Rebecca Kahn, Dr.
Dr. Rebecca Kahn is an associate researcher at the HIIG.
She completed her PhD in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College, London in 2016, with a study on how digital transformation manifests in the documentation, data models and internal ontologies of cultural heritage institutions, and how the identity of an institution can be traced and observed throughout their digital assets. Her current work explores digitisation in museums and archives, and the ways in which knowledge representation changes in these institutions as they and their materials become digital.
Her undergraduate studies were completed in her native South Africa, and prior to beginning her research, Rebecca worked for several years in the Open Access and Free Culture movement, and has a particular interest in scholarly open access in the Global South, open education and peer learning online and open web literacy.
From January 2017 until 2020, Rebecca was the Director of Collections for the Pelagios Project – a Mellon Foundation-supported research project that uses Linked Data and geodata to build connections between digital historical sources. Her focus was on working with museums, libraries and archives to develop linked data connections from their collections.
She is one of the 2018/19 Freies Wissen fellows, supported by Wikimedia Deutschland, the Stifterverband and the VolkswagenStiftung. Rebecca is also one of the co-coordinators of the DARAIH Geo-Humanities Working Group.
Videos
Gesellschaft & Kultur · Wissen & BildungPelagios Network: Verbundene Vergangenheiten
Das Projekt untersucht neue Methoden für die Verwendung von Linked Data, um historische Quellen durch gemeinsame Referenzen mit einer digitalen Inhalten wie Text, Bildern,...
Bücher
Kahn, R. (2020). World Feature Focus: Habitats. London: Franklin Watts. Weitere Informationen
Zeitschriftenartikel und Konferenzbeiträge
Kahn, R. (2020). Locked down not locked out – Assessing the digitalresponse of museums to COVID-19. Elephant in the Lab. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3751749 Weitere Informationen
Kahn, R. (2020). Corona as Curator: How museums are responding to the pandemic. Elephant in the Lab. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3751749 Weitere Informationen
Blagoev, B., Felten, S., & Kahn, R. (2018). The Career of a Catalogue: Organizational Memory, Materiality and the Dual Nature of the Past at the British Museum (1970–Today). Sage Journals. DOI: 10.1177/0170840618789189 Weitere Informationen
Gibson, L. & Kahn, R. (2016). Digital Museums in the 21st Century: Global Microphones or Universal Mufflers? Museological Review, 20, 39-52. Weitere Informationen
Buchbeiträge und Kapitel
Kahn, R. (2019). The Nation is in the Network. In N. Brügger, & D. Laursen (Eds.), The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: The Case of National Web Domains (pp. 161-177). London, New York: Routledge. Weitere Informationen
Kahn, R., Tanner, S., Gibson, L., & Laycock, G. (2017). Choices in Digitization for the Digital Humanities. In Griffin, G. (Ed.), Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Weitere Informationen
Arbeitspapiere
Fecher, B., Sokolovska, N., Völker, T., Nebe, P., Kahn, R. (2020). Making a Research Infrastructure: Conditions and Strategies to Transform a Service into an Infrastructure. SSOAR. Weitere Informationen
Andere Publikationen
Kahn, R. (2017). Smudges on the Glass: Locating and Tracing the Museum in the British Museum’s Digitised Collections. Doctoral Dissertation, King's College London. Weitere Informationen
Kahn, R. (2015). South Africa Might Get the Worst Internet Censorship Law in Africa. Huffington Post. Weitere Informationen
Vorträge
From Strings to Things: Using Linked Open Data for Cultural HeritageSpring School LiSeH 2019 Linked Data and the Semantic Web for Humanities research. University of Graz. University of Graz, Graz, Austria: 24.04.2019 Weitere Informationen
Rebecca Kahn
Connecting Collections: exposing objects in a Linked Data Search engineMuseums+Tech Conference. Museums Computer Group. National Gallery, London, London, United Kingdom: 19.10.2018
Rebecca Kahn
Out of the Archives, and onto the StreetsConnected Communities Conference. Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom: 27.09.2018
Rebecca Kahn
Connecting CollectionsICHG 2018: 17th Annual International Conference of Historical Geographers (Session: Linked Open Data for Linked Pasts). Polish Academy of Sciences. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland: 17.07.2018
Rebecca Kahn
Pelagios Commons: Decentralizing Knowledge Creation in the Web of Historical DataICHG 2018 International Conference of Historical Geographers (Session: Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing in Historical Geography – Projects, Ideas, Perspectives). Polish Academy of Sciences. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland: 16.07.2018
Rebecca Kahn
Recogito: Semantic Annotation Without the Pointy BracketsHybrid Narrativity: Annotating Comics Workshop (Session: Annotating Comics). University of Paderborn, University of Potsdam. Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany: 18.06.2018
Rebecca Kahn
Pelagios Commons: Linked Data without the Pointy BracketsDigital Classicist Seminar, Berlin (Session: Digital Classicist Berlin Seminar). Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Interdisziplinäre Forschungsverbund Digital Humanities in Berlin, DARIAH-DE. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany: 16.10.2017 Weitere Informationen
Rebecca Kahn
Pelagios Commons: Decentralising the Web of Historical KnowledgeDigital Cultural Heritage. CODATA-Germany. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany: 30.08.2017
Rebecca Kahn
Semantic Annotation for Humanists: Linked Data Without the Pointy BracketsInternational Symposium of Information Science 2017 (Satellite Workshop on the Relationship of Information Science and the Digital Humanities). University of Regensburg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin School of Library and Information Science. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany: 15.03.2017
Rebecca Kahn
Moderation von Workshops und Panels
Swimming in (Linked) Data: Using the Semantic Web to make sense of Spatial HumanitiesAnnual Conference. DARIAH. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland: 15.05.2019 Weitere Informationen
Rebecca Kahn
Organisation von Veranstaltungen
Geo-LOD: Linked Open Data and GeoHumanities Research (Linked Data, Geodata and Humanities Research: More Than Semantics)Geo-LOD: Linked Open Data and GeoHumanities Research. with attending Vip: Geo-LOD: Linked Open Data and GeoHumanities Research. 22.05.2018. Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom (International)
Rebecca Kahn
Medienauftritte
Article (30.07.2021). wissenschaftskommunikation.de
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Position
Assoziierte Forscherin: Wissen & Gesellschaft
