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Learning to Take, Learning to Give: Linking as Repurposing Metadata
This document discusses how archives can repurpose metadata by linking archival descriptions to related resources on the web. It argues that archives have inherently been linking and relating descriptions through hierarchical descriptions and relationships between records and their creators. The document advocates for using web-friendly URIs, providing information about resources at those URIs, and including links to other related URIs, in order to turn archival metadata into linked open data that can be more freely used and repurposed. This allows archives to focus repurposing outward by enriching and linking their data to other open datasets.
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- 1. Learning to Take, Learning to Give Linking as Repurposing Metadata Mark A. Matienzo Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library New England Archivists March 20, 2010
- 2. Disclaimer The following presentationexpresses opinions of my own and not of my employer, my coworkers, etc.
- 3. The nature of repurposing
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- 5. How can wefocus repurposing outward?
- 6. Rethinking paradigms of repurposing
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- 13. The Web, atits essence, is about links.
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- 20. Further down the rabbit hole.
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- 26. These access pointsdon’t link to anything!
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- 29. (blame this guy) http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanaka/3212373419/
- 30. Linked data isa way to link better. Dan Chudnov, Better Living Through Linking. http://onebiglibrary.net/story/tcdl-2009-talk-better-living-through-linking
- 31. Linked data isa way to repurpose metadata!
- 32. Design Principles 1. UseURIs for names of things 2. Use web URIs so people can look up those names 3. Provide useful information when you retrieve those URIs 4. Include links to other URIs so people can discover more things Tim Berners-Lee, Linked Data - Design Issues. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
- 33. Naming things with URIstells us what to call them unambiguously.
- 34. Using web URIstells us how and where to find these things.
- 35. Providing useful information describes what that thing is.
- 36. Added links saywhat the relationships are.
- 37. Links between things actas cross-references.
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- 39. Linked data isnot a new concept in archives.
- 40. If the seriesbecomes the primary level of classification, and the item the secondary level, a) items are kept in their administrative context and original order by physical allocation to their appropriate series, and b) series are no longer kept in any original physical order in a record or shelf group (if there is any such order) but simply have their administrative context and associations recorded on paper. Peter J. Scott, “The Record Group Concept: A Case For Abandonment,” American Archivist 29(4), 1966.
- 41. Peter J. Scott,“The Record Group Concept: A Case For Abandonment,” American Archivist 29(4), 1966.
- 42. Peter J. Scott,“The Record Group Concept: A Case For Abandonment,” American Archivist 29(4), 1966.
- 43. Archival description is inherently multi-level and relational.
- 44. Functions ar e do cu rm me fo nt r pe ed in create/manage Agents Records are used by
- 45. Chris Hurley, “Relationshipsin Records,” originally published in New Zealand Archivist, 2001-2004.
- 46. Linking out is repurposingmetadata
- 47. Types of sources Other General Obscure/Esoteric National Dictionary Sources Union Catalog Books Historical Foreign in Print Versions Language of All of This Dictionary Merck Card Catalog Manual AMA Directory Foreign Language Medical Dictionary General Encyclopedia Harrison's Hospital Directory Medical Medical Encyclopedia PDR White Dictionary Pages Serials Directory Campus Yellow Directory Ulrich's Pages Dan Chudnov, Better Living Through Linking. http://onebiglibrary.net/story/tcdl-2009-talk-better-living-through-linking
- 48. Library Catalogs http://libris.kb.se/bib/6501121 http://lccn.loc.gov/95189623
- 49. Vocabularies http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85002541 http://mdrive.lib.byu.edu/tematres/ http://lccn.loc.gov/95189623
- 50. Reference Sources http://dbpedia.org/resource/Yale_University http://www.freebase.com/view/en/aids_coalition_to_unleash_power
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- 52. Practical strategies for sharing
- 53. Letting people linkin allows repurposing
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- 60. Thank You mark@matienzo.org http://matienzo.org/ http://twitter.com/anarchivist http://groups.google.com/group/semantic-archives