Glenn Cumiskey - UKAD 2016 forum
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The document discusses the challenges of managing the large and growing amounts of digital data created and collected by the British Museum, including collection data, digital assets, research data, web content, and business records that are in various formats and storage environments and may not have clear documentation on their intended uses and retention periods. It emphasizes the importance of building digital preservation capacity through policies, repositories, workflows, staff support, and cooperation to help data fulfill its purpose of providing evidence and fueling the progress of knowledge and civilization over time.
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- 1. Glenn Cumiskey Digital Preservation Resource Manager From Objects to Data Digital stewardship of our data at the British Museum Presentation at Data Matters!, UK Archives Discovery Network (UKAD) Forum, The National Archives, 20160317
- 2. Olduvai stone chopping tool 1.8 million years old Oldest humanly made object in the British Museum An object-centric environment
- 3. Collins: a series of observations, measurements, or facts; information Oxford: facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis ‘Data are what we evoke or invest as evidence’ What is data?
- 4. • Collection data • Digital assets & objects • Conservation and research data – analogue & digital • Web estate • Data we link to • Business data Our data
- 5. Ledgers & hand written notes Published articles, grey literature Printouts & emails Our data – the reality Long-tail of digital formats Risky storage environments Software dependencies
- 6. • Volume • Velocity • Veracity • Value We don’t always know why we are creating data – What is it for? – Who is its audience? – Where should we put it? – How long should we keep it for? – Leading to an ever increasing mountain of data we know less and less about Some of the challenges?
- 7. The Lampedusa cross Made from pieces of a boat that was wrecked off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy on 11 October, 2013. 311 drowned, 155 saved What should data evoke?
- 8. Pediment by Sir Richard Westmacott Man’s ascent from creation to enlightenment Journey from data to knowledge The progress of civilisation
- 9. What does this mean in reality? Building Capacity Policy Repository Development Embedded Workflows Cooperation Supporting Staff Extend Digital Provision Membership National Debate
- 10. "Forerun thy peers, thy time, and let Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet. Alfred Tennyson – The Two Voices 1834
Editor's Notes
- Look, feel, touch, colour, smell – data generated by our senses Not self-describing – compare to a newspaper Image credit: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/a_history_of_the_world/objects.aspx#2
- Part of grey and pink granodiorite stela bearing priestly decree concerning Ptolemy V in three blocks of text: Hieroglyphic (14 lines), Demotic (32 lines) and Greek (54 lines). Image credit: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=773255001&objectid=117631
- 2.2 million objects 1.8 million assets – 25,000 digital objects Need to move beyond data as a catalogue of fixed things, events Pottery ancestor figure Zapotec, 200 BC - AD 800From the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico Offering vessels like this one have been found in the tombs of high-ranking Zapotec lords and noblewomen in the Oaxaca Valley in Mexico
- Rupert Chapman Look across his desk – a journey through formats – paper, books, ledgers, manuscripts, PCs, pen drives, hard drives Who is best to manage this data – this blended environment? As archivists, records managers and librarians we bring significant skills in asset and knowledge management. Most environments will be blended for some time due to the affordances of paper. Image credit: Glenn Cumiskey
- Volume (storage footprint) Velocity (rate of creation) Veracity (quality of data) Value (how we assign value to our data) Data is increased beyond our ability to safely store and successfully manage it Challenges our infrastructure Challenges our staff’s ability to govern it Challenges us reputationally
- After meeting some of the survivors who are Eritrean Christians in the church on Lampedusa, Mr Tuccio, the island's carpenter used his skills as a carpenter to fashion each of them a cross from the wreckage of the boat as a reflection on their salvation from the sea and hope for the future. What is your emotional reaction to this? Image credit: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3691920&partId=1&searchText=lampedusa+cross&page=1
- Pediment designed by Sir Richard Westmacott. Theme: The Progress of Civilisation. Creation of man, Angel of Enlightenment Basic skills, agriculture, animals Architecture and sculpture. Painting and science Mathematics and drama. Poetry and music Educated man How do we ensure that data leads to understanding, leads to knowledge? Image credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/301490830 Image credit: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/106/301490830_aded42bc67_b.jpg
- Policy – changes in our acquisition policy, supporting technical documentation, staff guidelines Digital Provision – need to enable staff to simply do their jobs by appropriately extending storage capacity, data leaky environment, move to the Cloud? Support Staff – training, VLE, Wikis, once I a lifetime opportunity to create a systematic approach to data management with the Cloud Repository development – see as essential infrastructure development, not a service, allow us to implement micro-services to understand and monitor out digital collections Cooperation – develop knowledge quarter in Bloomsbury, distributed storage solutions with our local partners Membership – Digital Preservation Coalition National Debate – energise national debate
- The central debate between the speaker and the voice in his head in "The Two Voices" is whether or not the speaker should take his own life due to his immense grief over the death of his friend. This profound and personal poem, inspired by Tennyson's own grief over losing Arthur Henry Hallam, is also an interesting study of psychology, epistemology, and philosophy. The voice's arguments are insidious, but they are also more intellectually argued and ultimately seem more compelling than the speaker's argument for staying alive. This line is indicative of the voice's reasoning. He tells the speaker to depart the earth before his friends and before his allotted time in order to acquire the knowledge that he can not even imagine at this time. Once he leaves his corporeal form and becomes spirit, he will have access to mysteries of the universe and will not miss out on seeing what has been happening among mankind. Why should he remain in the world of ignorance? This is very appealing, and it resonates with the legendary German tale of Faust, who also craved inhuman levels of knowledge. The voice reminds the speaker that his body and senses are limited, and that there is a vastness he should seek in the beyond now rather than later. Image credit: unknown
- Image credit: Glenn Cumiskey