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Smithsonian Institution Libraries“Metadata Mixing & Matching For

Discovery”

LSC 888 The Special Library/ Information Center

Suzanne C. Pilsk ~ Smithsonian Institution Libraries ~ 2011

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Facts and FiguresSmithsonian 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

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Facts and FiguresSmithsonian 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

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Facts and FiguresSmithsonian Institution Libraries

ElsewhereSuitland, 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

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Facts and FiguresSmithsonian Institution Libraries

African ArtAfrican American History and

CultureAnthropologyAmerican ArtAmerican HistoryAsian and Middle Eastern ArtAviation history and Space FlightDesign and Decorative ArtsEnvironmental Management and

Ecology

History of Science and TechnologyLatino History and CultureMaterials ResearchModern and Contemporary ArtMuseologyNative American History and Culture Natural HistoryPostal HistoryTropical BiologyTrade LiteratureWorld’s Fair Ephemera

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What’s So Special?Public Museum

Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum complex in the world …

“The Nation’s Attic”

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“Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge”

Understanding the American Experience

Valuing World Cultures

Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet

Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe

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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.

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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

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Facts and FiguresSmithsonian 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

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Facts and Figures

• 102-106 Smithsonian Libraries Staff

• 15-17 Souls in Cataloging/Metadata Services (with contractors)

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• Traditional Library

• Traditional Services

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Integrated Library System

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)

– MARC– AACR2r– ISBD– LC Classification– LC Subject Headings

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Traditional Cataloging

• Monographs• Serials• Videos• Microfilm/fiche• Sound Recordings• CD/DVDs• Electronic Resources

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Traditional Cataloging

• OCLC

• Program for Cooperative Cataloging– NACO– SACO– BIBCO

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SI Libraries Serves

• Curators• Researchers• Post-Docs• Museum Administrators• Public

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IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Data

To Find

To Identify

To Select

To Obtain

To USEAnd reuse and reuse and reuse…

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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

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How to make THIS into 1’s and 0’s

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Will they find it?

If you digitize it …

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Search Gone BAD!

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Metadata

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Metadata – failure to serve

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Metadata: MARC

MARC

110 Oscar Mayer & Co.650 Frankfurters

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Metadata

Dublin Core

Creator:Oscar Mayer & Co.

Subject: Frankfurters

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02761nam 2200469 4500001000700000005001700007008004100024010002300065019001300088035001400101035002300115040006100138049002700199050001500226100004200241245019300283260008300476300001700559504033500576505015400911590010901065590009601174650002601270945002101296945007301317945003101390945004801421945004801469945004701517945007901564945004401643945004601687945004801733945007601781945004401857945005101901945005101952945007102003945009002074945009602164945003102260 459797 20050131154400.0 731129m19021933enk b 000 0 lat c ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑aagr03000069 //r582 a14018362 aABY6485LB a(OCoLC)ocm00751549 aU.S. Dept. of ‑ ‑ ‑ ‑Agr. Libr. cRIU dOCL dCHS dSER dSMI dWaOLN aSMI$ aSMIM aSMIE aSMIB 00 aQL354 b.S5 1 ‑ ‑ ‑aOscar Mayer & Co. 10 aPronto pup: bhot dogs hamburgers/ ca Oscar Mayer and Company. ‑ ‑ aNew Orleans, La. : bBourbon Street Foods, c2000.

Metadata: Real MARC – Still failure to serve

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Metadata: MARCXML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd">

<record><leader>02761nam a2200469 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">459797</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20050131154400.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">731129m19021933enk b 000 0 lat

c</controlfield><datafield tag="010" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">agr03000069 //r582</subfield></datafield>

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MARC

LCSH/LCCS

ISBDFeed the cat

Pick up dry cleaning

Bread, eggs, almond milk

Make dentist appt.

AACR

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MARC

AACR

LCSH/LCCS

ISBD

Feed the cat

Pick up dry cleaning

MODSXML / RDF

Dublin Core

ONIX

METs Linked

TEI

FRBR

Access

Hierarchical

Faceted

relatedItem

Bread, eggs, almond milk

Add hotdogs to grocery list

Dewey

XMP

RDA

OpenLinkedData

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Discoverable

Interoperability

Open AccessFeed the cat

Pick up dry cleaning

Bread, eggs, almond milk

Make dentist appt.

Collaboration

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Beyond the Traditional

Taxonomic Literature Needs/Requests

• Beyond the Scan • Beyond the Re-Keyed • Marking up the data in metadata schemas

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The BHL Portal is not a library catalog

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BHL Stats

• > 34.5 million pages• > 92,000 volumes

– Avg 1.25” spine width– 1.8mi / 2.9km of shelving…and growing daily

Usage • ~ 4 million page views a year• 400,000 unique visitors a year

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Kleines Distillierbuch /Hieronymous Brunschwig. Strassburg, 8 May 1500.

Tools Of the Trade

Indexes ~ Reference works

General Topics

Specific Disciplines

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Index Animalium / Charles Davies Sherborn

Compiled between 1890 –1933, Index of every living or extinct animal discovered between 1758 and 1850.

“Google of the Natural History Museum” –Karolyn Shindler The Telegraph, 25 July 2011

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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

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…Names…Index Animalium’s Citation: albimanus Delphinus, T. R. Peale in

Wilkes, Expl. Exped. VIII. 1848, 33

Referring to page 33 of volume 8 of the “Narrative of the United States exploring expedition” by Charles Wilkes published in 1848 but the Delphinus albimanus was named by T. R. Peale.

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Taxonomic Literature 2nd EditionTaxonomic 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

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TL2

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Usable ~ Re-Usable

<Author><Name>Hahn, Gotthold (fl. 1875-

1911), German cryptogamist at Gera. (G. Hahn).</Name>

<Title><Number>2264.</Number> <Full_Title> <br /> Der Pilz-Sammler oder Anleilung zur

Kenntnis der wichtigsten Pilze Deutschlands und <…>

</Full_Title>

<Short_Title>(Pilz-Samml.).</Short_Title>

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★ 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 image scan of a table)

★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)

★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff

★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context

• Shareable• Extensible• Re-Usable• International

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Title: Are hotdogs food?

Author: Pilsk, Suzanne

Place of Pub: Nashville, TN

LCSH: Plants

Name Authority Record: 65680842

Heading: Pilsk, Suzanne

Place of Birth:

65680842

Bib record: 9876

City: NashvilleState: Tennessee

5555

5555

Geo Location:

5555 Nashville, TN

9876 Is authored by 65680842

9876 Published in 5555

65680842 was born in 5555

Triple Stores:

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Title: Are hotdogs food?

Author:

Place of Pub:

LCSH: Plants

Name Authority Record: 65680842

Heading: Pilsk, Suzanne

Place of Birth:

65680842

Bib record: 9876

City: NashvilleState: Tennessee

5555

5555

Geo Location:

5555

9876 Is authored by 65680842

9876 Published in 5555

65680842 was born in 5555

Triple Stores:

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PT JAU Penev, L Stoev, P Kress, WJ Knapp, S Erwin, TAF Penev, L. Stoev, P. Kress, W. J. Knapp, S. Erwin, T.TI Cybertaxonomy, semantic markup and semantic

enhancements: The PhytoKeys and ZooKeys experienceSO SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANYLA EnglishDT Meeting Abstract

C1 [Penev, L.; Stoev, P.] Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria. [Kress, W. J.; Erwin, T.] Smithsonian Inst, Washington, DC 20560 USA. [Knapp, S.] Nat Hist Museum, London, England.NR 0TC 0PU ELSEVIER SCIENCE BVPI AMSTERDAMPA PO BOX 211, 1000 AE AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDSSN 0254-6299J9 S AFR J BOTJI S. Afr. J. Bot.PD APRPY 2011VL 77IS 2BP 560EP 560PG 1SC Plant SciencesGA 772MIUT ISI:000291237600181ER

RIS

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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/

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“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 HenryThe Smithsonian Institution’s First Secretary

1852

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Credits

Thanks to staff at SI NMAI SIL

NMNH MBL/WHOI LibraryNPM MoBot

Freer/Sackler NYBGBHL SIOCIO

Gordon Dunsire

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Links of InterestSmithsonian 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/

IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records ~ http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/functional-requirements-for-bibliographic-records

Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA ~ http://www.rda-jsc.org/index.htmlW3C Semantic Web Standards ~ http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/Schema.org ~ duhLinked Data ~ http://linkeddata.org/

Digital Public Library ~ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dplaWorld Digital Library ~ http://www.wdl.org/en/

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

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Smithsonian Institution Libraries “Metadata Mixing & Matching For

Discovery”

Suzanne C. Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries

[email protected]