Cultural Heritage Information Dashboards
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The document discusses the limitations of conventional text-based displays in presenting vast cultural heritage collections and emphasizes the need for more effective visualizations, such as dashboards. It highlights initiatives like the Visible Archives Project and tools like Museum Pipes, which help aggregate and normalize metadata for better accessibility and visualization of collections. The authors underscore the importance of improving metadata quality to enhance user experience in navigating digital heritage resources.
Cultural Heritage Information Dashboards
- 1. Cultural Heritage Information Dashboards Conference 2010 Richard Urban Michael B. Twidale University of Illinois Piotr Adamczyk Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 2. Conventional text-based displays are unable to offer us any overall impressions of the millions of items contained in modern collections….Searching the collections is something like wandering through narrow paths in a forest .
- 3. what we need is a map Mitchell Whitelaw Visible Archives Project
- 4. Currently available digital cultural heritage collections are just the tip of the iceberg.
- 5. Millions more are waiting to be Digitized
- 12. Early Sketches
- 19. Museum Pipes
- 20. Museum Pipes Make small adjustments on data as it flows through different modules
- 25. Pipes Aggregator Find all of the object related information available on the web, anywhere.
- 26. Museum Pipes
- 30. Visualization quality depends on metadata quality Need aggressive normalization of anything you want to visualize. Are these better visualizations of the metadata – or the collections themselves?
- 32. Even normalized data needs to be translated for use in different services. JSON, CSV, RSS, etc.
- 33. From this space…
- 34. … .To this space
- 35. Image Credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonianlibraries/4312515246/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfly/154053611 / Quote from Mitchell Whitelaw The Visible Archive Project http://visiblearchive.blogspot.com http ://www.flickr.com/photos/leoffreitas/332360959 / http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/2867425266/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/musebrarian/3693485492/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/21843970@N00/4207517333/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/3762792170/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178354733/ Workers assembling dashboards for automobiles in an unidentified factory. Courtesy University of Southern California. Libraries http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/assetserver/controller/view/CHS-33163 http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/413575764/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/rxmflickr/4102530508/ http ://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/359647981/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/coconino/1426568341/ http://library.clevelandart.org/focus/200807.php Portions of this research funded by :
Editor's Notes
- #34: Need to continue user-centered research for audience not familiar with seeing collections in visual ways. What else to visualize How to visualize it.