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Presentation by Meg Travers and Lise Summers at the Museums Australia 2011 conference, "At the Frontier".
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Love notes to the future:Research Data, metadata and
long term re-use
Meg Travers and Lise Summers
Re-use of research data• Old Weather - http://www.oldweather.org/• Mapping Anzacs -
http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/• OldBaileyOnline –
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Value.jsp - • Museum Search -
http://museumsearch.pbworks.com/w/page/21934351/FrontPage
Famous lost data
Video courtesy NASA
Rescanned image (TV) Original SSTV image
Images courtesy Colin Mackellar / www.honeysucklecreek.net
Images courtesy Colin Mackellar / www.honeysucklecreek.net
Washington National Records Centre
Image courtesy NARA
Accessioning form
The metadata on the tapes
Image from emusician.com
Metadata
• Descriptive
• Structural
• Administrative
• Use
• Preservation
Metaharvesting
• Good cataloguing
• But a pointer to your data
• Will not store your data
• Will not save your data
Video data reformatting
Audio data reformatting
General data reformatting
Data file types
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XML data<PLANT>
<COMMON>Bloodroot</COMMON>
<BOTANICAL>Sanguinaria canadensis</BOTANICAL>
<ZONE>4</ZONE>
<LIGHT>Mostly Shady</LIGHT>
<PRICE>$2.44</PRICE>
<AVAILABILITY>031599</AVAILABILITY>
</PLANT>
• Courtesy Erin Kissane. Quote by Jason Scott at NYPL labs, September 2011