Cheeseburgers With EverythingContext, Content, and Connections in Archival Description
Mark A. MatienzoNYPL Labs
The New York Public Library
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An exercise
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Ask the person next to you:
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“What is more important: context or content?”
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Why “or”?
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Why not “everything”?Context and content
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Credit: chopsueyphoto
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Everything is deeply intertwingled
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Ted Nelson
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Everything is miscellaneous
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David Weinberger
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Everything is metadata
David Weinberger
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Everything is messy
David Weinberger
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Why not “everything”?Metadata and data
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Everything ain’t done
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Searching
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Feedback
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Relationships
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UK Archival Thesaurus
Credit: World Wide Web Consortium
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Text
Credit: Raf Guns, Universiteit Antwerpen
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Credit: Pete Reed
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Integration
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Rethinking data models
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Understanding users
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Thank You
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Claes Oldenburg, “Two Cheeseburgers With Everything”