Results and outputs Collections of Ghent

For Collections of Ghent, the City and its museums and archives have collaborated with partners from the corporate, cultural, and academic world to digitize an invaluable collection of more-or-less 80,000 objects, stories and documents. This collected heritage converged in the CoGent-box, an immersive, high-tech and mobile experience room. The CoGent box went on tour in three neighbourhoods of Ghent. Visitors were able to participate by adding personal stories about the cultural heritage displayed in the CoGent box. Next to that a cultural data lab and a cocreation fund were initiated to stimulate reuse of cultural heritage on many different levels. 

On this page we present an overview of the main outputs and results of Collections of Ghent by the various partners. 

Introduction

Stories from the neighbourhoods

  • Cultural Participation Toolkit
    Project partner iDROPS developed a toolkit for cultural participation. The toolkit aims to involve people in cultural heritage projects and helps them to create their own story. - Read more.

  • Train-the-trainer Toolkit
    Project partner IDROPS matched the Cultural Participation Toolkit with a Train-the-trainer loolkit. With this train-the-trainer they aimed for a waterfall effect in the three neinghbourhoods: Trainers gained a sense of ownership and train new trainers themselves. - Read more.

  • Train-the-trainer video report - 90 secs - Dutch - Watch now

  • Stories from the neighbourhoods. An inspirational search.
    This booklet gives a clear insight in this participatory project in which heritage, community work, and technology reinforce each other. It takes you through the working methods in the neighbourhoods. The many encounters, activities and neighbourhood explorations produced many stories. An overview of these stories, testimonials, reactions and anecdotes can also be found in this booklet . - Read more.

  • Stories from the neighbourhoods.
    The interactive stories and narratives that can be explored in the CoGhent box are re-edited so they can also be enjoyed and shared online.
    - Watch now

  • Co-creation fund - Awarding beneficiaries for their concepts 
    The Co-creation Fund was a fund set up to stimulate co-creation of content and cultural mediation applications based on the data and digital reproductions published by the Collections of Ghent project. Read more on the selected projects, selection proces and evaluation- pdf

  • Cultural datalab framework
    The Cultural Datalab was set up to facilitate reuse of the digitised cultural heritage data made available during the three year Collections of Ghent project. This document is to inspire and help other European cities, museums or archives when they want to set up their own GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) datalab. So you can read how we have set up our lab to engage third parties into reusing cultural data, how we approached it, what the results are and what our reflections are on our process. - pdf - read more.

  • Tutorials
    How do I search for something on the web platform? How do I log in? How do I add an object? How do I add a comment? How does my story get into the CoGent box?  We did our best to make the website as user-friendly as possible, but sometimes a manual or tutorial in the form of a video can help you get started a bit. - Watch now

Data & copyright

Documentation API and source code

CoGhent box

Research & impact

  • Strategic and conceptual development guidelines for the development of next generation hybrid spatialized cultural interfaces.
    Bastiaan Baccarne & Ben Robaeyst, researchers, UGent and Lina Juvens, Innovation lead District 09
    This document outlines some of the key dimensions that should be taken into account when starting projects on the crossroads of social cohesion, cultural heritage and technology. - pdf - Read more.

  • Pop-up urban laboratory (PUL): Methodological description & reflection.
    The document describes a methodology that can be applied when conducting co-creation activities in the wild. How and why to involve and engage the environment in the development of urban interfaces. - pdf - Read more.

  • Policy document - Analysis of the potential for sustainability. - Geert Van den Bossche & Johan Desseyn, Mpiris. 
    This policy research report evaluates which realizations of the project have the potential to be continued after the formal ending of the project in June 2023. To be more precise, the policy research analyses which of the CoGhent outputs align with and contribute to the visions and ambitions of the research’s participants to such a degree, that the latter desire their continuation. This report also formulates policy recommendations that clarify what is needed to realize that continuation. - pdf - Read more.

  • Impact assessment report - Ben Robaeyst & Bastiaan Baccarne, Imec-MICT-Ghent University
    This document describes both the methodology and the outcomes of the impact study of the project. Where did this intervention make a difference? The focus of this study is on the development of social cohesion and cultural participation. pdf - Read more.

  • A qualitative model of costs and benefits. - S. Verbrugge, D. Colle, M. Verstraete, IDLab University of Ghent - imec
    This document studies the possible configurations of value networks like the CoGhent network, in which a wide variety of roles need to be picked up by a wide variety of actors. It provides an architecture and describes scenario’s to make projects like this work. pdf - Read more.

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