building and evaluating collection dashboards

Building and Evaluating Collections DashboardsRichard Urban Michael B. TwidaleUniversity of IllinoisPiotr AdamczykMetropolitan Museum of Art

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.

what we need is a map-Mitchell Whitelaw Visible Archives Project

Currently available digital cultural heritage collections

are just the tip of the iceberg.

Millionsmoreare

waiting

to be Digitized

Search

Opening History

What is all this stuff?What is all this stuff?

Do I have to read all this text?

Do I have to read all this text?

Is there more like this?

Is there more like this?

Early Sketches

Patchwork Prototyping

http://www.richardjurban.net/dashboard

Museum Pipes

Use Case: Transparency

Use Case: Collection Development• What do you have?• Where are the holes?• How do we merge data

from two departments?• How does my collection

compare to their collection?

Determining Space from Place for Natural History Collections: In a Distributed Digital Library Environment. (n.d.). . Retrieved April 14, 2010, from http://dlib.org/dlib/may04/beaman/05beaman.html

A simplistic, low cost, good-enough metadata quality visualizationNichols, D.M., Paynter, G., Chan, C-H., Bainbridge, D., McKay, D., Twidale, M.B. & Blandford, A. (2009). Experiences in Deploying Metadata Analysis Tools for Institutional Repositories. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 47(3/4) 229-248.

Use Case: Production Evaluation

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://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BnOP43Mv_PY/SlPWqEkHQHI/AAAAAAAAMtw/_hMOzsyuMsA/s400/ticket+window.jpg• 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

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