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

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.

Mauricio Giraldo

March 06, 2020
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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
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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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  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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