Presentation at the UAL "Curating the Archive" symposium (5th of February 2013).

2. ● Urban light by Chris Bu rden

4. Issue 1:
free text

7. Free-text
● Requirements
– Read/write English (grammar)

8. ppoosstthhuummoouussllyy

9. Free-text
● Requirements
– Read/write English (grammar)
– Understand terminology

10. ccaallll sshheeeettss

11. shooting
schedules
shooting
schedules

12. continuity
reports
continuity
reports

13. Free-text
● Requirements
– Read/write English (grammar)
– Understand terminology
– Time

14. Free-text
● Requirements
– Read/write English (grammar)
– Understand terminology
–Time

15. Search engines
● Fetch results fast

16. Search engines
● Fetch results fast
● Keyword dependent
● Look for patterns not meanings

18. Search engines
● Fetch results fast
● Keyword dependent
● Look for patterns not meanings
● Still require time-consuming reading
– Discard irrelevant results
– Decode the information from results

20. Handwritten notes
regarding the Niddrie
as the process
sculpture

21. Original
author/
document
14/11/1979

22. Original
author/
document
Document
photocopied
14/11/1979 + 1 week

23. Original
author/
document
Document
photocopied
Annotations
added – new
author
14/11/1979 + 1 week + 3 months

24. Original
author/
document
Document
photocopied
Annotations
added – new
author
Other events
– later years
14/11/1979 + 1 week + 3 months

25. Free-text
● Requires:
– time
– common language and terminology

26. Issue 2:
Description
standards

31. Description standards
● ISAD(G)
● Dublin Core
● EAD
● MARC
● many others

32. Description standards
● Allow search across different resources

33. Description standards

34. Description standards
EEAADD

35. Description standards
EEAADD

36. Description standards

37. Description standards

38. Description standards
EEAADD

39. Description standards
Dublin
Core
Dublin
Core

40. Description standards

41. Description standards
MMaappppiinngg

42. Description standards
MMaappppiinngg

43. Description standards

44. Description standards

45. Description standards

46. Researchers
● Process less data
● Conclusions less representative

47. Questions

48. Questions
● How can the computer understand the
meaning?
– Save time
– Process more material
– Get more representative results
● How to use common language and
terminology?
● How to share resources easily?

49. Recommendation for
question 1:
“Understand meaning”

50. Structured records
● Isolate ideas and data
– remove grammar
– simplify data: 1 field – 1 idea/1 piece of data

52. David Sylvester
Archive
David Sylvester
Archive

53. Tate Library
and Archive
Tate Library
and Archive

54. relating
to
relating
to

55. LLoolliittaa

56. Kirk Douglas
Archive
Kirk Douglas
Archive

57. Wisconsin centre
For Film and
Theatre Research
Wisconsin centre
For Film and
Theatre Research

58. relating
to
relating
to

59. Spartacus,
Paths of Glory
Spartacus,
Paths of Glory

60. ● Lolita
● Spartacus
● Paths of Glory
● 2001: A Space
Odyssey
● Related to
● Related to
● Related to
● Related to
● David Sylvester
Archive
● Kirk Douglas
Archive
● Kirk Douglas
Archive
● V&A collection

61. :-(

62. ● Lolita
● Spartacus
● Paths of Glory
● 2001: A Space
Odyssey
● Related to
● Related to
● Related to
● Related to
● David Sylvester
Archive
● Kirk Douglas
Archive
● Kirk Douglas
Archive
● V&A collection
:-)

63. Recommendation for
question 2:
“Common terms”

64. Old news
● Authority records
● Controlled vocabularies
● Thesauri

67. Old news
● Authority records
● Controlled vocabularies
● Thesauri
● Use concepts – not words

68. Old news
● Authority records
● Controlled vocabularies
● Thesauri
● Use concepts – not words

69. Concepts - not words
ID: 300069473
Note: Refers broadly to artworks in a variety of styles that incorporate some
aspect of motion, including machines, mobiles, and actual objects in motion.
Orginating between 1913 and 1920 with the works of Marcel Duchamp,
Naum Gabo, and Vladamir Tatlin, the style reached its peak in the 1960s.
Terms:
● Kinetic (style) (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,A)
● Kineticism (C,U,English,AD,U,U)
● Art, Kinetic (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
● Kinetic Art (C,U,LC,English,UF,U,U)
●Motion, Art in (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
●Movement Movement (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
● Kinetische kunst (C,U,Dutch-P,D,U,U)
● Cinético (estilo) (C,U,Spanish-P,D,U,U)

70. Recommendation for
question 3:
“Share resources”

71. Share resources

72. RDF (Resource Description
Framework)
The format everybody can use
(even if we do not know about it...)

73. Share resources
Internal: EAD
External: RDF
Internal: EAD
External: RDF
Internal: DC
External: RDF
Internal: DC
External: RDF

74. Share resources
RRDDFF ddaattaa
RRDDFF ddaattaa

75. Share resources
RDF
application
RDF
application

76. RDF
Subject
(what do we describe?)

77. RDF
Subject
(what do we describe?)
Predicate
(which property of subject?)

78. RDF
Predicate
(which property of subject?)
Object
(what value of property?)
Subject
(what do we describe?)

79. RDF
relates to
Kirk Douglas Archive Spartacus

80. RDF
relates to
Kirk Douglas Archive Spartacus
http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/
collections/featured/kirkdouglas/

81. RDF
relates to
Kirk Douglas Archive Spartacus
http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/
collections/featured/kirkdouglas/
http://www.imdb.com/
title/tt0054331/

82. RDF
relates to
Kirk Douglas Archive Spartacus
http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/
collections/featured/kirkdouglas/
http://www.imdb.com/
title/tt0054331/
or other
authority
or other
authority

83. RDF
relates to
Kirk Douglas Archive Spartacus
define
relationship
define
relationship

84. Jenn Riley, Devin Becker, Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe, Indiana University Libraries, Copyright
2009-2010 Jenn Riley: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

86. CCIDIDOOCC//CCRRMM

88. International
Council of
Museums
International
Council of
Museums

89. ICOM's
International
Committee for
Documentation
ICOM's
International
Committee for
Documentation

90. Conceptual
Reference
Model
Conceptual
Reference
Model

91. E2-Temporal Entity
E4--Period
E5---Event
E7----Activity
E11-----Modification
E12------Production
E79------Part Addition
E13-----Attribute Assignment
E65-----Creation
E63----Beginning of Existence
E12-----Production
E65-----Creation
E64----End of Existence
E77-Persistent Item
E70--Thing
E72---Legal Object
E18----Physical Thing
E24-----Physical Man-Made Thing
E90 ----Symbolic Object
E71---Man-Made Thing
E24----Physical Man-Made Thing
E28----Conceptual Object
E89-----Propositional Object
E30------Right
E73------Information Object
E90-----Symbolic Object
E41------Appellation
E73------Information Object
E55-----Type
E39--Actor
E74---Group
E52-Time-Span
E53-Place
E54-Dimension

92. E12 Production
● P108 has produced: E24 Physical Man-Made
Thing

93. E12 Production
● P108 has produced: E24 Physical Man-Made
Thing
● P14 carried out by: E39 Actor
● P33 used specific technique: E29 Design or
Procedure
● P7 took place at: E53 Place
● P4 has time-span: E52 Time-Span

94. Original
author/
document
Document
photocopied
Annotations
added – new
author
Other events
– later years
14/11/1979 + 1 week + 3 months

95. production
of original
production
of photocopy
prod. of
conc. object
Other events
– later years
P108:has produced
P14: carried out by
P4: has time
span
P4:has time span
P149:identified by
P4:has time
span
P14: carried out by
John Latham
14/11/1979 21/11/1979 14/2/1980
Evening News
docid: 1562

96. RDF
● Keep own systems
● Publish data as CIDOC-CRM RDF

97. Benefit 1: mapping
maintain
8 links
maintain
8 links

98. Benefit 1: mapping
CRM
maintain
1 link
maintain
1 link

99. Benefit 2: better research tools
UUAALL ddaattaa
Internet
data
Internet
data

100. Benefit 2: better research tools
UAL open
linked data
UAL open
linked data

101. RDF inference
● Which newspaper articles have been
annotated by John Latham?

102. RDF inference
● Which newspaper articles have been
annotated by John Latham?
● Which newspaper articles published in
Edinburgh have been annotated by John
Latham?

103. RDF inference
● Which newspaper articles have been annotated
by John Latham?
● Which newspaper articles published in
Edinburgh have been annotated by John
Latham?
● What were the circulation figures of
newspapers which were published in Edinburgh
and which have articles annotated by John
Latham?

104. Researchers
● Process more data
● Conclusions more representative

105. Summary
● Use existing databases
● Modify for structured records (no free text)
● Map database to CRM
● Use a well-documented thesaurus
● Publish as RDF

106. Summary
● Use existing databases
● Modify for structured records (no free text)
● Map database to CRM
● Use a well-documented thesaurus
● Publish as RDF
● Caution: