spice project full details
Champion:
Paul Mulholland
Senior Research Fellow
Participant(s):Enrico Daga, Jason Carvalho, Trevor Collins
Similar Projects:IMMA Viewpoints, IMMA Deep Viewpoints, SPARQL Anything
Timeline:01 May 2020 - 30 Apr 2023
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SPICE
Social cohesion, Participation, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement
The aim of the SPICE project is to develop new technologies and methods that enable groups at risk of exclusion to actively participate in culture through a process we term citizen curation.
Citizens will be supported in taking part in curatorially-inspired activities such as collecting, storytelling and exhibition design. The technology developed in the project will enable citizen groups to share their own collective view on life through culture and heritage, as well as understand and appreciate the alternative cultural viewpoints of other groups.
The process of citizen curation will be co-designed and evaluated through case studies in five countries: Finland, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Israel. In each case study a museum serves as a hub to support citizen curation with specific target groups including older people, asylum seekers, young people living with illness, Deaf people and children from different religious and secular communities.
The SPICE project is supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme.
Partners
- University of Bologna
- University of Aalto
- Design Museum Helsinki
- University of Aalborg
- Irish Museum of Modern Art
- GVAM Interactive Guides S.L.
- PadaOne Games
- Complutense University of Madrid
- University of Turin
- Fondazione Torino Musei
- CELI Language Technology
- University of Haifa and Hecht Museum
News
24 Apr 2023
The OU presents the output of the SPICE project at the Extended Intelligence for Cultural Engagement
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16 Nov 2022
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16 Sep 2021
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19 May 2020
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Samela, L., Daga, E. and Mulholland, P. (2025). Investigating vividness bias in language models through art interpretations. In: Workshop on Evaluation of Language Models in Knowledge Engineering (ELMKE), 26 Nov 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://oro.open.ac.uk/101364/.
Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Daga, E. and Asprino, L. (2024). Path-based and triplification approaches to mapping data into RDF: User behaviours and recommendations. Semantic Web, 15(6), pp. 2479–2505. https://oro.open.ac.uk/99559/.
Mulholland, P., Stoneman, A., Carvalho, J., Daga, E. and Maguire, M. (2023). Deep Viewpoints: Scripted Support for the Citizen Curation of Museum Artworks. In: HT '23: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 4-8 Sep 2023, Rome, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/91305/.
Mulholland, P., Stoneman, A., Barker, N., Maguire, M., Carvalho, J., Daga, E. and Warren, P. (2023). The Sound of Paintings: Using Citizen Curation to Explore the Cross-Modal Personalization of Museum Experiences. In: Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH) at UMAP ’23, 26 Jun 2023, Limassol, Cyprus. https://oro.open.ac.uk/88914/.
Carvalho, J., Daga, E., Asprino, L., Gangemi, A., Maguire, M., Mulholland, P., Stoneman, A. and Uwasomba, C. (2023). SPICE Linked Data Hub - Data infrastructure and tools to support Citizen Curation. In: ExICE - Extended Intelligence for Cultural Engagement, 15 Mar 2023, Bologna. https://oro.open.ac.uk/88011/.
Daga, E. and Groth, P. (2024). Data journeys: explaining AI workflows through abstraction. Semantic Web, 15(4), pp. 1057–1083. https://oro.open.ac.uk/88012/.
Stoneman, A., Carvalho, J., Daga, E., Maguire, M. and Mulholland, P. (2021). Uncomfortable Revelations: can citizen curation widen access to museums? Museum Ireland, 28 pp. 64–71. https://oro.open.ac.uk/85991/.
Chiatti, A. and Daga, E. (2022). Neuro-symbolic learning for dealing with sparsity in cultural heritage image archives: an empirical journey. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Learning for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG), co-located with the 21st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 23-24 Oct 2022, Virtual. https://oro.open.ac.uk/85282/.
Asprino, L., Daga, E., Gangemi, A. and Mulholland, P. (2023). Knowledge Graph Construction with a façade: a unified method to access heterogeneous data sources on the Web. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 23(1), pp. 1–31. https://oro.open.ac.uk/84520/.
Daga, E., Asprino, L., Damiano, R., Daquino, M., Agudo, B.D., Gangemi, A., Kuflik, T., Lieto, A., Maguire, M., Marras, A.M., Pandiani, D.M., Mulholland, P., Peroni, S., Pescarin, S. and Wecker, A. (2022). Integrating Citizen Experiences in Cultural Heritage Archives: Requirements, State of the Art, and Challenges. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 15(1), pp. 1–35. https://oro.open.ac.uk/81791/.
Wecker, A., Kuflik, T., Mulholland, P., Diaz-Agudo, B. and Pedersen, T. (2021). Introducing empathy into recommender systems as a tool for promoting social cohesion. In: Workshop on Social and Cultural Integration with Personalized Interfaces (SOCIALIZE), 13 Apr 2021, College Station, TX (Online). https://oro.open.ac.uk/77056/.
Mulholland, P., Daga, E., Daquino, M., Díaz-Kommonen, L., Gangemi, A., Kulfik, T., Wecker, A., Maguire, M., Peroni, S. and Pescarin, S. (2020). Enabling multiple voices in the museum: Challenges and approaches. Digital Culture & Society, 6(2), pp. 259–266. https://oro.open.ac.uk/77061/.
Bruni, L.E., Daga, E., Damiano, R., Diaz, L., Kuflik, T., Lieto, A., Gangemi, A., Mulholland, P., Peroni, S., Pescarin, S. and Wecker, A. (2020). Towards Advanced Interfaces for Citizen Curation. In: AVI2CH 2020: Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces and Interactions in Cultural Heritage, 29 Sep 2020, Ischia, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/72524/.
