From Records to Data with Recollection

From Records to Data Seeing and Sharing Digital Cultural Heritage Collections Differently with Recollection

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the heterogeneity of our data is an asset

recollection floats on top

bigish ideas
one big distributed collection
open distributed infrastructure
mindset: records -> data

Beyond thinking like cards

to thinking like data

interfaces are ways of seeing

seeing the big picture

helps find little fixes

interfaces for discovery

interfaces for sense making

Can we abstract a more generic solution?

still too hard

the Recollection idea digital cultural heritage collections include temporal , locative , and categorical data that, could be tapped to better dynamically interact with and understand those collections.

the challenges
we all have different kinds of metadata
that data is in different kinds of systems
much of that data is messy
much of that data is not in the format we might wish it was

history Recollection was initially developed as a tool to help NDIIPP partners develop common interfaces to the distributed national collection of born digital materials they have preserved. The project is now in the process of becoming more broadly available.

broader audiences As we move toward a broader public release the project is embracing a wider audience. This audience includes librarians, archivists, curators, and researchers around the nation interested in better understanding and expanding access to their digital collections.

what recollection does

take this

or this

and make…

the workflow
ingest data
augment data
design views
publish and embed views
share data and views

ingest ingest collections from spreadsheets , MODS records, or ATOM and RSS

augment derive ISO dates , latitude and longitude coordinates, and break apart data

design views graphical interface for assembling views

publish and embed views publish views on the site or embed one line of javascript into any HTML document.

share data and views share not only the end results, but also the raw data for other others to create their own views.

the result come for the views, stick around for the linked data…

what’s next? full open source release: imminent
public/private views and data: soon
viewshare.org public launch: soon-ish
big data sets: in a while
viewshare.org as a portal: in the future
remix across data sets: long view

References: links and Images Referenced Sites and Projects NDIIPP, digitalpreservation.gov Zotero, zotero.org LCSH Galaxy, http://cads.stanford.edu/lcshgalaxy/ Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, www.hurricanearchive.org Digital Harlem, http://www.acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/harlem/ PhilaPlace, www.philaplace.org/ HistoryPin, www.historypin.com/ SIMILE Exhibit, www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ Creative Commons Images Instructions, flickr.com/photos/exlibris/2383688387 a sign of things to come, flickr.com/photos/grantmac/2824984866 Colourful army, flickr.com/photos/maistora/3014414972

stay in touch
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contact me directly at [email_address]
visit http://recollection.zepheira.com/

From Records to Data with Recollection

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