From food to buildings and beyond: what happens when a library opens its digital collections to human-computer collaboration

Keynote presentation at Collections as Data 2020: Making Meaning, in Brisbane, Australia.

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1. hello
   

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2. mauricio giraldo arteaga
   

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6. not a real library scientist
   

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31. access
    digitization metadata
    public
    traditional digital library program
    

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32. access
    digitization metadata
    public
    engagement
    R+D
    

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33. so you’ve digitized… now what?
    

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34. food
    

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48. nytimes.com/2005/11/01/science/earth/old-menus-provide-clues-about-shifting-seafood-tastes.html
    chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/A-M-scientist-pores-over-menus-to-analyze-fishing-1671558.php
    

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49. there’s lots of data in the menus
    

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52. OCR result
    

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53. OCR result
    

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54. OCR result
    

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58. menus.nypl.org
    

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59. 1.3 million dishes transcribed from 17.5k menus
    

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64. curatingmenus.org — @katie_rawson and @trevormunoz
    

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65. curatingmenus.org — @katie_rawson and @trevormunoz
    

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66. npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/13/158719677/a-new-york-steakhouse
    

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67. itunes.apple.com/us/app/vintagemenus/id625772478?mt=8
    

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68. @_BadTaste_ by @bibliotechy
    

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69. buildings
    

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83. jennyodell.com/peripheral-landscapes — @the_jennitaur cc: @ElectricObjects
    

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87. “Joe’s Pizza on Carmine”
    latitude: 40.730592
    longitude: -74.002150
    

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88. what if… information about the past was just as accessible?
    

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89. libraries* have the data
    * and archives, museums, historical societies etc.
    

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93. maps.nypl.org - @tim_waters, @schuyler, @bombayologist, @mattknutzen
    

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96. *this is a simulation. actual process is intensive. consult your mathematician before
    trying
    

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106. footprint
     material
     use type
     street names
     address
     floors
     name
     class
     geo location
     year
     skylights
     backyards
     

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109. bottleneck
     

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111. like OCR for maps
     

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115. buildinginspector.nypl.org
     

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120. footprint
     material
     use type
     street names
     address
     floors
     name
     class
     geo location
     year
     skylights
     backyards
     

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121. check
     YES FIX
     address color fix
     *footprints marked as “NO” go to building heaven
     

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122. fix address classify
     

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123. place names
     

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125. 1.1 million+ contributions
     

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127. 1852-1854
     

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128. 1855-1862
     1852-1854
     

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129. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
     

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130. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
     

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131. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
     

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132. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
     

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133. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
     

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135. mgiraldo.github.io/toponyms
     

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137. spacetime.nypl.org - @bertspaan
     

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138. space
     

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141. 91PH021.338
     1938
     Gelatin silver print
     The American Country Woman
     Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)
     5. Woman of the High Plains.
     "If you die, you're dead. That's all."
     Texas Panhandle, 1938
     Print Size: 13 x 10 3/8 in. (33 x 26.4 cm)
     Mat / Mount (matted ): 20 x 16 in. (50.8
     x 40.6 cm)
     Matted. Title from typed notes in cloth-bound
     binder produced by Lange, "From the files of
     Dorothea Lange, Final editing, June 1965". See
     accompanying box for binder. Quote by
     J.Russell Smith on page 10 [unpaginated].
     Negative number: 38258
     On recto (signed and dated in ink): Dorothea
     Lange 1938-1965. On verso (handwritten in
     ink): negative number 38258; (stamped in
     blue ink): PROPERTY OF // THE NEW YORK
     PUBLIC LIBRARY // PICTURE COLLECTION;
     (handwritten in felt-tip marker): 5 // in Series
     

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144. “trapped” in an internal system
     

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147. it’s not linked to other resources
     

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151. geography as a classification system
     

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152. how can we bring it to life?
     

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158. but is it an Authority File?
     

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161. food, buildings, space
     as data
     

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162. thanks to my (former) colleagues
     Willa Armstrong, Shawn Averkamp, Paul Beaudoin,
     Brian Foo, Josh Hadro, Shana Kimball, Tom Listanti,
     Matthew Miller, Winnie Quinn, Leonard Richardson,
     David Riordan, Eric Shows, Ben Vershbow…
     

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164. thank you
     @mgiraldo
     

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