Computational Publishing / Linked Open Exhibitions Prototype

OA Week 2026

Simon Worthington, Open Science Lab - TIB; HsH

2026-10-19

Context

• Projects:
  • Computational Publishing Service (CPS) as part of OSL Wikibase Data Services
  • ClimateKG - A knowledge graph for climate science literature - initially launching with the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)

Affiliations: Teaching Data Science in a GLAM context at University of the Applied Arts Hannover (HsH); R&D section Open Science Lab, service development - TIB; Carrying out research and service provision as parts of NFDI4Culture

Computational Publishing History

Paul Otlet Mundaneum

Volunteers worked at the Universal Bibliographic Repertory, the project that grew into the Mundaneum (1905)

 Monoskop page for Paul Otlet: https://monoskop.org/Paul_Otlet

Paul Otlet - Mundaneum

Mundaneum | Paul Otlet 1934 | Text of Twain: King Leopold’s Soliloquy (Project Gutenberg) 1905 | Reworking by Elisabetta Benassi: King Leopold’s Soliloquy - Nero Editions 2025, 978-88-97503-60-6 | Another look at a Knowledge Organization pioneer: traces of racism in Paul Otlet’s writings HAL

CP History Continued

Memex 1945

Dynabook 1973

Xanadu 1960

Semantic Web 1994

Wikipedia: Memex | Project Xanadu | Dynabook | Semantic Web

Open Scholarship Values and Infra

Image credit: UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science pp17

Open Scholarship Values and Infra

Computational Publishing techstack: Jupyter Notebooks, Git, Quarto

Image credit: SCOSS, https://scoss.org/

CP in Sciences and GLAM

CP as the exception and not the rule

• TIB Knowledge Loom (reborn)

Digital library ORKG reborn

• Journal of Digital History

Replicating the Kinora: 3D modelling and printing as heuristics in digital media history

Reborn article - Co-author Lauren Snyder: “Dance your PhD” | van der Heijden, T., & Wolf, C. (2022).https://doi.org/10.1515/JDH-2021-1009?locatt=label:JDHFULL

Thank You :-)

Computational Publishing: Workshop Hands-on Session

* Prototype: Linked Open Exhibition

Art exhibitions currently don’t make public records of what artworks are displayed. The project aims to support curators in creating a linked open dataset of exhibition records and prouce data driven catalogue publications.

Hands-on Session

Prototype: Convert data from an OCR scan of a catalogue of works by the artist John Baldessari shown in an art exhibition at the Sprengel Museum Hannover 26.9.1999 - 2.1.2000 into a data driven publication.

• Making Linked Open Data entries in Wikidata
• Using Jupyter Notebooks
• Data standards for art exhibitions
• Publishing an exhibition catalogue

Go here: https://nfdi4culture.github.io/John-Baldessari-Exhibition-Catalogue/

Workflow Schematic

+----------------+      +----------------+
|      BOOK      |----->|      OCR       |
+--------+-------+      +--------+-------+
                                  
         v --------------------- |
                                
+----------------+      +----------------+
|    DATASET     |----->|    WIKIDATA    |
+--------+-------+      +--------+-------+
                                  
         v --------------------- |
+----------------+      +----------------+
|  PUBLICATION   |----->|    DEPOSIT     |
|                |      |  (Mint PIDs)   |
+----------------+      +----------------+

Info and credits

Catalogue of works by the artists John Baldessari shown in an art exhibition at the Sprengel Museum Hannover 26.9.1999 - 2.1.2000. The purpose of the prototype is to demonstrate how to catalogue artworks in an exhibition as Linked Open Data on Wikidata. In this instance an OCR scan is transfered to Wikidata and then ouput as a computationally reproducible Quarto publication.

OCR workflow: Chloë Farr, orcid: 0009-0007-1146-6745

Concept and execution: Simon Worthington, orcid: 0000-0002-8579-9717

Thank you to the students of the Bachelor of Arts Information Management at Hochschule Hannover in the course BIM-126-02 Data Science (SoSe 2026)

Contact: simon.worthington@tib.eu