Looted art databases: Adolf Weinmüller

Sale records from Nazi-era auction house Adolf Weinmüller, which trafficked in art looted from Jewish owners, are available online at Germany’s Lost Art Database.

A member of the Nazi Party since 1931, Weinmüller absorbed two Jewish-run auction houses: Munich’s Hugo Helbing, and Vienna’s Samuel Kende. Weinmüller's clients included Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler’s private secretary.

In 1958, Weinmüller sold his business to Rudolf Neumeister. In 2013 a Neumeister employee discovered the catalogues, which it lent to the Zentral Institut für Kunstgeschichte (the central institute for art history) for publication on the Lost Art website.

Sarah Cascone, writing for Artnews on May 29, 2014, pointed out that "Given the large number of records, it seems plausible that the Weinmüller catalogues could lead investigators and Sunday provenance sleuths to the next Gurlitt looted art trove."

"Some 34,500 objects were sold by Weinmüller during this period in 33 Munich auctions and 18 Vienna sales."

These can now be consulted at http://www.lostart.de/Webs/EN/LostArt/Index.html%3bjsessionid=F952AF9A3892DCD735351DEF55CF8946.m0

Article from Artnews by Sarah Cascone, "Now You Can Browse Nazi Auction Catalogues for Looted Art Sales" published May 29, 2014

Publishing open linked data: Tableminer and Austrian data portals

In this interesting paper, Tomas Knap looks at using Tableminer+ to help transform CSV files from Austrian data portals,  http://www.data.gv.at and http://www.opendataportal.at, into Linked Open Data.

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"To leverage CSV files to Linked Data3 , it is necessary to 1) classify CSV columns based on its content and context against existing knowledge bases 2) assign RDF terms (HTTP URLs, blank nodes and literals) to the particular cell values according to Linked Data principles (HTTP URL identifiers may be reused from one of the existing knowledge bases), 3) discover relations between columns based on the evidence for the relations in the existing knowledge bases, and 4) convert CSV data to RDF data properly using data types, language tags, well-known Linked Data vocabularies, etc" - 

from: "Increasing Quality of Austrian Open Data by Linking them to Linked Data Sources: Lessons Learned?" by Tomas Knap, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,  Czech Republic, Semantic Web Company, Vienna, Austria
Read more: at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1585/ldq2016_paper_01.pdf

Database as Book: Le Catalogue Goering

Auteurs: Les Archives Diplomatiques et Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Préface: Laurent Fabius
Editeur: Flammarion
Langue: Français
ISBN: 978-2081365407
https://www.amazon.fr/catalogue-Goering-Jean-Marc-Dreyfus/dp/2081365405

« Un accès inédit aux archives de la spoliation » : LeCatalogue Goering (30 septembre 2015) - France.Gov

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Le Catalogue Goering

Date: 2015-30-09
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Jean-Marc Dreyfus

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Preserving Digital Objects

How to ensure preservation and access for digital objects? 

The California Digital Library has published guidelines that aim to support the following objectives:

• Ensure a basic level of uniformity in the structure and encoding of non-licensed digital content managed by the CDL

• Advance interoperability among digital content from diverse institutions

• Promote efficient ingest procedures

• Support the orderly management of digital content

• Facilitate access to digital content by users

• Minimize costs 

To consult the PDF of  CDL Guidelines for Digital Objects (CDL GDO) Maintained by the California Digital Library (January 2017 University of California, California Digital Library)

For more information on Calisphere/DAMS Projects

Karl Haberstock. Using Amazon Kindle's "Search Everything" function

Karl Haberstock. Using Amazon Kindle's "Search Everything" function to quantify, locate, and analyze mentions in ebooks.

Any ebook  or doc file on Kindle is searchable. Amazon's ebook device indexes books and (most) documents and provides fast searches through all content.

One quick search on Kindle shows that Haberstock's name appears:

• 124 times in Simon Goodman's  The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis, 
• 60 times in Susan Ronald's Hitler's Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe's Treasures 
•  60 times in the   OSS (USS Office of Strategic Services) Art Looting Intelligence Unit (ALIU) Reports 1945-1946 and ALIU Red Flag Names List and Index, 
• 36 times in Kenneth D. Alford's Hermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection:The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II
• 26 times in Stephanie Barron's Degenerate Art: the fate of the avant-garde in Nazi Germany
• 13 times in Malcolm Goldstein's Landscape with Figures: A History of Art Dealing in the United States
• 9 times in Petropoulos' Bridges from the Reich:The Importance of Émigré Art Dealers as Reflected in the Case Studies of Curt Valentin and Otto Kallir–Nirenstein

If the ebook is loaded on Kindle, the results are immediate. And not limited to books. Kindle also searches through documents.
Immediately, with no coding, preparation or Uniform Resources Identifiers (URIs).
A click on any one of the books displayed will immediately take the user to a list of every text in which the word is mentioned, in context, and available for highlighting in Notes.

While awaiting for the promise of Linked Open Data to be fulfilled, Kindle can provide a simple tool to unify information. The only requirement: to download the ebook to the Kindle device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Haberstock

Dbpedia, in German: http://de.dbpedia.org/page/Karl_Haberstock
Wikidata (Library of Congress, VIAF, ISNI, GND, BFN
http://wikidata.org/entity/Q1731388

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