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Developments and findings of the Golden Agents (https://www.goldenagents.org/) Processes of Creativity case study

Golden Agents - Processes of Creativity (case study)

Measuring innovation in book culture.

• Golden Agents - Processes of Creativity (case study)
  • Introduction
  • Datasets
  • Linksets
  • Methods
  • Analysis
  • License
  • Contact

Introduction

We can observe a 'rise' of or 'renewed interest' in the illustrated book in the second half of 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century. New genres and techniques and an increasing competition in the book market lead to new collaborations between authors, printers, and illustrators. It would be interesting to track these producers who collaborated on illustrated book projects and trace whether these commercial collaborations were grounded or resulted in social and/or religious interactions. For this, we are bringing together several datasets in the Golden Agents infrastructure that each contain information on the production of books, or on social relations between actors involved in the production process.

Aim of case study:

• Linking & querying different datasets to find overarching patterns on creative industries in the Dutch Republic

Overarching Research Question:

• How can we map innovation in cultural production?
• What is the relation between different sorts (bonding & bridging) of creative and social interactions?

Datasets

• Short Title Catalogue of the Netherlands (STCN, http://www.stcn.nl/), that contains bibliographic information on books produced in the Netherlands (until 1800)
  • Dutch Thesaurus of Author names (NTA)
  • STCN Printer Thesaurus
• Rijksmuseum Library (https://library.rijksmuseum.nl/), that contains more information on the actors involved in the production process of a book than the STCN: illustrators as contributors. We model the part of the RMLibrary that contains links to the STCN in RDF. See: datasets/rmlibrary
• Rijksmuseum Collection (https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/) in Europeana Data Model. Contains pointers to the Rijksstudio and relevant depictions.
• ECARTICO (https://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/) that holds biographical data concerning painters, engravers, printers, book sellers, gold- and silversmiths and others involved in the ‘cultural industries’ of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
• Ondertrouwregisters Amsterdam City Archives (OTR SAA, https://archief.amsterdam/uitleg/indexen/45-ondertrouwregisters-1565-1811) provide information on the social interaction between people, their (family) relation, and their connection to confession and profession.
  • Ja, ik wil! (http://www.collective-action.info/_PRO_Ja-Ik-Wil_Project)

Linksets

See: /linksets

Methods

We will explore the potential of methods like blockmodelling and community detection. For a recent review of these methods see: Lee, C., Wilkinson, D.J. A review of stochastic block models and extensions for graph clustering, Appl Netw Sci 4, no. 122 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-019-0232-2

For the applicability of such methods in historical research see: John F. Padgett and Christopher K. Ansell, Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434, American Journal of Sociology 98, no. 6 (1993), 1259-1319. (JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2781822).

Analysis

An analysis of the data is available in the analysis folder and can be viewed in a Jupyter notebook. The notebook contains an exploration of the data and the application of community detection methods to the data. The notebook is part of a Master Thesis by Iman Hashemi (Utrecht University):

• Hashemi, I. (2022). Community Detection in Historical Data Using Knowledge Graphs (Master's thesis). https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/41641

License

The data in this repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (unless otherwise specified) and can be used freely, as long as you provide attribution to the Golden Agents Project (e.g. by citation).

• van Wissen, L., Hashemi, I., Nijboer, H., Brouwer, J., Baas, J., Prak, M., & Leemans, I. (2022). Golden Agents - Processes of Creativity (case study) (Version v0.9) [Data set]. https://github.com/knaw-huc/golden-agents-processes-of-creativity/

Contact

Golden Agents project

https://www.goldenagents.org/staff/

[email protected]

golden-agents-processes-of-creativity's Issues

Linking SAA OTR to ECARTICO

We need a linkset on a person level from the SAA OTR dataset (which thereby also includes the already linked Ja, ik wil! dataset) to ECARTICO. Based on the following information, we can make a linkset in Lenticular Lens:

• Name of a person (similarity match)
• Marriage date (time delta on the Ondertrouw event)
• Name of the partner for extra context (similarity match)

As soon as the production version of Lenticular Lens is stable/finished, we can make such a linkset.

Volgende stappen a.d.h.v. clusternotebook

Vragen:

• In hoeverre is de productie van geïllustreerde boeken een oligopolie?

• Is er een opeenvolging van clusters? Worden de kleinere clusters ook verbonden door personen?

• Kun je clusters zien die evident een overdracht aanduiden?

• Zijn er clusters rondom verschillende deelproducten? (e.g. portretuitgaven, bijbels, etc.) Is er een continuïteit van personen, of van (type) producten?

• Als je een cluster ziet, dan is dat rondom één product, of rondom een continuïteit van verschillende producties die een groep samen heeft gemaakt. Kunnen we precies zien wát ze hebben opgeleverd, welke entiteiten/boeken? Hoe productief is een bepaald cluster (hieruit volgt mate van succes).

• Zijn er langlopende clusters? Clusters die dus continuïteit aangeven? Hiervoor moeten we ook kijken naar de links tussen clusters.

• Hoe meten we productiviteit van clusters? Aan de hand van het aantal overgeleverde titels in de STCN, of kijken we ook nog naar de status (e.g. vertaling) van een boek?

• En hoe visualiseren we dit?

Linking RMLibrary to ECARTICO/Wikidata

We need a linkset between the RMLibrary dataset and ECARTICO. Wikidata can serve as a hub and already has many references to both datasets, but this needs to be extended.

At this moment, there are 776/1999 persons with an URI on https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/ in this dataset linked on Wikidata (property P7444), and thereby sometimes to ECARTICO (property P2915) and the NTA (property P1006).

Query on endpoint https://sparql.goldenagents.org/sparql, or through https://api.triplydb.com/s/IwdLzxjNS for every Person resource that is referred to by Wikidata:

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX wdt: <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/>
PREFIX schema: <http://schema.org/>

SELECT * WHERE {
    # Query Wikidata for all entities with a Rijkmuseum Identifier
    SERVICE <https://query.wikidata.org/sparql> {
    
      ?wd wdt:P7444 ?rmid .
      BIND(URI(CONCAT("https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310", ?rmid)) AS ?person)

      # Use Wikidata to map to Ecartico
      OPTIONAL {
        ?wd wdt:P2915 ?ecarticoid .
        BIND(URI(CONCAT("http://www.vondel.humanities.uva.nl/ecartico/persons/", ?ecarticoid)) AS ?ecartico)
      }

      # Use Wikidata to map to the NTA
      OPTIONAL {
        ?wd wdt:P1006 ?ntaid .
        BIND(URI(CONCAT("http://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/thes/p", ?ntaid)) AS ?nta)
      }
  } 
  GRAPH <https://data.goldenagents.org/datasets/u692bc364e9d7fa97b3510c6c0c8f2bb9a0e5123b/rmlibrary_20210825> {
    ?person a schema:Person ; 
          schema:name ?name .
  }
}

NB Niet alle geillustreerde uitgaven in Rijksmuseum Research Library goed gedocumenteerd

Zo zijn bij de Chroniqve ofte historische geschiedenisse van Vrieslant niet de illustraties van Simon Frisius en Pieter Intjes beschreven.