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SMELL HERITAGE – SENSORY MINING

What role do smells play in European culture? How can museums and archives
enhance their impact through olfactory storytelling? How can we find, document
and represent smells from the past? The Odeuropa project develops novel methods
to collect information about smell from digital cultural heritage collections.

Our senses are our gateways to the past. While museums and archives are
discovering the power of multi-sensory presentations, we lack the scientific
standards, tools, and data to effectively identify, consolidate, and promote the
wide-ranging role scents and smelling have in our cultural heritage. The
EU-funded Odeuropa project applies state-of-the-art AI techniques to cultural
heritage text and image datasets spanning centuries of European history
(1600-1920), to identify and trace how ‘smell’ was expressed in different
languages, what kinds of practices it characterised, and to what emotions it was
linked.

The Odeuropa project has delivered the following results:


ODEUROPA SMELL EXPLORER




The Odeuropa Smell Explorer is a unique search engine for everyone interested in
the history and heritage of smell. It is a searchable website that enables
visitors to navigate over 300 years of European smell history, to discover the
smells of the past, and understand how they shaped European history. The data in
the explorer was extracted from circa 30,000 images and 62,000 historical texts
in six languages (English, Italian, French, Dutch, German and Slovene) from a
large variety of European public domain sources. Thanks to the unique
technologies used to design the tool, the Explorer is the first cultural
heritage database that can be queried ‘nose-first’ (using the sense of smell as
an entry point). This makes it a valuable resource for anyone interested in
understanding what role smells play in European culture, and how smell
experiences have been described and depicted in the past.


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SMELL HISTORY AND HERITAGE

The Encyclopedia of Smell History and Heritage is an online reference tool that
brings together academic and creative expertise on smell as a cultural
phenomenon. The Encyclopedia seeks to identify, consolidate, and promote
knowledge of the wide-ranging role scents and smelling have in our cultural
heritage and history. It is composed of Entries (Wikipedia-like curated stories,
written by experts, with descriptions of particular scents, smellscapes, noses,
and feelings related to smells. The entries include quotes, images, and
connected data) and Storylines (‘follow-your-nose’ stories that allow you to
explore smell history through a series of interlocking themes). As you click
your way through the stories you can cross into new themes and use the overview
map to locate yourself within the smellscapes of the past.


OLFACTORY STORYTELLING TOOLKIT

The Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit is a “how-to” guide for working with smells
in museums and heritage institutions. The toolkit provides a starting point for
cultural heritage professionals to use smell as a storytelling technique and
offers them the tools they need to get started. The resource describes the value
of working with smells in GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums)
and offers tangible examples of previous olfactory events. In addition, this
hands-on guide provides tips for how to build a strong olfactory narrative, how
to create heritage scents with a perfumer, how to choose between different
presentation techniques, and how to carry out risk assessments. The toolkit also
comes with a number of additional practical resources, such as templates and
fillable worksheets that can be downloaded. This downloadable “how-to” guide
provides a powerful tool for curators to enhance the impact of their heritage
intuitions and interpret their collections in a new way.


ODEUROPA HERITAGE SMELL LIBRARY

How can we reengage with the smells of the past? One of the outputs of the
Odeuropa project is the olfactory representations of heritage scents: scent
compositions, informed by (historical) research, of smells that are or have been
significant for specific (European) cultures. To address this goal the Odeuropa
project is working with perfumers and scent designers. The olfactory
reconstructions and recreations are collected, described and safeguarded in the
Odeuropa Heritage Smell Library. Samples of the Heritage Smell Library are
entrusted to the Osmothèque, Conservatoire International des parfums. Thus,
visitors can reengage with these culturally significant scents and heritage
institutes can make use of the reconstructions in their exhibitions. A selection
of the scents will be collected in the (limited edition) IFF x Odeuropa
Historical Scent Collection.


OTHER PROJECT RESULTS

Apart from these four products, the Odeuropa project is also delivering several
other tangible results:

 * We organised various olfactory events such as guided smell tours in the
   Museum Ulm, a Malodour workshop in Berlin, and the Amsterdam City Sniffers
   urban tour.
 * We designed various open-source tools and demonstrators (‘Nosebooks’) which
   can help navigate the wealth of smell-related data the project has captured
   from digital heritage collections. They also offer the opportunity to upload
   your own texts and images, to extract smell information.
 * The open-access Odeuropa data model for olfactory heritage information
   provides a semantic model for describing smells and their associated
   experiences. The model is described in our award-winning 2022 paper,
   Capturing the Semantics of Smell.
 * In collaboration with the Amsterdam Historical Review the Odeuropa team
   designed an online, open-access teaching module: Knowing by Sensing. How to
   Teach the History of Smell. Using videos and assignments, we introduce best
   practice techniques for teaching sensory history in the classroom. The module
   will be made available in October 2023 via the website of the American
   Historical Association.
 * The online Smell Tracker (still in development) helps to identify historical
   and contemporary information on different aspects of smell studies.

Join us on 28 November, 2023 when we will share the main outcomes of the project
at the Odeuropa Smell Culture Fair in Amsterdam.


ABOUT US

Odeuropa is a European research project which bundles expertise in sensory
mining and olfactory heritage. We develop novel methods to collect information
about smell from (digital) text and image collections.

Our goal is to show that critically engaging our sense of smell and our scent
heritage is an important and a viable means for connecting and promoting
Europe’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

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RECENT POSTS

 * Reflections: Smell Culture Fair 14 December 2023
 * Podcast: Follow your Nose at Rijksmuseum 11 December 2023
 * Tracking perceptions shifts in the olfactory domain 5 December 2023
 * Launch of Odeuropa’s Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit: A ‘How-To’ Guide for
   Working with Smells in Museums and Heritage Institutions 22 November 2023
 * Further Call for Encyclopaedia of Smell History and Heritage ‘Entries’ 20
   June 2023
 * Update – Follow Your Nose! 30 January 2023
 * Online and In-Person Talk: Making Space for Smells: Considerations on
   Exhibiting the Intangible in the U.A.E. 17 January 2023
 * Call for Encyclopaedia of Smell History and Heritage ‘Entries’ 6 December
   2022
 * MUSTI Challenge: Multimodal Understanding of Smells in Texts and Images 7
   October 2022
 * Improve your olfactory language – Hackathon 22 September 2022


NOSE NETWORK

 * PhD opportunity! 22 May 2024
 * A Taste of the Science of Eating 22 May 2024
 * KWF Kankerbestrijding geeft geld aan een onderzoeksproject naar smaaksturing
   en smaaktraining van patiënten met kanker. 22 May 2024
 * NOSE-member Jasper de Groot wins Radboud Science Award 2023 20 December 2023
 * NOSE members in the NEWS 20 December 2023

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101004469.

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