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[edit] WORKSHOP
Towards a public digital infrastructure for knowledgerepresentation in urban practices
keywords: collaborative mapping, active archive (sharing and exchange), living memory, public domain
detail: making public and collaborative mapping of public data, of users content and of urban initiatives active archive (sharing, exchange, recreation) in a concept of public domain
Een digitale publieke infrastructuur voor kennisdeling in stedelijke praktijken
- Publiek maken van data en kennis die bewoners aangaat; in kaart brengen en verbinden van content, van praktijken en van organisaties/initiatieven;
- Levend geheugen waarbij de deelnemer materiaal kan delen, uitwisselen en hercre�ren
- Publiek domein, toegankelijk voor bewoners
[edit] 1.Context:
Brussels organisations and groups, which deal with urban themes by participation and bottom-up in a context of urban development, migration and globalisation and change in social fabric, want to relate their work with the networkculture.
First encounters with this digital environment and with digital tools have been made through the realisation of a website, the digitalisation of content (putting text, photos, films on a website) and first encounters with digital collaborationplatforms like wiki and mailinglists. Contrary to groups in the UK, US, Holland and Spain; the groups in Brussels and Belgium have been un-digital and even technophobic, while the coalition between urban cultures and digital networkculture is almost evident (tactical media, self-organisation, open and free software, tools fors haring, collaborative knowledge building etc). The use of digital tools has been untill now very static, in a one-way communication and very much related with self-representation.
The potential of these networkculture and tools is situated beyond this idea of representation and one-way communication.
On the other hand, there are many groups in Brussels and Belgium which work within this digital networkculture (copyleft, free software, sharing tools,
- pen networks, digital devide). And on the other hand, there are many
experiences abroad how urban cultures migrate in the networkculture.
With this workshop, we bring different players together which can learn from each other. Urban groups can learn about digital tools and the initiatives which work in digital environment can learn from methods and practices urban workers develop. It is the idea to build long term relationships on a local and international level.
[edit] 2. content
[edit] 2.1. questions and challanges
Networking in the context of urban cultural practices means networking between these urban initiatives (within a city and on an international basis), between the content they produce, between the users of the city and between the larger urban environment (overheid management, social
- rganisation, economical players).
Knowledge is the result of this linked and shared content which is available for recreation and for building up knowledge.
Digital content: technical files fors haring, metadata and conservation
Content is subjective: made by someone in a certain context. Content is developed by other users which involves new meanings. Content is interrelated with other content. Content attracks new relationships. Each user can make new relationships. The users themselves which create or re- create are related to each other in different clusters. Content is related with existing (digital) content about the city, inhabitants, environment etc.
Not all relevant content is available and accessible in digital form: content from users and content of official agencies.
How to make this ever changing network of meaningproduction both readable in a digital environment? How to make it open so that users can participate in upload, contextualisation and interrelations, remix, feed-back? How to deal with subjective and standardised taxonomies? And what are the protocols to have access to data and tp work with them (sensitivities, autorization, licenses)?
It involves:
- Databases which make it possible for users to upload, share, feed-back and interrelate.
- Metadata and taxonomies (open/subjective and/or standardised)
- Complex interrelations based on the protocol of semantic web
- Protocols who has access to what and how
[edit] 2.2. 3 major themes
- infrastructure
- Practices of interfacing:
- Wireless networks
- Digital archives
- Servers
- Databases / Common platforms
- Radiostations
- Meeting spaces
- Organisations
- protocols
- Sensitivities
- Semantic web
- taxonomies
- Lexicon, vocabularies
[edit] 3. program
Sunday 27/11: Strategies of participation and bottom-up by processes- documenting (video, audio, text) a workshop. chair: PTTL and Marc Saunders
a. presentations by Axel Claes (PTTL) and Marc Saunders (Spectacle)
- 'participation'
- 'clips by Spectacle'
- 'Rijksadministratief centrum'
- 'poster project with BBOT'
b. case studies
- how Belfast Exposed work on the urban development questions in Belfast, how
- they created space
how Belfast Interface Project created is working with stories, places and public-private space in spaces which are in between ghetto's (interfacebetween the two communities)
c. plenary discussion
Monday 28/11: database and metadata chair: Saul Albert
0. short presentation of the workshop and presentations of 25 participants (2 minutes each)
a. presentations by Nicolas Malev� (Constant) and Pierre dejaeger (RadioSwap)
Nicolas Malev� From static publishing on a website to interrelated publishing for sharing and recreation and knowledge representation. What is the theory about databasestructure and taxonomies in relationship to participation and bottom-up, sharing and exchange? How this relates with the daily practice within an organisation, project or group
Pierre Dejaeger Presentation of Swap (stream on the fly, metadata, licences, interrelations between audiofiles). Confrontation between Swap development and experiences of Brussels groups
b. Case study: first confrontation between presentations and experiences from groups
- BBOT: presentation of the digitalisation project in relation to keywords, r�sum� of the discussion about keywords in BBOT think-tank (Peter Moorkens, Paul Decleir, Anne Van Wichelen)
- Belfast Exposed?
- PTTL: presentation how their archive is used at the moment and how people can find videofragments back
- Vlaams Centrum voor Volkscultuur (VCV) (scientific contraints for metadata and international standards)
c. planry discussion: open discussion build upon case studies
- pen questions
d. workshop on taxonomies based on homework (keywords which groups use) base don SWAP model co�rdination: Saul Albert, Nicolas Malev� and Pierre Dejaeger
Tuesday 29/11: aggregating, collaborative mapping, collective knowledge representation
a. Presentations by Jo Walsh and Yves Degoyon
Jo Walsh:
What is semantic web: semantic web for management of multiple descriptions in concrete projects (ex/ open street map) how to make data with public interest (government information) publicly available and how can these data become public resource for knowledge- building?
What is public domain and how does it look like? How to aggregate different content and data? How to share data and content with each other? And what is the difference between punctual collaboration (wiki) and a long term collaborative knowledge infrastructure (wikipedia)?
Presentation of some earlier projects:
- Presentation of the Free Map - a free infrastructure for the provision and creation of publically lisenced geodata. A basis or glue for the aggregation and sharing of spatially bound information: research, oral history, images, etc. There are several demos online: http://uo.space.frot.org/freemap/ http://freemap.crit.org.in/
- Node London mediaarts, activism, new media, community arts
- Wisfi: infrastructure-info & data-wireless-groups-semanyic web-civic access-government information
Yves Degoyon:
Proposed another approach towards cartographie, base don a approach of 'geo- wiki', a collaborative tool for a collective memory. Presentation of the project MapOMatix http://mapomatix.sourceforge.net/mapomatix-1.0-pre.pdf
b. case studies: short responses by some Brussels groups how they actually work with this relationships and how they see the potential of linking content in the future
Chair: Jo Walsh and Yves Degoyon.
- plan of BBOT to link database with artists projects, with university research on urban themes (social geography, antropology, urbanism,.), wit hall types of communities and groups which work on urban issues related with the BBOT content
- plan of Zinneke to relate the workshops more with themes of the city and not only towards the parade
- PTTL: how the themes of the videogroups relate to urban questions like urban development and renovation projects (Place Houart, Madou) and how these videos and related material could be linked with official plans, decisions, statements by developpers etc,
- El Atlas (Citymine(d)): plan for mapping of collaborationsstructures between groups and themes
- Constant Laurence Rassel (example: archives Digitales)
- PTTL and BBOT explain shortly how collaboration and interrelations are made in an analogue way in their projects (about protocols base don sensitivities)
c. plenary discussion: open discussion build upon case studies and presentations questions like:
- what is the difference between a portal and semantic web?
- How does this collaborative working and relating of knowledge influences experience and urban practices?
- Other questions.
Chair: Jo Walsh and Yves Degoyon.
d. Workshop: semantic web and interrelations for urban groups and their content co�rdination: Jo Walsh, Saul Albert based on homework
e. final discussion: short evaluation, next steps, how to continue
[edit] 4. participants
Brussels
- PTTL
- Zinneke
- BNA BBOT
- Citymine(d)
- Vox/Nova
- Firefly
- Constant
- Swap
- Hacklab
- x-med-k partners
- Kunstenaars: Els Opsomer, Kobe Matthys, Pieter
- Transmedia studens
- Wiels: Dirk Snwauwaert
- all2all: Jens-Ingo Brodesser
- Stoffel Debuysere (Packed) (conservation standards for video, audio and streams)
- R�seau Citoyen
- De Geuzen: Femke Snelting
- Brussels Linux User Group
Belgium
- Victoria Delux
- Traject
- VCV
Foreign
- University of Openness: Jo Walsh & Saul Albert
- Mediamatic: Willem Velthoven
- Bootlab: Pit Schultz
- V2_: Sandra Fauconnier
- Spectacle London: Marc Saunders
- Belfast Exposed
- Factotum: Stephen Hackett
- Yves Degoyon
- El Atlas
- Rotorr
- Graham Harwood (9nine project)
[edit] 5. preparation (home work)
I.D. in english of each person/organisation:
- Goals of the organisation
- Examples of activities
- Short description of experiences within networkculture
- Why do you participate in this workshop, what are expectations?
Taxonomies: questions
- how is your content archived? Do you archive also in digital form?
- Are digitale data archived on a server and/or website?
- How do you index this material, which list of keywords do you use?
- Where do these keywords come from? Are they open and subjective or is there a list which is proposed by the organisation?
- Is a list of keywords based or inspired by standard international thesauri and which one? Or did you create these list yourselves and on which criteria are they based? Did you collaborate with other organisations when making these lists of keywords?
Relationships: questions
- Describe the relationships between your initiative and Brussels groups, artists, individuals: what are the relationships about?
- Describe external/international relationships
- What is the relationship between the content you produce and the content which is produced by other groups, in Brussels, in other cities (Belgium and abroad) ? Which content is related to your content (or could be related to)?
- Is your content also related to content of other types of content and types of organisations (ngo's, universities, museums and cultural organisations, public entities, .)?
- Do you relate already your content with content of other organisations, on which basis, and how? Are these relations also publicly visible?
[edit] 6. organisation
Brussels Belfast With the support of Citymine(d) Thanks to: (space)
Funded by: Vlaamse Gemeenschap Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie Culture 2000
