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Catholic University of America College of Library and Information Sciences LSC 747 Special Collections lecture summer 2011 at the Smithsonian InstitutionTRANSCRIPT
Smithsonian Institution LibrariesProviding Digital Access to Special
Collections
LSC 747 Special Collections
Suzanne C. Pilsk~ Martin R. Kalfatovic ~ Smithsonian Institution Libraries ~ 2011
Facts and FiguresSmithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, D.C.• Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture
Library• Anthropology Library• Botany and Horticulture Library• The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology• Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library• Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History
Facts and FiguresSmithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, D.C. (continued)• Museum Studies & Reference Library• National Air and Space Museum Library• National Museum of American History Library• National Museum of Natural History Library• National Postal Museum Library• National Zoological Park Library• Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library• Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art
Facts and FiguresSmithsonian Institution Libraries
ElsewhereSuitland, Md.
• Museum Support Center Library• National Museum of the American Indian Library
Edgewater, Md.• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Library
New York City• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library
Republic of Panama• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Library
Facts and FiguresSmithsonian Institution Libraries
African ArtAfrican American History and
CultureAnthropologyAmerican ArtAmerican HistoryAsian and Middle Eastern ArtAviation history and Space FlightDesign and Decorative ArtsEnvironmental Management and
Ecology
History of Science and TechnologyLatino History and CultureMaterials ResearchModern and Contemporary ArtMuseologyNative American History and Culture Natural HistoryPostal HistoryTropical BiologyTrade LiteratureWorld’s Fair Ephemera
What’s So Special?Public Museum
Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum complex in the world …
“The Nation’s Attic”
“Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge”
Understanding the American Experience
Valuing World Cultures
Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet
Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe
SIL Mission(Smithsonian Directive 500)
As the largest and most diverse museum library in the world, SIL leads the Smithsonian in taking advantage of the opportunities of the digital society. SIL provides authoritative information and creates innovative services and programs for Smithsonian Institution researchers, scholars and curators, as well as the general public, to further their quest for knowledge. Through paper preservation and digital technologies, SIL ensures broad and enduring access to the Libraries’ collections for all users.
SIL’s Strategic Plan “Focus on Service”
GOAL 1: COLLABORATING ACROSS BOUNDARIESSIL creates a compelling environment for connecting, collaborating and exploring across disciplines and information boundaries
GOAL 2: DISCOVERING INFORMATIONSIL enhances and eases the discovery of information in our collections for SI scholars, researchers, scientists, and the larger world of learners
GOAL 3: CONNECTING WITH USERSSIL understands and meets user needs, serving users where they live and work
GOAL 4: BUILDING EXPERTISESIL builds expertise on information discovery, navigation and management
GOAL 5: ENABLING OUR MISSIONSIL ensures its success through increased financial strength, effective administrative support, and organizational excellence
Facts and FiguresSmithsonian Institution Libraries
Total volumes > 1.7 million
~50,000 are rare books~10,000 manuscripts
Trade Catalogs Dating from the 1800’s
> 500, 000 items > 30,000 companies
Facts and Figures
• 102-106 Smithsonian Libraries Staff
• 8 DSD staff• 4 Rare book staff• 4 Book Conservation Lab• 15-17 Souls in
Cataloging/Metadata Services (with contractors)
• Traditional Library
• Traditional Services
Readers Services
• Reference Desks
• Stacks (some open some closed)
• Circulation (limited)
• ILL
Integrated Library System
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)
– MARC– AACR2r– ISBD– LC Classification– LC Subject Headings
SI Libraries Serves
• Curators• Researchers• Post-Docs• Museum Administrators• Public
How to make THIS into 1’s and 0’s
Will they find it?
If you digitize it …
Search Gone BAD!
Metadata
Metadata – failure to serve
Metadata: MARC
MARC
110 Oscar Mayer & Co.650 Frankfurters
Metadata
Dublin Core
Creator:Oscar Mayer & Co.
Subject: Frankfurters
02761nam 2200469 4500001000700000005001700007008004100024010002300065019001300088035001400101035002300115040006100138049002700199050001500226100004200241245019300283260008300476300001700559504033500576505015400911590010901065590009601174650002601270945002101296945007301317945003101390945004801421945004801469945004701517945007901564945004401643945004601687945004801733945007601781945004401857945005101901945005101952945007102003945009002074945009602164945003102260 459797 20050131154400.0 731129m19021933enk b 000 0 lat c ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑aagr03000069 //r582 a14018362 aABY6485LB a(OCoLC)ocm00751549 aU.S. Dept. of ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑Agr. Libr. cRIU dOCL dCHS dSER dSMI dWaOLN aSMI$ aSMIM aSMIE aSMIB 00 aQL354 b.S5 1 ‑ ‑ ‑aOscar Mayer & Co. 10 aPronto pup: bhot dogs hamburgers/ ca Oscar Mayer and Company. ‑ ‑ aNew Orleans, La. : bBourbon Street Foods, c2000.
Metadata: Real MARC – Still failure to serve
MARC
AACR
LCSH/LCCS
ISBD
Feed the cat
Pick up dry cleaning
MODSXML / RDF
Dublin Core
ONIX
METs Linked
TEI
FRBR
Access
Hierarchical
Faceted
relatedItem
Bread, eggs, almond milk
Add hotdogs to grocery list
Dewey
XMP
RDA
OpenLinkedData
Discoverable
Interoperability
Open AccessFeed the cat
Pick up dry cleaning
Bread, eggs, almond milk
Make dentist appt.
Collaboration
Smithsonian Institution
Missouri Botanical Garden
Kew Gardens
American Museum of Natural History, NYC
New York Botanical Garden
Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology
California Academy of Science
Philadelphia Academy of Science
Field Museum, Chicago
Natural History Museum, London
Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole
Harvard University Botany Library
Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Global Partnership
GlobalBHL
Secretariat
BHL EU BHL NA
BHLAU
BHL BRBHL BA
BHL CH
Beyond the Traditional
Taxonomic Literature Needs/Requests
• Beyond the Scan • Beyond the Re-Keyed • Marking up the data in metadata schemas
The BHL Portal is not a library catalog
BHL Stats
• > 34.5 million pages• > 92,000 volumes
– Avg 1.25” spine width– 1.8mi / 2.9km of shelving…and growing daily
Usage • ~ 4 million page views a year• 400,000 unique visitors a year
Kleines Distillierbuch /Hieronymous Brunschwig. Strassburg, 8 May 1500.
Tools Of the Trade
Indexes ~ Reference works
General Topics
Specific Disciplines
Index Animalium / Charles Davies Sherborn
Compiled between 1890 –1933, Index of every living or extinct animal discovered between 1758 and 1850.
“Google of the Natural History Museum” –Karolyn Shindler The Telegraph, 25 July 2011
My Man Sherborn
• Cataloger at heart• Created an index that
was useful as soon as he started
• Index &Bibliography of relevant texts from 1758 through 1850
…Names…Index Animalium’s Citation: albimanus Delphinus, T. R. Peale in
Wilkes, Expl. Exped. VIII. 1848, 33
Referring to page 33 of volume 8 of the “Narrative of the United States exploring expedition” by Charles Wilkes published in 1848 but the Delphinus albimanus was named by T. R. Peale.
Taxonomic Literature 2nd EditionTaxonomic Literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and
collections with dates, commentaries and types (second edition)
15 volumes guide to the literature of systematic botany published between 1753 and 1940
Organized by author ~ Citation for the author’s surname
Numbered entries of the author’s publications ~ Suggested short-title &abbreviation of short-title for use in taxonomic publications
TL2 is a standard by which author’s names and titles should be abbreviated
TL2
Usable ~ Re-Usable
<Author><Name>Hahn, Gotthold (fl. 1875-
1911), German cryptogamist at Gera. (G. Hahn).</Name>
<Title><Number>2264.</Number> <Full_Title> <br /> Der Pilz-Sammler oder Anleilung zur
Kenntnis der wichtigsten Pilze Deutschlands und <…>
</Full_Title>
<Short_Title>(Pilz-Samml.).</Short_Title>
★ Linked Open Data – 5 Stars ★★ Available on the web (whatever
format), but with an open licence ★★ Available as machine-readable
structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)
★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context
• Shareable• Extensible• Re-Usable• International
Title: Are hotdogs food?
Author: Pilsk, Suzanne
Place of Pub: Nashville, TN
LCSH: Cookbooks
Name Authority Record: 65680842
Heading: Pilsk, Suzanne
Place of Birth:
65680842
Bib record: 9876
City: NashvilleState: Tennessee
5555
5555
Geo Location:
5555 Nashville, TN
9876 Is authored by 65680842
9876 Published in 5555
65680842 was born in 5555
Triple Stores:
Title: Are hotdogs food?
Author:
Place of Pub:
LCSH: Cookbooks
Name Authority Record: 65680842
Heading: Pilsk, Suzanne
Place of Birth:
65680842
Bib record: 9876
City: NashvilleState: Tennessee
5555
5555
Geo Location:
5555
9876 Is authored by 65680842
9876 Published in 5555
65680842 was born in 5555
Triple Stores:
Field Books
Digital Public Library of America
Question to Robert Darnton (director of Harvard University’s library system):
Will you have librarians?
Answer: We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of
information that is in cyberspace.
~ Q&A “A bookshelf the size of the world: Inside the vision for the largest library in history” http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/07/24/a_bookshelf_the_size_of_the_world/
“The worth and importance of the Institution is not to be estimated by what it accumulates within the walls of its building, but by what it sends forth to the world.”
—Joseph HenryThe Smithsonian Institution’s First Secretary
1852
Credits
Thanks to staff at SI NMAI SIL
NMNH MBL/WHOI LibraryNPM MoBot
Freer/Sackler NYBGBHL SIOCIO
Gordon DunsireField Book Project
Connecting Content Cal Academy of Science
Links of InterestSmithsonian Institution Libraries ~ http://www.sil.si.edu/Smithsonian Institution Collection Search Center ~ http://www.collections.si.edu/search/Smithsonian Research Online ~ http://research.si.edu/
Biodiversity Heritage Library ~ http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/Encyclopedia of Life ~ http://www.eol.org/
W3C Semantic Web Standards ~ http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/Schema.org ~ duhLinked Data ~ http://linkeddata.org/
Field Book Project ~ http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/Connecting Content Grant ~ http://research.calacademy.org/library/fieldnotes
Digital Public Library ~ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dplaWorld Digital Library ~ http://www.wdl.org/en/Hathi Trust ~ http://www.hathitrust.org/
This presentation ~ http://www.slideshare.net/SCPilsk/Pronto Pup ~ http://prontopup.net/shoppingcart/Best Hotdogs ~ http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/food/best-hot-dogs-00000000016358/index.html
Smithsonian Institution Libraries “Metadata Mixing & Matching For
Discovery”
Suzanne C. Pilsk ~ Martin R. KalfatovicSmithsonian Institution Libraries