AKM 2.0 / ALM 2.0

Radionice

AKM11, Poreč

SLAINTE image of the moment

Sharing infrastructure with Flickr and Google Maps

SLAINTE image of the moment

• SLAINTE is the website of the Scottish libraries’ and librarians’ professional bodies (SLIC, CILIPS)

• “Image of the moment” is a new feature introduced in the latest redesign of the website– Website is redesigned every 4-5 years– Keeps it fresh, and exploits new technologies

Image of the moment

• Submission of images invited from members– Editor’s choice– Potential for end-users to submit

• Image can– Record an event– Promote an event– Promote a library or related service

• Image can be– Digital photograph– Screen shot– Logo

Image archive

• Image archive required– For reference to past “moments”– To show images submitted but not selected

• Possibility of creating an image databank and retrieval system in SLAINTE– Expensive and time-consuming

• Or exploit an existing, open, free service– Experiments with Flickr

Flickr

• What other images related to archives, libraries, museums are on Flickr?

• Who submits images?

• Why are images submitted?

• How are images retrieved?

Flickr and other social websites: negative aspects for archives, libraries, museums

• Stuff appears whether we want it to or not– Even if copyright is violated

• Expensive and counter-productive to complain?

• Information may be incomplete, biased, inaccurate

• Social tagging may be misleading, incomplete, inaccurate

• May be unstable and temporary

Flickr and other social websites: positive aspects for archives, libraries, museums

• Free (nearly!), easy-to-use

• Global channel for promoting services

• Engagement with wider range of end-users

• Ability to apply expert tagging– Demonstrate professional skills of knowledge

organisation

Mapping SCONE

Sharing data with Google Maps and OCLC Dewey

SCONE

• Scottish Collections Network• Collection-level descriptions for archives,

libraries and museums in Scotland• Physical location is a key component• Postcode provides a link/map to Google

Maps latitude and longitude measurements (geocodes)

• Google Maps Application Program Interface

Google Maps API

• Written in Javascript

• Standard zoom, pan, map type and search facilities

• Custom overlays– Places– Routes– Boundaries

• SCONE location data output in js format

Is this shape familiar?

Google map of all Scotland’s archives, libraries and museums

Locations of Robert Burns collections in Scotland

Locations of archive, library and museum collections in the Western Isles (Eileanan Siar)

Locations of collections on athletic & outdoor sports & games

Google Maps and other mashups: negative aspects for archives, libraries, museums

• Stuff appears whether we want it to or not– Information may be incomplete, biased,

inaccurate

• Little control over depth of map and satellite coverage, response times, etc.

• Services may be unstable and temporary

• (Meta)data becomes publicly available– Third parties can create competing services

Google Maps and other mashups: positive aspects for archives, libraries, museums

• Free (nearly!), easy-to-use

• Global channel for promoting services

• Engagement with wider range of end-users

• Geographical information systems (maps) are effective, more intuitive retrieval tools for information environments

Wikis

Sharing expertise wherever you are

Some library wikis I know about

• Eprints Application Profile (Dublin Core– Project with UK-wide scope, now ended– Developing into Scholarly Works Application Profile

(SWAP)• DC Scholarly Communication Community

• DCMI/RDA Task Group– Project with international scope, just started– Bringing together 2 international standards

communities• CILIP-BL Committee on AACR (RDA)

– UK-wide standards committee– Constituent of international standards community

Wikis and archives, libraries, museums (1)

• Effective tool for long-distance collaboration

• Can be an official record of outcomes– E.g. like a website

• Can help with the organisation of workflows– Discussion documents, current priorities, etc.

• Low-cost or free

Wikis and archives, libraries, museums (2)

• Need effective manager/driver– To encourage the reluctant contributor

• Unfamiliar with technology and informal methods of collaboration

– To curb the over-enthusiastic contributor• Keep focus on major issues

• Might not be as stable or permanent as a “normal” website– As a “record of activity”

NSDL Registry

Shared infrastructure for vocabulary (authority)

management

NSDL

• National Science Digital Library• Metadata registry “provides services to

developers and consumers of controlled vocabularies and is one of the first production deployments of the RDF-based Semantic Web Community's Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)”

• Non-production but fully-functional sandbox (play area) freely available

RDF/SKOS fragment for the FRBR entity concept of “Item”

RDF/SKOS fragment for the RDA carrier concept “Audio disc”

Metadata registries and SKOS (1)

• SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System)– Basically a means of encoding structured

vocabularies (e.g. thesaurus)

• Mark-up is RDF (Resource Description Framework)– Becoming the syntax of the Semantic Web

• Gives a machine-readable label (URI) to every “concept”

Metadata registries and SKOS (2)

• “Concepts” can be topics (subjects), people, organisations, places, events

• “Concepts” can be metadata attributes– Fields, tags, etc.

• Metadata registries can record both categories– Metadata content and structure

• Metadata relationships can be expressed using Web Ontology Language (OWL)