Conference Presentations by Jolan Wuyts
I was asked to give a short presentation on my experience of the Master of Digital Humanities cou... more I was asked to give a short presentation on my experience of the Master of Digital Humanities course at KULeuven. This is what I came up with. It's mostly a very personal point of view of what the MDH is teaching me, as a case in point for what the MDH aims to deliver to all kinds of students.
I was asked to give a short presentation on my experience of the Master of Digital Humanities cou... more I was asked to give a short presentation on my experience of the Master of Digital Humanities course at KULeuven. This is what I came up with. It's mostly a very personal point of view of what the MDH is teaching me, as a case in point for what the MDH aims to deliver to all kinds of students.
This presentation was prepared for the DHBenelux 2016 conference in Belval, Luxemburg. It was pre... more This presentation was prepared for the DHBenelux 2016 conference in Belval, Luxemburg. It was presented by Jolan Wuyts in the 'Reflections on Digital Humanities II' session on the second day, 10-06-2016.
Papers by Jolan Wuyts
2018 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)
Architecture, Design and Virtual Reality game creation companies are in great need of acquiring, ... more Architecture, Design and Virtual Reality game creation companies are in great need of acquiring, re-using and re-purposing visual and textual data to recreate, renovate or produce a novel target space, building or element. This come in align with the abrupt increase, which is lately observed, in the use of immersive VR environments and the great technological advance that can be found in the acquisition and manipulation of digital models. V4Design is a new project that takes into account these needs and intends to build a complete and robust design solution that will help the targeted industries to improve their creation process.
This paper analyses the history and current status of online shadow libraries and connects those ... more This paper analyses the history and current status of online shadow libraries and connects those findings to the current state of public and academic libraries. It takes as a premise that we can learn from the success of pirate libraries to improve how our public and academic libraries function. The main points this paper takes away from the analysis of shadow libraries is that they can learn public and academic libraries to become a node in today's information network, to open up infrastructure and collections, to take advantage of the physicality of the library, and to use the branding of the library to their advantage.
Thesis Chapters by Jolan Wuyts
This presentation was given as a thesis defence for the thesis titled "Cultivating APIs in the cu... more This presentation was given as a thesis defence for the thesis titled "Cultivating APIs in the cultural heritage sector"
Thesis based on an internship presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Mast... more Thesis based on an internship presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in the Digital Humanities.
The outcome of this research thesis is a set of suggestions for Cultural Heritage Institutions on how they may improve the impact of their API(s). A study of the field of Cultural Heritage APIs, and hands-on work with one CHI’s API documentation and presentation were used to come up with these suggestions. The result of this foray into cultural heritage APIs is the insight that cultural heritage APIs are very different from other, mostly commercial, APIs and should therefore be built, presented, and documented differently.
An initial literature study documented previous research dealing with cultural heritage APIs. Their conclusions and arguments were discussed critically and taken into account when looking at contemporary use cases. The API or other open data documentation of several CHIs were studied to get insight into which kind of users CHIs cater their open data to, what the opportunities are for CHIs in the presentation of their open data, and how this presentation could be improved.
The Europeana APIs were taken as a case study. The documentation and presentation of the Europeana APIs were compared against that of other Cultural Heritage APIs, and a number of possible shortcomings in the API documentation, presentation and UX design of the Europeana APIs were identified.
In deze masterproef wordt er kwantitatief en kwalitatief gekeken naar de opkomst en evolutie van ... more In deze masterproef wordt er kwantitatief en kwalitatief gekeken naar de opkomst en evolutie van de Gentse universiteitsbibliotheek van 1836 tot 1911. Het beschrijft de verandering in de opslag, consultatie, en verspreiding van informatie door de ontwikkeling van de centrale universiteitsbibliotheek. Door comparatief onderzoek met de evolutie van de privébibliotheken van professoren aan de UGent wordt aangetoond hoe door de uitbreiding van de universiteitsbibliotheek informatie gecentraliseerder en democratischer werd doorheen de lange 19e eeuw.
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Conference Presentations by Jolan Wuyts
Papers by Jolan Wuyts
Thesis Chapters by Jolan Wuyts
The outcome of this research thesis is a set of suggestions for Cultural Heritage Institutions on how they may improve the impact of their API(s). A study of the field of Cultural Heritage APIs, and hands-on work with one CHI’s API documentation and presentation were used to come up with these suggestions. The result of this foray into cultural heritage APIs is the insight that cultural heritage APIs are very different from other, mostly commercial, APIs and should therefore be built, presented, and documented differently.
An initial literature study documented previous research dealing with cultural heritage APIs. Their conclusions and arguments were discussed critically and taken into account when looking at contemporary use cases. The API or other open data documentation of several CHIs were studied to get insight into which kind of users CHIs cater their open data to, what the opportunities are for CHIs in the presentation of their open data, and how this presentation could be improved.
The Europeana APIs were taken as a case study. The documentation and presentation of the Europeana APIs were compared against that of other Cultural Heritage APIs, and a number of possible shortcomings in the API documentation, presentation and UX design of the Europeana APIs were identified.
The outcome of this research thesis is a set of suggestions for Cultural Heritage Institutions on how they may improve the impact of their API(s). A study of the field of Cultural Heritage APIs, and hands-on work with one CHI’s API documentation and presentation were used to come up with these suggestions. The result of this foray into cultural heritage APIs is the insight that cultural heritage APIs are very different from other, mostly commercial, APIs and should therefore be built, presented, and documented differently.
An initial literature study documented previous research dealing with cultural heritage APIs. Their conclusions and arguments were discussed critically and taken into account when looking at contemporary use cases. The API or other open data documentation of several CHIs were studied to get insight into which kind of users CHIs cater their open data to, what the opportunities are for CHIs in the presentation of their open data, and how this presentation could be improved.
The Europeana APIs were taken as a case study. The documentation and presentation of the Europeana APIs were compared against that of other Cultural Heritage APIs, and a number of possible shortcomings in the API documentation, presentation and UX design of the Europeana APIs were identified.