Visualising Cultural Data: Exploring Digital Collections Through Timeline Visualisations. Kräutli, F. Ph.D. Thesis, Royal College of Art, London, 2016. 🏷️ /unread、Datenvisualisierung、Zeitstrahl![Visualising Cultural Data: Exploring Digital Collections Through Timeline Visualisations [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex This thesis explores the ability of data visualisation to enable knowl-edge discovery in digital collections. Its emphasis lies on time-based visualisations, such as timelines. Although timelines are among the earliest examples of graphical renderings of data, they are often used merely as devices for linear storytelling and not as tools for visual analysis. Investigating this type of visualisation reveals the particular challenges of digital timelines for scholarly research. In addition, the intersection between the key issues of time-wise visualisation and digital collections acts as a focal point. Departing from authored temporal descriptions in collections data, the research examines how curatorial decisions in?uence collec-tions data and how these decisions may be made manifest in timeline visualisations. The thesis contributes a new understanding of the knowledge embedded in digital collections and provides practical and conceptual means for making this knowledge accessible and usable. The case is made that digital collections are not simply represen-tations of physical archives. Digital collections record not only what is known about the content of an archive. Collections data contains traces of institutional decisions and curatorial biases, as well as data related to administrative procedures. Such ?hidden data? ? information that has not been explicitly recorded, but is nevertheless present in the dataset ? is crucial for drawing informed conclusions from dig-itised cultural collections and can be exposed through appropriately designed visualisation tools. The research takes a practice-led and collaborative approach, work-ing closely with cultural institutions and their curators. Functional prototypes address issues of visualising large cultural datasets and the representation of uncertain and multiple temporal descriptions that are typically found in digital collections. The prototypes act as means towards an improved understanding of and a critical engagement with the time-wise visualisation of col-lections data. Two example implementations put the design principles that have emerged into practice and demonstrate how such tools may assist in knowledge discovery in cultural collections. Calls for new visualisation tools that are suitable for the purposes of humanities research are widespread in the scholarly community. However, the present thesis shows that gaining new insights into digital collections does not only require technological advancement, but also an epistemological shift in working with digital collections. This shift is expressed in the kind of questions that curators have started seeking to answer through visualisation. Digitisation requires and affords new ways of interrogating collections that depart from putting the collected artefact and its creator at the centre of human-istic enquiry. Instead, digital collections need to be seen as artefacts themselves. Recognising this leads curators to address self-re?ective research questions that seek to study the history of an institution and the in?uence that individuals have had on the holdings of a collection; questions that so far escaped their areas of research. 【摘要翻译】本论文探讨了数据可视化在数字藏品中实现知识发现的能力。其重点在于基于时间的可视化，如时间轴。虽然时间线是最早的数据图形化实例之一，但它们往往只是作为线性叙事的工具，而不是可视化分析的工具。对这种可视化方式的研究揭示了数字时间轴在学术研究中面临的特殊挑战。此外，时间可视化和数字藏品这两个关键问题之间的交叉点也是一个焦点。从馆藏数据中的作者时间描述出发，该研究探讨了馆长决定如何影响馆藏数据，以及这些决定如何在时间线可视化中体现出来。论文对数字藏品中蕴含的知识有了新的理解，并为这些知识的获取和使用提供了实用的概念方法。论文认为，数字藏品不仅仅是实体档案的再现。数字藏品不仅记录了已知的档案内容。馆藏数据包含机构决策和馆长偏见的痕迹，以及与行政程序有关的数据。这些 "隐藏的数据"？对于从挖掘的文化藏品中得出有依据的结论至关重要，可以通过适当设计的可视化工具加以揭示。这项研究采用实践主导和合作的方法，与文化机构及其馆长密切合作。功能原型解决了大型文化数据集的可视化问题，以及数字藏品中常见的不确定和多时间描述的表示问题。这些原型有助于加深对馆藏数据时间可视化的理解和批判性参与。两个实施实例将新出现的设计原则付诸实践，并展示了此类工具如何协助文化藏品中的知识发现。学术界普遍呼吁开发适合人文研究目的的新型可视化工具。然而，本论文表明，要获得对数字藏品的新见解，不仅需要技术进步，还需要在数字藏品工作中实现认识论的转变。这种转变表现在馆长开始寻求通过可视化来回答什么样的问题。数字化要求并提供了审视藏品的新方法，这种方法不再将藏品及其创造者置于人文探究的中心。相反，数字化藏品需要被视为人工制品本身。认识到这一点，策展人就需要解决一些自发的研究问题，这些问题旨在研究一个机构的历史以及个人对藏品的影响；而这些问题迄今为止都不属于他们的研究领域。
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address = {London},
type = {{PhD} {Thesis}},
title = {Visualising {Cultural} {Data}: {Exploring} {Digital} {Collections} {Through} {Timeline} {Visualisations}},
shorttitle = {文化数据可视化：通过时间轴可视化探索数字藏品},
url = {https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1774/},
abstract = {This thesis explores the ability of data visualisation to enable knowl-edge discovery in digital collections. Its emphasis lies on time-based visualisations, such as timelines. Although timelines are among the earliest examples of graphical renderings of data, they are often used merely as devices for linear storytelling and not as tools for visual analysis. Investigating this type of visualisation reveals the particular challenges of digital timelines for scholarly research. In addition, the intersection between the key issues of time-wise visualisation and digital collections acts as a focal point. Departing from authored temporal descriptions in collections data, the research examines how curatorial decisions in?uence collec-tions data and how these decisions may be made manifest in timeline visualisations. The thesis contributes a new understanding of the knowledge embedded in digital collections and provides practical and conceptual means for making this knowledge accessible and usable. The case is made that digital collections are not simply represen-tations of physical archives. Digital collections record not only what is known about the content of an archive. Collections data contains traces of institutional decisions and curatorial biases, as well as data related to administrative procedures. Such ?hidden data? ? information that has not been explicitly recorded, but is nevertheless present in the dataset ? is crucial for drawing informed conclusions from dig-itised cultural collections and can be exposed through appropriately designed visualisation tools. The research takes a practice-led and collaborative approach, work-ing closely with cultural institutions and their curators. Functional prototypes address issues of visualising large cultural datasets and the representation of uncertain and multiple temporal descriptions that are typically found in digital collections. The prototypes act as means towards an improved understanding of and a critical engagement with the time-wise visualisation of col-lections data. Two example implementations put the design principles that have emerged into practice and demonstrate how such tools may assist in knowledge discovery in cultural collections. Calls for new visualisation tools that are suitable for the purposes of humanities research are widespread in the scholarly community. However, the present thesis shows that gaining new insights into digital collections does not only require technological advancement, but also an epistemological shift in working with digital collections. This shift is expressed in the kind of questions that curators have started seeking to answer through visualisation. Digitisation requires and affords new ways of interrogating collections that depart from putting the collected artefact and its creator at the centre of human-istic enquiry. Instead, digital collections need to be seen as artefacts themselves. Recognising this leads curators to address self-re?ective research questions that seek to study the history of an institution and the in?uence that individuals have had on the holdings of a collection; questions that so far escaped their areas of research.
【摘要翻译】本论文探讨了数据可视化在数字藏品中实现知识发现的能力。其重点在于基于时间的可视化，如时间轴。虽然时间线是最早的数据图形化实例之一，但它们往往只是作为线性叙事的工具，而不是可视化分析的工具。对这种可视化方式的研究揭示了数字时间轴在学术研究中面临的特殊挑战。此外，时间可视化和数字藏品这两个关键问题之间的交叉点也是一个焦点。从馆藏数据中的作者时间描述出发，该研究探讨了馆长决定如何影响馆藏数据，以及这些决定如何在时间线可视化中体现出来。论文对数字藏品中蕴含的知识有了新的理解，并为这些知识的获取和使用提供了实用的概念方法。论文认为，数字藏品不仅仅是实体档案的再现。数字藏品不仅记录了已知的档案内容。馆藏数据包含机构决策和馆长偏见的痕迹，以及与行政程序有关的数据。这些 "隐藏的数据"？对于从挖掘的文化藏品中得出有依据的结论至关重要，可以通过适当设计的可视化工具加以揭示。这项研究采用实践主导和合作的方法，与文化机构及其馆长密切合作。功能原型解决了大型文化数据集的可视化问题，以及数字藏品中常见的不确定和多时间描述的表示问题。这些原型有助于加深对馆藏数据时间可视化的理解和批判性参与。两个实施实例将新出现的设计原则付诸实践，并展示了此类工具如何协助文化藏品中的知识发现。学术界普遍呼吁开发适合人文研究目的的新型可视化工具。然而，本论文表明，要获得对数字藏品的新见解，不仅需要技术进步，还需要在数字藏品工作中实现认识论的转变。这种转变表现在馆长开始寻求通过可视化来回答什么样的问题。数字化要求并提供了审视藏品的新方法，这种方法不再将藏品及其创造者置于人文探究的中心。相反，数字化藏品需要被视为人工制品本身。认识到这一点，策展人就需要解决一些自发的研究问题，这些问题旨在研究一个机构的历史以及个人对藏品的影响；而这些问题迄今为止都不属于他们的研究领域。},
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urldate = {2021-07-13},
school = {Royal College of Art},
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year = {2016},
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