Cheeseburgers With EverythingContext, Content, and Connections in Archival Description

Mark A. MatienzoNYPL Labs

The New York Public Library

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An exercise

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Ask the person next to you:

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“What is more important: context or content?”

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Why “or”?

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Why not “everything”?Context and content

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Credit: chopsueyphoto

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Everything is deeply intertwingled

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Ted Nelson

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Everything is miscellaneous

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David Weinberger

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Everything is metadata

David Weinberger

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Everything is messy

David Weinberger

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Why not “everything”?Metadata and data

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Everything ain’t done

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Searching

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Feedback

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Relationships

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UK Archival Thesaurus

Credit: World Wide Web Consortium

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Text

Credit: Raf Guns, Universiteit Antwerpen

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Credit: Pete Reed

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Integration

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Rethinking data models

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Understanding users

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Thank You

• mark@matienzo.org

• http://matienzo.org/

Claes Oldenburg, “Two Cheeseburgers With Everything”