Talk entitled Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web, at National Archives II, January 22, 2013

1. Radically Open Cultural Heritage
Data on the Web
US National Archives
Chevy Chase, MD
January 22, 2013
Jon Voss
Historypin Strategic Partnerships Director
We Are What We Do
jon.voss@wearewhatwedo.org
@jonvoss
@historypin
historypin.com

2. Jon, we archive things so that
people can find them...

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohiouniversitylibraries/3485066089/

5. http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com

8. Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums
#LODLAM
Culture Technology Law

9. Culture Technology Law
New Paradigm
Making This A Reality

10. http://mashupbreakdown.com

11. The DJ in the Archives?

12. http://jameswhetzel.bandcamp.com/track/i-have-a-dream-remake
HT @jessamyn

13. History and Mashup Culture
2010 National Archives Photo Contest
+

14. History and Mashup Culture
NARA mashup on Historypin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37377809@N00/5304492185/in/pool-1633053@N21/

15. Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway

19. http://burritojustice.com/2010/02/10/yesterdays-baseball-is-tomorrows-safeway/

21. http://www.missionmission.org/2012/06/04/122-year-old-gravestone-
washes-up-on-ocean-beach/

22. http://oldsf.org

23. http://pastmapper.com

24. http://shawnclover.com

26. http://pinterest.com/ArtPictureNYPL/new-york-city/

27. http://ghostsofdc.org/

28. Culture Technology Law
Law

29. Going from Tables to Graphs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasjwoods-com/2264301251

30. Going from Tables to Graphs
Nodes and links in a graph

31. Going from Tables to Graphs
As computing power increases, the ability to build
more and more complex graphs becomes a reality.
msulibraries lookbackmaps
msulibraries internetarchive
msulibraries librarycongress
lookbackmaps internetarchive
internetarchive librarycongress

32. Introducing Triples
Nodes and Links
follows
jonvoss USNatArchives
• Quite simply: Subject, Predicate, Object
• gives us the ability to describe entities in a way
that is machine readable

33. What do we know about the person:
Ed Summers (aside from the fact that he rocks)?
Bio: Hacker for
libraries, digital
archaeologist,
pragmatist. bio knows
depiction of knows
http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

34. Triples for machines
• Triples can be serialized in many different ways,
including Resource Description Framework,
RDF/XML, RDFa, N3, Turtle, etc, but they all
describe things in the
<subject><predicate><object> format.
• Of course, we need to be consistent and
predictable for machines to understand us.
• We need to follow simple rules and protocols

35. http://www.flickr.com/photos/oface/3306994117/

36. http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

37. • Consider graph demo: http://civilwardata150.net
• Civil War vocabulary, or a way to link and traverse across datasets
• Regiments, Battles, Places
• Building apps that use this data

38. http://conflicthistory.com

39. http://conflicthistory.com

40. http://conflicthistory.com

43. http://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/

48. http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/streetlifeinlondon

57. http://timwray.net/2011/12/canvas/

58. https://www.smalldemons.com

59. Culture Technology Law
New Tools Enabling Better Sharing

60. Metadata vs. data, assets, digital surrogates, images

61. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/2003653763/

62. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653763/marc/

63. Legal Tools
Open Data
CC BY
CC0
Public Domain Mark
Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Attribution License (ODC-By)
Open Database License (ODC-ODbL)
Open (ish)
CC BY-SA

64. Legal Tools
Published (NOT OPEN) Data
CC BY-NC-ND
CC BY-NC
CC BY-ND
CC BY-NC-SA

65. Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums
#LODLAM
Culture Technology Law

69. You’re not alone...

70. 2010
British Library
Stanford University
University of Michigan
Open Library
CERN
VIAF
ID.LOC.GOV
W3C LLD

72. The Linked Data
cloud as a whole
grew by 300% in
2010...
...whereas the
amount of data
relevant for libraries
grew by nearly
1000%
http://swib.org/swib11/

73. Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums
#LODLAM

74. http://lodlam.net

75. San Francisco, DC, Atlanta, London, Wellington, New York,
Canberra, Melbourne, St. Louis
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77. 2011–2012
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_use_for_data

78. Who’s got next?
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653763/marc/

79. Join the LODLAM movement
resources and community on http://lodlam.net
ask for help on Google Group or #lodlam on Twitter
http://openglam.org
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
Contribute!
Start small, but START

81. Google Refine
http://freeyourmetadata.org

82. Google Refine
http://freeyourmetadata.org

83. vimeo.com/44801709

84. Radically Open Cultural Heritage
Data on the Web
US National Archives
Chevy Chase, MD
January 22, 2013
Jon Voss
Historypin Strategic Partnerships Director
We Are What We Do
jon.voss@wearewhatwedo.org
@jonvoss
@historypin
historypin.com