Providing an Avalanche of Data GETTING OUR DATA ON THE WEB Scott Williams Oct 12, 2011
Determine what records to publish Ingest images Build penn.musuem/collections WHAT DO WE DO WITH IMU?
Be Open ONLINE COLLECTIONS MISSION
Catalog Multimedia Accession Lots Events WHERE DO WE MAKE DETERMINATIONS?
No manual security override Department Collection Type Current Valid Location Identified as culturally sensitive (e.g. human remains) WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA?
WHY DO IT THIS WAY? Speed Consistency Flexibility Dey took ur jebs! A computer can do it better
NITTY GRITTY
HOW MANY RECORDS DO WE PUBLISH? 300,000 records
HOW MANY RECORDS DO WE PUBLISH? 700,000 objects
IMAGES Images Lots of
IMAGES
In one two steps IMAGES
Determine which EMu record(s) the images should be attached to STEP 1A
Create a shell record STEP 1B
Attach shell record to existing Catalog record STEP 1C
Create the standard image import CSV file and use the Import tool STEP 2
Three days 25,000 images WHAT WERE THE RESULTS?
IMAGES Enjoy EMu! Now with 100% more image
Use existing embedded image metadata Image import using the API, please? Web based interface for adding images? IMAGES + API + FUTURE DONE
PHP iMu API Search Across Multiple Emu Fields Coming in December 2011 PENN.MUSEUM/COLLECTIONS