The Self Archiving Legacy Toolkit (SALT) aims to preserve and provide access to the papers of distinguished scholars through semi-automated organization, annotation, and semantic tagging. This process extracts metadata, links documents to related online information, and visualizes relationships to better represent a scholar's work and legacy. The goal is to engage scholars in archiving their digital and physical materials, while largely automating processing to provide faster, richer access to preserved content online.

1. Self Archiving Legacy Toolkit (SALT)
Computer-assisted Semantic Annotation
of Scientific Life Works
Will Snow, Project Manager
wdsnow-EE77@stanfordalumni.org

2. The problem
 Preservation and access of the “papers” of
distinguished faculty (Luminaries)
 Adding “context and content” implies rapid
preparation for the Luminary

3. The opportunity
 Living Luminaries
 The Internet
Image: New York Times Photograph from the Year in Ideas by Zachary Scott December 12, 2004.

4. SALT end-to-end
 Semi-automated organization of “papers”
 Make available via the next-gen Internet
 Elicit new knowledge and meaning
• Born-digital workflow
• Auto entity extraction
• Concept mapping
• Archival Tools

5. SALT vs. traditional archiving
 SALT will engage earlier with the Luminary
 Encouraging participation by the “record maker”
 Processes born-digital material and physical
 Creates a “hybrid” representation
 Largely automated process
 Speed and scalability
 Rich and findable content
 Online links are inherent
 “Snap to Grid”

6. SALT Workflow
 Semi-automatic workflow creates
representation for proofing
 Results in preservation and access

7. Content
 Born digital files are normalized to PDF
 Metadata extracted electronically
 Scanned physical documents incorporated

8. Auto Tag Documents

9. Faceted Browser
 Automatic tags used to create “facets”
 Enables filtered search and pivoting

10. Snap to Grid
 Tags distilled with automatic synonyms
 Links to online “name authority”

11. Edit Tools
 For Luminary, Archivist, Legal
 Snap to Grid and clean up

12. Visualization of Legacy
 Tags auto-generate visualization
 The Luminary may edit, add connections

13. Visualization of Legacy
 Automated generation of timeline

14. Pathway
 The Luminary may draw a Pathway
 An annotation may be recorded and linked

15. Mash Ups, Network Effect
 Linked knowledge appears in mash ups
 Thinkbase shows a visualization of links

16. Mash Ups, Network Effect
 Genealogy of Influence viewer

17. Mash Ups, Network Effect
 Powerset indexes all of Freebase
 Results yield names, dates, concepts

18. Mash Ups, Network Effect
 Parallax is a public faceted browser

19. Serving the Patron
 Typical scholar, student starts with search

20. Serving the Patron
 Key Archive docs may appear in results

21. Serving the Patron
 The Patron is led to a faceted search

22. Stanford Luminary Archives
 SALT enables our own Collections
 Links to other institutions
 Pivot through information
 Paths of influence
 Progression of ideas
 Network of innovation

23. Call to action
 For questions or next steps…
Self Archiving Legacy Toolkit
Computer-assisted Semantic Annotation
of Scientific Life Works
Will Snow
wdsnow-EE77@stanfordalumni.org
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