Where the wild things aren’t

How Digital Curation can tame even the most persnickety Content

Bradley J. DaigleUniversity of Virginia

30 June 2013@bradleydaigle / #dcig13

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Step back in time...

• We worked in an age of adhocracy

• Where choice reigned supreme

• You get whatever you desired

• Requests came in every possible flavor

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ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

Pineapple

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ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

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ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Tuesday, July 9, 13

ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Chocolate surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

StrawberryStrawberry

Peanut Butter

Tuesday, July 9, 13

ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

StrawberryStrawberry

Peanut ButterChocolate

StrawberryChocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

StrawberryStrawberry

Peanut ButterChocolate

StrawberryChocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

Strawberry

Peanut Butter

ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie Dough

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

Peanut Butter

Tuesday, July 9, 13

ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

StrawberryStrawberry

Peanut ButterChocolate

StrawberryChocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

StrawberryStrawberry

Peanut ButterChocolate

StrawberryChocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

Strawberry

Peanut Butter

ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie Dough

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

Peanut Butter

ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

StrawberryStrawberry

Peanut Butter

ChocolateStrawberry

Chocolate

VanillaStrawberry

CoffeeCookie DoughVanilla

Vanilla

PineappleMint Peach

Black Walnut Cotton Candy

Chocolate Fudge

Lemon Custard

Daiquiri Ice

Coconut

Orange Sherbet

Oreo Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter and

Chocolate

Pralines and Cream

Peppermint

Rocky Road

Rum Raison

Strawberry ShortcakeWinter White

World ClassVeryBerry U Guess

Choco surprise

Lemon Biter

Strawberry

Mint Chocolate

Peanut Butter

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Phew.

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Different Times

• New and exciting technology

• culture of experimentation

• focus on quantity over quality (whether intentional or not)

• much of this material does not scale in current form

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Legacy - a powerful word

We have inherited a past world

We live in the present

We plan for the future

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Digital Curation

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Is...

Selection

Creation

Management

Stewardship

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Is...

Added Value of all sorts!

repository environments

metadata

functionality

rights layering

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Philosophy

• Mission

• Infrastructure

• Capacity

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Creation

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Creation

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Imaging/Scanning

• What is the purpose?

• Collection building

• Patron requests

• Preservation

• Instruction

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Text

• XML in many flavors

• TEI

• EAD

• UTF 8

• Blobs

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Born Digital

• Highly variable (and volatile)

• Complex

• Scale

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Digital Scholarship

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Infrastructure

• How is this material managed?

• Access points

• Library catalogue?

• Vendor solutions?

• Web services

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Intellectual Property

One of the biggest challenges for any purveyor of content

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Functionality

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Stewardship

Level 1: Collect metadata only

Level 2: Saving project as a set of binary files + metadata

Level 3: Content delivered as the original

Level 4: Look and feel intact

Level 5: Project completely documented

source: http://www.digitalcurationservices.org/sustaining-digital-scholarship/

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Transformation

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Bradley J. Daigle

bradley@virginia.edu

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