Full text script here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B88PJgvKbX0vSnhRckJZTGZjVWc/view?usp=sharing . How can we make provenance better, faster, and more connected in the immediate future? How can we be more excellent to each other, and get more provenance done?

1. TRACEY BERG-FULTON
@BERGFULTON
BERG-FULTONT@CMOA.ORG
COLLECTIONS DATABASE ASSOCIATE
CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART
PITTSBURGH, PA
#BEEXCELLENT

2. BE
EXCELLENTTO
EACH OTHER.
THE FUTURE OF PROVENANCE RESEARCH.

5. 99PROBLEMS...

6. HOW CAN I GET
ACCESS?

7. THE PAST-ISH

8. THE FUTURE...ISH?

9. THE NOW

10. THE NOW

11. THE NOW

12. THE NOW

13. AND YET...

15. WHEN YOU SAY
"ACCESS"...

16. > Hands on the item.
> Image.
> Transcription or summary.
> Digital presentation.
> People.

17. BARRIERS
> Money.
> Distance.
> Access guidelines.
> Uncatalogued collections.
> Lack of contact info.

18. BARRIERS
PREVENT
PROVENANCE
FROM MOVING FORWARD.

20. THE FUTURE
WILL NOT BE
DIGITIZED.

21. THE
IMMEDIATE FUTURE
WILL NOT BE DIGITIZED.
(NO, SERIOUSLY.
KEEP DIGITIZING STUFF.)

22. THINK LIKE A LIBRARY
> Museums as hubs of information.
> Our secret sauce is our knowledge and documentation.
> How can we give as much as possible to as many as
possible?
> How can we use our network to meet their needs?
(What's the museum data "interlibrary loan"?)

23. BE EXCELLENT
TO EACH OTHER.

24. WHAT DOES EXCELLENT LOOK LIKE?
> Continued publishing of collections
and collections data.
> Push for radical collections transparency.
> Be unafraid.
> A culture of collaboration.

25. A MUSEUM ERDŐS NUMBER?
> Paul Erdős (1913-1996), Hungarian mathematician,
published over 1,500 papers, world traveler, world
collaborator.
> Calculates "collaborative distance."
> Turned in to a "tool to study how mathematicians
cooperate to find answers to unsolved problems."
> What if collaborative distance was an accreditation
metric?

26. #ICanHazProvenance?
> Use our network to be both consumer and source of
provenance.
> Publish provenance and provenance source materials.

27. WE HAVE
ISSUES.(AND AN ISSUES TRACKER)

28. GITHUB ISSUES FOR RESEARCH
> Use Issues Tracker to make requests for provenance
assistance.
> Person going to repository picks up the request and
fufills it.
> Provenance backscratching.
> github.com/provenancecollaborative

29. GITHUB AS GITHUB?
> GitHub is great- let's put stuff there.
> But if you're not a developer...
> Let's put stuff elsewhere, too.
> Write kick-ass documentation.

30. CALL ME, MAYBE?> Don't bury your contact information.
> Give your research, collections, and information people
their own "space".
> Be an information professional cheerleader.

31. BUT WHAT IF
WE'RE
WRONG?

33. THEN
FIX
IT.

34. DATA AND PUBLIC TRUST
> Just whose data is it, anyway?
> If you're not willing to share, then why bother doing
the work?
> There are no marauding bands of internet trolls
sending you false provenance information. Trust me.

35. DATA AS A DOORWAY
> Make sure people know where it is.
> It works better when it is open.
> Friends don't need to knock.
> It opens both ways.
> It occasionally needs repair.

36. MAKING PROVENANCE
LESS BOGUS AT CMOA.
> Standard & documentation: museumprovenance.org
> Elysa tool: elysa-demo.museumprovenance.org
> Stuff at: github.com/cmoa/
> Released to the wild on Nov 1. 10 minutes ago!
github.com/cmoa/collection
> Looking at our data as an ecosystem.

38. MAKING PROVENANCE
LESS BOGUS AT CMOA.
> Standard & documentation: museumprovenance.org
> Elysa tool: elysa-demo.museumprovenance.org
> Stuff at: github.com/cmoa/
> Released to the wild on Nov 1. 10 minutes ago!
github.com/cmoa/collection
> Looking at our data as an ecosystem.

39. ONE MORE TIME, FROM THE TOP!
> Make provenance a priority.
> Make provenance transparent.
> Champion data openess.
> Information professional cheerleader.
> Disco chicken.