Event-based archival descriptions

● Urban light by Chris Burden

Issue 1:free text

Free-text

● Requirements– Read/write English (grammar)

posthumouslyposthumously

Free-text

● Requirements– Read/write English (grammar)– Understand terminology

call sheetscall sheets

shootingschedulesshootingschedules

continuityreports

continuityreports

Free-text

● Requirements– Read/write English (grammar)– Understand terminology

– Time

Free-text

● Requirements– Read/write English (grammar)– Understand terminology

–Time

Search engines

● Fetch results fast

Search engines

● Fetch results fast● Keyword dependent● Look for patterns not meanings

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

Handwritten notesregarding the Niddrieas the process sculpture

Originalauthor/document

14/11/1979

Originalauthor/document

Documentphotocopied

14/11/1979 + 1 week

Originalauthor/document

Documentphotocopied

Annotationsadded – new author

14/11/1979 + 1 week + 3 months

Originalauthor/document

Documentphotocopied

Annotationsadded – new author

Other events– later years

14/11/1979 + 1 week + 3 months

Free-text

● Requires:– time– common language and terminology

Issue 2:Description standards

Description standards

● ISAD(G)● Dublin Core● EAD● MARC

● many others

Description standards

● Allow search across different resources

Description standards

Description standards

EADEAD

Description standards

EADEAD

Description standards

Description standards

Description standards

EADEAD

Description standards

DublinCore

DublinCore

Description standards

Description standards

MappingMapping

Description standards

MappingMapping

Description standards

Description standards

Description standards

Researchers

● Process less data● Conclusions less representative

Questions

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?

Recommendation for question 1:

“Understand meaning”

Structured records

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

David SylvesterArchive

David SylvesterArchive

Tate Libraryand Archive

Tate Libraryand Archive

relatingto

relatingto

LolitaLolita

Kirk DouglasArchive

Kirk DouglasArchive

Wisconsin centreFor Film and

Theatre Research

Wisconsin centreFor Film and

Theatre Research

relatingto

relatingto

Spartacus,Paths of GlorySpartacus,

Paths of Glory

● 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

:-(

● 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

:-)

Recommendation for question 2:

“Common terms”

Old news

● Authority records● Controlled vocabularies● Thesauri

Old news

● Authority records● Controlled vocabularies● Thesauri

● Use concepts – not words

Old news

● Authority records● Controlled vocabularies● Thesauri

● Use concepts – not words

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)

Recommendation for question 3:

“Share resources”

Share resources

RDF (Resource Description Framework)

The format everybody can use(even if we do not know about it...)

Share resources

Internal: EADExternal: RDFInternal: EADExternal: RDF

Internal: DCExternal: RDFInternal: DC

External: RDF

Share resources

RDF dataRDF data

RDF dataRDF data

Share resources

RDFapplication

RDFapplication

RDF

Subject(what do we describe?)

RDF

Subject(what do we describe?)

Predicate(which property of subject?)

Predicate(which property of subject?)

RDF

Object(what value of property?)

Subject(what do we describe?)

relates to

RDF

SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive

relates to

RDF

SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive

http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/collections/featured/kirkdouglas/

relates to

RDF

SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive

http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/collections/featured/kirkdouglas/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/

relates to

RDF

SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive

http://www.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/collections/featured/kirkdouglas/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/

or otherauthorityor otherauthorityor otherauthorityor otherauthority

relates to

RDF

SpartacusKirk Douglas Archive

definerelationshipdefine

relationship

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

CIDOC/CRMCIDOC/CRM

InternationalCouncil ofMuseums

InternationalCouncil ofMuseums

ICOM'sInternationalCommittee forDocumentation

ICOM'sInternationalCommittee forDocumentation

ConceptualReferenceModel

ConceptualReferenceModel

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

E12 Production

● P108 has produced: E24 Physical Man-Made Thing

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

Originalauthor/document

Documentphotocopied

Annotationsadded – new author

Other events– later years

14/11/1979 + 1 week + 3 months

productionof original

production of photocopy

prod. of conc. object

Other events– later years

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P149:id

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P14: ca

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P14: carried out byJohn Latham

Evening

News

docid: 1562

RDF

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

Benefit 1: mappingmaintain8 links

maintain8 links

Benefit 1: mapping

CRM

maintain1 link

maintain1 link

Benefit 2: better research tools

UAL dataUAL dataInternetdata

Internetdata

Benefit 2: better research tools

UAL openlinked dataUAL openlinked data

RDF inference

● Which newspaper articles have been annotated by John Latham?

RDF inference

● Which newspaper articles have been annotated by John Latham?

● Which newspaper articles published in Edinburgh have been annotated by John Latham?

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?

Researchers

● Process more data● Conclusions more representative

Summary

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

Summary

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

● Caution: