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Smithsonian Institution Libraries Providing Access to Collections
LSC 603
Special Collections
Suzanne C. Pilsk ~ Smithsonian Institution Libraries ~ 2011
Smithsonian Institution
Facts and Figures Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, D.C. • Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture
Library
• Anthropology Library
• Botany and Horticulture Library
• The Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
• Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library
• Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History
Facts and Figures Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, D.C. (continued) • Museum Studies & Reference Library
• National Air and Space Museum Library
• National Museum of American History Library
• National Museum of Natural History Library
• National Postal Museum Library
• National Zoological Park Library
• Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library
• Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art
Facts and Figures Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Elsewhere Suitland, Md.
• Museum Support Center Library
• National Museum of the American Indian Library
Edgewater, Md.
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Library
New York City
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library
Republic of Panama
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Library
Facts and Figures Smithsonian Institution Libraries
African Art
African American History and Culture
Anthropology
American Art
American History
Asian and Middle Eastern Art
Aviation history and Space Flight
Design and Decorative Arts
Environmental Management and Ecology
History of Science and Technology
Latino History and Culture
Materials Research
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museology
Native American History and Culture
Natural History
Postal History
Tropical Biology
Trade Literature
World’s Fair Ephemera
What’s So Special?
Public Museum
Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum complex in the world …
“The Nation’s Attic”
“Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge”
Understanding the American Experience
Valuing World Cultures
Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet
Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe
SIL Mission (Smithsonian Directive 500)
As the largest and most diverse museum library in the world, SIL leads the Smithsonian in taking advantage of the opportunities of the digital society. SIL provides authoritative information and creates innovative services and programs for Smithsonian Institution researchers, scholars and curators, as well as the general public, to further their quest for knowledge. Through paper preservation and digital technologies, SIL ensures broad and enduring access to the Libraries’ collections for all users.
SIL’s Strategic Plan “Focus on Service”
GOAL 1: COLLABORATING ACROSS BOUNDARIES
SIL creates a compelling environment for connecting, collaborating and
exploring across disciplines and information boundaries
GOAL 2: DISCOVERING INFORMATION
SIL enhances and eases the discovery of information in our collections for SI
scholars, researchers, scientists, and the larger world of learners
GOAL 3: CONNECTING WITH USERS
SIL understands and meets user needs, serving users where they live and
work
GOAL 4: BUILDING EXPERTISE
SIL builds expertise on information discovery, navigation and management
GOAL 5: ENABLING OUR MISSION
SIL ensures its success through increased financial strength, effective
administrative support, and organizational excellence
Facts and Figures Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Total volumes
> 1.7 million
~50,000 are rare books
~10,000 manuscripts
Trade Catalogs
Dating from the 1800’s
> 500, 000 items
> 30,000 companies
• Traditional Library • Books on Shelves
• Unique materials
• Special Collections (rare and just special)
• Other Formats
• Traditional Services • Reference
• Services that turn into collections
• Digitization
SI Libraries Serves
• Curators
• Researchers
• Post-Docs
• Museum Administrators
• Public
Facts and Figures
• 102-106 Smithsonian Libraries Staff
• 15-17 Souls in Discovery Services (with contractors)
– Rare Book
– Original
– Maintenance
– Serials
– Acquisitions
Integrated Library System
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)
– MARC
– AACR2r
– ISBD
– LC Classification
– LC Subject Headings
MARC
AACR
LCSH/LCCS
ISBD
Feed the cat
Pick up dry cleaning
MODS XML / RDF
Dublin Core
ONIX
METs Linked
RIS
FRBR
Access
Hierarchical
Citations
Faceted
relatedItem
Bread, eggs, almond milk
Add hotdogs to grocery list
Dewey
XMP
RDA
OpenLinkedData
IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Data
To Find To Identify To Select To Obtain To USE
And reuse and reuse and reuse…
Metadata
Metadata – failure to serve
Metadata: MARC
MARC
110 Oscar Mayer & Co.
650 Frankfurters
Metadata
Dublin Core
Creator:
Oscar Mayer & Co.
Subject:
Frankfurters
02761nam 2200469 4500001000700000005001700007008004100024010002300065019001300088035001400101035002300115040006100138049002700199050001500226100004200241245019300283260008300476300001700559504033500576505015400911590010901065590009601174650002601270945002101296945007301317945003101390945004801421945004801469945004701517945007901564945004401643945004601687945004801733945007601781945004401857945005101901945005101952945007102003945009002074945009602164945003102260-459797-20050131154400.0-731129m19021933enk b 000 0 lat c- aagr03000069 //r582- a14018362- aABY6485LB- a(OCoLC)ocm00751549- aU.S. Dept. of Agr. Libr.cRIUdOCLdCHSdSERdSMIdWaOLN- aSMI$aSMIMaSMIEaSMIB-00aQL354b.S5-1 aOscar Mayer & Co.-10aPronto pup:bhot dogs hamburgers/ca Oscar Mayer and Company.- aNew Orleans, La. :bBourbon Street Foods,c2000.
Metadata: Real MARC – Still failure to serve
Metadata: MARCXML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd">
<record><leader>02761nam a2200469 4500</leader>
<controlfield tag="001">459797</controlfield>
<controlfield tag="005">20050131154400.0</controlfield>
<controlfield tag="008">731129m19021933enk b 000 0 lat c</controlfield>
<datafield tag="010" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
<subfield code="a">agr03000069 //r582</subfield>
</datafield>
MARC
LCSH/LCCS
ISBD Feed the cat
Pick up dry cleaning
Bread, eggs, almond milk
Make dentist appt.
AACR
Discoverable
Interoperability
Open Access Feed the cat
Pick up dry cleaning
Bread, eggs, almond milk
Make dentist appt.
Collaboration
Determining Level of Metadata
What do you have?
What staff do you have?
Who are your users?
Where will it go?
Will it stay there or travel on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on
Kleines Distillierbuch /Hieronymous Brunschwig. Strassburg, 8 May 1500.
Tools Of the Trade
Indexes Reference works General Topics Specific Disciplines
Index Animalium / Charles Davies Sherborn
Compiled between 1890 –1933, Index of every living or extinct animal discovered between 1758 and 1850.
“Google of the Natural History Museum” –Karolyn Shindler The Telegraph, 25 July 2011
My Man Sherborn
• Cataloger at heart
• Created an index that was useful as soon as he started
• Index &Bibliography of relevant texts from 1758 through 1850
Bibliography = Metadata
TEXT TO DATABASE
"362382","SIL34_02_24_0193","6101","splendens Turdus, W. E. Leach, Zool. Miscell. II. 1815, 30.”
ID Image ID Page Name & reference
Data Into Research Tools
Turdus splendens
How to make THIS into 1’s and 0’s
Will they find it?
If you digitize it …
Search Gone BAD!
Smithsonian
MoBot
NM, London
Kew Garden
NYBG
Cal Academy
MBL/WHOI
Harvard/MCZ
USGS
Cornell
Academy of Natural Sciences
Harvard Botany
AMNH
Field
Internet Archive
48,851 Titles
96,031 Volumes
35,871,629 Pages
Data Into Research Tools
Turdus splendens
Making Connections
Not Recreating Traditional Catalog
From: xxx@si.edu
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 2:14:21 PM
To:
Subject: SI Bibliography - Journal - SAAM;
TY - JOUR
A1 - Rogers, Sarah
JF - American Art
TI - The Artist as Cultural Diplomat: John Ferren in Beirut, 1963-64
PY - 2011
VL - 25
IS - 1
SP - 112
EP - 123
SN -
KW - Peer-reviewed
KW - SAAM;
KW - fellow;
U3 - 20111101
ER -
Submitted by: xxx@si.edu
From: xxxx@si.edu
Sent:
To:
Subject: SI Bibliography - Chapter - NMAH;
TY - CHAP
A1 - Ruffins, Fath Davis
ED - Karp, Ivan; Kreamer,C.M.; Lavine, S.
T1 - Mythos, Memory, and History: African American
Preservation Efforts 1820-1990.
T2 - Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture
SP - 506
EP - 611
PB - Smithsonian Institution Press
CY - Washington, D.C.
PY - 1992
KW - Peer-reviewed
KW - NMAH;
KW - si-federal;
U3 - 20111116
ER -
Submitted by: xxxx@si.edu
From: pilsks@si.edu
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:39 AM
To: Lera, Thomas
Subject: Bibliography Submission
Thank you for submitting the citation for the publication listed below to the Smithsonian
Research Bibliography:
Author: Lera, Thomas
Journal Title: The Confederate Philatelist
Article Title: The Passenger Pigeon Helped the Confederacy
Publication year: 2011
Volume: 56
Issue Number: 2
First Page: 31
Last Page: 33
The data above is *for your information only*. It will be properly formatted for display on
the Smithsonian Research Online website: http://research.si.edu. It may not appear
online for several days. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact
Suzanne Pilsk at (202) 633-1646 or reply to this email message.
Beyond the Traditional
Taxonomic Literature Needs/Requests
• Beyond the Scan
• Beyond the Re-Keyed
• Marking up the data in metadata schemas
★ Linked Open Data – 5 Stars ★
★ Available on the web (whatever format), but with an open licence
★★ Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table)
★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel)
★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff
★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context
• Shareable
• Extensible
• Re-Usable
• International
Title: Are hotdogs food?
Author: Pilsk, Suzanne
Place of Pub: Nashville, TN
LCSH: Cookbooks
Name Authority Record: 65680842
Heading: Pilsk, Suzanne
Place of Birth:
65680842
Bib record: 9876
City: Nashville
State: Tennessee
5555
5555
Geo Location:
5555 Nashville, TN
9876 Is authored by 65680842
9876 Published in 5555
65680842 was born in 5555
Triple Stores:
Taxonomic Literature 2nd Edition
Taxonomic Literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (second edition)
15 volumes guide to the literature of systematic botany published between
1753 and 1940
Organized by author ~ Citation for the author’s surname
Numbered entries of the author’s publications ~ Suggested short-title & abbreviation of short-title for use in taxonomic publications
TL2 is a standard by which author’s names and titles should be abbreviated
Click to edit the outline text format
Second Outline Level
Third Outline Level
Fourth Outline Level
Fifth
http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
Digital Public Library of America
Question to Robert Darnton (director of Harvard University’s library system): Will you have librarians? Answer:
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
~ Q&A “A bookshelf the size of the world: Inside the vision for the largest library in history” http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/07/24/a_bookshelf_the_size_of_the_world/
“The worth and importance of the Institution is not to be estimated by what it accumulates within the walls of its building, but by what it sends forth to the world.”
—Joseph Henry
The Smithsonian Institution’s First Secretary
1852
Future
Special Thanks
Thanks to staff at
SI’s SIL Staff, OCIO Staff,
Thomson Reuter's Nigel Robinson,
NMNH, MBL/WHOI Library,
NPM, MoBot, Freer/Sackler, NYBG,
BHL, Gordon Dunsire,
Field Book Project,
Connecting Content Cal Academy of Science,
Many others
Links of Interest
Smithsonian Institution Libraries ~ http://www.sil.si.edu
Smithsonian Institution Collection Search Center ~ http://www.collections.si.edu/search/
Smithsonian Research Online ~ http://research.si.edu/
Biodiversity Heritage Library ~ http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Encyclopedia of Life ~ http://www.eol.org/
Index Animalium http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/
W3C Semantic Web Standards ~ http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
Schema.org ~ duh
Linked Data ~ http://linkeddata.org/
Field Book Project ~ http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/
Connecting Content Grant ~ http://research.calacademy.org/library/fieldnotes
Digital Public Library ~ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpla
World Digital Library ~ http://www.wdl.org/en/
Hathi Trust ~ http://www.hathitrust.org/
This presentation ~ http://www.slideshare.net/SCPilsk/
Pronto Pup ~ http://prontopup.net/shoppingcart/
Best Hotdogs ~ http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/food/best-hot-dogs-00000000016358/index.html
Smithsonian Institution Libraries “Providing Access to Collections”
Suzanne C. Pilsk Smithsonian Institution Libraries
PilskS@si.edu
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