Members of the group: Sean Zhang, Xingyi Zhang, Katrina Li
The definition of the project topic and objectives for what you plan to produce
Our project topic: mapping the production sites of the artworks in The British Museum that has a Chinese origin.
Objectives: explore patterns of locations and production dynasties ( maybe also other variables) of those Chinese artifacts lost overseas.
The proposed methodology:
Data Analysis, Data visualization, GIS.
Sources: What data do you hope to use and how do you hope to find it?
The British Museum online collection https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
Processes: What tools and techniques will you use to gather sources and store your data? What analyses or transformations will you conduct on those data?
We are going to download the data from the British Museum’s website. We will use open refine to clean our csv file and select a subset of interesting artifacts from the file.
Presentation: How will you present the results and integrate the digital assets you create as an interactive final product?
We will bin them by their production date (dynasty), then locate and pin the origin of those artifacts on the GIS map.
The proposed timeline of deliverables
Week 8:
Tuesday: Data cleaning
Thursday – Sunday : Visualization & Mapping & Web
Week 9:
Tuesday: Visualization & Mapping & Web
Thursday: Write up
A link to one or more DH projects that you think might make a good model for what you plan to do.
https://www.giscloud.com/blog/mapping-the-most-popular-exhibits-in-museums-across-europe
Message from members about personal interests and goals:
Katrina Li: I am interested in knowing more about which provinces in China contribute the most to the cultural impression of China in western culture.
Xingyi: I read about the sack of the Summer Palace in primary school and knew that many Chinese artifacts were lost in other countries. I wish to better understand the details and impact of those events.
Tianyi Zhang: I keep hearing there are a lot of cultural relics from China lost in foreign lands, but I never have a sense of how many are lost. I view this project as an opportunity to gain the education about cultural relics of my own country.
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Team Cultural Relics,
This looks like a promising idea, both for you all personally and as a realm of DH that has sometimes been called “Collections as Data” that has gotten traction recently. I do wonder, however, why you chose the British Museum? I think it might be more useful to compare a few different museum collections, especially US and college/university based ones closer to our context.
The website openartdata.org has a lot of information on museums with open datasets containing provenance information. Browse and consider broadening the data sources to make it more relevant to Carleton and its context.