The document discusses a 10-year project at the Seattle Public Library called "Making Visible the Invisible" that aims to visualize circulation data from the library. It involves collecting hourly data on books checked out, analyzing the data, and representing it through visualizations displayed on screens in the library. The project seeks to transform collected data into an aesthetic experience that reveals patterns in communal thinking based on patron interests over time. It addresses challenges of negotiating long-term access to the library's data while protecting privacy and security.
To learn more about our users, ILL staff at Seattle Public Library designed a three question survey that was presented to our patrons via the ILL forms on the library’s website and as a bookmark which was inserted into all borrowed materials. The responses gathered from the user surveys were supplemented by data taken from our circulation system (Horizon) and OCLC usage statistics. The results were very informative and, on some counts, quite unexpectedly surprising. Presentation by Karen Barnes & Martin Burgess
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Seattle Public Library Foundation Trend SummitJim Loter
Presentation by Stephanie Chase and Jim Loter to the board of The Seattle Public Library Foundation at their 2013 library trends summit in Seattle, WA.
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Why do we need to organise information more effectively? How do we incorporate the evolving semantic web environments? In a world of API and big data, libraries (and in particular school libraries) are faced with a significant ‘conceptual’ challenge. The new RDA cataloguing standard will substantively influence and then change information organization, focusing on users, access and interoperability. Search interfaces will be the key. We’re not dealing with records anymore. We are working with interrelated nodes of data. Are you prepared?
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The Web 2.0 environment is characterized by concentration and diffusion. Library services are not well matched to this environment: they are fragmented and difficult to mobilize in user workflows. This presentation analyzes this situation and suggests some directions.
Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums: An Aggregators ViewRichard Urban
Presented at the American Association of Museums 2012
An accompanying handout can be found here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3881880/aam2012/aam_handout.pdf
Presented to "Managing the Material: Tackling Visual Arts as Research Data" workshop, organised by Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) in conjunction with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), through the JISC-funded KAPTUR project. London, 14 September 2012
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Data Art for the Networked Community
1. MAKING VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE “Library Unbound” Seattle Public Library Commission
Seattle Public Library
Data Art for the Networked Community
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SPL Library: Architectural InfraStructure Transformations
Rem Koolhaas radical redesign
Open public research computerized spaces
Spiral lay-out book storage stacks
Wired librarians (offices turned into open spaces)
RFID automated checkout and return sorting
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Book Spiral: Dewey Classification in a Continuous Ribbon
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Dewey Coded Floor Spiral
.jp
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Automated RF System Check-in, Check-out
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Librarians Set Loose: Traded Office Space for
Commdevice
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Visualizing the Collective Data Space: The Library As Data Exchange Center
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Librarians & Visualization
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“Making Visible the Invisible”, a 10 year Visualization Project 2004-2014
For the next ten years: Collect hourly
circulation of books, analyze the data,
and represent through visualizations
Data animations are featured on 6 large
LCD panels located on a glass wall
horizontally behind the librarians’ main
information desk
in the Mixing Chamber, a large open
19,500 sq ft space dedicated to
information retrieval and public
Media Arts and Technology accessible computer research.
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Research Phase (fall 2003-spr 2005)
1 week residency to learn about the library,
its operations, etc.
Correlation is made between the flow of
data (books, DVD) leaving the library and
what the community of patrons considers
interesting information at any specific
time.
The circulation of books is information that
can be calculated mathematically and
represented visually.
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What are the Research Questions?
Focus on the library as a “Data Exchange Center”
Information in circulation: Meaning to emerge out
of the organization of data
Emergence driven: Local individual actions
(checking out books/dvds) add up to collective
positions: representative of the communal thinking!
How to transform the collecting and processing of
data into an aesthetic experience: Emphasis on
narrative, metaphoric, associative expression
Visualizations: Based on the organization of the
Media Arts and Technology data, according to rule-based processes
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Challenges: Negotiating Data Access, Privacy, Reliability
Libraries & other archival institutions are
not used to dynamic artworks that plug
into their system for data
Much negotiation with the IT sector for
access to data over long time
Obvious main concerns: Security, privacy
protection, system integrity, virus
protection, maintenance, etc.
Reliability Issue: Project has to be
reliable, self-sustaining for the next ten
years
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3 Related Previous Projects: 1992-2001
An Anecdoted Archive From the Cold War, 1992
A collection of historical & personal objects organized
according to an invented classification system (Floorplan)
Slippery Traces, 1995
Navigation through 250 postcards (classified into 26
chapters) according to multilayered rules inscribed in
database (picture within picture navigation links)
Pockets Full of Memories, 2001
A dynamically growing collection of artifacts with data sets
provided by the public. The objects are dynamically self-
Media Arts and Technology organized in a 2D map continuously creating a global order
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Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War: 1992
A collection of historical & personal objects organized
according to a “hardwired” classification system: Museum
floorplan; 8 rooms/chapters; each with 6 to 12 stories; each
story has mutiple narratives based on object grouping
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Slippery Traces: 1995
250 postcards organized into 26 chapters. Multilinear
relational database structure: Navigation from image to
image according to rules inscribed in database with picture
within picture navigation links)
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Pockets Full of Memories: 2001-2006
A dynamically growing collection of artifacts provided by the
public with data sets through a questionnaire. The objects are
dynamically self-organized in a 2D Visualization map. Local
similarities emerging into a global order.
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Phase I: Concept & Design Development (2003) | With Andreas Schlegel
Visualizations experimentations: Rapid
prototyping rough sketches focused on look
and feel of still & animations
Dewey Decimal Classification system
Online Tracking of Flow of data:
http://128.111.221.74/parsing/index.php
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Significant Area: Digital Data Processing / Management
Basic method: [data collection] -> [data
processing] -> [visualization]
Bulk of the work: The [data processing] in-
between incoming data and the
visualization
Data is received every 10 minutes (3000
per hour, 20000 transactions per day)
Operating for the next ten years (2014)
MediaIn:DATA
<Processing>
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Data Processing & Metadata
How: by tracking the circulation of
books/media
Require: Regular access to real-time data
over long time
Methods: Calculations based on metadata
All books & media (cds, dvds, etc.) are RF
tagged
System tracks circulation automatically
Metadata: Catalog Num; bibliography
Num; date/time stamps; collection code;
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itemtype; barcode; title; callNumber; Dewey
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class; keywords.
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Dewey Classification System: Ten topics each subdivided into 100 subclasses
000 - Generalities
100 - Philosophy & Psychology
200 - Religion
300 - Social Science
400 - Language
500 - Natural Science & Mathematics
600 - Technology & Applied Sciences
700 - Arts
800 - Literature
900 - Geography & History
“Untangling my chopsticks” has the Dewey label 641.5952,
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Graduate Program (placed in the 641 “Food & drink” section)
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Metadata in XML Format
<transaction>
<itemNumber>1531202</itemNumber>
<bibNumber>2180049</bibNumber>
<ckodate>2005-04-20</ckodate>
<ckotime>16:55:00</ckotime>
<ckidate>2005-05-06</ckidate>
<ckitime>18:21:00</ckitime>
<collcode>nanf</collcode>
<itemtype>acbk</itemtype>
<barcode>0010045801205</barcode>
<title>Untangling my chopsticks, a culinary sojourn in Kyoto</title>
<callNumber>641.5952 R358U 2003</callNumber>
<deweyClass>641.5952</deweyClass>
<subjects>
<subject>Cookery Japanese</subject>
<subject>Japanese tea ceremony</subject>
<subject>Kyoto Japan Social life and customs</subject>
<subject>Food habits Japan Kyoto</subject>
Media Arts and Technology </subjects>
Graduate Program </transaction>
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Phase II: Visual Exploration & System Planning (2004) | With August Black
System, data storage discussions with SPL IT
Experimentation with graphic visualizations:
spectral pulses; radar plots; bezier/spirals,
Voronoi variations
Planning the datastructure: its organization,
questions of what to look for, what patterns,
keywords?
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Phase III: System Architecture, Design & Production | With Rama Hoetzlein
July 2005: System Architecture: Design
and production
Aug 2005: Data Flow Structure and
Visualizations (without access to real
data)
Sept 5-12, 2005: Seattle Installation:
1 week to install
First realtime access to data
Hardware/Software synchronization
Interface with IT
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Rama Hoetzlein: System Development (summer/fall 2005)
System overview (for continuous, large scale data
analysis and real-time visualization)
Data Analysis Overview
Keyword Frequency Analysis
Storing Data over time (10 years)
Visualization Processes (Realtime graphics,
synchronizataion, data retrieval)
Network Data Flow (Server, clients, data transfer)
Multiple Visualization Timing
Visualization Management (Layered processes, GameX
interface)
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Librarians & Visualization
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1 _Vital Statistics, Fall 2005
The day’s and last hour’s circulation activities
1) Total items, 2) Dewey, 3) Non-Dewey, 4) Books,5)
DVD, 6) CD’s and other media
Background color changes with time throughout day
IMPACT: Statistical overview, a form of clock at glance
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2 _Floating Titles: Fall 2005
Time based, linear stream of the last hour’s titles,
timestamped, spatialized (far, close), and color coded
(books, media)
IMPACT: Sequence provides unexpected associations
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3 _Dot Matrix Rain: Fall 2005
Non-Dewey titles fall from the top of screen (gravity
metaphor), Dewey titles pop up on screen
Finale: Overall Dewey activity trace
IMPACT: Relational overview (for librarians) between
Dewey, non-dewey, books, and media.
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4 _Keyword Map Attack: Fall 2005
Word Frequency Index of significant title words, and
Marc associated keywords, spatially plotted according to
Dewey order, color coded, based on usage
IMPACT: Maps topics of interests based on keywords
transcending Dewey categories
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Front and Back Views of the Visualization Installation
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Challenges for a Ten Year Digital Media Arts Project
What to map to show “Change Over time”
Search for patterns: What exactly to look
for?
External correlation (news events)?
relevant?
Feedback: How does the visualization
impact on circulation?
How do the librarians react to the
visualized information, and the participatory
Media Arts and Technology need of technical support?
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Review & Evaluation Issues
Best realization method: Custom software
design defined by the task at hand
Collaborative Development requires a
particular mindset from participants
Technology changes every 3 years: Long
term technological artwork requires
maintenance program and budget
Institution must be competent to feature
and willing to support technologally
complex artworks
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Credits
Technical Design, Research & Production
Andreas Schlegel, Preliminary interaction Design,
website, data organization (2003-2004)
August Black, Preliminary data organization and
visualization, system administration (2004-2005)
Rama Hoetzlein/Mark Zifchock Team, Final
Engineering design, data organization, and production
(Summer 2005)
Sponsors
Seattle Public Library
Seattle Arts Commission
Media Arts and Technology Committee of 33, Seattle
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UC Santa Barbara NSF IGERT multimedia Research
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Editor's Notes
Library: Innovative Architecture . Rem Koolhaas went beyond designing a building . Studied the library and transformed it: Open spaces Spiral storage of books Wired librarians High Tech transformation Book management as Data:
Book Spiral Concept . Library is half full .
. SPL Commission (2005) . Visualing circulation of books (for next ten years) . 6 large LCD panels / Mixing Chamber
MVI Concept . To visualize what the community is thinking
Research Questions . Library as data exchange center . Circulation of books