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The Commons and Digital Humanities
- 1. Better Together A Multi-institutionalDigital Commons for Balboa Park The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums The Graduate Center, City University of New York November 28, 2012 Christina DePaolo Director of Digital Media, Balboa Park Online Collaborative cdepaolo@bpoc.org @tinabean
- 2. Balboa Park CommonsProject To create an online library of aggregated digital collections representing the diverse cultural organization in the park. Toolset for San Diego area teachers
- 3. Balboa Park –A Geographic Collaboration
- 6. Balboa Park atSunset
- 8. BPOC History &Mission • Founded in 2008 by the Legler Benbough Foundation, now it’s own 501(3)C • Encourages strategic technology collaboration between the Balboa Park cultural organizations • Execute a fundamental change in the way park organizations approach and use technology • Help address common technology problems by providing shared tools
- 9. BPOC Initiatives • Professional development/training • Common website platform • Digitization/collection access • Mobile Apps/gaming • Technical services
- 10. The Museums: SanDiego Model Railroad Museum
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- 13. San Diego NaturalHistory Museum
- 14. San Diego Museumof Air and Space
- 15. Why a Commons? •Partners identified online collection access a primary goal: – Collections online – Flickr/Flickr Commons/YouTube – Within the Park – internal commons – Balboa Park Commons - aggregated collection portal
- 17. Diversity of Collections:San Diego Museum of Natural History Library
- 18. Diversity of Collections:San Diego Museum of Air and Space Film Archive
- 19. Diversity of Collections:San Diego Museum of Art Collection Gallery
- 20. Diversity of Collections:World Beat Cultural Center
- 21. Building a CommonsInfrastructure • Rapid-Capture Digitization • Common Collection Management Systems • Data Standards • DAMS
- 22. Digitization Three rapid capturedigitization stations exist for photography, film, video and books. In the last three years over 250,000 photographs and videos have been digitized.
- 23. San Diego Air& Space Museum Archives McDonnell Douglas Hornet Top 10 - Flickr Commons
- 24. San Diego JuniorTheatre Playbooks
- 25. Collection Acquisition Museum ofPhotographic Arts Currently digitizing
- 26. Digitization and digitalasset management • Approximately 250,000 images and video digitized by BPOC for 22 museums, libraries, and archives over 3 years • 430,000 total assets on BPOC servers • Six different cataloging systems: EmbARK, PastPerfect, EOS, Specify, Excel, Arch ivist’s Toolkit • One digital asset management system for all
- 27. Infrastructure: Park-Wide DigitalAsset Management System (DAMS)
- 30. Collecting & CoordinatingData • Manual extraction of multiple datasets • Cleanup! • Identify breakpoints • Clean some more • Crosswalk • Ingest (and pray) • Clean yet? • Have a beer
- 31. Piction as CoordinationEngine
- 32. Balboa Park CommonsCommunity Community – San Diego area teachers and students
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- 39. Current site indevelopment
- 44. Benefits • Multiple collectionsand collection types represented – ability to make new discoveries • Great for SEO – great data • Cross-collection searching is possible • Each organization can participate as much or as little as they want • Individual DAMS for internal asset management
- 45. Limitations • Migrating datafrom different databases limits the ability to bring in complex label or description fields. • Distribution of finding aids and links to item level records is complicated. • Adherence to specific standards is loose. • Very little content available to present context, rich story-telling.
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- 47. Thank you! cdepaolo@bpoc.org @tinabean
- 48. Benefits of Collaboration •Make technology affordable and accessible to institutions of all sizes • Improve access so the public can use the museum’s rich cultural assets • Increase cultural tourism • Enhance organizational capabilities
Editor's Notes
- #9 strategic digital media projects collaborating with museum, university and corporate partners to implement cost-effective technology solutions into the museum space.
- #30 Convair was an America aircraft manufacturing company founded in the 1940’s that is now defunct. They maidrockets and spacecraft.
- #45 ros and cons--Views across collection, great SEO with the metadata--Compromise for shared data sets – complicated, has restrictions. Image presentation
- #47 The big take away I want to leave you with is that this is a model of a shared platform for access for institutions with very little resources to make their collections accessible to the community. It is a platform that can be shared and adapted for other uses. How can this model inform your practice? Is it applicable to your interests as a student? If you are a museum professional is this model relevant to your institution or the work you do. If you are an educator – how can this model help with teaching about digital humanities practice?