Designed for digital humanities research, Semantic Kompakkt is a free, open-source platform for exploring and semantically annotating visual media in an interconnected open-data environment. Semantic Kompakkt, provides accessible features through graphical interfaces while Wikibase manages metadata storage as linked open data, thus enabling the publication and annotation of 2D, 3D, and audiovisual media.
The proposed talk shares lessons from an evaluation of the metadata presented on Semantic Kompakkt field names as reviewed by digital archaeologists. The review was done as part of a project to reduce fuzziness within the platform. Fuzziness, also referred to as wobbliness, serves as an overarching concept encompassing indistinguishable combinations of uncertainty and vagueness within statements or datasets, as well as broader informational ambiguities such as unreproducible literature claims or imprecise ontological mappings.
As a result some key field names were updated, which include; the “persons and institutions” which became “actors”; and descriptions on object types, provenance, material, dimensions, collection and other such, which were re-directed to the original object data from the existing collection. This resulted in having to re-upload the items on Wikibase with all the new statements so as to better serve the objects on display in Semantic Kompakkt.
