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In north-western Europe, the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt rivers have created a large river delta over the past 3 million years. Geological phenomena in the Scheldt region in north-western Belgium and in the southern Netherlands testify from a highly dynamic landscape, showing a range from very old (50 MY) to very young (recent) geological processes. The great diversity in geological processes and resulting landscapes is unprecedented on a global scale and has had its impact on the region’s cultural and economic history, shaping today’s reality in the global polycrisis. However, the area is usually observed by people as a flat and featureless type of terrain, although sometimes, unexpected elevation differences and sharp contrasts in landscapes occur alternating with omnipresent waterways. Therefore, here, the seven most conspicuous landforms are reviewed and presented in conjunction with the geological history of the area, including the typical lowland theme of the human battle against water. This study aims to (a) reconstruct the Tertiary and Quaternary to Holocene Dutch–Flemish Schelde Delta history, (b) review a cultural history that evolves into the present of the Anthropocene, and (c) project the desired future for sustainable landscapes in the aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark Schelde Delta between plural landscape management scenarios of Revitalised Land- and Waterscape and Improved Biodiversity.

CRMsurv is an unofficial but formal extension of CIDOC_CRM, co-developed in the Semafora project. It models and represents essential data points for integrating archaeological survey data. It is curated using OntoME, a tool for community based FAIR formal ontology data management. This ontology extends the CIDOC CRM 6.2 ontology data standard for cultural heritage data in order to provide classes and properties necessary to describe unique aspects of the archaeological survey process. It also makes use of classes and properties of the CIDOC CRM extensions CRMArchaeo 1.4.1 and CRMsci 1.2.3. The ontology is intended to support researchers interested in integrating archaeology survey data using the CIDOC CRM.

Cultural heritage collections available as linked open data (LOD) may contain harmful stereotypes about people and cultures, for example, in outdated textual descriptions of objects. Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) have suggested various approaches to tackle potentially problematic content in digital collections. However, the domain expertise and discussions about words and phrases used in LOD-collections are scattered across different resources and detached from the collections themselves. In this paper, we capture domain expertise about English and Dutch contentious heritage terminology in a knowledge graph. Contentious terms in the resulting graph are then linked to entities from other LOD-resources used in the cultural domain and beyond, including Wikidata and WordNet. We make our design decisions explicit and report on the linking process. The developed knowledge graph makes expert knowledge interoperable, so it can be reused by the cultural heritage community and other LOD-developers to contribute to a more inclusive representation of cultural heritage on the Web.

Past work in natural language processing interpretability focused mainly on popular classification tasks while largely overlooking generation settings, partly due to a lack of dedicated tools. In this work, we introduce Inseq, a Python library to democratize access to interpretability analyses of sequence generation models. Inseq enables intuitive and optimized extraction of models' internal information and feature importance scores for popular decoder-only and encoder-decoder Transformers architectures. We showcase its potential by adopting it to highlight gender biases in machine translation models and locate factual knowledge inside GPT-2. Thanks to its extensible interface supporting cutting-edge techniques such as contrastive feature attribution, Inseq can drive future advances in explainable natural language generation, centralizing good practices and enabling fair and reproducible model evaluations.

In this blog post, we reflect on the use of the Media Suite for multimodal storytelling practices in the international classroom. The CLARIAH Media Suite combines Dutch media data collections and makes audiovisual material from Dutch audiovisual collections more accessible for higher education (CLARIAH Media Suite - What is the CLARIAH Media Suite?, n.d.). From October 2021 until January 2022, we explored the use of the Media Suite together with a multicultural, interdisciplinary group of MA students with a background in media creation and innovation at the University of Groningen. The students used content from audiovisual collections in the Media Suite for creative storytelling practices. In this subject tutorial, we provide insights on how the Media Suite can be implemented for multimodal storytelling usage in the international classroom. Project: Making Multimodal Storytelling Experiences with Cultural Heritage Materials in the International Classroom (MAKE) - Media Suite Teaching Fellowship CLARIAH-PLUS (2019-2023) PI/Principal Investigator: dr. Berber Hagedoorn, Assistant Professor Media Studies & Audiovisual Culture (RUG), b.hagedoorn@rug.nl Project Period: October 1, 2021 to 1 July 2022

https://mediasuite.clariah.nl/learn/example-projects/making-multimodal-storytelling-experiences-with-cultural-heritage-materials-in-the-international-classroom Project: Making Multimodal Storytelling Experiences with Cultural Heritage Materials in the International Classroom (MAKE) - Media Suite Teaching Fellowship CLARIAH-PLUS (2019-2023) PI/Principal Investigator: dr. Berber Hagedoorn, Assistant Professor Media Studies & Audiovisual Culture (RUG), b.hagedoorn@rug.nl Project Period: October 1, 2021 to 1 July 2022 Abstract in English: How do Dutch and international MA students, experienced in media creation and innovation, use the English-language content and collections in the CLARIAH Media Suite for creative storytelling practices: to search, contextualize and share the Media Suite’s cultural heritage content, and to engage users with it? The CLARIAH Media Suite provides online access to Dutch audiovisual cultural heritage (such as television, film and radio) and contextual (meta)data. The project has a three-pronged approach – focusing on the interaction of (a) content, (b) platform, and (c) user – to dig into and understand Media Suite use for multimodal storytelling purposes. Understanding storytelling in various forms as a sense-making practice and as a socio-technical practice, this project combines platform engagement analysis with user analysis, both via survey analysis and co-creative user-laboratory sessions. This approach triangulates insights into perspectives on digital storytelling and media use with first-hand observations of Media Suite use, to create (make) new creative storytelling products or experiences. It uncovers how students in the international classroom perceive the Media Suite platform as an effective storytelling tool. Samenvatting in het Nederlands: Dit project onderzoekt hoe Nederlandse en internationale MA studenten de Engelstalige inhoud en collecties in de CLARIAH Media Suite gebruiken voor creatieve verteldoeleinden – en het gaat hier in het bijzonder om studenten die ervaring hebben in het creëren van en innoveren met media. Hoe doorzoeken zij de inhoud van de Media Suite, om deze te contextualiseren en te delen in een nieuwe vertelervaring? De CLARIAH Media Suite geeft online toegang tot Nederlands audiovisueel cultureel erfgoed (o.a. televisie, film en radio) en bijbehorende (meta)data. Het project MAKE heeft een drieledige aanpak om het gebruik van de Media Suite voor multimodale verteldoeleinden te doorgronden, gericht op de interactie van (a) inhoud, (b) platform en (c) gebruiker. Dit project combineert platform-analyse met gebruikersanalyse (enquêtes en co-creatieve workshops). Diverse vormen van storytelling worden onderzocht vanuit een sociaal-technisch perspectief en op het niveau van betekenisgeving. Door inzichten in digital storytelling en mediagebruik te combineren met deze observaties, van het gebruik van de Media Suite om nieuwe multimodale vertelervaringen te creëren, laat dit project zien op welke wijze studenten het Media Suite-platform kunnen inzetten in een internationale leeromgeving als een effectief middel voor het vertellen van verhalen.

This is part 4 of the Rchon statistics course. It continues the basics of statistical testing in R. In this tutorial, we will treat the following statistical testing methods: Mann-Whitney test Kruskal-Wallis test Kolmogorov-Smirnov test Follow the instructions in Instructions Tutorial 4.pdf to start the tutorial. This course was originally created for Archon Research School of Archaeology by Philip Verhagen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Bjørn P. Bartholdy (University of Leiden), and consists of an instruction, a tutorial, a test and two datafiles. All content is CC BY-NC-SA: it can be freely distributed and modified under the condition of proper attribution and non-commercial use. How to cite: Verhagen, P. & B.P. Bartholdy, 2022. "Rchon statistics course, part 3". Amsterdam, ARCHON Research School of Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7458108