Building and Evaluating Collection Dashboards

Building and Evaluating Collections Dashboards Richard Urban Michael B. Twidale University of Illinois Piotr Adamczyk Metropolitan Museum of Art

Conventional text-based displays are unable to offer us any overall impressions of the millions of items contained in modern collections….Searching the collections is something like wandering through narrow paths in a forest .

what we need is a map
Mitchell Whitelaw
Visible Archives Project

Currently available digital cultural heritage collections are just the tip of the iceberg.

Millions more are waiting to be Digitized

Search

Opening History

What is all this stuff? Do I have to read all this text? Is there more like this?

Early Sketches

Patchwork Prototyping

http://www.richardjurban.net/dashboard

Museum Pipes

Use Case: Transparency

Use Case: Collection Development
What do you have?
Where are the holes?
How do we merge data from two departments?
How does my collection compare to their collection?
Determining Space from Place for Natural History Collections: In a Distributed Digital Library Environment. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 14, 2010, from http://dlib.org/dlib/may04/beaman/05beaman.html

A simplistic, low cost, good-enough metadata quality visualization
Nichols, D.M., Paynter, G., Chan, C-H., Bainbridge, D., McKay, D., Twidale, M.B. & Blandford, A. (2009). Experiences in Deploying Metadata Analysis Tools for Institutional Repositories. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 47(3/4) 229-248.
Use Case: Production Evaluation

Image Credits
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Quote from Mitchell Whitelaw The Visible Archive Project http://visiblearchive.blogspot.com
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Workers assembling dashboards for automobiles in an unidentified factory. Courtesy University of Southern California. Libraries http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/view/CHS-33163
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http://library.clevelandart.org/focus/200807.php
Portions of this research funded by :

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