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The Book Artists Unbound project addresses the problem that current library data models do a poor job of supporting access to creator and provenance information. The project uses a Linked Data model and the EAC-CPF format to support contextualizing, biographical and historical, relationship-heavy resources about creators.
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Book Artists Unbound Exposing Creator Metadata and Experimenting with Browsing Allison Jai O’Dell | [email protected] | @AllisonJaiODell University of Miami Libraries Cookies & Learn Presentation 9 September 2014 Originally presented as: Book Artists Unbound: an EAC-CPF-based Discovery Tool for Contextualization of Creators . Presentation, LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Transition Interest Group, ALA Midwinter Meeting, 25 January 2014, Philadelphia, PA. Studying the Book Arts in the 21st Century: Using Linked Data to Enhance Knowledge and Context . Short paper, RBMS Preconference, 25 June 2014, Las Vegas, NV.
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Book Artists UnboundExposing Creator Metadata and Experimenting with Browsing

Allison Jai O’Dell | [email protected] | @AllisonJaiODell

University of Miami LibrariesCookies & Learn Presentation

9 September 2014

Originally presented as:• Book Artists Unbound: an EAC-CPF-based Discovery Tool for Contextualization of

Creators. Presentation, LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Transition Interest Group, ALA Midwinter Meeting, 25 January 2014, Philadelphia, PA.

• Studying the Book Arts in the 21st Century: Using Linked Data to Enhance Knowledge and Context. Short paper, RBMS Preconference, 25 June 2014, Las Vegas, NV.

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Creator Metadata

“The Creator element identifies the individual, group of individuals, corporate body, cultural group, or other entity that contributed to creating, designing, producing, manufacturing, or altering the work.” Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)

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Provenance

• “To better understand the meaning, function, and importance” of artifacts. Lauren Lessing, “Problems in Provenance Research,” Art Documentation 19, no. 2 (2000): 49

• “Documents (i.e., library resources) are knowledge artifacts that reflect the cultural milieu in which they arose.” Richard P. Smiraglia, “Rethinking What We Catalog: Documents as Cultural Artifacts,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 43, no. 3 (2008): 30

• “The context in which [materials] are created endows [them] with their essential meaning and value.” Michelle Light, “Moving Beyond the Name: Defining Corporate Entities to Support Provenance-Based Access,” Journal of Archival Organization 5, nos. 1-2 (2007): 53

• Provenance is “the sine qua non of historical research. Without it historians are unable to understand or interpret [what] they are examining.” Wendy M. Duff and Catherine A. Johnson, “Accidentally Found on Purpose: Information-Seeking Behavior of Historians in Archives,” The Library Quarterly 72, no. 4 (2002): 486

• “Who were these books made for, and why? How were they used?” Jos van Heel, “Some Notes on Research into the Provenance of Medieval Books,” Quaerendo 41 (2011): 258

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#marcmustdie

• MARC uses a document model, not a relational model

• Authority records are intended for normalization, not information, thus authority records cannot be dereferenced in the online catalog

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Linked Data (relational model)“The term Linked Data refers to a set of best practices for publishing and interlinking structured data on the Web ...

1. Use URIs as names for things.2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information,

using the standards (RDF, SPARQL)4. Include links to other URIs, so they can discover more things.” Tom Heath and Christian Bizer, Linked Data: Evolving the Web into a Global Data Space (San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool, 2011), 7

“The most basic unit of Linked Data value is the hyperlink. The most powerful aspect of hyperlinks is their ability deliver combined denotation (naming) and access (de-reference) services for data objects that represent entities (real-world, web, and other realms).” Kingsley Idehen, “Linked Data’s Follow-Your-Nose Pattern”

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Towards a Global Graph of Data

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Reconsidering Creator Metadata

“These attributes refer not to the name of the person, but to the person themselves … This greatly extends the traditional function of authority files, turning them into nodes of data and relationships that enable the aggregation of all kinds of information in an organized way, according to a clearly defined framework.”Xavier Agenjo, Francisca Hernandez, and Andres Viedma, “Data Aggregation and Dissemination of Authority Records through Linked Open Data in a European Context,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 50, no. 8 (2012): 809.

Vocabularies for Encoding Creator Metadata• VRA Core: works of visual culture & the images that document them• FOAF (Friend of a Friend): people, the links between them, the things they

create and do• BIO: biographical information• RELATIONSHIP: relationships between people• EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context – Corporate bodies, Persons, and Famili

es): entities that are responsible for and/or associated with records

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Data Elements for ProvenanceMARC Bibliographic record:Entity identification information: o Main Entry fields (1xx)o Added Entry fields (7xx)o Subject Added Entry fields (6xx)Role designators: Relator term subfields ofo Main Entry fields (1xx)o Added Entry fields (7xx)o Subject Added Entry fields (6xx)Name, geographic, and chronological information for publishers, printers, and other manufacturers: o Imprint fields (260, 264) Biographical information: o Biographical or Historical Data field (545)Previous owner, annotation, and reader response information: o Immediate Source of Acquisition field (541)o Ownership and Custodial History field (561)Binder information: o Binding Information field (563)Additional notes about the activity of makers: o General Note field (500)o Local Notes fields (59x)

MARC Holdings record:Some of the above fields (541, 561, 563) are duplicated in the MARC format for Holdings Data

MARC Authority record:Entity identification information: o Heading fields (1xx)Biographical information: o Biographical or Historical Data field (678)Geographic information: o Associated Place field (370)o Address field (371)Community of practice information: o Field of Activity field (372)o Associated Group field (373)o Occupation field (374)Family:o Family Information field (376)Linguistic context: o Associated Language field (377)

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EAC-CPF

MOAR EAC PROJECTS!

• Harvard Library Lab, “Connecting the Dots: Using EAC-CPF to Reunite Samuel Johnson and His Circle”

• Stanford University, “Mapping the Republic of Letters”• “Social Networks and Archival Contexts (SNAC) Project”• xEAC

The EAC-CPF Record:Record control <control>Description <cpfDescription> Name entity identification <identity> Contextual information <description> Relationships <relations>

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XLink, URIs, and Triples

<cpfRelation cpfRelationType="associative" xlink:href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80106853" xlink:role="http://rdvocab.info/uri/schema/FRBRentitiesRDA/Person" xlink:type="simple"><relationEntry localType=”author”>Frankétienne</relationEntry></cpfRelation>

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The RAMP Editor• Converts data to the EAC-CPF format• Matches the name entity in an EAC-CPF record

against WorldCat Identities and VIAF, letting one import information and URIs

rampeditor.info

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Centralized Identity ManagementNiu remarks on EAC-CPF’s “flexibility and accommodating capacity” to include a variety of information and nominates the schema as a good candidate for a universal identity format. Jinfang Niu, “Evolving Landscape in Name Authority Control,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2013): 416.

In his introduction to EAC-CPF, Pitti notes that “description of creators is also essential in bibliographic systems, and in museum documentation, and thus EAC may be of interest to other cultural heritage communities.”Daniel V. Pitti, “Creator Description: Encoded Archival Context,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 38, nos. 3–4 (2004): 202.

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BIBFRAME: Linked Open Data FTW

Image from Coyle’s InFormation:http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2013/05/bibframe-authorities.html

Annotation is defined as: “a resource that decorates other BIBFRAME resources with additional information.”Eric Miller et al., “Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data Model and Supporting Services” (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, November 21, 2012), 8.

“Rather than finding a resource description for a book and having to delve into that descriptive metadata record to find the author (the current document based model), BIBFRAME exposes the author, the book title, the book subjects, and so on, as equal but related data via the unique URIs representing those data (linked data model).” Nancy Fallgren et al., “The Missing Link: The Evolving Current State of Linked Data for Serials,” The Serials Librarian: From the Printed Page to the Digital Age 66, nos. 1-4 (2014): 126

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Book Artists Unbound

Links to:• Web portfolios• Biographies• Maps• Data visualizations• Library catalog• Wikipedia• Thesauri• Linked Datasets• WorldCat• …More? MOAR!

eac.allisonjai.com

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Connecting Collections

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FollowYourNose“In the context of determining the meaning of a discovered URI, ‘Follow Your Nose’ is an informal way to say FollowLinksForMoreInformation.” W3C, “FollowYourNose,” http://www.w3.org/wiki/FollowYourNose

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User Task: Just Browse

“We contend that the current state of the discussion around browsing in libraries requires a complete reassessment of what we mean by browsing and how it can be applied in an electronic context. We believe that “discovery” is best understood as a complex interplay between both searching and browsing.”

Kate M. Joranson, Steve VanTuyl, and Nina Clements, “E-Browsing: Serendipity and Questions of Access and Discovery,” Charleston Library Conference (Purdue University: Purdue e-Pubs, 2013)

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Data Visualization

eac.allisonjai.com

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Mapping

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More about the Book Artists Unbound project:

http://eac.allisonjai.com

Allison Jai O’DellUniversity of Miami Libraries

[email protected] @AllisonJaiODell

[Forthcoming] “Book Artists Unbound: Providing Access to Creator Metadata with EAC-CPF,” Art Documentation 33, no. 2 (Fall 2014)


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