1. Finding/Capturing
How do you know what you are looking for?
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4 February 2014

2. How Do You Engage?
Who Found a New Way to Engage and Practice Social Scholarship after last
week’s lecture?

3. Automated Twitter Follow/Search
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Active History (http://www.activehistory.co.uk/historianson-twitter/)

4. Is there digital artefacts that are not data?

5. Reading
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Europeana

6. “Digitisation and online accessibility are essential ways to
highlight cultural and scientific heritage, to inspire the
creation of new content and to encourage new online
services to emerge. They help to democratise access and to
develop the information society and the knowledge-based
economy.”

7. Europeana Objective:
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"to give access to all of Europe’s
digitised cultural heritage by 2025."

8. Europeana by the Numbers
30000000
22500000
15000000
7500000
0
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

9. Barriers
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Intellectual Property
Acceleration of Process of Digitisation
Sustainable Funding

12. “Creativity is the driving force
of economic growth.”
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class, Basic Books, 2002
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13. "If a resource does not have any
associated metadata information, then
it is essentially lost."

14. "If a resource has erroneous,
inconsistent, or not enough metadata
information, then it is essentially nonexistent."

15. Initial Questions
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Structure?
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Format?
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Structured versus Unstructured?
What do you use?
Use?
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Where is this all going?

16. A Data Vis driven way to locate papers

17. Data Consisting of What?
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Basic types of content that we are used to deal with:
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Text
Numbers
Images
Video
Other, more “complex” stuff:
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Relations, connections, links - a genealogy
Time and space coords - the path of migratory birds
Animations – a piece of courseware
3D models – the plan of your house

18. Sources
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Data
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Image Data
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Europeana Project Guttenberg Open Data Catalog NINES Getty British Library
Systems / Tools
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Spiders - Heretrix Getty -

19. Data: Europeana
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Europeana

20. Data: Project Guttenberg

21. Data: Open Data Catalog

22. Open Data Index

23. Open Data Ireland

24. Data: NINES

25. Images: The Getty Archive

26. Images: The British Library

27. Portals are one thing, but increasingly it is through
communication streams that you discover what’s available…
blog post on Active History this am.

28. Tools: Spiders
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https://webarchive.jira.com/
Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible,
web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project.

29. Tools: Getty Vocabularies

30. Next Week: Analysing
Please take a look at:
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Reading Ship’s Logs
Exploring 50000 Images from the WWW
Comparing Web Archives by Using Large Numbers of
Images

31. Thank You
shawn.day@ucc.ie @iridium