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Getting our data on the web. Providing an Avalanche of Data. Scott Williams Oct 12, 2011. What do we do with imu ?. Determine what records to publish Ingest images Build penn.musuem /collections. Online collections mission. Be Open. where do we make determinations?. Catalog
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Getting our data on the web Providing an Avalanche of Data Scott Williams Oct 12, 2011
What do we do with imu? • Determine what records to publish • Ingest images • Build penn.musuem/collections
Online collections mission Be Open
where do we make determinations? • Catalog • Multimedia • Accession Lots • Events
What are the criteria? • No manual security override • Department • Collection Type • Current Valid Location • Identified as culturally sensitive (e.g. human remains)
why do it this way? A computer can do it better Speed Consistency Flexibility Dey took urjebs!
How many records do we publish? 300,000 records
How many records do we publish? 700,000 objects
images Images Lots of
images In one two steps
Step 1a • Determine which EMu record(s) the images should be attached to
Step 1b • Create a shell record
Step 1c • Attach shell record to existing Catalog record
Step 2 • Create the standard image import CSV file and use the Import tool
what were the results? • Three days • 25,000 images
images Enjoy EMu! Now with 100% more image
Images + api + future • Use existing embedded image metadata • Image import using the API, please? • Web based interface for adding images? DONE
Penn.museum/collections • PHP iMu API • Search Across Multiple Emu Fields • Coming in December 2011