Reusing digital collections from GLAM institutions

Abstract

For some decades now, Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) institutions have published and provided access to information resources in digital format. Recently, innovative approaches have appeared such as the concept of Labs within GLAM institutions that facilitates the adoption of innovative and creative tools for content delivery and user engagement. In addition, new methods have been proposed to address the publication of digital collections as data sets amenable to computational use. In this article, we propose a methodology to create machine actionable collections following a set of steps. This methodology is then applied to several use cases based on data sets published by relevant GLAM institutions. It intends to encourage institutions to adopt the publication of data sets that support computationally driven research as a core activity.

Web-archiving and social media: an exploratory analysis

“…A recent paper (Holownia & Chambers, 2020) considered whether the concept of 'library labs', as pioneered by organisations such as the British Library, and more recently, exemplified through the international Building Library Labs network (Chambers et al, 2019), could be considered ideal incubators for both increasing access to born-digital resources (such as web and social media archives) and encouraging their analysis alongside digitised and even analogue sources. By developing sustainable data curation workflows (Candela et al, 2020;Padilla et al, 2019), these 'Collections as Data' can be published as (FAIR) datasets within a 'labs' environment, therefore increasing their visibility and potentially their take-up and usage. Initiatives like WARCnet have dedicated working groups on research data management across borders (Chambers, 2020;Rosenberg, 2020), which could further stimulate the publication of such datasets.…”

BESOCIAL: A Sustainable Knowledge Graph-Based Workflow for Social Media Archiving

“…Similarly, the GLAM workbench 12 aims for scholarly access by providing Jupyter notebooks 13 , a combination of narrative text and live code. Candela et al [4] investigated a methodology to create reproducible notebooks for the GLAM domain. Such frameworks are more concerned with analysis of already collected/described data and thus are complementary to our solution, i.e.…”

“…The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) 14 , a global library cooperative, released recommendations for web archiving metadata fields [9]. They distilled 14 elements from the general vocabularies Dublin Core 15 and Schema.org 16 , the XML-based standards Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 4 , MARC21 3 , and the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) 17 .…”

“…Yet, different preservation systems may require metadata in different syntax which also represent different perspectives. For example, MARCXML 3 records from the library domain may be used to describe a social media collection from a bibliographic point of view, whereas Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 4 XML records from the archive domain may be used to describe the collection's content hierarchically in more detail. This hampers data stewardship because there is no uniform and interoperable description of the preserved social media collections, let alone provenance of the collection process itself which is crucial [21,28].…”

Aineistopaketit ja rajapinnat tutkijoiden työkaluna Kansalliskirjastossa: mahdollisuudet ja rajoitteet

“…Uudet digitaaliset menetelmät mahdollistavat datan julkaisun ja sen hyödyntämisen monipuolisesti, mutta ne muodostavat myös haasteita organisaatioille. (Candela et al, 2020;Sugimoto, 2017, 315-316. ) Kansalliskirjasto pyrkii edistämään laajasti tieteen avoimuutta, ja avoimuus on yksi sen toiminnan kulmakivistä.…”