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SLAINTE image of the moment
• SLAINTE is the website of the Scottish libraries’ and librarians’ professional bodies (SLIC, CILIPS)
• “Image of the moment” is a new feature introduced in the latest redesign of the website– Website is redesigned every 4-5 years– Keeps it fresh, and exploits new technologies
Image of the moment
• Submission of images invited from members– Editor’s choice– Potential for end-users to submit
• Image can– Record an event– Promote an event– Promote a library or related service
• Image can be– Digital photograph– Screen shot– Logo
Image archive
• Image archive required– For reference to past “moments”– To show images submitted but not selected
• Possibility of creating an image databank and retrieval system in SLAINTE– Expensive and time-consuming
• Or exploit an existing, open, free service– Experiments with Flickr
Flickr
• What other images related to archives, libraries, museums are on Flickr?
• Who submits images?
• Why are images submitted?
• How are images retrieved?
Flickr and other social websites: negative aspects for archives, libraries, museums
• Stuff appears whether we want it to or not– Even if copyright is violated
• Expensive and counter-productive to complain?
• Information may be incomplete, biased, inaccurate
• Social tagging may be misleading, incomplete, inaccurate
• May be unstable and temporary
Flickr and other social websites: positive aspects for archives, libraries, museums
• Free (nearly!), easy-to-use
• Global channel for promoting services
• Engagement with wider range of end-users
• Ability to apply expert tagging– Demonstrate professional skills of knowledge
organisation
SCONE
• Scottish Collections Network• Collection-level descriptions for archives,
libraries and museums in Scotland• Physical location is a key component• Postcode provides a link/map to Google
Maps latitude and longitude measurements (geocodes)
• Google Maps Application Program Interface
Google Maps API
• Written in Javascript
• Standard zoom, pan, map type and search facilities
• Custom overlays– Places– Routes– Boundaries
• SCONE location data output in js format
Google Maps and other mashups: negative aspects for archives, libraries, museums
• Stuff appears whether we want it to or not– Information may be incomplete, biased,
inaccurate
• Little control over depth of map and satellite coverage, response times, etc.
• Services may be unstable and temporary
• (Meta)data becomes publicly available– Third parties can create competing services
Google Maps and other mashups: positive aspects for archives, libraries, museums
• Free (nearly!), easy-to-use
• Global channel for promoting services
• Engagement with wider range of end-users
• Geographical information systems (maps) are effective, more intuitive retrieval tools for information environments
Some library wikis I know about
• Eprints Application Profile (Dublin Core– Project with UK-wide scope, now ended– Developing into Scholarly Works Application Profile
(SWAP)• DC Scholarly Communication Community
• DCMI/RDA Task Group– Project with international scope, just started– Bringing together 2 international standards
communities• CILIP-BL Committee on AACR (RDA)
– UK-wide standards committee– Constituent of international standards community
Wikis and archives, libraries, museums (1)
• Effective tool for long-distance collaboration
• Can be an official record of outcomes– E.g. like a website
• Can help with the organisation of workflows– Discussion documents, current priorities, etc.
• Low-cost or free
Wikis and archives, libraries, museums (2)
• Need effective manager/driver– To encourage the reluctant contributor
• Unfamiliar with technology and informal methods of collaboration
– To curb the over-enthusiastic contributor• Keep focus on major issues
• Might not be as stable or permanent as a “normal” website– As a “record of activity”
NSDL
• National Science Digital Library• Metadata registry “provides services to
developers and consumers of controlled vocabularies and is one of the first production deployments of the RDF-based Semantic Web Community's Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)”
• Non-production but fully-functional sandbox (play area) freely available
Metadata registries and SKOS (1)
• SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System)– Basically a means of encoding structured
vocabularies (e.g. thesaurus)
• Mark-up is RDF (Resource Description Framework)– Becoming the syntax of the Semantic Web
• Gives a machine-readable label (URI) to every “concept”
Metadata registries and SKOS (2)
• “Concepts” can be topics (subjects), people, organisations, places, events
• “Concepts” can be metadata attributes– Fields, tags, etc.
• Metadata registries can record both categories– Metadata content and structure
• Metadata relationships can be expressed using Web Ontology Language (OWL)