From food to buildings and beyond: what happens when a library opens its digital collections to human-computer collaboration

Keynote presentation at Collections as Data 2020: Making Meaning, in Brisbane, Australia.

Transcript

1. hello
2. mauricio giraldo arteaga
6. not a real library scientist
31. access digitization metadata public traditional digital library program
32. access digitization metadata public engagement R+D
33. so you’ve digitized… now what?
34. food
48. nytimes.com/2005/11/01/science/earth/old-menus-provide-clues-about-shifting-seafood-tastes.html chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/A-M-scientist-pores-over-menus-to-analyze-fishing-1671558.php
49. there’s lots of data in the menus
52. OCR result
53. OCR result
54. OCR result
58. menus.nypl.org
59. 1.3 million dishes transcribed from 17.5k menus
64. curatingmenus.org — @katie_rawson and @trevormunoz
65. curatingmenus.org — @katie_rawson and @trevormunoz
66. npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/13/158719677/a-new-york-steakhouse
67. itunes.apple.com/us/app/vintagemenus/id625772478?mt=8
68. @_BadTaste_ by @bibliotechy
69. buildings
83. jennyodell.com/peripheral-landscapes — @the_jennitaur cc: @ElectricObjects
87. “Joe’s Pizza on Carmine” latitude: 40.730592 longitude: -74.002150
88. what if… information about the past was just as accessible?
89. libraries* have the data * and archives, museums, historical societies etc.
93. maps.nypl.org - @tim_waters, @schuyler, @bombayologist, @mattknutzen
96. *this is a simulation. actual process is intensive. consult your mathematician before trying
106. footprint material use type street names address floors name class geo location year skylights backyards
109. bottleneck
111. like OCR for maps
115. buildinginspector.nypl.org
120. footprint material use type street names address floors name class geo location year skylights backyards
121. check YES FIX address color fix *footprints marked as “NO” go to building heaven
122. fix address classify
123. place names
125. 1.1 million+ contributions
127. 1852-1854
128. 1855-1862 1852-1854
129. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
130. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
131. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
132. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
133. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
134. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
135. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
137. spacetime.nypl.org - @bertspaan
138. space
141. 91PH021.338 1938 Gelatin silver print The American Country Woman Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) 5. Woman of the High Plains. "If you die, you're dead. That's all." Texas Panhandle, 1938 Print Size: 13 x 10 3/8 in. (33 x 26.4 cm) Mat / Mount (matted ): 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) Matted. Title from typed notes in cloth-bound binder produced by Lange, "From the files of Dorothea Lange, Final editing, June 1965". See accompanying box for binder. Quote by J.Russell Smith on page 10 [unpaginated]. Negative number: 38258 On recto (signed and dated in ink): Dorothea Lange 1938-1965. On verso (handwritten in ink): negative number 38258; (stamped in blue ink): PROPERTY OF // THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY // PICTURE COLLECTION; (handwritten in felt-tip marker): 5 // in Series
144. “trapped” in an internal system
147. it’s not linked to other resources
148. ©
151. geography as a classification system
152. how can we bring it to life?
158. but is it an Authority File?
161. food, buildings, space as data
162. thanks to my (former) colleagues Willa Armstrong, Shawn Averkamp, Paul Beaudoin, Brian Foo, Josh Hadro, Shana Kimball, Tom Listanti, Matthew Miller, Winnie Quinn, Leonard Richardson, David Riordan, Eric Shows, Ben Vershbow…
164. thank you @mgiraldo