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Linked Archives International Workshop, September 13th, 2021, part of the 25th
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2021)

The International Workshop on Archives and Linked Data was a satellite event of the 25th
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2021). TPDL
2021 was an online event with free registration, and the same applied to the workshop.

The idea for the workshop came from the team of an ongoing Portuguese national project,
EPISA—Entity and Property Inference for Semantic Archives. The project is preparing
models and prototypes for archival information systems based on linked data and ready for
the semantic web. As the elements of the project team made contact with organisations and
groups with similar interests, they perceived the need to discuss models, technologies, and
infrastructures. TPDL 2021 presented the opportunity to do this in a European-centered
community.

Cultural Heritage deals with treasures that are expected to survive generations. Many digital
initiatives have explored segments of this global asset, with much more to uncover. They
tend to be oriented by the organizations that have traditionally curated these valuable
objects: libraries, museums, archives. The Linked Archives International Workshop started
from the perspective of archives, the guardians of immense volumes of information, both
historical and current, driven by the need to keep a record of our past processes,
achievements, and results. The growing interest in archival records and the availability of
technologies that can take large volumes of data and process them is leading archives into
the world of linked data. In this vision, the archives’ information is joined with data from other
cultural heritage institutions and more informal sources. Later, users can explore archives in
rich interfaces where the data are available in their context, with explicit metadata.

The goal of the workshop was to gather researchers and specialists engaged in initiatives
that cross Archives and the Semantic Web and those planning similar initiatives in other
cultural heritage organizations. We adopted an interdisciplinary point of view, aiming to
stimulate the dialogue between the technically-oriented communities, researchers from the
digital humanities, as well as specialists from cultural heritage institutions. The organisers
invited 12 scholars and specialists to join the members of the Organising Committee in the
Program Committee. Each paper was then reviewed by 2 or 3 members of the Program
Committee.

Given the specialised nature of the workshop, the number of submissions surprised the
organisers: 22, of which only one was rejected for being off-topic. Some of the remaining 21
papers contributed mature work, while others presented preliminary results or relevant case
studies. We decided to accept these 21 contributions and assign them flash presentations to
allow for discussion and question-answering in the spirit of a workshop.

The workshop was composed of 2 sessions of 2 hours to accommodate participation from
different time zones. Two keynote speakers provided rich visions of the area. María Póveda,
from the Artificial Intelligence Department of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and part
of the Ontology Engineering Group research lab, presented a view of the Computer Science
aspects in Linked Data for Cultural Heritage. Francesca Tomasi, Professor in Archival
Science, Bibliography and Librarianship at the University of Bologna, provided the
Information Science counterpart.

The participation in the workshop was quite substantial: 288 people signed up for the
workshop as part of the TPDL 2021 registration, and 97 actually attended, with some
fluctuations in the two sessions. The submission and attendance numbers convinced us that
the topic attracts attention and brings about meaningful discussion.

Most of the contributions are published as CEUR proceedings. If reviewers found the work
mature enough, a full paper is available. In works considered preliminary, only the abstracts
are available.

The call for papers announced that extended versions of the best papers would be selected
to be published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). Four
papers were invited to submit extended versions to the journal after the proceedings were
completed.

Overall, we consider this workshop a very successful event, which may require in the future
more than the two two-hour sessions we dedicated to it this year.
Let´s look forward to a successful second edition in 2022!

The Organising Committee
Carla Teixeira Lopes
Cristina Ribeiro
Franco Niccolucci
Irene Rodrigues
Nuno Freire


Links:
Workshop
https://linkedarchives.inesctec.pt/

Easychair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=linkedarchives2021

Proceedings
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15Q7CYi0aKJN14yNr6-qtYnYK1a1ojEJ6?usp=sharing




Program Committee

Alexandra Lourenço, General Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice of Portugal
Ana Alice Baptista, University of Minho
Antoine Isaac, Europeana, VU University Amsterdam
Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios, Danish National Archives
Carla Teixeira Lopes, University of Porto, INESC TEC
Cristina Ribeiro, University of Porto, INESC TEC
Daniel Gomes, Arquivo.pt
Florence Clavaud, ICA-EGAD, lead of RiC-O team
Franco Niccolucci, University of Florence
Irene Rodrigues, University of Évora, NOVA-LINCS
José Carlos Ramalho, Keep Solutions, University of Minho
Kerstin Arnold, Archives Portal Europe
Kuldar Aas, National Archives of Estonia
Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana
Nuno Freire, INESC-ID
Pedro Rangel Henriques,University of Minho
Treasa Harkin, Irish Traditional Music Archive