TextileBase Demo

TextileBase is a collaborative demonstration project by Ieava Pigozne and Reprex, inviting you to explore the feasibility of connecting textile and fashion history, cultural history, and other databases to a connected knowledge base.

The demonstration consists of the following elements:

Garments database

• A demonstration database of shirts and skirts.
• Shirts dataset: a structured dataset about shirts in various art, fashion and folk history databases.
• Skirts dataset: a structured dataset about shirts in various art, fashion and folk history databases.

Research database

• A demonstration database of researchers and their research.
• Researchers dataset: a structured dataset about researchers who publish about the topic of the database or have published about the particular garments in the database.
• Publications that describe the garments in the database.
• Institutions and their inventory books, catalogues, and websites that hold the garments in the database.

Thesaurus & Ontology

• A demonstration of a tool to create an interdisciplinary thesaurus.
• Ideas about building better-controlled vocabularies, thesauri, and eventually an ontology to connect various GLAM memory institutions' knowledge (libraries, archives, museums, private collections, fashion design studios, etc.) into a shared knowledge base.

TextileBase was carried out with the support of a Short-Term Scientific Mission grant in August-September 2024.