For Access 2009 conference. Grab a bucket, it's raining data! Library data, research data, primary data, mashed-up data, raw data, cooked data, our data, other people's data... But which bucket should we grab? And can we really, truly fit all the data in one bucket? And don't we risk turning data into sludge if we mix it all together in our bucket? Finding a bucket is the easy part. Grappling with data acquisition, modeling, discovery, and reuse is hard. How will we do it? Can we?

1. Grab a bucket!
It’s raining data!
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Dorothea Salo
University of Wisconsin
Access 2009

2. the...
Painting: “Cassandra,” Evelyn de Morgan
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of Open Access

3. I’ve got nothing against
but the reality was...
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4. ... blurrier.
goals?
means?
something for nothing?
fit between content and container?
fit between user needs and system?
and so now, I may be becoming
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5. the...
of Data Curation?

6. What do we know about data?
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7. There’s a lot of data.
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Data are there to be interacted with.

9. Data are wildly diverse in nature...
... as are their technical environments.
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10. Data are already out there.
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11. A lot of data are analog...
... but really want to be digital.
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12. Data are project-based.
http://www.exploringthehyper.net/

13. Data are sloppy.
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14. Data aren’t standardized.
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15. Our Big Bucket:
the digital library

16. Our other Big Bucket:
the institutional repository

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Impedance mismatches

18. What do we know about these?
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19. Carefully built and tended
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20. Production is a Taylorist’s dream.
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21. when it isn’t a Taylorist’s nightmare.
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22. What do we know about these?

23. We’re caged up
inside our institutions.
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Any color...

25. Bring it on; we’ll take anything!
... as long as it’s static and final.
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26. Right, anything you’ve got!
... one file at a time.
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27. Any look and feel...

28. Any metadata you want!
... as long as it’s key-value pairs.
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29. Do anything you want...
... as long as it’s “download.”
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30. Content models
Enough said.

31. So where does all that leave us?
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We need bigger, better buckets.

33. Silos are both necessary
and unacceptable.
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34. We have a lot of modeling to do.
And meta-modeling.
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35. We have a lot of code to write.
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36. We can’t code or model in isolation.
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37. Fedora is the new world.
But Fedora must change.
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38. Solr brings it all together
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39. ... the
Vermeer: the Muse Clio, from “The Allegory of Painting”
of Data Curation.

40. Thank you!
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