Associate Professor Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
PhD, MSc, MSc, MPhil, BA (Hons)
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Research & Methods
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Applications In Arts And Humanities 460101
- Graph, Social And Multimedia Data 460506
- Organisation Of Information And Knowledge Resources 080707
- Web Technologies (Excl. Web Search) 080505
- Library And Information Studies 0807
Research interests
- Linked Data, ontologies, RDF
- Knowledge representation
- Web Science
- Social Science Online
- Information and Library Sciences
- Digital Humanities
- Digital Libraries
- 3D modelling
Biography
I examine the potential of Linked Open Data to support and diversify scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. My publications also cover the role of games, gamification and informal online environments in education.
My monograph "Linked Open Data for Digital Humanities" (Routledge) came out in 2023. In it, I discuss how information is captured, published, represented, accessed, and interpreted using computational systems and, in doing so, show how technologies actively shape the way we understand what we encounter. The interdisciplinary case study examples include bibliographic data from works published in England between 1470 and 1700; literature from ancient Iraq; jazz performances, predominantly from the USA in the 1930s; and even reach as far as an alien, fictional future. Whilst these case study examples span vast spatio-temporal distances, they all share a common thread in the use of the Linked Data information publication paradigm. In amongst discussing existing computer science methods, as well as processes such as ontology development and database design, the book also includes reflections on practical considerations and offers advice about how to take institutional policies, socio-cultural sensitivities, and economic models into consideration when implementing Linked Data projects.
Researcher's projects
Examples of the 3D objects created in collaboration with the British Museum, the National Museum of Australia, and the School of Archaeology&Anthropology at the ANU can be seen here: https://sketchfab.com/tmtn/collections
There is a working prototype for the JazzCats (Jazz Collection of Aggregated Triples) project available at http://jazzcats.cdhr.anu.edu.au/
Current student projects
- Developing A Digital Archive for Different Perspectives Integration in the Second Sino-Japanese War
- Uncovering the Dynamics of Organised Criminal Group Conflict: An exploration of social relationships, social rivalries and group conflict in the Virtual World
- Automatically Detecting Suicide Ideation in the Online Environment
- Building Trust in Artificial Intelligence through Ethics
- Tracing the history of adoption and adaptation of ceramic culture in the Pacific, through the creation of accessible and engaging digital archives for Oceanic pottery.
Past student projects
- Using Linked Data methods to analyse a book of Chinese mythology, Shanhaijing.
- Modelling data from MMORPGs to gain a better understanding of criminal behaviour
- Social Media Mourning
- 3D replicas of Etruscan objects
- An ethnography of the IT profession in the GLAM sector
- Evaluative matrix for comparative analysis of museum websites
- Assessing the effect on the elderly of the move of essential services from off- to online environments
- VR reconstruction of Franz Kafka's A Country Doctor
- Sentiment analysis of Donald Trump's tweets
- Text analysis of Oscar Wilde's works
- Timeline of Chinese menshen or door gods
Publications
- Bammer, G, Browne, C, Ballard, C et al. 2023, 'Setting parameters for developing undergraduate expertise in transdisciplinary problem solving at a university-wide scale: a case study', Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, vol. 10. 208
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2023, 'Getting LOAD ed: Practical Considerations, Tools, and Workflows for producing Linked Open Assyriological Data', in Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Alessandro di Ludovico & Sveta Matskevich (ed.), The Ancient World Goes Digital: Case Studies on Archaeology, Texts, Online Publishing, Digital Archiving, and Preservation, Brill.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T & Pickering, P 2022, 'Crisis, what crisis?', in Shirley Leitch and Paul Pickering (ed.), Rethinking Social Media and Extremism, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 159-178.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2022, 'Teaching Linked Open Data using Bibliographic Metadata', Journal of Open Humanities Data, vol. 8, no. 6.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T & Pickering, P 2021, 'Reductio ad absurdum?: From Analogue Hypertext to Digital Humanities', HT '21: 32nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, United States, pp. 245-250.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T & Hart, I 2020, 'Constructive alignment and authentic assessment in a media-rich undergraduate course', Educational Media International, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. -.
- Browne, K, Swift, B & Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2020, 'Eating Computers Considered Harmful', 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, United States, pp. 1-13.
- Browne, K, Swift, B & Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2020, 'Camera Adversaria', 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, United States, pp. 1-9.
- Tibau, M, Siqueira, S, Pereira Nunes, B et al. 2019, 'Using Query Reformulation to Compare Learning Behaviors in Web Search Engines', 19th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2019, ed. M Chang, D G Sampson, R Huang, A S Gomes, N-S Chen, I I Bittencourt, K Kinshuk, IEEE, United States, pp. 219-223.
- Tibau, M, Siqueira, S, Pereira Nunes, B et al. 2019, 'Using Query Reformulation to Compare Learning Behaviors in Web Search Engines', 19th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2019, ed. M Chang, D G Sampson, R Huang, A S Gomes, N-S Chen, I I Bittencourt, K Kinshuk, IEEE, United States, pp. 219-223.
- Procaci, T, Siqueira, S, Nunes, B et al. 2019, 'Experts and likely to be closed discussions in question and answer communities: An analytical overview', Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 92, pp. 519-535.
- Manrique, R, Nunes, B, Marino, O et al. 2019, 'An Analysis of Student Representation, Representative Features and Classification Algorithms to Predict Degree Dropout', 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK 2019, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, pp. 401-410pp.
- Masterton Perry, A, Nurmikko-Fuller, T & Nunes, B 2019, '"It's Modern Day Presidential! An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Sentiment Analysis Tools on President Donald Trump's Tweets"', Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2019), ed. A Brodsky, S Hammoudi, J Filipe & M Smialek, SciTePress, Greece, pp. 644-651.
- Fleet, R & Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2019, 'The Potential for Serious Spaceships to Make a Serious Difference', 11th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2019, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States, pp. 97-104.
- De Roure, D, Hendler, J, James, D et al. 2019, 'Towards a Cyberphysical Web Science: A Social Machines Perspective on Pokemon GO!', 11th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2019, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States, pp. 65-69.
- Manrique, R, Pereira Nunes, B, Marino, O et al. 2019, 'An analysis of student representation, representative features and classification algorithms to predict degree dropout', 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK 2019, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, pp. 401-410.
- Xu, X, Nurmikko-Fuller, T & Pereira Nunes, B 2018, 'Tweets, Death, and Rock 'n' Roll', 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, WebSci 2018, Conference Organising Committee, TBC.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Bangert, D, Hao, Y et al 2018, 'Swinging triples: Bridging jazz performance datasets using linked data', 1st International Workshop on Semantic Applications for Audio and Music, SAAM 2018 - A satellite event of ISWC 2018, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, pp. 42-45pp.
- Bangert, D, Downie, J, Nurmikko-Fuller, T et al 2018, 'JazzCats: Navigating an RDF triplestore of integrated performance metadata', 5th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, DLfM 2018, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, pp. 74-77pp.
- Page, K, Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Cole, T et al. 2018, 'Building Worksets for Scholarship by Linking Complementary Corpora', International Digital Humanities conference, ed. Rhian Lewis, Cecily Raynor, Dominic Forest, Michael Sinatra, Stfan Sinclair, The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Montreal Canada, p. 4.
- Xu, X, Nurmikko-Fuller, T & Nunes, B 2018, 'Tweets, Death, and Rock 'n' Roll', 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, pp. 297-306.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Bangert, D, Dix, A et al. 2018, 'Building Prototypes Aggregating Musicological Datasets on the Semantic Web [Die Erstellung prototypischer Anwendungen von verknupften musikwissenschaftlichen Datensatzen]', Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 206-221.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2018, 'Publishing Sumerian Literature on the Semantic Web', in Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell and Alessandro Di Ludovico (ed.), CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions, Brill, USA, pp. 336-363.
- Sufi, S, Nenadic, A, Silva, R et al 2018, 'Ten simple rules for measuring the impact of workshops', PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. -.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Bangert, D & Abdul-Rahman, A 2017, 'All the Things You Are: Accessing An Enriched Musicological Prosopography Through JazzCats', Digital Humanities, ed. Rhian Lewis, Cecily Raynor, Dominic Forest, Michael Sinatra, Stéfan Sinclair, The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Montreal Canada.
- Procaci, T, Siqueira, S, Nunes, B et al. 2017, 'Modelling Experts Behaviour in Q&A Communities to Predict Worthy Discussions', 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2017, ed. Maiga Chang, Nian-Shing Chen, Ronghuai Huang, Kinshuk, Demetrios G Sampson, Radu, IEEE, United States, pp. 291-295.
- Masterton Perry, A & Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2017, 'The Effect of Accelerating Migration of Services to Digital Channels on the Elderly', 9th ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci 2017, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, pp. 407-408pp.
- Bangert, D, Abdul-Rahman, A & Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2017, 'JazzCats: A Collection of aggregated RDF triples tracing performance history through musicological data [Abstract]', 17th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2017, IEEE Press, United States.
- Procaci, T, Siqueira, S, Pereira Nunes, B et al. 2017, 'Modelling Experts Behaviour in Q&A Communities to Predict Worthy Discussions', 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2017, ed. Maiga Chang, Nian-Shing Chen, Ronghuai Huang, Kinshuk, Demetrios G Sampson, Radu, IEEE, United States, pp. 291-295.
- Nunes, B, Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Rabello Lopes, G et al. 2016, 'Treasure Explorers - A Game as a Diagnostic Assessment Tool', 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2016, IEEE, Los Alamitos, United States, pp. 217 - 221.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Dix, A, Weigl, D et al 2016, 'In Collaboration with InConcert: Reflecting a Digital Library as Linked Data for Performance Ephemera', Digital Libraries for Musicology DLfM 2016, ed. B. Fields, K. Page, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 17-24.
- Page, K, Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Rindfleisch, C et al 2016, 'Digital Annotation Tooling for Opera Performance Studies', Digital Humanities DH2016, ed. Maciej Eder, Jan Rybicki, The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Krakow, Poland.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Jett, J, Cole, T et al 2016, 'A Comparative Analysis of Bibliographic Ontologies: Implications for the Digital Humanities', Digital Humanities DH2016, ed. Maciej Eder, Jan Rybicki, The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Krakow, Poland.
- Procaci, T, Nunes, B, Nurmikko-Fuller, T et al. 2016, 'Finding Topical Experts in Question & Answer Communities', 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2016, IEEE, Los Alamitos, United States, pp. 407-411.
- Jett, J, Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Cole, T et al 2016, 'Enhancing Scholarly Use of Digital Libraries: A Comparative Survey Review of Bibliographic Metadata Ontologies', Joint Conference for Digital Libraries JCDL 2016, IEEE and ACM (USA), Newark, pp. 35-44.
- Pereira Nunes, B, Rabello Lopes, G, Nurmikko-Fuller, T et al. 2016, 'An Educational Game based on Images and Semantic Web Technologies', 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2016, IEEE, Los Alamitos, United States, pp. 112-116.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T & Page, K 2016, 'The Linked Semantic Network that is Transforming Musicology', Workshop Humanities in the Semantic Web and Extended Semantic Web Conference (WHiSe-ESWC 2016), ed. Harald Sack, Eva Blomqvist, Mathieu d'Aquin, Springer, Greece.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Page, K, Willcox, P et al 2015, 'Building Complex Research Collections in Digital Libraries: A Survey of Ontology Implications', Joint Conference for Digital Libraries JCDL 2015, IEEE and ACM (USA), Knoxville, pp. 169-172.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Weigl, D & Page, K 2015, 'On Organising Multimedia Performance Corpora for Musicological Study using Linked Data', International Digital Libraries for Musicology workshop DLfM 2015, ed. B. Fields, K. Page, IEEE and ACM (USA), New York, pp. 25-28.
- Nunes, B, Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Rabello Lopes, G et al 2015, 'A Serious Game Powered by Semantic Web Technologies', 24th International World Wide Web Conference WWW 2015, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York,USA, pp. 227-230.
- Lopes, G, Nunes, B, Leme, L et al. 2015, 'A Comprehensive Analysis of the First Ten Editions of the WEBIST Conference', 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2015), ed. V Monfort, K-H Krempels, T A Majchrzak & Z Turk, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 252-274pp.
- Page, K, Nurmikko-Fuller, T, Rindfleisch, C et al 2015, 'A toolkit for the live annotation of opera performance: Experiences capturing Wagner's Ring Cycle', International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference ISMIR2015, ed. Meinard Müller, Frans Wiering, International Society for Music Information Retrieval_ISMIR, spain, pp. 211-217.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2014, 'Assessing the Suitability of Existing OWL Ontologies for the Representation of Narrative Structures in Sumerian Literature', Current Practice in Linked Data for the Ancient World, ISAW Papers, pp. 5pp.
- Nurmikko-Fuller, T 2014, Ancient Sumerian Online: Challenges and Opportunities, pp. 34-39.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Nyingarn: a platform for primary sources in Australian Indigenous languages (Secondary Investigator)
