Cheeseburgers With Everything
Context, Content, and Connections in Archival Description
Mark A. Matienzo
NYPL Labs
The New York Public Library

An exercise
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Ask the person next to you:
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“What is more important:
context or content?”
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Why “or”?
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Why not “everything”?
Context and content
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Credit: chopsueyphoto
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Credit: chopsueyphoto
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Everything is deeply
intertwingled
Ted Nelson
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Everything is miscellaneous
David Weinberger
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Everything is metadata
David Weinberger
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Everything is messy
David Weinberger
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Why not “everything”?
Metadata and data
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Everything ain’t done
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Searching
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Feedback
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Relationships
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UK Archival Thesaurus
Credit: World Wide Web Consortium
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Text
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Credit: Pete Reed
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Integration
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Rethinking data models
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Understanding users
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Thank You
• mark@matienzo.org
• http://matienzo.org/
Claes Oldenburg, “Two Cheeseburgers With Everything”