AMERICAN ART

COLLABORATIVE

KICKOFF MEETING

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

MEETING AGENDA

I. Welcome and Introductions

I. Consultants

II. Advisors

III. Members

II. Member Survey Results

III. Objectives & Timeframe for Planning Grant

IV. Upcoming Educational Briefings

I. INTRODUCTIONS

CONSULTANTS

• Eleanor Fink

• Design for Context

• Duane Degler

• Neal Johnson

I. INTRODUCTIONS

ADVISORS

• Martin Doerr, Centre for Cultural Informatics of the

Institute of Computer Science, FORTH

• Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

• Craig Knoblock, Information Sciences Institute,

University of Southern California

• Robert Sanderson, Stanford University Libraries

• Thorny Staples, Research Information Services,

Smithsonian Institution

I. INTRODUCTIONS

• Indianapolis Museum of

Art

• National Museum of

Wildlife Art

• National Portrait Gallery

• Princeton University Art

Museum

• Smithsonian American Art

Museum

• Walters Art Gallery

MEMBERS

• Amon Carter Museum of

American Art

• Archives of American Art

• Autry National Center of the

American West

• Colby College Museum of Art

• Crystal Bridges Museum of

American Art

• Dallas Museum of Art

• Thomas Gilcrease Institute of

American History and Art

II. MEMBER SURVEY

RESULTS

III. OBJECTIVES & TIMEFRAME

FOR PLANNING GRANT

OBJECTIVES

• Increase the knowledge and understanding of LOD

among the member museums

• Develop a shared vision and collaborative agenda

for museum LOD

• Outline subsequent phases of work

• Phase 1 - Action plan for converting to LOD to create

a critical mass of American art data

• Phase 2 - Develop use cases for discovery tools and

applications to navigate across member LOD

• Draft a report & seek funding to advance the agenda

III. OBJECTIVES & TIMEFRAME

FOR PLANNING GRANT

EDUCATIONAL BRIEFINGS

Possible topics:

• What is linked open data (LOD)?

• Tools for converting and managing LOD

• Ontologies, especially what’s in use in the cultural community

• Models for managing LOD: federated vs. aggregated model

• Examples of LOD in practice

WORKING GROUPS

Possible groups:

• The “O” in LOD: issues & concerns with IP

• Best practices in the archival community

• Others? (TBD)

III. OBJECTIVES & TIMEFRAME

FOR PLANNING GRANT

MEETINGS: ONLINE AND IN-PERSON

• Ad-hoc online meetings to define

mission/goals; discuss aspects of agenda

• Ad-hoc meeting at MCN, Dallas, November

19-22, 2014

• Early 2015 in-person meeting in

Washington, DC

III. OBJECTIVES & TIMEFRAME

FOR PLANNING GRANT

FUTURE PLANNING

Review of Working Documents Leading to

Grant Application to Funders

III. OBJECTIVES & TIMEFRAME

FOR PLANNING GRANT

TIMEFRAME

Month 1 (August): Grant received; contract consultants;

plan and prepare

Months 2-5 (September-December): Introduction,

educational briefings, online discussion, working groups

Month 4 (November): Ad-hoc MCN meeting

Month 6 (January): In-person meeting in Washington, DC

Months 7-8 (February-March): Draft and review of AAC

agenda

Month 9 (April): Apply to Mellon for next Phase of Work

III. OBJECTIVES & TIMEFRAME

FOR PLANNING GRANT

September 30, Noon-1pm (EST)

Introduction to LOD and LOD tool sets

Speaker: Pedro Szekeley

TBD (October)

Introduction to ontologies & CIDOC-CRM

Speaker: Stephen Stead

IV. UPCOMING EDUCATIONAL

BRIEFINGS