LAM-apalooza: What can you do with137* million things?

(*or so)

Martin & EffieSmithsonian Institution LibrariesSmithsonian Institution Archives

Linked Open Data Summit | San Francisco | 2 June 02011

Especially when they'rehard to measure & count

7.4 million records | 570,000 digital objects

Looking for the wonder appliance to solve our problems and bring a shinier

future!

The worth and importance of the Institution are 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, 1853