Big Data, Small Stories: community, collaboration, & user experience in the age of digital cultural heritage

Deck from my talk at SXSW 2013 in the "Big Heritage, Big Quilts & Big Canvases" session (http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_IAP4032). N.B. this presentation is pretty much a carbon copy (with some additions and updates) of the talk I gave at the 2012 Microsoft Faculty Summit

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1. BIG DATASMALL STORIES community, collaboration, & user experience in the age of digital cultural heritage Dr. Ethan Watrall Department of Anthropology MATRIX: The Center for the Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online Michigan State University @captain_primate
2. big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big what? big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big data! big what? big data! #smalldata! @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
3. seriously, what is “big data” anyway? @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
4. ummmm, ok? @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata HIGH VELOCITY HIGH VARIETY HIGH VOLUME BIG DATA IS:
5. www.sdss.org @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
6. www.lhc.ac.uk @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
7. genome.gov @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
8. CULTURE HERITAGE &
9. books.google.com/ngrams @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
10. CAN WE DO MORE? @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
11. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata BIG DATASMALL STORIES
12. anthropology.msu.edu @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
13. matrix.msu.edu @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
14. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata  QUILT INDEX  SLAVE BIOGRAPHIES quiltindex.org slavebiographies.org
15. quiltindex.org @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
16. www. Alliancefor AmericanQuilts.org quiltindex.org @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
17. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata 40 INSTITUTIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, ETC. quiltindex.org > 80,000 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
18. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata quiltindex.org 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.
19. slavebiographies.org @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
20. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata slavebiographies.org MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
21. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata 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 & UNCOVERING KINSHIP BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS slavebiographies.org
22. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata slavebiographies.org
23. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata kora.matrix.msu.edu
24. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata BIG DATA BUILDING COMMUNITY AROUND
25. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata QUILT INDEX Community of institutional contributors, community of lay scholarly contributors (quilts & research), significant social media presence (Facebook & Twitter) SLAVE BIOGRAPHIES Community of scholarly contributors (both raw data and dialog around data & best practices), eventual interaction by general public and stakeholders.
26. www.quiltindex.org/~quilti/wiki @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
27. BIG DATA AROUND BUILDING USER EXPERIENCES @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
28. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
29. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
30. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata ONLY POSSIBLE IF...
31. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata OPEN
32. SILOS = BAD (a grain solo, just in case you didn’t know) @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata
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34. @captain_primate | #SXSW #deepdata CULTURE OF SHARING
35. FIN Dr. Ethan Watrall Department of Anthropology MATRIX: The Center for the Arts, Letters, & Social Sciences Online Michigan State University @captain_primate (THE END)