Love notes to the future:Research Data, metadata and

long term re-use

Meg Travers and Lise Summers

Re-use of research data• Old Weather - http://www.oldweather.org/• Mapping Anzacs -

http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/• OldBaileyOnline –

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Value.jsp - • Museum Search -

http://museumsearch.pbworks.com/w/page/21934351/FrontPage

Famous lost data

Video courtesy NASA

Rescanned image (TV) Original SSTV image

Images courtesy Colin Mackellar / www.honeysucklecreek.net

Images courtesy Colin Mackellar / www.honeysucklecreek.net

Washington National Records Centre

Image courtesy NARA

Accessioning form

The metadata on the tapes

Image from emusician.com

Metadata

• Descriptive

• Structural

• Administrative

• Use

• Preservation

Metaharvesting

• Good cataloguing

• But a pointer to your data

• Will not store your data

• Will not save your data

Video data reformatting

Audio data reformatting

General data reformatting

Data file types

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XML data<PLANT>

<COMMON>Bloodroot</COMMON>

<BOTANICAL>Sanguinaria canadensis</BOTANICAL>

<ZONE>4</ZONE>

<LIGHT>Mostly Shady</LIGHT>

<PRICE>$2.44</PRICE>

<AVAILABILITY>031599</AVAILABILITY>

</PLANT>

• Courtesy Erin Kissane. Quote by Jason Scott at NYPL labs, September 2011