Workshop: Knowledge graphs as a means to critically describe museum collections (Aarhus University, 9 Oct 2023)

Abstract

On Monday 9 October, I gave a workshop for the students of Prof. Magda Tyzlik-Carver in the Critical Data Studies programme. The workshop was conceptualized as a collaboration between critical collection studies and critical data studies. The idea was to look at social issues in art museums and think about the role of data. We read short descriptions of social issues in 19th-century paintings and then tried to map them as a graph. I shared work I had done with students of art history and..