Workshop – The EuroWeb Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage: Recent development and future outcomes

The EuroWeb Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage
Recent development and future outcomes

Workshop
9th-10th of May 2022

Organizers: Alina Iancu (RO), Catarina Costeira (PT) with the support of the Digital Atlas
committee management team
Date: 9-10 May 2022
Place: Zoom, CTR (Copenhagen, DK), Lisbon (PT)
Trainers: Catarina Costeira, Alina Iancu, Mikkel Nørtoft, Piotr Kasprzyk,
Trainees: up to 25-35 EuroWeb Members registered via Eventbrite platform
Registration: Eventbrite

AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP

This training school is open for all the EuroWeb members that wish to learn more about the stage of the development of the EuroWeb Digital Atlas OF European Textile Heritage and to contribute with textile data. The trainers will offer an overview of the recent progress made by the Digital Atlas team and will give insights into the EuroWeb Digital Atlas as a dissemination tool.

By participating ininto this WorkShop you find out:

● the current structure of the Digital Atlas
● the ways in which EuroWeb members can contribute with their own data
● which type of data fits in the Atlas at this stage of the project
● what sources should be used in the Atlas
● the basic steps of data processing: how to select, organize, clean, translate, and import textile resources in the Atlas
● basic citing rules and how to correctly use image in the Atlas
● how to correlate sites, institutions and textile resources into the Atlas
● how to promote the Digital Atlas and disseminate news about this database to your own network

At the end of this workshop participants will receive concrete information about how they can be involved in the EuroWeb Atlas development.

PROGRAMME:

DAY 1 (9th of May)

10.00 a.m.-12.00 a.m.

PART 1: The EuroWeb Digital Atlas: recent updates.

Aim: Introductory section giving an up-to-date on the last changes made in the database since the last workshop:

Alina Iancu, Catarina Costeira, Piotr Kasprzyk, Mikkel Nørtoft

• current structure of the Atlas (description of sections and what information was already included)
• the controlled vocabularies implemented in the Digital Atlas, with a focus on the cleaning of the deprecated terms
• the excel import tested successfully

12.00-13.00 Lunch break.

13.00-16.00.

PART 2. Organizing the data import into the DA: how to select, organize, clean, translate, cite  and import textile resources in the EuroWeb Digital Atlas

• Selection and organization of data in tables. The import of data
• Images regulation
• Citing regulation 
• Sites and Collections mapping    

DAY 2 (10th of May)

10.00 a.m. -12.00 a.m.

Part 3: Practical demonstration on importing textile data in the Atlas, and a good moment to spread the DA working procedure to all participants. 

All participants will be shown 1. how to obtain a predefinite excel table from the DA excel import system, 2. how to complete it and 3. how to import this data into the Atlas.

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EuroWeb members that have textile data and would like to import it into the Atlas can ask for more detailed individual training sessions after this workshop ends. These individual training sessions can be organized in the future weeks/months together with the Digital Atlas team members on a mutually agreed programme.    

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