american arts collaborative grant planning

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