reuse, recycle, reduce: exploiting existing metadata at national library of scotland to assist...
DESCRIPTION
This presentation was given at the Cataloguing and Indexing Group, Scotland, Web2.0 seminar on 19 April 2010. The presentation outlines National Library of Scotland's current involvement with Flickr and explores issues with re-using existing metadata for digital objects to facilitate the Library's forthcoming participation in Flickr Commons.TRANSCRIPT
reduce
recycle
reusemethod in our
madnessmetadata
flickr2008-2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/
http://digital.nls.uk/74462370
http://digital.nls.uk/74457611
sometimes 400 views
sometimes 100 views
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/3012796098/
Objective
Action
http://www.flickr.com/commons
no known copyright restrictions
haig
tenements
mary queen of scots
massacre of glencoe
4 images
137 images
2000 images
1 image
DigitalObjectDatabase
management client
filesstructuredescription
AACR
LCSH LC
TGNGetty
LCNAF LC
TGMLC AAT
Getty
DigitalObjectDatabase
presentation
management client
filesstructuredescription
subset
http://digital.nls.uk/
DigitalObjectDatabase
presentation
management client
filesstructuredescription
subset
flickr
subset
SolrApache
App Garden
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/
<geek speak=“on”>method = likeargs = woteva
</geek>
Issues ?• synchronisation
• administrative bottlenecks
• resourcing
• checking copyright
Flickr machine tags
flora:tree=coniferousorganization:library=“national library of scotland”squiggle:gibber=“utter rubbish”
\http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3549662882/in/set-72157618541455384/
and next
• early callotypes
• maps
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Tay bridge enquiry
• Forth bridge construction
• Caravan tour of the highlands
so now… you know what
we’ll do this summer
Thank you
Gill HamiltonSystems Librarian
National Library of ScotlandInformation Systems Development team