Shared Metadata for Regional Landmarks: Building Names Mark Phillips Assistant Dean for Digital Libraries UNT Libraries

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group2 Dealing with building names in digital collections

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group3 Or said another way

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group4 We all have an “Administration Building”

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group5 Review of the problem space

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group6 Universities have buildings

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group7 These buildings almost always have names

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group8 These names almost always change

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group9 We need consistent names for our metadata

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group10 We need a controlled vocabulary

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group11 Many of our institutions have something like this.

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January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group13 Which is a great

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group14 But wouldn't it be great if we could do more?

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group15 Let's review some of the challenges

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group16 Buildings have names Usually Well.. sometimes

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group17 Sometimes these names change

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group18 Sycamore Hall ISB Building Information Sciences Building Library

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group19 Buildings have a locations, lat/long

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group20 And sometimes these buildings move

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group21 Sometimes buildings go away

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group22 When we start adding building names to metadata records, we should take these facts into account

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group23 Others are working in this area.

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group24 Many large architecture libraries and museums have to work around this same problem

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group25 Built Works Registry

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January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group27 Starting with a simple data model

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group28 To identify a building it needs

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group29 name: A. M. Willis Library

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group30 location: ,

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group31 identifier:

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group32 If we add a few other things we are really cookin

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group33 Former Names Dates Relationships to other Names Disambiguation info (which administration building)

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group34 For us it looked very similar to dealing with other names for our system.

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January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group39 What if we extended it to allow for building names

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January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group45 Once we create the records, how do we use them?

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group46 Phillips, Mark Edward

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group47 A Stormy Legend

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group48 A. M. Willis Library

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group49 Even better...

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group50 <subject qualifier=”namedBuilding” id=” A. M. Willis Library

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group51 This can help with some of the issues archives and digital libraries face with building names in their digital collections.

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group52 It has the side effect of positioning us to contribute to other registry work and is contains the basic building blocks of linked data.

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group53 Questions:

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group54 Does this problem resonate with you or your collection/insitution

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group55 Is there interest in collaborating via the CTLC in this area?

January 29, 2014CTLC Archives Affinity Group56 Thank you.