Our Marathon Presentation at DH Data Curation Workshop
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Presentation of Our Marathon (as a case study as part of a Digital Humanities Data Curation Workshop held at Northeastern University in Boston, MA (May 1, 2014). http://www.dhcuration.org/institute/schedule/
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Our Marathon Presentation at DH Data Curation Workshop
- 1. Our Marathon:The Boston Bombing Digital Archive DH Data Curation Workshop May 1, 2014 facebook.com/OurMarathon www.northeastern.edu/marathon @OurMarathon
- 2. TELL AWIDE RANGE OF STORIES
- 3. “NO STORY ISTOO SMALL”
- 4. BUILD A LASTING COMMUNITY MEMORIAL
- 6. AUDIENCES • Regional: Boston, MA residents directly and indirectly affected by these events • More broadly, a “general” audience of anyone interested in these events • Researchers and Scholars: interest in preserving items / files and creating / preserving metadata
- 7. BUILDING OUR MARATHON 4,700+ items Boston City Archives material 289 stories from the Globe Lab 307 memes (image macros) 40 oral histories (WBUR) raw news footage (WCVB-TV)
- 8. WBUR ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
- 9. BOSTON CITY ARCHIVES COLLECTION
- 10. OMEKA (“WORDPRESS FOR MUSEUMS”)
- 11. HOWWE’RE USING OMEKA • Dublin Core Metadata (currently Simple; transitioning to Extended Dublin Core imminently) • ModifiedContribution Plugin: Crowdsourced contributions submit ItemType Metadata • Geotagging Items • Tagging Items (Search Functionality / Organization)
- 12. KINDS OF ITEMS INTHE ARCHIVE • “Born Digital” Material (photos, text, memes, screencaps) • Scanned / Digitized Items (BCA Items, Boston Medical Center Items) • Modified Items (redacted files, edited audio files)
- 13. SOME ITEMS / FILETYPES INTHE ARCHIVE • BCA Items (Hi-Res Scans:TIF files; JPEG Copies) • Web Sites (Archive-It /The InternetArchive) • Oral History Audio Files: .wav and .mp3 • Crowdsourced contributions: variety • Social media files: screencaps
- 17. Crowdsourcing Challenges of “Born Digital” Content • PerceivedValue By Contributor • Copyright Issues and Social Media • Preservation Challenges • MetadataChallenges
- 18. DUBLIN CORE METADATA FIELDS • Title • Description • Source • Date • Rights • Language
- 19. GEOTAGGING
- 20. TAGS
- 21. LONG-TERM PRESERVATION PLANS • Northeastern’s Libraries (Archives & Special Collection) is final home of Our Marathon items • Items Public NowWill Be Public InThe Future • “PlannedObsolescence” (Home Page / Site) • Five year position (Basic Monitoring of Archive)
- 22. SHORT-TERM CHALLENGES • What MetadataCleanup to Do Now (BCA Items, Public Submissions) • HowTo Make Content More Accessible (Tags, Maps) • Social Media Content (Tweets)
- 23. SOME LONG-TERM CHALLENGES • Institutional Memory of Project (Documentation of Methodologies, Meta-Archive) • When to phase out web site / “ShareYour Story” Plugin • When to make sensitive material public • Approval Process for Researchers / Scholars
Editor's Notes
- Not just “newsworthy” stories, but what we’re trying to collect are the stories about everyday people being impacted by this event
- The future of the physical artifacts; the role of the website as a kind of memorial (and this goal will often determine what we make public on the site)
- Ephemeral digital artifacts
- What’s in therenow
- Adapting Omeka through plug-ins; New tools, technical
- Metadata