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TRUE (and FALSE) Structured Data is Essential for Archival Description & Discovery

TRUE (and FALSE) Structured Data is Essential for Archival Description & Discovery . Presented by Barbara Aikens Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution SAA, 2010 . Taking full advantage of structured data .

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TRUE (and FALSE) Structured Data is Essential for Archival Description & Discovery

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  1. TRUE (and FALSE)Structured Data is Essential for Archival Description & Discovery Presented by Barbara Aikens Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution SAA, 2010

  2. Taking full advantage of structured data • Create interesting, lively, meaningful, and web-appropriate online presentations • Repurpose Data • Visualize Data • Harvest Data • Share Data • Provide Context to Data

  3. Using usability studies Recent online usability studies conducted by the Northwest Digital Archives consortia; University of North Carolina; Archives of American Art; and many other repositories. Are users confused by the actual structured data or the presentation of the structured data?

  4. Providing meaning and context: Data Visualization & Mining • “Elastic Lists” – visualization prototype developed by Michele Combs at Syracuse University Libraries (seehttp://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/ElasticLists-EAD/binv4/bin/ ) • “Archives Z” (Visualizing Archives) - Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, formerly at U. Md. (see http://www.spellboundblog.com/2010/07/07/archivesz-needs-you/) • “The Visible Archive” – visualization project developed by Mitchell Whitelaw at the University of Canberra, Australia (see http://visiblearchive.blogspot.com/) • “Bungee View” – data mining and visualization prototype developed by Mark Durthick, currently used for American Memory images at the Library of Congress (ttp://cityscape.inf.cs.cmu.edu/bungee/) . YouTube video demo link also available at http://infosthetics.com/archives/2007/10/bungee_image_collection_browser.html • “Neatline Project” – geospatial and temporal visualization tool being developed by the Scholars Lab at the University of Virginia Library (http://www.scholarslab.org/projects/neatline/ )

  5. FALSE Structured Data is Essential for Archival Description & discovery

  6. Objects, Books, Archival Materials, and Images Together In One Database Alexander Calder • National Postal Museum (5) • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (48) • Smithsonian American Art Museum (32) • National Portrait Gallery (30) • Smithsonian Institution Libraries (192) • Photograph Archives, Smithsonian American Art Museum (301) • Archives of American Art (160) • Archives of American Gardens (15) • Smithsonian Institution Archives (9)

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