heritage Objects: 3D Models, MicroCT Scans, and Their Integration into Digital Networks (Language: English) Viola Winkler, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Computing in Medieval Studies, Technology
Paper 1523-d	Biography of a Landscape: Connecting a Deserted Medieval Village, an Iron Age Burial Mound, and the Palaeolithic Venus of Willendorf through People and Landscapes - bITEM Case Studies (Language: English) Roland Filzwieser, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies
Abstract	Beyond the Item (bITEM), based at the Natural History Museum Vienna and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology in cooperation with the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, aims to combine various methodological, conceptual, and technological frameworks in order to analyse, document, represent, visualise, and present museum objects with great significance in cultural heritage from various origins (artefacts, biofacts, geofacts) and their biographies. bITEM will combine 'object biographies' and 'Actor Network Theory' to map the objects' itineraries as networks within the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model based on the technological framework of the OpenAtlas system. Numerous detailed virtual representations (3D Scans, CT Scans) along with scientific analyses of the objects' physical characteristics will be created to virtually represent objects as holistic as possible within these networks. Their 'biographies' will be researched and embedded into this network comprising ties to other material things, actors, events, places, and concepts from the beginning of the object's existence until now. By using established vocabularies and linked open data, these networks will also be embedded into the semantic web. Aside from the scientific and scholarly investigation, an open source web application will be developed to serve as an open data repository to present and visualise the objects, their stories, their networks and their 'life' from ancient times until now.