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Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive
DH Data Curation Workshop
May 1, 2014
facebook.com/OurMarathon www.northeastern.edu/marathon@OurMarathon
TELL A WIDE RANGE OF STORIES
“NO STORY IS TOO SMALL”
BUILD A LASTING COMMUNITY MEMORIAL
PRESERVE THE HISTORICAL RECORD
AUDIENCES
• Regional: Boston, MA residents directly and indirectly affected by these events
• More broadly, a “general” audience of anyone interested in these events
• Researchers and Scholars: interest in preserving items / files and creating / preserving metadata
BUILDING OUR MARATHON
4,700+ items
Boston City Archives material
289 stories from the Globe Lab
307 memes (image macros)
40 oral histories (WBUR)
raw news footage (WCVB-TV)
WBUR ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
BOSTON CITY ARCHIVES COLLECTION
OMEKA (“WORDPRESS FOR MUSEUMS”)
HOW WE’RE USING OMEKA
• Dublin Core Metadata (currently Simple; transitioning to Extended Dublin Core imminently)
• Modified Contribution Plugin: Crowdsourced contributions submit Item Type Metadata
• Geotagging Items
• Tagging Items (Search Functionality / Organization)
KINDS OF ITEMS IN THE ARCHIVE
• “Born Digital” Material (photos, text, memes, screencaps)
• Scanned / Digitized Items (BCA Items, Boston Medical Center Items)
• Modified Items (redacted files, edited audio files)
SOME ITEMS / FILE TYPES IN THE ARCHIVE
• BCA Items (Hi-Res Scans: TIF files; JPEG Copies)
• Web Sites (Archive-It / The Internet Archive)
• Oral History Audio Files: .wav and .mp3
• Crowdsourced contributions: variety
• Social media files: screencaps
Crowdsourcing
Challenges of “Born Digital” Content
• Perceived Value By Contributor• Copyright Issues and Social Media• Preservation Challenges• Metadata Challenges
DUBLIN CORE METADATA FIELDS
• Title
• Description
• Source
• Date
• Rights
• Language
GEOTAGGING
TAGS
LONG-TERM PRESERVATION PLANS
• Northeastern’s Libraries (Archives & Special Collection) is final home of Our Marathon items
• Items Public Now Will Be Public In The Future
• “Planned Obsolescence” (Home Page / Site)
• Five year position (Basic Monitoring of Archive)
• Oral History Audio Files: .wav and .mp3
• Crowdsourced contributions: variety
• Social media files: screencaps
SHORT-TERM CHALLENGES
• What Metadata Cleanup to Do Now (BCA Items, Public Submissions)
• How To Make Content More Accessible (Tags, Maps)
• Social Media Content (Tweets)
SOME LONG-TERM CHALLENGES
• Institutional Memory of Project (Documentation of Methodologies, Meta-Archive)
• When to phase out web site / “Share Your Story” Plugin
• When to make sensitive material public
• Approval Process for Researchers / Scholars