Providing an

Avalanche of Data

GETTING OUR DATA ON THE WEB

Scott WilliamsOct 12, 2011

Determine what records to publish

Ingest images

Build penn.musuem/collections

WHAT DO WE DO WITH IMU?

Be Open

ONLINE COLLECTIONS MISSION

CatalogMultimediaAccession LotsEvents

WHERE DO WE MAKE DETERMINATIONS?

No manual security override

Department

Collection Type

Current Valid Location

Identified as culturally sensitive (e.g. human remains)

WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA?

WHY DO IT THIS WAY?

Speed

Consistency Flexibility

Dey took ur jebs!

A computer can do it better

NITTY GRITTY

HOW MANY RECORDS DO WE PUBLISH?

300,000records

HOW MANY RECORDS DO WE PUBLISH?

700,000objects

IMAGES

ImagesLots of

IMAGES

IMAGES

IMAGES

Determine which EMu record(s) the images should be attached to

STEP 1A

Create a shell record

STEP 1B

Attach shell record to existing Catalog record

STEP 1C

Create the standard image import CSV file and use the Import tool

STEP 2

Three days 25,000 images

WHAT WERE THE RESULTS?

IMAGES

Enjoy

EMu!

Now with

100% more

image

Use existing embedded image metadata

Image import using the API, please?

Web based interface for adding images?

IMAGES + API + FUTURE

DONE

PHP iMu API

Search Across Multiple Emu Fields

Coming in December 2011

PENN.MUSEUM/COLLECTIONS