every collection is a snowflake
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In the beginning…
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Collectors collecting
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“For what else is this collection but a disorder to which habit has accommodated itself to such an extend that it can appear as order?”
Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library, 1931
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Cataloguers organising
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Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe, 2010Jenn Riley
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LOD CLOUD2017-08-22
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Actors participating
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a “permissionless space for creativity, innovation and free expression”
Tim Berners-Lee
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ROBOT HUMAN “OTHER”
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“A library is not only a place of both order and chaos; it is also the realm of chance. Books, even after they have been given a shelf and a number, retain a mobility of their own.”
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, 2006
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Bloated, but sparse
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Contemporary practice?
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Who is your audience?
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Have you ever met your “harvesting agent” ?
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Every goal needs a metric
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Previous work in big, messy cultural systems…
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Flickr Billions of photos, millions of people 2004-2008
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Participation
• Public by default
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Participation
• Public by default
• “Social objects”
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Participation
• Public by default
• “Social objects”
• Metadata creators are also participants
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Participation
• Public by default
• “Social objects”
• Metadata creators are also participants
• Live database
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Participation
• Public by default
• “Social objects”
• Metadata creators are also participants
• Live database
• Sharing to other systems from Day 1 (email, blog etc)
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Classification
• Completely free, uncontrolled, “folksonomic”
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Classification
• Completely free, uncontrolled, “folksonomic”
• Structure emerged organically
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Classification
• Completely free, uncontrolled, “folksonomic”
• Structure emerged organically
• Socio-linguistic, consensual ontological trends, patterns
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photo by Hughes Léglise-Bataille
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photo by Hughes Léglise-Bataille
paris france 2006 olympus e500 color protest riot demonstration CPE fire photojournalism firemen explorepage interestingness interestingness1 manifestation flickrblog top-f300 top-v10000 MAX magazine top-f100 top-f200 top-f50 top-f25 top-f400 top-v13000 top-v14000 car burning pompier top-v15000 ULTRASELECTED nocrop
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photo by Hughes Léglise-Bataille
paris france 2006 olympus e500 color protest riot demonstration CPE fire photojournalism firemen explorepage interestingness interestingness1 manifestation flickrblog top-f300 top-v10000 MAX magazine top-f100 top-f200 top-f50 top-f25 top-f400 top-v13000 top-v14000 car burning pompier top-v15000 ULTRASELECTED nocrop
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photo by Hughes Léglise-Bataille
paris france 2006 olympus e500 color protest riot demonstration CPE fire photojournalism firemen explorepage interestingness interestingness1 manifestation flickrblog top-f300 top-v10000 MAX magazine top-f100 top-f200 top-f50 top-f25 top-f400 top-v13000 top-v14000 car burning pompier top-v15000 ULTRASELECTED nocrop
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photo by Hughes Léglise-Bataille
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Classification
• Completely free, uncontrolled, “folksonomic”
• Structure emerged organically
• Socio-linguistic, consensual ontological trends, patterns
• Multilingual description
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moon luna shine dark notte night grey grigio nero near full astronomy spots lune Mond kuu 달 lua ดวงจันทร์ maan Луна mēness tunglið Σελήνη mісяць photo by Callistofrax
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Classification
• Completely free, uncontrolled, “folksonomic”
• Structure emerged organically
• Socio-linguistic, consensual ontological trends, patterns
• Multilingual description
• Machine tags
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CC BY-NC 2.0 / By cackhanded
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taxonomy:kingdom=Animalia
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Flickr Commons2008
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Tag Cloudscreenshot
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http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/3113302958/
hannahlasco says:
but that's so cute!!
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artland says:
wonderfulllllllllllllll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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zyrcster says:Wiilard Delmont Doremus, of Washington DC, was quite the inventor. His US Patent of 1889 for this mailbox can be seen here. Other patents on file for him are found here and here.
He had also been acquitted of a conspiracy charge In a Post Office Case of 1906 and was involved in a 1911 US District court case in regard to his cotton gin.
Tony Shaman says of his postbox, "In 1889 the U.S. Post Office Department ordered a new style letter box that had been designed by Willard D. Doremus. Three sizes of the design were produced. Unfortunately, they were poorly made and did not stand up well. Thieves were able to break into them to steal valuable mail. Nor did their poor construction keep out snow, sleet, or rain."
Mr. Doremus also created a postal canceling machine in use from 1899 through World War II in the US. Some examples of these cancellations are found midway through this page.
--Seen in a discussion of Flickr Commons. (?)
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Smithsonian InstitutionsnowwinterboychildmailletterUSmailboxbwgraintexturepostuspshistorydoremuswilliam doremusdesignletterbox1880snational postal museumpostalmailboxeshalftoneyoungladnewsprintbootsgloveshatcitystreettownironamericausamailingsendingWillard Delmont DoremusUS MailVictorian19th centurynineteenth century
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http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/american_paintings_and_sculpture/henry_o_tanner_charles_grafly/objectview.aspx?OID=20011315
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Smithsonian Keywords1980s, president, ceremony, capitol, 1989 Presidential Inauguration, George H. W. Bush, Opening Ceremonies, Swearing In
Flickr TagsSmithsonian Institution, John Dillaber, President George Herbert Walker Bush, Barbara P. Bush, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, President, Inauguration, 1989, armor, armour, lecturn, heater, wiring, microphone, robe, judicial robe, judge, blue, red, Bible, oath, swearing in, ceremony,
8 keywords / 23 tags
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Smithsonian Keywords1980s, president, ceremony, capitol, 1989 Presidential Inauguration, George H. W. Bush, Opening Ceremonies, Swearing In
Flickr TagsSmithsonian Institution, John Dillaber, President George Herbert Walker Bush, Barbara P. Bush, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, President, Inauguration, 1989, armor, armour, lecturn, heater, wiring, microphone, robe, judicial robe, judge, blue, red, Bible, oath, swearing in, ceremony,lectern
8 keywords / 24 tags 1 typo
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Smithsonian Keywords1980s, president, ceremony, capitol, 1989 Presidential Inauguration, George H. W. Bush, Opening Ceremonies, Swearing In
Flickr Tags:Smithsonian Institution, John Dillaber, President George Herbert Walker Bush, Barbara P. Bush, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, President, Inauguration, 1989, armor, armour, lecturn, heater, wiring, microphone, robe, judicial robe, judge, blue, red, Bible, oath, swearing in, ceremony,lectern
8 keywords / 24 tags 1 typo 3 matches
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Flickr Commons
• Passionate “cataloguers” with time to give
• Real, new information gathered - multiple points of entry
• Information ingested from Flickr into catalogues
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Big Library Data 30 million records, editable by anyone 2009-2011
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Open Library
• “Wikipedia for books”
• 30+ million records from 50+ “official” sources
• Full of errors and inconsistency
• Original records made by humans, in constrained system
• Deployed FRBR in 2011
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Open Library
• Built tools to improve internal consistency
• Show activity, highlight actors
• Bots doing tiny, precise edits
• API can be hit with lots of different identifiers
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain Mark Twain M. Twain TWAIN Twain, Mark (pseud) Mark (Samuel L. Clemens) Twain Mark TWAIN TWAIN, MARK, 1835-1910. Twain, Mark (Spirit) Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
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Mark Twain Mark TWAIN M. Twain TWAIN Twain Twain Mark Twain, Mark (pseud) Twain, Mark (Spirit) Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. TWAIN, MARK, 1835-1910. Mark (Samuel L. Clemens) Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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oclcBotUpdated millions of OL records to add OCLC numbers, matching on ISBN.
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openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bots
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Open LibraryOL2031859MInternet Archive
howtostockqualit00willISBN 10
0942617045LC Control Number
88007490OCLC/WorldCat
18521986Library Thing
2904344Goodreads
4612386
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> I AM YOUR HARVESTING AGENT
photo by lomokev > gfns.uk
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Two Way Streetphoto by Library of Congress
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twoway.st
• Made in 2015
• Independent explorer of the British Museum
• 2.2 million records - RDF, CIDOC-CRM
• 3 people
• 1 week
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That’s the digital entry point to the British Museum.
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1980s
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http://twoway.st/things/PPA82903.json
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RDF hairball was hard to consume, even harder to traverse.
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Squished down to single key:value field array for each object
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Used Elasticsearch like a data store
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Built machine-consumable pages
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Linked back to original data source
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Not bad!
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Wellcome Library
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Wellcome Library
• Made in 2016, commissioned exploration leading to alpha
• ~ 1 million records, MaRC + archives
• 3 people
• 4 x 1 week sprints
• Connected VIAF, LCSH, MeSH, Wikidata en masse
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Week 1 Scope of the Catalogue
Week 2 Show the Thing
Week 3 Context around content
Week 4 Scalability
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Week 1: Scope
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Week 1: Scope
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Week 1: Scope
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Week 1: Scope
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Week 1: Scope
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Week 1: Scope
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Week 1: Scope
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London : [London] : [London : [London, Londini : [London? : [London?] : [London?, [London], Londres A Londres : [London] London, Imprinted at London : London: London. London [England] : Lugduni : Londres [i.e. Paris?] : Printed at London : Londra : A Londres [i.e. Paris?] : At London : Londres [i.e. Paris], [London (20 Threadneedle Street)] : London (26 Haymarket) : [London] (Paternoster Row) : [London?], London (Upper Gower Street) : London, England : London [etc.] :
Week 1: Scope
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Summary in English. Summaries in English Summaries in English. Includes summary in English. Summary in English Some summaries in English Includes summary in English English summaries. Some summaries in English. Summary in English (p.4) Includes Summary in English. Some English summaries Summaries in English in later vols Summaries also in English Includes summaries in English. With English summary.
Week 1: Scope
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In English. In English In English . This edition in English. English. Text in English. Text in English English English version. This edition is in English and an undetermined language with English subtitles.
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Week 2: Show the Thing
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Week 2: Show the Thing
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http://thing.whatsinthelibrary.com/by_year/1893
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http://thing.whatsinthelibrary.com/subjects?subject=Eye
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Week 2: Show the Thing
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Week 2: Show the Thing
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Week 2: Show the Thing
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Week 2: Show the Thing
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Week 2: Show the Thing
You can’t beat an ordered list.
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Week 3: Context
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Week 3: Context
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Week 3: Context
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“This feels like I’m walking around a museum. At first i thought it was just going to be a list of stuff, until I saw the editorial… This feels new.”
- Matt Webb, friendly visitor
Week 3: Context
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Gathering canonical IDs
Week 3: Context
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Week 3: Context
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Week 4: Scalability
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Week 4: Scalability
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Week 4: Scalability
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Week 4: Scalability
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Week 4: Scalability
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Week 4: Scalability
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Ending with a challenge…
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Systems without legacy
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Born digital, active participants, live data, data structure done
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How can we avoid copying errors and bloat?
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Should these be in the Linked Data Cloud?
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Implications of MARC Tag Usage on Library Metadata Practices Smith-Yoshimura, et al., for OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership © 2010 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
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Metadata haircut?
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Minimum viable record?
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http://www.klappstuhlclub.de/
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http://www.klappstuhlclub.de/
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Tiny ontology, surgical updates
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“Make available” is really different to “actively connect”
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Jenny Holzer
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You’re unique!
(Even though your collection may relate to general entities!)