Authority Cascades: A presentation strategy for Linked Open Data

AUTHORITY CASCADESA PRESENTATION STRATEGYFOR INFORMATION OVERLOAD

David Newbury, Carnegie Museum of Art

David Newbury — @workergnome

Once, there wasn't enough information


Now, there's too much information


MARY CASSATT


LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78096937.html




VIAF

https://viaf.org/viaf/2478969/


https://viaf.org/viaf/2478969/

ULAN

http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500012368?inference=all




BRITISH MUSEUM

http://collection.britishmuseum.org/resource?uri=http://

collection.britishmuseum.org/id/person-institution/22182


http://collection.britishmuseum.org/resource?uri=http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/person-institution/22182




SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

http://edan.si.edu/saam/id/person-institution/770




WIKIDATA

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173223




OCCUPATION/ROLE

> Wikidata: painter, printmaker, graphic artist> Getty: artists (visual artists), painters (artists),

printmakers, portraitists, genre artists> BM: painter/draughtsman, printmaker


GETTY

American painter and printmaker, 1844-1926, active in France


BRITISH MUSEUMPainter, printmaker and pastellist of portraits and intimate genre scenes. Studied Philadelphia; to Italy 1868, settled in Paris 1874, never returning to USA. Friend and colleague of Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet (qq.v.) who both influenced

her style; worked mostly in Paris; acted as an important adviser to wealthy American collectors of Impressionist

pictures, such as the Havemeyers and John Howard Whittemore (q.v.). She was awarded the Légion d'honneur in

1904David Newbury — @workergnome

SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTBorn to a prominent Pennsylvania family, Mary Cassatt spent her artistic career in

Europe. Though unmarried, she was no stranger to the family life she so often depicted: her parents and sister moved to Paris in 1877 and her two brothers and

their families visited frequently. Today considered an Impressionist, Cassatt exhibited with such artists as Monet, Pissarro, and her close friend Degas, and

shared with them an independent spirit, refusing throughout her life to be associated with any art academy or to accept any prizes. She stands alone,

however, in her depictions of the activities of women in their worlds: caring for children, reading, crocheting, pouring tea, and enjoying the company of other women.

Elizabeth Chew Women Artists (brochure, Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)


This isn't a data problem,

It's a presentation problem


What's our responsibility here?


Option 1: We decide what to show


We're hiding informationfrom our audience


Option 2: We let the user decide.


Information overloadtoo much context


This isn't a data problem,

This is a trust problem.


Option 3: Authority Cascades


Allow the user todetermine

who they trust


A clean display of information


The user can modifytheir preferred sources


And observe whatinformation has changed.


Conclusion Goes Here.


THANK YOU.David Newbury — @workergnome

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