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C.O.P.E. is a concept coined within National Public Radio as part of their new digital content strategy. How could this concept be applied to museum collection to promote better reuse of collection content. What problems are there with publishing museum collection content to many locations?TRANSCRIPT
Paul Rowe, CEO, Vernon SystemsMuseums Australia Conference, 19 May 2013
Create once, publish everywhereApproaches for reusing collection information online
C.O.P.E.
Coined in a blog post by Daniel Jacobson, Director of Application Development for National Public
Radio in the US
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pollyalida/2559152829/
A National Public Radio news story
http://www.slideshare.net/zachbrand/npr-api-create-once-publish-everywhere
Object records are nuggets of digital content
http://ehive.com/account/3606/object/39223
Manage the digital content
Presentation agnostic
Design for flexibility
http://talkingtothecan.com/multi-channel-publishing/
Matthew Oliver, Ministry of Culture & Heritage, NZ
Minimal object details
Title
Description
Media
Web address
Sewing bag and contents
Sewing bag and contents; a mottled blue, felt bag with two short, plaited felt handles. Each side of the bag is decorated with applied felt flowers in pink and yellow. The bag is dated 1938. The bag contains many scraps of fabric; a plastic shoe horn; a matchbox; a baby's shoe and socks;
http://nzgirlhistory.net/object/32498/
http://curatorialpoetry.tumblr.com
Sharing on social sites
http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22765254
Information flow
http://www.slideshare.net/zachbrand/npr-api-create-once-publish-everywhere
Dublin Core
http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18804031/
Aggregation
Can C.O.P.E. cope?
Squishing the data
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76345608@N00/3773352432/
TV set = Television = Telecommunication receiver
Local content for local people
Clearly mark the licence that applies to each piece of content
The future
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierofix/3547550101/
Managing contextual descriptions
CIDOC CRM
http://www.cidoc-crm.org/
LIDO
http://www.lido-schema.org/schema/v1.0/lido-v1.0-specification.pdf
Linked open data
http://lodlam.net/
http://www.slideshare.net/georginab/linked-open-data-and-american-art
Smithsonian American Art MuseumLinking up cataloguing data to external sources. E.g. DBpedia / Wikipedia
Standard interfaces to varied data
Benefits and tips
A bigger audience and a more efficient use of staff time for content creation.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lightmash/3183278318/
“Get your content ready to go anywhere because it’s going to
go everywhere.”
Brad Frost, 2011
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shengfalin/410027557/
Significance statements
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=124
Use the source Luke!
http://letsruletatooine.tumblr.com/post/42979793334
Metrics
"Content doesn’t just appear magically out of thin air with a wave of a magic social fairy wand." - Tara Hunt, Social Web Strategy
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Thank you
Paul RoweVernon Systems@armchair_caver
http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/3524229651/