Slides describing the Media Ecology Project and how it connects software like MediaThread and Scalar to media archives. This deck is abbreviated because much of our talk at the LiME workshop was a live demo of onomy.org . A longer description of MEP is available at https://vimeo.com/79333635 , and a previously recorded demo of onomy.org is available at https://vimeo.com/85468645 .

1. Using Linked Data
to Support Distributed Analysis
of Visual Culture
John Bell • john.p.bell@maine.edu
Mark J Williams • mark.j.williams@dartmouth.edu

2. WHAT IS MEP?

3. CURRENT MODEL
• User clicks MediaThread bookmarklet
on Library of Congress video
• MediaThread bookmarklet scrapes
metadata from Library of Congress
and stores it in MediaThread’s local
database

4. SIDELOADED METADATA
• MediaThread sends a second request
to MEP for any metadata about the
video, then adds the result to its
database
• The user never knows MEP was
queried

5. ADDED METADATA
• User adds annotations, commentary,
tags, etc. to the video in MediaThread
• When the user publishes their work,
MediaThread sends the user’s new
metadata to MEP

6. ADDED METADATA
• The user’s metadata is added to what
MEP knows about the video and what
it sends to MediaThread next time
that video is loaded
• If the Library of Congress can accept
the new metadata, MEP will send it
back to enhance the original source’s
records

7. COMMENTARY
Commentary
A woman can be seen rolling out a pie crust in the center of a table on a set of a kitchen.A pie is cooling
on the sideboard.As the woman continues her work, the door opens and a big man dressed as a tattered
tramp enters and gestures a request for food.The woman replies by hitting him with a rolling pin, knocking
him to the floor.
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://mep.dartmouth.edu/users/john-bell/annotation">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://scalar.usc.edu/2012/01/scalar-ns#Composite"/>
<dcterms:title>TheTramp and the Muscular Cook</dcterms:title>
<dcterms:description></dcterms:description>
<sioc:content> A woman can be seen rolling out a pie crust in the center of a table on a set of a kitchen.A pie is cooling on
the sideboard.As the woman continues her work, the door opens and a big man dressed as a tattered tramp
enters and gestures a request for food.The woman replies by hitting him with a rolling pin, knocking him to
the floor.
</sioc:content>
<dcterms:isVersionOf rdf:resource="http://mep.dartmouth.edu/users/john-bell/annotation.0"/>
</rdf:Description>

8. PROVENANCE ANDTRUST
Users
*Kemp Niver, Motion Pictures from the Library of Congress Paper Print Collection 1894-1912, 1967
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://mep.dartmouth.edu/user/ur1617546/">
<foaf:name>Kemp Niver</foaf:name>
<foaf:mbox_sha1sum>b56d0fa3ea6bc6760d50c08918ffbcdf623cf716</foaf:mbox_sha1sum>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://mep.dartmouth.edu/user/ur1617546/"/>
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person"/>
</rdf:Description>

9. CONTROLLEDVOCABULARIES
Tagging
Mutoscope, silent, rolling pin
<rdf:Description rdf:nodeID="tag-Mutoscope">
<foaf:name>Mutoscope</foaf:name>
<foaf:page rdf:resource=“http://onomy.org/published/12/term/4"/>
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/SemanticTag"/>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:nodeID="tag-rolling-pin">
<foaf:name>rolling pin</foaf:name>
<foaf:page rdf:resource=“http://onomy.org/published/298/term/64“/>
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/SemanticTag"/>
</rdf:Description>

10. ONOMY.ORG