Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President, E-Everything: Putting It All Together November 2010
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Performing Arts, Drama, and Film
World Literature
Women’s History
Religion
CounselingMusic
Social and Cultural History
Sociology
Black Studies
American Civil War
Newsletters
Journals
Monographs
Textbooks
Academic Tools
External Publishers Free Websites
Lay Tools
A&I Dbs
Video
Integration is unavoidable
Loosely Held Tightly Held
Free Websites
Loosely integrated
Tightlyintegrated
Refuse to License
License widely
License widelyand be a Licensor
• A cataloging problem– No common agreement as to terms– No common agreement as to level of granularity
• A linking problem– Some successes in journals
• A financial problem– Few models to monetize links– It’s expensive to do this properly
• Discovery of the best, rarest, the most unique items remains elusive
Discovery
Granularity of tagging
Search Precision
Ease of Integration
Hi
Lo Hi
Narrowere.g. Cirrus
Broade.g. Weather
Less Broade.g. Clouds
Narroweste.g. Cirrus in AZ
Granularity of results
Search Precision
Ease of Integration
Hi
Lo Hi
Sub-ChapterTrack, Poem,
Article, Chapter,Track
Book, Journal,Series
Database
Discovery
Book descriptors, ISBNs, ONYX
Media DescriptorsAlbums, DVDs
Smaller units
Semantic tags
Book descriptors, ISBNs, ONYX
Journal DescriptorsArticle Citations, DOI
Media DescriptorsAlbums, DVDs
Smaller units
Semantic tags
Search Tool Target
Easy
Hard
Journal DescriptorsArticle Citations, DOI
‘Semantic’ Indexing
Collection
Series
Book or Volume
Chapter
Page
Word
Where ?
When ?
What ?
Who ?Traditio
nal indexing >
‘Semantic’ indexing >
Traditional vs. Semantic Indexing
Traditional Indexing Semantic Indexing
General History Drama Religion
What? Article, Book Event Scene Passage
Who? Author Participants Characters Author
Where? Where published Where occurred Where set -
When? When published When it happened When set When written
• Give me articles from journal xxx prior to 1990
• Give me documents that discuss battles where more than 100 people were killed?
• Give me all scenes set before 1850 that portray lynching?
• Which authors cite Genesis most frequently?
The ‘real’ world
Play
Author
Production Stills
Playbills
ProductionVenueDirecto
r
Lighting
Set Designer
s
Theater
Performance
Location
Production Company
Producer
Texts
Criticism
Cast List
Performers
Posters
Ephemera
Scenes
ActsCharacters
Dramatis Personae
The virtual world…
Author
Birth dateDeath dateBirth PlaceDeath PlaceNationalityOccupationAwards(38 fields)
Theater
DistrictLocationCapacityStyleEtc…(18 fields)
Company
NameProductionsPerformersEtc…(14 fields)
ProductionDirectorTheaterCast# of Perfs.LightingCostumesEtc…(47 fields)
Characters
PlaysAgeAuthorPerformerEtc…(30 fields)
Scenes
WhereWhenSettingSubjectEtc…(41 fields)
Resources
PlayDirectorTheaterProduction Co.CharacterSceneEtc…(45 fields)
Texts
KeywordAuthorDate WrittenDate PublishedProduction(67 fields)
Give me scenes about AIDS written by South African authors in the past 5 years….
• More than a way to answer questions• A framework by which users can be guided to
understand, explore, discover and learn.• A route-map to guide users through data - saving time
and effort.• Delivers answers that cannot be asked elsewhere
• Facilitates discovery within the discipline
Semantic Indexing…
Discovery
Book descriptors, ISBNs, ONYX
Media DescriptorsAlbums, DVDs
Smaller units
Semantic tags
Book descriptors, ISBNs, ONYX
Journal DescriptorsArticle Citations, DOI
Media DescriptorsAlbums, DVDs
Smaller units
Semantic tags
Search Tool Target Easy
Hard
Journal DescriptorsArticle Citations, DOI
Links as the defining value added
•Links document intellectual pathways through data
• Basic traffic enhancer
• Allow independent annotation of scholarship
• Facilitate discovery
• Confer authority
• Prevent duplication of indexing, content and commentary
• ‘Links are intrinsically bidirectional’ (Ted Nelson)
Building discovery…
Unhelpful
•Legal warnings not to link
•Changing links constantly
•Disabling links
•No permanent URLs
•No crawling
•Randomly changing URLs
•Insisting on one interface and one access point
•Unattached pages
Helpful
•Citations visible to the outside world
•Permanent URLs
•RSS feeds
•OpenURL
•Design for multiple interfaces
•Open to crawling
•Published APIs
•Welcome linking
•Ask others to do the same
No silos!Search via library catalog
(direct or federated)
OpenURL links directly to Alexander
Street content
OpenURL links
directly toother
databasesSearch the web
Search the library catalog
e.g. RILM,Grove Music
Online
Search via Alexander Street interface
Newsletters
Journals
Monographs
Textbooks
Academic Tools
External Publishers Free Websites
Lay Tools