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Building and Evaluating Collections Dashboards Richard Urban Michael B. Twidale University of Illinois Piotr Adamczyk Metropolitan Museum of Art
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This slide deck served as an introduction to the Building and Evaluating Collections Dashboards Workshop, held at Museums & the Web 2010, Denver, CO. Piotr Adamcyzk Richard Urban Michael Twidale http://archimuse.com/mw2010/abstracts/prg_335002328.html
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Building and Evaluating Collections DashboardsRichard Urban Michael B. TwidaleUniversity of IllinoisPiotr AdamczykMetropolitan Museum of Art
Conventional text-based displays are unable to offer us any overall impressions of the millions of items contained in modern collections….Searching the collections is something like wandering through narrow paths in a forest.
what we need is a map-Mitchell Whitelaw Visible Archives Project
Currently available digital cultural heritage collections
are just the tip of the iceberg.
Millionsmoreare
waiting
to be Digitized
Search
Opening History
What is all this stuff?What is all this stuff?
Do I have to read all this text?
Do I have to read all this text?
Is there more like this?
Is there more like this?
Early Sketches
Patchwork Prototyping
http://www.richardjurban.net/dashboard
Museum Pipes
Use Case: Transparency
Use Case: Collection Development• What do you have?• Where are the holes?• How do we merge data
from two departments?• How does my collection
compare to their collection?
Determining Space from Place for Natural History Collections: In a Distributed Digital Library Environment. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 14, 2010, from http://dlib.org/dlib/may04/beaman/05beaman.html
A simplistic, low cost, good-enough metadata quality visualizationNichols, D.M., Paynter, G., Chan, C-H., Bainbridge, D., McKay, D., Twidale, M.B. & Blandford, A. (2009). Experiences in Deploying Metadata Analysis Tools for Institutional Repositories. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 47(3/4) 229-248.
Use Case: Production Evaluation
Image Credits• http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonianlibraries/4312515246/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfly/154053611/• Quote from Mitchell Whitelaw The Visible Archive Project
http://visiblearchive.blogspot.com• http://www.flickr.com/photos/leoffreitas/332360959/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/2867425266/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/musebrarian/3693485492/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/21843970@N00/4207517333/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/3762792170/• http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BnOP43Mv_PY/SlPWqEkHQHI/AAAAAAAAMtw/_hMOzsyuMsA/s400/ticket+window.jpg• http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178354733/• Workers assembling dashboards for automobiles in an unidentified factory. Courtesy University of Southern California.
Libraries http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/view/CHS-33163• http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/413575764/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxmflickr/4102530508/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/359647981/• http://www.flickr.com/photos/coconino/1426568341/• http://library.clevelandart.org/focus/200807.php
Portions of this research funded by :
