5. Facts and Figures
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, D.C.
• Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture
Library
• Anthropology Library
• Botany and Horticulture Library
• The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
• Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library
• Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History
6. Facts and Figures
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, D.C. (continued)
• Museum Studies & Reference Library
• National Air and Space Museum Library
• National Museum of American History Library
• National Museum of Natural History Library
• National Postal Museum Library
• National Zoological Park Library
• Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library
• Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art
7. Facts and Figures
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Elsewhere
Suitland, Md.
• Museum Support Center Library
• National Museum of the American Indian Library
Edgewater, Md.
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Library
New York City
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library
Republic of Panama
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Library
8. Facts and Figures
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
African Art History of Science and Technology
African American History and Latino History and Culture
Culture Materials Research
Anthropology Modern and Contemporary Art
American Art Museology
American History Native American History and Culture
Asian and Middle Eastern Art Natural History
Aviation history and Space Flight Postal History
Design and Decorative Arts Tropical Biology
Environmental Management and Trade Literature
Ecology World’s Fair Ephemera
9. What’s So Special?
Public Museum
Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum complex in the
world …
“The Nation’s Attic”
10. “Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge”
Understanding the American
Experience
Valuing World Cultures
Understanding and Sustaining
a Biodiverse Planet
Unlock the Mysteries of the
Universe
11. SIL Mission
(Smithsonian Directive 500)
As the largest and most diverse museum library
in the world, SIL leads the Smithsonian in taking
advantage of the opportunities of the digital
society. SIL provides authoritative information
and creates innovative services and programs for
Smithsonian Institution researchers, scholars and
curators, as well as the general public, to further
their quest for knowledge. Through paper
preservation and digital technologies, SIL ensures
broad and enduring access to the Libraries’
collections for all users.
12. SIL’s Strategic Plan “Focus on Service”
GOAL 1: COLLABORATING ACROSS BOUNDARIES
SIL creates a compelling environment for connecting, collaborating and
exploring across disciplines and information boundaries
GOAL 2: DISCOVERING INFORMATION
SIL enhances and eases the discovery of information in our collections for SI
scholars, researchers, scientists, and the larger world of learners
GOAL 3: CONNECTING WITH USERS
SIL understands and meets user needs, serving users where they live and
work
GOAL 4: BUILDING EXPERTISE
SIL builds expertise on information discovery, navigation and management
GOAL 5: ENABLING OUR MISSION
SIL ensures its success through increased financial strength, effective
administrative support, and organizational excellence
13. Facts and Figures
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Total volumes
> 1.7 million
~50,000 are rare books
~10,000 manuscripts
Trade Catalogs
Dating from the 1800’s
> 500, 000 items
> 30,000 companies
14. • Traditional Library
• Books on Shelves
• Unique materials
• Special Collections (rare and
just special)
• Other Formats
• Traditional Services
• Reference
• Services that turn into
collections
• Digitization
15. SI Libraries Serves
• Curators
• Researchers
• Post-Docs
• Museum
Administrators
• Public
16. Facts and Figures
• 102-106 Smithsonian
Libraries Staff
• 15-17 Souls in Discovery
Services (with contractors)
– Rare Book
– Original
– Maintenance
– Serials
– Acquisitions
17. Integrated Library System
Smithsonian Institution
Research Information
System (SIRIS)
– MARC
– AACR2r
– ISBD
– LC Classification
– LC Subject Headings
18. Access relatedItem
MARC Dublin Core
XMP
METs Linked ISBD Bread, eggs, almond milk
Faceted RDA
LCSH/LCCS
Add hotdogs to grocery list
Feed the cat
XML / RDF
MODS Dewey AACR
FRBR
Pick up dry cleaning
Hierarchical RIS
Citations ONIX
OpenLinkedData
19. IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Data
To Find
To Identify
To Select
To Obtain
To USE
And reuse and
reuse and reuse…
27. MARC
Bread, eggs, almond milk
Make dentist appt.
LCSH/LCCS
Feed the cat
ISBD
AACR
Pick up dry cleaning
28. Discoverable
Bread, eggs, almond milk
Make dentist appt.
Interoperability
Feed the cat
Open Access
Collaboration
Pick up dry cleaning
29. Determining Level of Metadata
What do you have?
What staff do you have?
Who are your users?
Where will it go?
Will it stay there or travel
on and on and on and on
and on and on and on and
on
30. Tools Of the
Trade
Indexes
Reference works
General Topics
Specific Disciplines
Kleines Distillierbuch /Hieronymous Brunschwig.
Strassburg, 8 May 1500.
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32.
33. Index Animalium / Charles Davies Sherborn
“Google of the Natural History Museum”
–Karolyn Shindler The Telegraph, 25 July 2011
Compiled between 1890 –1933,
Index of every living or extinct
animal discovered between 1758
and 1850.
34. My Man Sherborn
• Cataloger at heart
• Created an index that
was useful as soon as
he started
• Index &Bibliography
of relevant texts from
1758 through 1850
39. TEXT TO DATABASE
ID Image ID Page Name & reference
"362382","SIL34_02_24_0193","6101","splendens Turdus, W. E. Leach, Zool. Miscell. II. 1815, 30.”
46. Smithsonian USGS 48,851 Titles
MoBot Cornell 96,031 Volumes
NM, London Academy of Natural Sciences 35,871,629 Pages
Kew Garden Harvard Botany
NYBG AMNH
Cal Academy Field
MBL/WHOI
Harvard/MCZ Internet Archive
66. From: xxx@si.edu
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 2:14:21 PM
To:
Subject: SI Bibliography - Journal - SAAM;
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rogers, Sarah
JF - American Art
TI - The Artist as Cultural Diplomat: John Ferren in Beirut, 1963-64
PY - 2011
VL - 25
IS - 1
SP - 112
EP - 123
SN -
KW - Peer-reviewed
KW - SAAM;
KW - fellow;
U3 - 20111101
ER -
Submitted by: xxx@si.edu
67. From: xxxx@si.edu
Sent:
To:
Subject: SI Bibliography - Chapter - NMAH;
TY - CHAP
A1 - Ruffins, Fath Davis
ED - Karp, Ivan; Kreamer,C.M.; Lavine, S.
T1 - Mythos, Memory, and History: African American
Preservation Efforts 1820-1990.
T2 - Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture
SP - 506
EP - 611
PB - Smithsonian Institution Press
CY - Washington, D.C.
PY - 1992
KW - Peer-reviewed
KW - NMAH;
KW - si-federal;
U3 - 20111116
ER -
Submitted by: xxxx@si.edu
68. From: pilsks@si.edu
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:39 AM
To: Lera, Thomas
Subject: Bibliography Submission
Thank you for submitting the citation for the publication listed below to the Smithsonian
Research Bibliography:
Author: Lera, Thomas
Journal Title: The Confederate Philatelist
Article Title: The Passenger Pigeon Helped the Confederacy
Publication year: 2011
Volume: 56
Issue Number: 2
First Page: 31
Last Page: 33
The data above is *for your information only*. It will be properly formatted for display on
the Smithsonian Research Online website: http://research.si.edu. It may not appear
online for several days. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact
Suzanne Pilsk at (202) 633-1646 or reply to this email message.
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75. Beyond the Traditional
Taxonomic Literature Needs/Requests
• Beyond the Scan
• Beyond the Re-Keyed
• Marking up the data in metadata schemas
76. ★ Linked Open Data – 5 Stars ★
★ Available on the web (whatever
format), but with an open licence
★★ Available as machine-readable
structured data (e.g. excel instead of • Shareable
image scan of a table)
★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary • Extensible
format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)
★★★★ All the above plus, Use open • Re-Usable
standards from W3C (RDF and
SPARQL) to identify things, so that • International
people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link
your data to other people’s data to
provide context
77. Bib record: 9876 Name Authority Record: 65680842
Title: Are hotdogs food?
Author: Pilsk,65680842
Suzanne Heading: Pilsk, Suzanne
Place of Pub: Nashville, TN
5555 Place of Birth: Nashville, TN
5555
LCSH: Cookbooks
Geo Location: 5555
City: Nashville
State: Tennessee
Triple Stores:
9876 Is authored by 65680842
9876 Published in 5555
65680842 was born in 5555
78. Taxonomic Literature 2nd Edition
Taxonomic Literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections
with dates, commentaries and types (second edition)
15 volumes guide to the literature of systematic botany published between
1753 and 1940
Organized by author ~ Citation for the author’s surname
Numbered entries of the author’s publications ~ Suggested short-title &
abbreviation of short-title for use in taxonomic publications
TL2 is a standard by which author’s names and titles should be abbreviated
79. Click to edit the
outline text format
Second Outline
Level
Third Outline
Level
Fourth
Outline
Level
86. Digital Public Library of America
Question to Robert Darnton (director of Harvard University’s library
system):
Will you have librarians?
Answer:
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of
information that is in cyberspace.
~ Q&A “A bookshelf the size of the world: Inside the vision for the largest library in history”
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/07/24/a_bookshelf_the_size_of_the_world/
87. “The worth and importance of the
Institution is not to be estimated by
what it accumulates within the
walls of its building, but by what it
sends forth to the world.”
—Joseph Henry
The Smithsonian Institution’s First Secretary
1852
91. Special Thanks
Thanks to staff at
SI’s SIL Staff, OCIO Staff,
Thomson Reuter's Nigel Robinson,
NMNH, MBL/WHOI Library,
NPM, MoBot, Freer/Sackler, NYBG,
BHL, Gordon Dunsire,
Field Book Project,
Connecting Content Cal Academy of Science,
Many others
92. Links of Interest
Smithsonian Institution Libraries ~ http://www.sil.si.edu
Smithsonian Institution Collection Search Center ~ http://www.collections.si.edu/search/
Smithsonian Research Online ~ http://research.si.edu/
Biodiversity Heritage Library ~ http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Encyclopedia of Life ~ http://www.eol.org/
Index Animalium http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/
W3C Semantic Web Standards ~ http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
Schema.org ~ duh
Linked Data ~ http://linkeddata.org/
Field Book Project ~ http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/
Connecting Content Grant ~ http://research.calacademy.org/library/fieldnotes
Digital Public Library ~ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpla
World Digital Library ~ http://www.wdl.org/en/
Hathi Trust ~ http://www.hathitrust.org/
This presentation ~ http://www.slideshare.net/SCPilsk/
Pronto Pup ~ http://prontopup.net/shoppingcart/
Best Hotdogs ~ http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/food/best-hot-dogs-00000000016358/index.html
93. Smithsonian Institution Libraries
“Providing Access to Collections”
Suzanne C. Pilsk
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
PilskS@si.edu
