TRUE (and FALSE) Structured Data is Essential for Archival Description

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TRUE (and FALSE)Structured Data is
Essential for Archival Description Discovery

• Presented by Barbara Aikens
• Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
  
• SAA, 2010

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Taking full advantage of structured data

• Create interesting, lively, meaningful, and
  web-appropriate online presentations
• Repurpose Data
• Visualize Data
• Harvest Data
• Share Data
• Provide Context to Data

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Using usability studies

• Recent online usability studies conducted by the
  Northwest Digital Archives consortia University
  of North Carolina Archives of American Art and
  many other repositories.
• Are users confused by the actual structured data
  or the presentation of the structured data?

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Providing meaning and context Data
Visualization Mining

• Elastic Lists visualization prototype
  developed by Michele Combs at Syracuse University
  Libraries (see http//library.syr.edu/digital/gui
  des/ElasticLists-EAD/binv4/bin/ )
• Archives Z (Visualizing Archives) - Jeanne
  Kramer-Smyth, formerly at U. Md. (see
  http//www.spellboundblog.com/2010/07/07/archivesz
  -needs-you/)
• The Visible Archive visualization project
  developed by Mitchell Whitelaw at the University
  of Canberra, Australia (see http//visiblearchive.
  blogspot.com/)
• Bungee View data mining and visualization
  prototype developed by Mark Durthick, currently
  used for American Memory images at the Library of
  Congress (ttp//cityscape.inf.cs.cmu.edu/bungee/)
  . YouTube video demo link also available at
  http//infosthetics.com/archives/2007/10/bungee_im
  age_collection_browser.html
• Neatline Project geospatial and temporal
  visualization tool being developed by the
  Scholars Lab at the University of Virginia
  Library (http//www.scholarslab.org/projects/neat
  line/ )

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FALSE Structured Data is Essential for
Archival Description discovery
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Objects, Books, Archival Materials, and Images
Together In One Database

• Alexander Calder
• National Postal Museum (5)
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (48)
• Smithsonian American Art Museum (32)
• National Portrait Gallery (30)
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries (192)
• Photograph Archives, Smithsonian American Art
  Museum (301)
• Archives of American Art (160)
• Archives of American Gardens (15)
• Smithsonian Institution Archives (9)

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