Big Data, Small Stories: Collaborationg, Community, and User Experience in the Age of Digital Cultural Heritage

Talk for the 2012 Microsoft Faculty Research Summit

Transcript

1. BIG DATA SMALL STORIES Dr. Ethan Watrall Department of Anthropology MATRIX: The Center for the Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online Michigan State University @captain_primate community, collaboration, & user experience in the age of digital cultural heritage
2. big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big what? big data! #smalldata! @captain_primate | #FacSumm big data! big data! big data! big data! big data!
3. seriously, what is big data anyway? @captain_primate | #FacSumm
4. ummm, ok? BIG DATA: DATA SETS THAT ARE SO LARGE OR COMPLEX THAT THEY BECOME DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH USING TRADITIONAL TOOLS OR METHODS @captain_primate | #FacSumm
5. @captain_primate | #FacSumm www.sdss.org
6. @captain_primate | #FacSumm www.lhc.ac.uk
7. @captain_primate | #FacSumm SOCIAL & CULTURAL BEHAVIOR
8. @captain_primate | #FacSumm books.google.com/ngrams
9. @captain_primate | #FacSumm CAN WE DO MORE?
10. BIG DATA SMALL STORIES @captain_primate | #FacSumm
11. @captain_primate | #FacSumm matrix.msu.edu
12. QUILT INDEX   SLAVE BIOGRAPHIES quiltindex.org slavebiographies.org @captain_primate | #FacSumm
13. @captain_primate | #FacSumm quiltindex.org
14. @captain_primate | #FacSumm quiltindex.org www. Alliancefor AmericanQuilts.org
15. 40 INSTITUTIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, ETC. > 70,000 QUILTS IN THE REPOSITORY EACH WITH AS MANY AS 274 UNIQUE PIECES OF METADATA > 10,000 PIECES OF QUILT EPHEMERA IN THE REPOSITORY (BOOKLETS, PUBLISHED PATTERNS, DIARIES) EACH WITH AS MANY AS 40 UNIQUE PIECES OF METADATA > 11,000 UNIQUE VISITORS TO QUILTINDEX.ORG EVERY MONTH @captain_primate | #FacSumm quiltindex.org
16. @captain_primate | #FacSumm www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplaynew.php?kid=4-15-23 TITLE: DATE: 1853 (before April) ORAL NARRATIVE: Made by Philena Cooper Hambleton's female relatives & friends to take to Iowa when she & her husband migrated there from Ohio in 1854. Quilt passed from Philena to her daughter, Angelina Craver, then to Angelina's son, Arthur Hambleton Craver, then to Arthur's daughter, Florence Philena Oberholtzer. It became part of an estate sale in Danville, CA in 1995 when Florence died & was purchased from an antique shop in CA in 2001. Philena Cooper Hambleton's Quaker Friendship Quilt
17. @captain_primate | #FacSumm slavebiographies.org
18. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY @captain_primate | #FacSumm slavebiographies.org
19. DOCUMENTS FROM MULTIPLE NATIONAL SOURCES: FRENCH (1719-1769), SPANISH (1770-1803), AND EARLY AMERICAN (1804-1820) CORE OF > 100,000 RECORDS (INDIVIDUALS) IN THE REPOSITORY EACH WITH AS MANY AS 100 UNIQUE PIECES OF METADATA PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS INCLUDE ESTATE INVENTORIES, PROBATE DOCUMENTS, AND SALES NOT INVOLVING PROBATE DOCUMENTING THE MOVEMENT OF INDIVIDUALS THROUGH SPACE & OVER TIME & QUANTIFYING KINSHIP BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS @captain_primate | #FacSumm slavebiographies.org
20. @captain_primate | #FacSumm slavebiographies.org
21. @captain_primate | #FacSumm kora.matrix.msu.edu
22. BIG DATA BUILDING COMMUNITY AROUND @captain_primate | #FacSumm
23. Community of institutional contributors, community of lay scholarly contributors (quilts & research), significant social media presence (Facebook & Twitter) QUILT INDEX @captain_primate | #FacSumm Community of scholarly contributors (both raw data and dialog around data sets & best practices), eventual interaction with repository by general public and stakeholders. SLAVE BIOGRAPHIES
24. @captain_primate | #FacSumm www.quiltindex.org/~quilti/wiki
25. BIG DATA BUILDING USER EXPERIENCES AROUND @captain_primate | #FacSumm
26. @captain_primate | #FacSumm
27. @captain_primate | #FacSumm www.pixelsense.com
28. @captain_primate | #FacSumm ONLY POSSIBLE WITH...
29. OPEN @captain_primate | #FacSumm
30. silos = bad (a grain solo, just in case you didn’t know) @captain_primate | #FacSumm
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32. @captain_primate | #FacSumm culture of sharing
33. QUESTIONS? Dr. Ethan Watrall Department of Anthropology MATRIX: The Center for the Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online Michigan State University @captain_primate FIN