Digital Curation Technology: JHU Summit, October 2015

Digital Curation in Art Museums Technology, People, Process

Douglas HegleyMinneapolis Institute of Art

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TECHNOLOGY!

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technology … yawn

or

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Um, digital curation?

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Digital Curation:“The planning and management of digital assets over their full lifetime, from conceptualization through active use and presentation to long-term preservation in a repository for future re-use”.- Phyllis Hecht

Digital Curation:The planning and management of digital assets over their full lifetime, from conceptualization through active use and presentation to long-term preservation in a repository for future re-use.- Phyllis Hecht

“digital assets” – which ones?“full lifetime” – how to define?“active use” – by whom? for what?“long-term preservation” – how long?“repository” – what kind? which one?“future re-use” – wait, you can predict the future?!

But what is it we really mean when we say curation?

Curation is Acquisition… an act of selection … selectively acquiring items to make the collection more comprehensive and/or focused … considering and appraising, researching, contextualizing and selecting, constantly searching and refining.

Curation is Exhibition… conceptualization, interpretation and transformation of objects into an illustration, making the objects and the message accessible to a wide audience

Curation is Preservation… the storage and care of collections, sometimes passive and sometimes active.

Source: http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/03/what-could-curation-possibly-mean/

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Traditionally, curators are responsible for acquiring material for a collection, preserving these materials for future generations, helping users locate items from the collection and providing contextual information so they can better understand them, and designing exhibits for the benefit and enjoyment of the public. As digital curator, I will do most of these things as well, but I have specifically made it my mission to:

• make as much of our collection available online as copyright law, professional ethics, and our budget permits

• provide both contextual information and software tools to make our digital collections as useful as possible

• improve methods for preserving and providing access to the "born digital" materials (word processor files, digital musical scores, 3d set designs, etc.) that are now part of the creative history of most contemporary works of art

Source: http://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/04/04/what-digital-curator

“Think, think, think”

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Museums Gone Digital

We are ALL digital publishing houses

Digital vs. Traditional Publishing

pros• Faster time to publish new findings• No unit cost• Rich media• Showing rather than telling (e.g.,

conservation demonstrations) • Interactivity/dialogue• Highly scalable

cons• Digital publishing workflows out of

synch with conventions of scholarship• Perception of unlimited capacity –

grey area around content length/balance

• Scholarly publishing is an awkward fit for interactive dialogue

• Technology changes fast (operating systems, media formats, etc)

Thank you Amy Heibel (LACMA) for letting me steal this slide.

We Make We Publish

We Store We Share

Multiple channels

We control output

Open access or licensed

We cede control of output

Content

Intellectual Production

Content, Assets, Born-digital

Text Media

Etc.

Data DAMs

TMS RSSiCalXMLAPIServices

AppsWebsitesAggregatorsPrint

ArtsConnectEdGoogleArtArtSTORBridgeman1000 MuseumsArt.sy+ others

Third Parties

PrintWebMobileOnsite - TDXAppsePubs – VersoEmail… and more …

Text

Graphic

MapWeb page

Video/Film Image

Design

Logo/Icon

Game

Animation … more …Diagram

Art?

Display

©Douglas Hegley 2015

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Art Objects(TMS)

Digital Media Assets(DAMs)

Website(CMS) Blogs

MobileWeb

Print(floorplans,

brochures, etc.)Pubs

(magazines, Catalogs, books)

Press(PR, marketing,

news, etc.)

Documents(reports, plans,

grant apps, policies) Archive(library, paper files)

e.g., Social Media

Content Created: DigitalStored: Analog

Created: AnalogStored: Analog

Created: DigitalStored: Digital

Goal: Integrate/share all content using open APIs and/or web services

Goal: Store in digital format, with appropriate access permissions in metadata

Goal: Digitize as needed (no mass-digitization project); store digital versions in ECM

ePubs

Digital Art?

Enterprise Content Management, Museum-style

Other


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We need tools

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Digital Asset Management Systems - DAMs

Key considerations:1.Upload & download capabilities2.Metadata – establish, add, edit, etc.3.Storage4.Search & browse - effective user interface5.Share / publish – APIs & integration6.Analytics

Source: www.digitalassetmanagement.com/advanced-dam

Open Source DAMs

Content- Object records/metadata- Constituent records

Potential Content Types- Maps, charts, diagrams- LI content- D& E content (e.g., Verso

components- Etc.

Content Types- Still images- Video- Audio

DAMs(Open Source)(ResourceSpace)

Mia ECM ConceptJune 2015

Web CMS(WordPress)

DAMs(Commercial)

(MediaBin)

Collections Data(TMS)

MetaMia – Search & Retreival tool

ElasticSearch

Index & access

Search/Retreive

Result set

Filters/Facets

Access: Internal

External access: Later phase

API

API

API

API File Shares(Not in scope)

Potential needs- Hot folders for auto-ingest

NEW

NEW

NEW

NEW

Funding for the Mia ECM project provided by:

https://www.elastic.co/


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People

Source: Jeonghyun Kim, Edward Warga, William Moen. Competencies Required for Digital Curation: An Analysis of Job Advertisements, International Journal of Digital Curation, 2013, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 66-83

“ … digital curation jobs are characterized by a complex interplay of various skills and knowledge”

UNIX/Linux * Java, PHP, and Perl * HTML and other Web-related markup languages * XML and XSLTRelational databases including MySQL and OracleDesktop productivity softwareAdvanced graphics software

Metadata standards: MARC * Dublin Core * METS * MODS * PREMIS Semantic web, linked data and other standards related to digital preservation, such as ISO 16363 Trusted Digital Repository Checklist

DSpace * Fedora * CONTENTdm * Digital Commons * Archivists’ ToolkitDigital content creation/transformation toolsResearch data analysis tools, such as SPSS, SAS and NvivoVoyager and HorizonDrupal, WordPress, Joomla

Digitization, creating metadata, managing repositories and implementing preservation practices

working knowledge of curation, including various media formats, curation workflows, data management principles, repository architecture, search and retrieval technology, preservation strategies, applicable provisions of copyright laws, and academic/research policies and procedures related to data management.

Project management skills


Oh, just a few simple skills …

Siri, can we do digital curation?

Okay, let’s get started …

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Hire character.Train skill.

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Workflows

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“Standards are like toothbrushes, everybody agrees you should have one, but no one wants to use yours”

Attributed to Joe Croser (variations attributed to Connie Morella)

Challenges Remain

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GETTING HERE

Unrealistic expectations of digital technology to perform miracles – leads to: inability to harness potential benefits (wishful thinking)

Benefits of digitcccccccccal technology have been demonstrated

Benefits of digital technology have been demonstrated

Forward-thinking organizations realize the difficulties and the complexities – use that understanding to develop practical approaches to implementation.

The Hype Cycle

Persistent Archive

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Persistent Archive Workflow Tools





Usage




Artist: Marius Watz


Usage Digital Art



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Digital Curation Technology: JHU Summit, October 2015

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