event-based archival descriptions
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● Urban light by Chris Burden
Issue 1:free text
Free-text
● Requirements– Read/write English (grammar)
posthumouslyposthumously
Free-text
● Requirements– Read/write English (grammar)– Understand terminology
call sheetscall sheets
shootingschedulesshootingschedules
continuityreports
continuityreports
Free-text
● Requirements– Read/write English (grammar)– Understand terminology
– Time
Free-text
● Requirements– Read/write English (grammar)– Understand terminology
–Time
Search engines
● Fetch results fast
Search engines
● Fetch results fast● Keyword dependent● Look for patterns not meanings
Search engines
● Fetch results fast● Keyword dependent● Look for patterns not meanings● Still require time-consuming reading
– Discard irrelevant results– Decode the information from results
Handwritten notesregarding the Niddrieas the process sculpture
Originalauthor/document
14/11/1979
Originalauthor/document
Documentphotocopied
14/11/1979 + 1 week
Originalauthor/document
Documentphotocopied
Annotationsadded – new author
14/11/1979 + 1 week + 3 months
Originalauthor/document
Documentphotocopied
Annotationsadded – new author
Other events– later years
14/11/1979 + 1 week + 3 months
Free-text
● Requires:– time– common language and terminology
Issue 2:Description standards
Description standards
● ISAD(G)● Dublin Core● EAD● MARC
● many others
Description standards
● Allow search across different resources
Description standards
Description standards
EADEAD
Description standards
EADEAD
Description standards
Description standards
Description standards
EADEAD
Description standards
DublinCore
DublinCore
Description standards
Description standards
MappingMapping
Description standards
MappingMapping
Description standards
Description standards
Description standards
Researchers
● Process less data● Conclusions less representative
Questions
Questions
● How can the computer understand the meaning?– Save time– Process more material– Get more representative results
● How to use common language and terminology?
● How to share resources easily?
Recommendation for question 1:
“Understand meaning”
Structured records
● Isolate ideas and data– remove grammar– simplify data: 1 field – 1 idea/1 piece of data
David SylvesterArchive
David SylvesterArchive
Tate Libraryand Archive
Tate Libraryand Archive
relatingto
relatingto
LolitaLolita
Kirk DouglasArchive
Kirk DouglasArchive
Wisconsin centreFor Film and
Theatre Research
Wisconsin centreFor Film and
Theatre Research
relatingto
relatingto
Spartacus,Paths of GlorySpartacus,
Paths of Glory
● Lolita
● Spartacus
● Paths of Glory
● 2001: A Space Odyssey
● Related to
● Related to
● Related to
● Related to
● David Sylvester Archive
● Kirk Douglas Archive
● Kirk Douglas Archive
● V&A collection
:-(
● Lolita
● Spartacus
● Paths of Glory
● 2001: A Space Odyssey
● Related to
● Related to
● Related to
● Related to
● David Sylvester Archive
● Kirk Douglas Archive
● Kirk Douglas Archive
● V&A collection
:-)
Recommendation for question 2:
“Common terms”
Old news
● Authority records● Controlled vocabularies● Thesauri
Old news
● Authority records● Controlled vocabularies● Thesauri
● Use concepts – not words
Old news
● Authority records● Controlled vocabularies● Thesauri
● Use concepts – not words
Concepts - not words
ID: 300069473
Note: Refers broadly to artworks in a variety of styles that incorporate some aspect of motion, including machines, mobiles, and actual objects in motion. Orginating between 1913 and 1920 with the works of Marcel Duchamp, Naum Gabo, and Vladamir Tatlin, the style reached its peak in the 1960s.
Terms:● Kinetic (style) (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,A)● Kineticism (C,U,English,AD,U,U)● Art, Kinetic (C,U,English,UF,U,U)● Kinetic Art (C,U,LC,English,UF,U,U)● Motion, Art in (C,U,English,UF,U,U)● Movement Movement (C,U,English,UF,U,U)● Kinetische kunst (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)● Cinético (estilo) (C,U,Spanish-P,D,U,U)
Recommendation for question 3:
“Share resources”
Share resources
RDF (Resource Description Framework)
The format everybody can use(even if we do not know about it...)
Share resources
Internal: EADExternal: RDFInternal: EADExternal: RDF
Internal: DCExternal: RDFInternal: DC
External: RDF
Share resources
RDF dataRDF data
RDF dataRDF data
Share resources
RDFapplication
RDFapplication
RDF
Subject(what do we describe?)
RDF
Subject(what do we describe?)
Predicate(which property of subject?)
Predicate(which property of subject?)
RDF
Object(what value of property?)
Subject(what do we describe?)
relates to
RDF
SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive
relates to
RDF
SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive
http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/collections/featured/kirkdouglas/
relates to
RDF
SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive
http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/collections/featured/kirkdouglas/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/
relates to
RDF
SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive
http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/collections/featured/kirkdouglas/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/
or otherauthorityor otherauthorityor otherauthorityor otherauthority
relates to
RDF
SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive
definerelationshipdefine
relationship
Jenn Riley, Devin Becker, Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe, Indiana University Libraries, Copyright 2009-2010 Jenn Riley: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
CIDOC/CRMCIDOC/CRM
InternationalCouncil ofMuseums
InternationalCouncil ofMuseums
ICOM'sInternationalCommittee forDocumentation
ICOM'sInternationalCommittee forDocumentation
ConceptualReferenceModel
ConceptualReferenceModel
E2-Temporal Entity
E4--Period
E5---Event
E7----Activity
E11-----Modification
E12------Production
E79------Part Addition
E13-----Attribute Assignment
E65-----Creation
E63----Beginning of Existence
E12-----Production
E65-----Creation
E64----End of Existence
E77-Persistent Item
E70--Thing
E72---Legal Object
E18----Physical Thing
E24-----Physical Man-Made Thing
E90 ----Symbolic Object
E71---Man-Made Thing
E24----Physical Man-Made Thing
E28----Conceptual Object
E89-----Propositional Object
E30------Right
E73------Information Object
E90-----Symbolic Object
E41------Appellation
E73------Information Object
E55-----Type
E39--Actor
E74---Group
E52-Time-Span
E53-Place
E54-Dimension
E12 Production
● P108 has produced: E24 Physical Man-Made Thing
E12 Production
● P108 has produced: E24 Physical Man-Made Thing
● P14 carried out by: E39 Actor● P33 used specific technique: E29 Design or
Procedure● P7 took place at: E53 Place● P4 has time-span: E52 Time-Span
Originalauthor/document
Documentphotocopied
Annotationsadded – new author
Other events– later years
14/11/1979 + 1 week + 3 months
productionof original
production of photocopy
prod. of conc. object
Other events– later years
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: has t
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P149:id
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P4:ha
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P14: ca
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P14: carried out byJohn Latham
Evening
News
docid: 1562
RDF
● Keep own systems● Publish data as CIDOC-CRM RDF
Benefit 1: mappingmaintain8 links
maintain8 links
Benefit 1: mapping
CRM
maintain1 link
maintain1 link
Benefit 2: better research tools
UAL dataUAL dataInternetdata
Internetdata
Benefit 2: better research tools
UAL openlinked dataUAL openlinked data
RDF inference
● Which newspaper articles have been annotated by John Latham?
RDF inference
● Which newspaper articles have been annotated by John Latham?
● Which newspaper articles published in Edinburgh have been annotated by John Latham?
RDF inference
● Which newspaper articles have been annotated by John Latham?
● Which newspaper articles published in Edinburgh have been annotated by John Latham?
● What were the circulation figures of newspapers which were published in Edinburgh and which have articles annotated by John Latham?
Researchers
● Process more data● Conclusions more representative
Summary
● Use existing databases● Modify for structured records (no free text)● Map database to CRM● Use a well-documented thesaurus● Publish as RDF
Summary
● Use existing databases● Modify for structured records (no free text)● Map database to CRM● Use a well-documented thesaurus● Publish as RDF
● Caution:
