The talk starts by explaining the idea behind the tool. Specifically, how making it easy to make interfaces to cultural heritage collections can help librarians, archivists, curators, and historians both better understand relationships between objects in a cultural heritage collection and how the tool can help them communicate those ideas to audiences. After explaining the kinds of interfaces you can make, I walk through a detailed example of what one of these views can do by looking at a prototype interface created by an Archivist at the National Gallery of Art to the Samuel H. Kress Collection History Database. I wanted to make sure that everyone had links to all of the views I mention. So here are all the links. NDIIPP Partners Collections Interface: - On Viewshare: http://viewshare.org/views/abpo/ndiipp-collections/ - Embeded on NDIIPP’s site http://digitalpreservation.gov/collections/collections.html Fulton Street Trade Card View http://viewshare.org/views/jefferson/fulton-street-trade-cards-collection/ History of Fairfax County in Postcards http://viewshare.org/views/trow/history-of-fairfax-county-in-postcards/ Cason Monk-Metclaf Funeral Directors View On Viewshare: http://viewshare.org/views/etrcdigital/location-of-burials/ My View on Viewshare: http://viewshare.org/views/trow/cason-monk-metcalf/ Embeded: http://digital.sfasu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/CasonMonk Samuel H. Kress Collection History Database Prototype View: National Gallery of Art http://viewshare.org/views/GalleryArchives/paintings-with-purch-images-urls/

1. Trevor Owens, Digital Archivist,
The Library of Congress
trow@loc.gov
@tjowens
explore and share
cultural heritage
collections with
viewshare.org

2. In Visualization,
“knowledge is not
transferred, revealed
or perceived, but is
created through a
dynamic process”
Jessop, Visualization as Scholarly Activity, LLC, 2008

3. a free and open
platform for
creating dynamic
visual interfaces
to digital
collections

4. this a quick
introduction
see screencast
and guides for the
details

7. what
viewshare
does

8. take this

9. or this

10. and make…

12. visual
displays

13. dynamic
facets

15. embeded
in your site

16. expose
open data

17. but the end
result is just
part of the story

18. interface building
facilitates deeper
understanding

19. in Visualization, “knowledge
is not transferred, revealed or
perceived, but is created
through a dynamic process”
Jessop, Visualization as Scholarly Activity, LLC, 2008

20. Visual
Displays
timelines; lists;
charts; galleries;
maps

26. Different
Facets
lists;
histograms;
tag clouds

30. Workflow
import

32. Workflow
import augment

36. Workflow
import augment
build

45. Workflow
import augment
build
share

49. but the end
result is just
part of the story

50. Workflow
import augment
build
share

51. Interface building
facilitates deeper
understanding of
collections

52. Interface building
facilitates
remediation

54. In
Visualization, “knowle
dge is not
transferred, revealed
or perceived, but is
created through a
dynamic process”
Jessop, Visualization as Scholarly Activity, LLC, 2008

55. A for
instance…

56. Samuel H. Kress
Collection History
Database:
National Gallery of Art
Viewshare Demo

57. one collection
spread across
multiple
institutions

58. a view built in a
matter of hours
from data
exported from a
custom database

59. Illustrates new
ways of seeing
your collection

60. cost
of art
over time

62. at a particular
institution

64. examine an
individual outlier

66. pivot to a chart to
see what medium
those works are
on

68. change the chart
to see what
schools of art the
works represent

70. or explore other
points for
comparison…

71. see a list of works
by artist from a
given date range

73. only see the works
1) $ more than 13k
2) bought in 1937

75. Now, see what
institutions those
objects are at

77. You can add as
many filters and
pivot through the
views to your
hearts content

79. Just playing with
collection data
reveals patterns
and opens
questions

80. In
Visualization, “knowle
dge is not
transferred, revealed
or perceived, but is
created through a
dynamic process”
Jessop, Visualization as Scholarly Activity, LLC, 2008