From Records to Data

Seeing and Sharing Digital Cultural Heritage Collections Differently with Recollection

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› contact me directly at trow@loc.gov

› visit http://recollection.zepheira.com/

the heterogeneity of our data is an asset

recollection floats on top

bigish ideas

› one big distributed collection

› open distributed infrastructure

› mindset: records -> data

Beyond thinking like cards

to thinking like data

interfaces are ways of seeing

seeing the big picture

helps find little fixes

interfaces for discovery

interfaces for sense making

Can we abstract a more generic solution?

still too hard

the Recollection idea

digital cultural heritage collections include temporal, locative, and categorical data that, could be tapped to better dynamically interact with and understand those collections.

the challenges

› we all have different kinds of metadata

› that data is in different kinds of systems

› much of that data is messy

› much of that data is not in the format we might wish it was

history

Recollection was initially developed as a tool to help NDIIPP partners develop common interfaces to the distributed national collection of born digital materials they have preserved. The project is now in the process of becoming more broadly available.

broader audiences

As we move toward a broader public release the project is embracing a wider audience. This audience includes librarians, archivists, curators, and researchers around the nation interested in better understanding and expanding access to their digital collections.

what recollection does

take this

or this

and make…

the workflow

› ingest data

› augment data

› design views

› publish and embed views

› share data and views

ingest

ingest collections from spreadsheets, MODS records, or ATOM and RSS

augment

derive ISO dates, latitude and longitude coordinates, and break apart data

design views

graphical interface for assembling views

publish and embed views

publish views on the site or embed one line of javascript into any HTML document.

share data and views

share not only the end results, but also the raw data for other others to create their own views.

the result

come for the views, stick around for the linked data…

what’s next?

full open source release: imminent

› public/private views and data: soon

› viewshare.org public launch: soon-ish

› big data sets: in a while

› viewshare.org as a portal: in the future

› remix across data sets: long view

References: links and ImagesReferenced Sites and Projects

NDIIPP, digitalpreservation.gov

Zotero, zotero.org

LCSH Galaxy, http://cads.stanford.edu/lcshgalaxy/

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, www.hurricanearchive.org

Digital Harlem, http://www.acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/harlem/

PhilaPlace, www.philaplace.org/

HistoryPin, www.historypin.com/

SIMILE Exhibit, www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/

Creative Commons Images

Instructions, flickr.com/photos/exlibris/2383688387

a sign of things to come, flickr.com/photos/grantmac/2824984866

Colourful army, flickr.com/photos/maistora/3014414972

stay in touch

› email NDIIPPaccess@loc.gov and we will create an account for you.

› contact me directly at trow@loc.gov

› visit http://recollection.zepheira.com/